crystallography

Examples of crystallography in the following topics:

• Crystallographic Analysis

  • Crystallography is the scientific study of the arrangement of atoms in a solid.
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and x-ray crystallography have become the methods of choice for understanding three-dimensional protein structures.
  • Electron crystallography has been used to determine some protein structures, most notably membrane proteins and viral capsids.
  • Studies of protein crystallography help determine the three dimensional structure of proteins and analyze their function alone or within multimolecular assemblies.
  • Distinguish between the three methods of crystallography: X-ray, neturon and electron crystallography

• X-Ray Diffraction Analysis

  • The technique reveals detailed information about the chemical composition, crystallography, and microstructure of all types of natural and manufactured materials, which is key in understanding the properties of the material being studied.
  • Since many materials can form crystals—such as salts, metals, minerals, semiconductors, as well as various inorganic, organic, and biological molecules—X-ray crystallography has been fundamental in the development of many scientific fields.

• Quorum Sensing

  • Three-dimensional structures of proteins involved in quorum sensing were first published in 2001, when the crystal structures of three LuxS orthologs were determined by X-ray crystallography.