HIV/SIV Nef mediates many cellular processes through interactions with various cytoplasmic and membrane-associated host proteins, including the signalling zeta subunit of the T-cell receptor (TCRzeta). Here, the crystallization strategy, methods and refinement procedures used to solve the structures of the core domain of the SIVmac239 isolate of Nef (Nef(core)) in complex with two different TCR...

The results of ab initio inorganic structure modelling are often in the form of Cartesian coordinates of atoms in a large, periodical and in general oblique simulation box containing hundreds to thousands of atoms. The contents of that box may correspond to a single crystal, a twin, a mixture of phases or a disordered block of matter. The problem of extracting corresponding crystallographic des...

The molecular dynamics and phase transitions of a columnar liquid crystal based on hexaether-substituted rufigallol mesogens were studied by a combination of X-ray scattering as well as ID and 2D solid-state NMR spectroscopy. A correlation of the anisotropic molecular moIion, with the molecular symmetry and the phase symmetry was established. 2D-exchange

Nonreciprocal wave propagation typically requires strong nonlinear materials to break time reversal symmetry. Here, we utilized a sonic-crystal-based acoustic diode that had broken spatial inversion symmetry and experimentally realized sound unidirectional transmission in this acoustic diode. These novel phenomena are attributed to different mode transitions as well as their associated differen...

Some 60 examples of crystal structures are presented which can be better described in space groups of higher symmetry than used in the original publications. These are divided into three categories: (A) incorrect Laue group (33 examples), (B) omission of a center of symmetry (22 examples), (C) omission of a center of symmetry coupled with a failure to recognize systematic absences (nine example...

The title complex, [CuCl(C(15)H(11)N(3))(H(2)O)]Cl·H(2)O, is composed of a monocation that possesses mirror symmetry. The Cu(II) atom has a distorted square-pyramidal geometry, being coordinated by the three N atoms of the terpyridine ligand and a Cl atom in the equatorial plane, and by a water mol-ecule O atom in the axial position. The charges are balanced by a chloride anion positionally dis...

In the title mol-ecular salt, (CH(6)N(3))(1.30)[Zn(H(2)O)(6)](0.35)[Zn(C(7)H(4)NO(4))(3)](2), the Zn(II) atom (site symmetry 3) in the anion is coordinated by three N,O-bidentate 3-carb-oxy-pyridine-2-carboxyl-ate monoanions to generate a fac-ZnN(3)O(3) octa-hedral coordination geometry. The guanidinium cation (the C atom has site symmetry 3) and the octa-hedral hexa-aqua-zinc(II) dication (the...

In the title salt, [(CH3CH2CH2)2NH2]4[Sn(C2O4)4]·H2O, the Sn(IV) atom of the stannate anion is located on a special position with -42m symmetry. It is eight-coordinated by four chelating oxalate anions. The di-propyl-ammonium cation possesses mirror symmetry while the lattice water mol-ecule is disordered about a position with -42m symmetry and has an occupancy of 0.25. In the crystal, the anio...

For temperatures above T∗ = 130K C60⋅C8H8 forms a cubic crystal consisting of two interpenetrating fcc sublattices, one of freely rotating Buckys C60 and the other of orientationally ordered cubane C8H8. The crystal structure below a discontinuous transition is found to be orthorhombic, but the nature of the ordering of the Buckys has not yet been determined. Here possible orderings of the Buck...

Strong topological insulators (TIs) support topological surfaces states on any crystal surface. In contrast, a weak, time-reversal-symmetry-driven TI with at least one non-zero v1, v2, v3 ℤ2 index should host spin-locked topological surface states on the surfaces that are not parallel to the crystal plane with Miller indices (v1 v2 v3). On the other hand, mirror symmetry can protect an even num...