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ISSN: 1600-5775

July 1999 issue

Synchrotron Radiation and Structural Biology

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Cover illustration: A schematic representation of the structure of F1-ATPase and Sir John Walker's prize-winning team, see Hasnain, Helliwell and Kamitsubo, pages 809-812.

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editorial


J. Synchrotron Rad. (1999). 6, 809-811
doi: 10.1107/S0909049599007232

research papers


J. Synchrotron Rad. (1999). 6, 813-815
doi: 10.1107/S0909049599006706

J. Synchrotron Rad. (1999). 6, 816-821
doi: 10.1107/S0909049599005075
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Synchrotron radiation is critically important to the determination of virus structures. Methods of data reduction and phase determination are explained. Some examples are mentioned.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (1999). 6, 822-833
doi: 10.1107/S0909049599006172
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Two decades of synchrotron radiation source, instrumentation and methods evolution have greatly accelerated the pace of protein crystallography, which can, via the linking up of synchrotron radiation `PX stations' worldwide, now yield a `genome level' of numbers of experimentally determined protein structures.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (1999). 6, 834-844
doi: 10.1107/S0909049599006688
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The article is a review of developments in de novo phasing methods and instrumentation in macromolecular crystallography carried out at LURE, the French synchrotron radiation facility.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (1999). 6, 845-851
doi: 10.1107/S0909049599007591
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The course of developments in methodology for multiwavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD) is discussed, and characteristic traits of current applications are analyzed.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (1999). 6, 852-864
doi: 10.1107/S0909049599006792
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XAFS provides local structure of the metal site at subatomic resolution and is equally applicable to both aqueous and crystalline samples. This review provides some recent case studies to illustrate its synergy with protein X-ray crystallographic determination. This synergy exists not only for the scientific objective of structure-based understanding of proteins' function but extends to the source and general instrument requirements, particularly with MAD.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (1999). 6, 865-874
doi: 10.1107/S090904959900669X
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Observations from the structure determination of the bluetongue virus core are presented. Aspects of synchrotron radiation which enable the successful analysis of such complex systems are discussed.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (1999). 6, 875-890
doi: 10.1107/S0909049599007025
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Recent X-ray diffraction/scattering studies on the actomyosin motor system are described and future challenges for synchrotron radiation are discussed.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (1999). 6, 891-917
doi: 10.1107/S0909049599006366
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Major developments in the theory of the Laue diffraction technique and of the necessary software, hardware and experimental strategies have led to successful time-resolved studies on the dynamic properties of a range of biological systems, which shed light on future applications of this technique.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (1999). 6, 918-927
doi: 10.1107/S0909049599006184
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The structure-function relationships of integral membrane proteins so far determined by X-ray and electron crystallographic methods are described.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (1999). 6, 928-941
doi: 10.1107/S0909049599006664
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The MIR map pf the small ribosomal subunit, constructed at 7.2 Å and extended to 5.5 Å using crystals diffracting to 3 Å, shows morphologies close to the active conformation of these particles and contains elongated dense features traceable as RNA chains as well as globular regions in which folds observed in isolated ribosomal proteins were detected. Surface proteins and selected RNA strands are being located by difference Fourier methods, exploiting the metal cluster attached to them.

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J. Synchrotron Rad. (1999). 6, 943-944
doi: 10.1107/S0909049599007220
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