Postgraduate Certificate:
Protein Crystallography

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Protein Crystallography (PX)

Postgraduate Certificate

PX Syllabus

Section 10 - Isomorphous Replacement
  • Introduction
  • Background

Multiple Isomorphous Replacement and Anomalous Scattering [MIR(AS)]
Phase Determination by MIR
Probability Density Function (PDF)
Patterson Function
Superposition Function

  • Heavy Metal Derivatives

Heavy Metal Reagents
Soaking Parameters
Soaking Crystals
Isomorphism and Substitution

  • Steps and Strategy

Scaling

Scaling Programs

Patterson Search for Heavy Atom Sites

Symmorphic Space Groups - Patterson Symmetry
Patterson Search Programs

Refinement of Heavy Atom Parameters and Phasing

Refinement and Phasing Programs

Statistics