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SUBMITTER: Dauter Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4004389 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography 20121220 Pt 1
To uniquely describe a crystal structure, it is sufficient to specify the crystal unit cell and symmetry, and describe the unique structural motif which is repeated by the space-group symmetry throughout the whole crystal. It is somewhat arbitrary how such a unique motif can be defined and positioned with respect to the unit-cell origin. As a result of such freedom, some isomorphous structures are presented in the Protein Data Bank in different locations and appear as if they have different atom ...[more]