Protein crystal growth in microgravity

L. J. DeLucas; C. D. Smith; H. W. Smith; S. Vijay-Kumar; S. E. Senadhi; S. E. Ealick; C. E. Bugg; D. C. Carter; R. S. Snyder; P. C. Weber; F. R. Salemme; D. H. Ohlendorf; H. M. Einspahr; L. L. Clancy; M. A. Navia; B. M. McKeever

Protein crystal growth in microgravity

L. J. DeLucas
, C. D. Smith
, H. W. Smith
, S. Vijay-Kumar
, S. E. Senadhi
, S. E. Ealick
, C. E. Bugg
, D. C. Carter
, R. S. Snyder
, P. C. Weber
, F. R. Salemme
, D. H. Ohlendorf
, H. M. Einspahr
, L. L. Clancy
, M. A. Navia
, B. M. McKeever

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics (TMED)

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Abstract

Crystal growth has become a major bottleneck in further development of protein crystallography. One promising area of research is protein crystal growth in the microgravity environment of space. A series of growth experiments were performed on U.S. shuttle flight STS-26 in September, 1988 and STS-29 in March, 1989. For those proteins which produced crystals of adequate size, three-dimensional intensity data sets with electronic area detector systems were collected. Comparisons of the microgravity-grown crystals with the best earth-grown crystals demonstrate that the microgravity-grown crystals are larger, display more uniform morphologies, and yield diffraction data to significantly higher resolutions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	31-34
Number of pages	4
Journal	European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
Issue number	295
State	Published - Dec 1 1989
Event	Proceedings of the 7th European Symposium on Materials and Fluid Sciences in Microgravity - Oxford, Engl Duration: Sep 10 1989 → Sep 15 1989

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Protein crystal growth in microgravity

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