Combinando información experimental de estudios de cristales y soluciones: refinación conjunta de rayos X y RMN

B Shaanan1, A M Gronenborn, G H Cohen

  • 1Laborator of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|August 14, 1992
PubMed
Resumen

Este estudio introduce un refinamiento conjunto, combinando la cristalografía de rayos X y los datos de resonancia magnética nuclear (RMN) para mejorar los modelos macromoleculares. Este enfoque integrado mejora la precisión estructural e identifica las diferencias en la estructura del cristal frente a la solución.

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