Protein crystallography for aspiring crystallographers or how to avoid pitfalls and traps in macromolecular structure determination

Estimating structure quality trends in the Protein Data Bank by equivalent resolution

(2013) Anurag Bagaria et al.   COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

New concepts and aids to facilitate crystallization

(2013) Magdalena A Bukowska et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

The good, the bad and the dubious: VHELIBS, a validation helper for ligands and binding sites

(2013) Adrià Cereto-Massagué et al.   Journal of Cheminformatics

Mapping the Active Site Helix-to-Strand Conversion of CxxxxC Peroxiredoxin Q Enzymes

(2012) Arden Perkins et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

N-Terminal T4 Lysozyme Fusion Facilitates Crystallization of a G Protein Coupled Receptor

(2012) Yaozhong Zou et al.   PLoS One

Structures from Anomalous Diffraction of Native Biological Macromolecules

(2012) Q. Liu et al.   SCIENCE

High-Resolution Protein Structure Determination by Serial Femtosecond Crystallography

(2012) S. Boutet et al.   SCIENCE

Linking Crystallographic Model and Data Quality

(2012) P. A. Karplus et al.   SCIENCE

Identification of Unknown Protein Function Using Metabolite Cocktail Screening

(2012) Igor A. Shumilin et al.   STRUCTURE

Modelling dynamics in protein crystal structures by ensemble refinement

(2012) B Tom Burnley et al.   eLife

Nanobody stabilization of G protein-coupled receptor conformational states

(2011) Jan Steyaert et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

X-ray crystallography: assessment and validation of protein–small molecule complexes for drug discovery

(2011) David R Cooper et al.   Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery

Improved molecular replacement by density- and energy-guided protein structure optimization

(2011) Frank DiMaio et al.   NATURE

Crystal structure of XMRV protease differs from the structures of other retropepsins

(2011) Mi Li et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Crystal structure of a monomeric retroviral protease solved by protein folding game players

(2011) Firas Khatib et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

High regularity of Z-DNA revealed by ultra high-resolution crystal structure at 0.55 ņ

(2011) Krzysztof Brzezinski et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Unmet challenges of structural genomics

(2010) Maksymilian Chruszcz et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

How to read (and understand) Volume A ofInternational Tables for Crystallography: an introduction for nonspecialists

(2010) Zbigniew Dauter et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

Impact of synchrotron radiation on macromolecular crystallography: a personal view

(2010) Zbigniew Dauter et al.   JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION

Hidden alternative structures of proline isomerase essential for catalysis

(2009) James S. Fraser et al.   NATURE

Conformation Dependence of Backbone Geometry in Proteins

(2009) Donald S. Berkholz et al.   STRUCTURE

The Catalytic Mechanism of an Aspartic Proteinase Explored with Neutron and X-ray Diffraction

(2008) Leighton Coates et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY