Neutron protein crystallography in JAERI |
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Authors: | I Tanaka |
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Institution: | (1) Neutron Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), Tokai, 319-1195 Ibaraki, Japan;(2) Present address: Faculty of Engineering, Ibaraki University, Hitachi, 316-8511 Ibaraki, Japan |
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Abstract: | Neutron diffraction provides an experimental method of directly locating hydrogen atoms in proteins. After developing an original
neutron detector (neutron imaging plate) and a novel practical neutron monochromator (elastically bent perfect Si monochromator),
BIX-type diffractometers which were equipped with these tools were efficiently constructed at JRR-3 in Japan Atomic Energy
Research Institute (JAERI), Japan and they have finished many protein crystallographic measurements and interesting results
have come one after another. At the same time a method of growing large protein single crystals and a database of hydrogen
and hydration have also been developed. In the near future, a pulsed neutron diffractometer for biological macromolecules
has been proposed at J-PARC in JAERI. |
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Keywords: | Crystallization macromolecules Crystallographic databases Crystal structure neutron diffraction and scattering methods Instruments for biophysics |
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