Crystal, crystal on the wall…

Oeiras, 20.05.11

The first, and often hardest, step in x-ray crystallography for protein structure determination is producing the right crystals. For scientists, all protein crystals are landmarks but some are also true gems. Acknowledging the crystallization contribution to its scientific content, the journal Acta Crystalographica F publishes, every year, a montage of the best in crystal photomicrographs from crystallization communications published the previous year. In 2010, three of the most beautiful crystals were produced at ITQB.

The featured crystals from ITQB are from the following publications: Bandeiras et al., 2010 (1^st row/ 2^nd left ), Pinho et al., 2010 (2^nd row/ 1^st left ), and Rocha et al., 2010 (4^th row/ 1^st left ).

Full references

1. Bandeiras T. M., Romao C. V., Rodrigues J. V., Teixeira M. and Matias P. M. (2010). "Purification, crystallization and x-ray crystallographic analysis of Archaeoglobus fulgidus neelaredoxin." Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications 66: 316-319.
2. Pinho F. G., Romao C. V., Pinto A. F., Saraiva L. M., Huber H., Matias P. M., Teixeira M. and Bandeiras T. M. (2010). "Cloning, purification, crystallization and x-ray crystallographic analysis of ignicoccus hospitalis neelaredoxin." Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications 66: 605-607.

3. Rocha J., Granja A. T., Sa-Correia I., Fialho A. and Frazao C. (2010). "Cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic studies of ugdg, an udp-glucose dehydrogenase from sphingomonas elodea atcc 31461." Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications 66: 69-72.