Drenth Principles of Protein X-ray Crystallography

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4757-2335-9
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 305 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Springer Advanced Texts in Chemistry

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Drenth, Jan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Crystallizing a Protein.- 2 X-ray Sources and Detectors.- 3 Crystals.- 4 The Theory of X-ray Diffraction by a Crystal.- 5 Average Reflection Intensity and Distribution of Structure Factor Data.- 6 Special Forms of the Structure Factor.- 7 The Solution of the Phase Problem by the Isomorphous Replacement Method.- 8 Phase Improvement.- 9 Anomalous Scattering in the Determination of the Protein Phase Angles and the Absolute Configuration.- 10 Molecular Replacement.- 11 Direct Methods.- 12 Laue Diffraction.- 13 Refinement of the Model Structure.- 14 The Combination of Phase Information.- 15 Checking for Gross Errors and Estimating the Accuracy of the Structural Model.- Appendix 1 A Compilation of Equations for Calculating Electron Density Maps.- Appendix 2 A Compilation of Reliability Indices.- Appendix 3 The Variation in the Intensity of X-ray Radiation.- References.