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aDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia, 1215 Lee Street, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
*Correspondence e-mail: idd3cgm@gmail.com
Keywords: protein crystals; crystal lattices.
Nespolo (2018![[Nespolo, M. (2018). IUCrJ, 5, https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252518006267.]](../../../../../../logos/arrows/iucrj_arr.gif "Nespolo, M. (2018). IUCrJ, 5, https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252518006267.")
) analyses our paper (Dimova & Devedjiev, 2018) from the point of view of crystallography that studies the of the crystals. From this point of view, the is indeed a mathematical abstraction – a three-dimensional array of identical units. We analyze protein crystals as physical objects and demonstrate that the units in the crystal may not be identical in the same volume and at the same time. To the best of our knowledge this is a new concept that has not been proposed before.
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Dimova, M. & Devedjiev, Y. D. (2018). IUCrJ, 5, 130–140. Web of Science CrossRef CAS IUCr Journals Google Scholar
Nespolo, M. (2018). IUCrJ, 5, https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252518006267. Google Scholar
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