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Just published! Second edition of International Tables for Crystallography Volume F: Crystallography of biological macromolecules

Editors: E. Arnold, D. M. Himmel and M. G. Rossmann
ISBN 978-0-470-66078-2
Publication date December 2011
886 + xxx pp.

Enhanced by the addition of 19 new articles and substantially updated, this expert guide to macromolecular crystallography continues to be an essential resource for the modern structural biologist.

New topics: standard definitions for quality indicators, expression of membrane proteins, protein engineering, high-throughput crystallography, imaging of whole cells, radiation damage, merohedral twinning, low-resolution ab initio phasing, robotic crystal loading, halogen interactions in biological crystal structures, software for electron microscopy.

Hottest articles in Acta Cryst. D

High-resolution structure of a retroviral protease folded as a monomer

M. Gilski, M. Kazmierczyk, S. Krzywda, H. Zábranská, S. Cooper, Z. Popovic, F. Khatib, F. DiMaio, J. Thompson, D. Baker, I. Pichová and M. Jaskolski

A conformation-dependent stereochemical library improves crystallographic refinement even at atomic resolution

D. E. Tronrud and P. A. Karplus

Structure of HLA-A*0301 in complex with a peptide of proteolipid protein: insights into the role of HLA-A alleles in susceptibility to multiple sclerosis

R. M. McMahon, L. Friis, C. Siebold, M. A. Friese, L. Fugger and E. Y. Jones

Special open-access issue of Acta Cryst. F

Read up on the progress of the Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease in this special issue, the latest in a series devoted to the work of individual structural genomics consortia.

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