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Principles of Crystal Growth in Protein Crystallization

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Crystals built of protein, virus, DNA and other big biological molecules are needed to study atomic structure and functions of these molecules by X-ray diffraction. Crystals of several thousands of proteins have already been grown and the structures were found1) Despite of evident progress, growing perfect crystals of biological macromolecules allowing structural determination to a resolution, of ca. 2Å, or better still remains an art. Therefore five International Conferences on Crystal Growth of Biological Macromolecules2)3)4)5)6) attracted much attention last decade and many comprehensive overviews have been published (see, e.g 7)8)9)10)11)12)13) and references therein). The aim of this paper is to present an introductory crystal grower’s view on the fundamentals of the subject.

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Chernov, A.A., Komatsu, H. (1995). Principles of Crystal Growth in Protein Crystallization. In: van der Eerden, J.P., Bruinsma, O.S.L. (eds) Science and Technology of Crystal Growth. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0137-0_24

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