New Advances in Protein Crystallography
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomolecular Crystals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2024) | Viewed by 1535
Special Issue Editors
Interests: protein crystallography; phasing methods; modulated enhanced diffraction; multivariate analysis
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Dear Colleagues,
The structural knowledge about the tridimensional arrangements of biological macromolecules is of paramount importance in many fields and can help us to overcome the main problems that afflict humanity, such as diseases and environmental pollution. Nowadays, different techniques can allow us to gain such knowledge, each having their pros and cons: X-ray diffraction (DRX), cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Each of them has experienced relevant advances in the experimental and computational sides, which allowed us to push forward the efficiency of the structural determination process and improve the data resolution. The present Special Issue aims to present state-of-the-art scientific developments in data collection and data analysis in these techniques, and their application to some topic proteins of medical, biological, biopharmaceutic, or biotechnological interest. Studies that combine different techniques in the framework of integrative structural biology will be considered as a priority. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- New methods to improve protein crystallization;
- New strategies for data collection;
- In situ and time-resolved experiments;
- Room-temperature X-ray diffraction and diffuse scattering;
- Novel phasing algorithms;
- Model building and refinement;
- Advanced validation criteria.
Special attention will be devoted to papers highlighting the role of artificial intelligence in data analysis, with specific reference to the interplay between structural predictions, model validation, and experimental data analysis.
Dr. Rocco Caliandro
Dr. Benedetta Carrozzini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- protein crystallography
- X-ray diffraction
- cryo-EM
- NMR
- phasing methods
- crystal structure determination
- computational modeling
- artificial intelligence
- integrative structural biology
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