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Epitaxial growth of protein crystals on lipid layers
A M Edwards1, S A Darst, S A Hemming
1Department of Cell Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305, USA.
Nature Structural Biology
|March 1, 1994
Abstract:
The growth of three-dimensional protein crystals is seeded by two-dimensional crystals formed on lipid layers. Such crystallization occurs faster and at lower precipitant and protein concentrations than conventional crystal growth. This approach may also allow the crystallization of proteins that resist attempts at crystal growth by other means.