Crystallization of human gelsolin
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From Constructs to Crystals – Towards Structure Determination of β-barrel Outer Membrane Proteins
Published on: July 4, 2016
1MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
FEBS Letters
|May 18, 1992
Abstract:
Human gelsolin has been crystallized by microdialysis techniques to give single crystals that diffract to 3.5 A resolution. The crystals belong to space group P42(1)2 and have cell dimensions a = 175.0 A, c = 151.6 A. They contain two gelsolin molecules in the asymmetric unit.
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