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SUBMITTER: Homer C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3083911 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Homer Christina C Cooper Laura L Gonzalez Ana A
Journal of synchrotron radiation 20110315 Pt 3
It is important to consider radiation damage to crystals caused by data collection when solving structures and critical when determining protein function, which can often depend on very subtle structural characteristics. In this study the rate of damage to specific sites in protein crystals cooled at 100 K is found to depend on the energy of the incident X-ray beam. Several lysozyme crystals were each subjected to 3-26 MGy of cumulative X-ray exposure by collecting multiple data sets from each c ...[more]