Previously, scientists had worked
with crystal structures, which are static snapshots of this same protein.
In certain cases, this causes the wire to suddenly continue growing
with another crystal structure,» Feigl says.
The study also demonstrates that this can be accomplished in many ways — by coating the absorbing layer with metal or
with a crystal structure that contains patterns on the scale of the wavelength of light, by embedding the absorber in a more complex three - dimensional array.
Shortly after this it was discovered that fine particles of pure silver iodide
with a crystal structure similar to that of ice were effective for global weather modification.
Not exact matches
Let's say that we have a
crystal with some regular array of particles that are in equilibrium in a certain configuration and
with a certain
structure, so that the forces of attraction and repulsion due to positive and negative charges balance in this configuration.
Like
crystals, these
structures can be specified
with only a few instructions, followed by «Do it again.»
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Like conventional LCD displays, the display is
structured like a sandwich,
with a liquid
crystal filling between two plates.
To mimic this variability, researchers fabricated steel
with thin, alternating nanoscale layers of different
crystal structures, some of which were just unstable enough to morph a bit under stress.
Under certain circumstances, the wire then suddenly continues growing
with a different
crystal structure,» says Feigl.
On the banks of the Moscow River,
Crystal Island would rise as high as the Empire State Building but spread out like a tent, covering the Nagatino peninsula
with a massive
structure containing apartments, hotel rooms, shops, museums, theaters, and cinemas.
It is usually possible to make well - controlled interfaces when two materials have similar
crystal structures, yet the ability to combine materials
with different
crystal structures has lacked the accurate design rules that increasingly exists in other areas of materials chemistry.
But the atomic
structures of the clusters fluctuated under the heat treatment, switching back and forth between two main atom - configurations («isomers»): these were a face - centred cubic
structure, similar to a small piece of bulk gold, and a decahedral arrangement
with a symmetry forbidden in an extended
crystal.
This allowed the selection of two materials
with different
crystal structures yet
with sufficient chemical flexibility to grow in a completely ordered manner throughout the interface between them.
The
crystal structure of the bacterial 70S ribosome refined to 2.8 angstrom resolution reveals atomic details of its interactions
with messenger RNA (mRNA) and transfer RNA (tRNA).
Crystal structures of the 30S ribosomal subunit in complex
with messenger RNA and cognate transfer RNA in the A site, both in the presence and absence of the antibiotic paromomycin, have been solved at between 3.1 and 3.3 angstroms resolution.
The diffraction patterns of both silica and germania glasses are consistent
with a
structure in which nearly all of the atoms belong to tridymite - like regions of up to about 20 angstroms or more that are bonded efficiently together in a manner analogous to that found in twinned
crystals.
Here we report the
crystal structure of EF - P bound to the Thermus thermophilus 70S ribosome along
with the initiator transfer RNA N - formyl - methionyl - tRNAi (fMet - tRNAifMet) and a short piece of messenger RNA (mRNA) at a resolution of 3.5 angstroms.
They top that
with a layer of single -
crystal titanium nitride, using domain matching epitaxy to ensure the crystalline
structure of the titanium nitride is aligned
with the
structure of the silicon.
The
crystal structures of hexameric DnaB and its complex
with the helicase binding domain (HBD) of DnaG reveal that within the hexamer the two domains of DnaB pack
with strikingly different symmetries to form a distinct two - layered ring
structure.
To do so we drew the «ball - and - stick» models of the atom positions using the well - known
structure of the two
crystals on either side of the interface and compared them
with the images obtained
with our microscope (which you can see on the background).
In 2008, Fischetti's lab,
with Rockefeller's Erec Stebbins and his colleagues in the Laboratory of Structural Microbiology, solved the
crystal structure of this enzyme.
The
crystal structure of the tryptic core fragment of the lac repressor of Escherichia coli (LacR) complexed
with the inducer isopropyl - beta - D - thiogalactoside was determined at 2.6 A resolution.
It is the material's very special
crystal structure that does the trick, in connection
with an astonishing new physical effect; in countless tiny cages within the
crystal, cerium atoms are enclosed.
This helps
with identifying the composition, the purity, the
crystal structure and other structural properties.
The researchers verified the
structure of the nitrogenated
crystal by atomic - resolution scanning tunnelling microscopy imaging and confirmed its semiconducting nature by testing it
with a field effect transistor.
Solidified krypton is white and crystalline
with a face - centered cubic
crystal structure which is a common property of all «rare gases».
The diamonds were then coated
with a thin layer of alumina to prevent the hydrogen from diffusing into their
crystal structure and embrittling them.
The conventional way to determine the atomic
structure of molecules is to «freeze» them in a
crystal and illuminate them
with bright X-rays.
«
With robotic methods of purification and crystallization of proteins,» says Flippin, «it is much easier to gain access to high quality,
crystal protein
structures.»
«In our laboratory using laser light we analyzed how the manners of vibration of molecules in the
crystal changed
with increasing pressure and on this basis we drew conclusions about the
structure of the material.
The Osaka team previously combined two different types of transition - metal disilicides to form a microscopic
structure with alternating layers of different alloy
crystal.
But when a team of evolutionary biologists took a closer look at the brittlestar's skeleton, they realized that the tiny
crystal structures probably had nothing to do
with vision.
«This allows us to bypass the requirement for matching the
crystal lattices and permits fabrication of a large variety of core - shell
structures with different combinations that would otherwise be very challenging to obtain.»
This enabled biophysicist Roderick MacKinnon and colleagues at Rockefeller University to mass produce the pore protein and probe its
crystal structure with x-rays.
This process synergistically enabled the in situ growth of MOFs within ordered voids, rendering a single
crystal with oriented and ordered macro-microporous
structure.
«One of the most important results of this work is that the
structure obtained at LCLS is almost identical to the
structure obtained
with traditional crystallography, despite the fact that the LCLS data were collected from
crystals 100 times smaller by volume and at room temperature,» Cherezov stressed.
In further tests, he and his colleagues designed a mutated version of the botulism compound, based on the novel
crystal structure, in which HA would not bind
with the epithelial cell protein E-cadherin.
«A new layered
crystal structure of manganese dioxide is used in this chemistry, which is intercalated
with copper ions.
The boundary between the two phases moved toward the center as the droplet dried, and then other regions
with different
structures appeared, such as the columnar and
crystal phases.
The new X-ray
crystal structures, however, provide clues to this process by showing for the first time three - dimensional images of E. coli RNA polymerase in complex
with ppGpp and another important factor that works
with ppGpp, DksA.
Crystal engineering is the design and synthesis of molecular solid crystal structures with desired properties using intermolecular interactions, Smit
Crystal engineering is the design and synthesis of molecular solid
crystal structures with desired properties using intermolecular interactions, Smit
crystal structures with desired properties using intermolecular interactions, Smith said.
Using a
crystal structure of a complex protein compound of botulinum neurotoxin, Rongsheng Jin, associate professor of physiology & biophysics at UC Irvine, and collaborators found that these compounds — called clostridial hemagglutinin (HA)-- bind
with epithelial cell proteins in the intestines of patients, which initiates a process that disrupts the close intercellular seals so that the complex toxin molecules can slip through the epithelial barrier.
In conventional research, colloidal particles grafted
with single - stranded DNA are allowed to self - assemble, and then the resulting
crystal structures are examined.
The 2.7 angstrom;
crystal structure of ZIKV protease in complex
with a peptidomimetic boronic acid inhibitor reveals a cyclic diester between the boronic acid and glycerol.
If a sufficient number of these photons can be measured
with a detector, a characteristic diffraction pattern is obtained which can be used to derive the pattern of scattered atoms or the
crystal structure.
The 3 angstrom resolution
crystal structure of the Escherichia coli catabolite gene activator protein (CAP) complexed
with a 30 - base pair DNA sequence shows that the DNA is bent by 90 degrees.
To get a better picture of how this compound interacted
with K - Ras, the scientists solved
crystal structures of the compound bound to K - Ras.
Unlike typical
crystal structures like shells, which incorporate thousands of smaller, geometrically symmetrical
crystals attached to each other, each spine on a sea urchin is a single large calcite
crystal with its own convoluted shape.