view article

Figure 2
(a) A polarized light microscope image of a vapour-diffusion experiment dispensed with a Mosquito robot; the arrow indicates the protein-containing drop. Inset, an enlarged view of the drop with the lysozyme crystals clearly visible. (b) Lysozyme crystals grown via the batch method, dispensed by hand, in an in-house TPFS with a 10 µm spacer. The larger crystals within the drop on the left of the image have grown to fill the void of the sandwich. A number of crystals are visible on the right isolated from the mother liquor where the drop edge has receded. The yellow arrow indicates the crystal from which the diffraction data presented in §[link]3.5 were collected. (c) An image of an in-house TPFS plate containing many lysozyme microcrystals captured through the I24 beamline-viewing system with diffraction spot-finding results of a grid (raster) scan overlaid by the GDA data-collection software. (d) A microscope image of lysozyme crystals grown via the batch method in a TPFS constructed with a 96-well spacer of 100 µm. The plate had been left for 4 d without a secondary seal and evidence of evaporation is clear, leaving crystals as `peninsulas' from the drop. The crystals can be seen to form flattened cuboids, since growth is confined to the internal dimensions of the sandwich.

Journal logoSTRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
COMMUNICATIONS
ISSN: 2053-230X
Volume 72| Part 4| April 2016| Pages 313-319
Follow Acta Cryst. F
Sign up for e-alerts
Follow Acta Cryst. on Twitter
Follow us on facebook
Sign up for RSS feeds