Thanks to all who have responded. Any last minute suggestions before
I summarize?
On Mar 1, 2007, at 7:40 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I really like to use glucose isomerase, for sale from for example
> Hampton. It is a crystalline suspension when you buy it and it is
> trivial to get crystals with almost any precipitant - we have
> managed to crystallize it from water with temperature
> variation :-). Some precipitants give multiple crystal habits (and
> spacegroups). There is a clear correlation between recipe and
> quality. For example, you can grow beautiful crystals with ammonium
> sulfate but those are next-to-impossibe to cryo-cool, while others
> are much easier.
> Protein is a lot bigger than lysozyme and insulin, so perhaps more
> representative of a 'typical protein'. The crystals diffract like
> rocks.
>
> When I get to setting up a class to teach, I think that is what I
> will use.
>
> Mark
>
> Mark van der Woerd, PhD
> Research Scientist
> Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
> Colorado State University
> Fort Collins, CO 80523
> Phone (970) 491-0469
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:23 AM
> Subject: [ccp4bb] Easy proteins to crystallize
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to pick the collective brain of crystallographers on this
> list -- what are some of the most easily crystallizable proteins?
> I'm especially interested in those that over-express and diffract
> well, and in ones that might be less well-known than, say, lysozyme
> (but nearly as nice).
>
> Douglas
>
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