New crystallization method to ease study of protein structures

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Ribbon representation of NE2398 a protein from the Nitrosomonas europaea bacterium. Dotted lines represent the parts of the protein digested with protease. Blue molecules represent other molecules in the crystal lattice.
Ribbon representation of NE2398, a protein from the Nitrosomonas europaea bacterium. Dotted lines represent the parts of the protein digested with protease. Blue molecules represent other molecules in the crystal lattice.

Researchers at the Midwest Center for Structural Genomics (MCSG), the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) and the Structural Biology Center (SBC) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new technique for crystallizing proteins that will ease experimentation into protein structures.


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