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CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
Volume 19, Issue 5, Pages 573-584Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2009.08.002
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- National Institutes of Health [GM074942]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [U54GM074942] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Protein X-ray crystallography recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. The structures of myoglobin and hemoglobin determined by Kendrew and Perutz provided the first glimpses into the complex protein architecture and chemistry. Since then, the field of structural molecular biology has experienced extraordinary progress and now more than 55000 protein structures have been deposited into the Protein Data Bank. In the past decade many advances in macromolecular crystallography have been driven by world-wide structural genomics efforts. This was made possible because of third-generation synchrotron sources, structure phasing approaches using anomalous signal, and cryo-crystallography. Complementary progress in molecular biology, proteomics, hardware and software for crystallographic data collection, structure determination and refinement, computer science, databases, robotics and automation improved and accelerated many processes. These advancements provide the robust foundation for structural molecular biology and assure strong contribution to science in the future. In this report we focus mainly on reviewing structural genomics high-throughput X-ray crystallography technologies and their impact.
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