Reversed liquid crystalline mesophases, such as the reversed bicontinuous cubic, reversed hexagonal or reversed micellar cubic phase, are nowadays widely studied due to their potential applications in, for instance, the controlled delivery of functional molecules. In order to design the adequate mesophase delivery system for a specific application, the crystallographic structure of the phase ha...

A refined structure of the human water channel aquaporin-1 is presented. The model rests on the high resolution X-ray structure of the homologous bacterial glycerol transporter GlpF, electron crystallographic data at 3.8 A resolution and a multiple sequence alignment of the aquaporin superfamily. The crystallographic R and free R values (36.7% and 37.8%) for the refined structure are significan...

Crystallographic studies play a major role in current efforts towards protein structure determination. Despite recent advances in computational tools for molecular modeling and graphics, the construction of a three-dimensional protein backbone model from crystallographic data remains complex and time-consuming. This paper describes a unique contribution to an automated approach to protein model...

Recently, multi component crystals composed of two or more molecules that form a unique crystalline structure having unique phase and properties, where its components are bond together via hydrogen bonds, have been the subject of great deal of attention, in particular those where aminoacids participate in their structure. In this work we have studied a system formed by the acids 1,1-cyclobutane...

Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography welcomes the submission of papers covering any aspect of structural biology, with a particular emphasis on the structures of biological macromolecules and the methods used to determine them. Reports on new protein structures are particularly encouraged, as are structure–function papers that could include crystallographic binding studi...

Solution of the phase problem is central to crystallographic structure determination. Conventional molecular-replacement methods are ineffective in the absence of knowledge of the structure of a homologous protein. A recent method utilizing the low-resolution molecular shape determined from solution X-ray scattering data has been shown to be successful in locating the molecular shape within the...