Observing the overall rocking motion of a protein in a crystal.
Ma, P., Xue, Y., Coquelle, N., Haller, J.D., Yuwen, T., Ayala, I., Mikhailovskii, O., Willbold, D., Colletier, J.P., Skrynnikov, N.R., Schanda, P.(2015) Nat Commun 6: 8361-8361
- PubMed: 26436197 
- DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9361
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
4XOF, 4XOK, 4XOL - PubMed Abstract: 
The large majority of three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules have been determined by X-ray diffraction of crystalline samples. High-resolution structure determination crucially depends on the homogeneity of the protein crystal. Overall 'rocking' motion of molecules in the crystal is expected to influence diffraction quality, and such motion may therefore affect the process of solving crystal structures ...