Alumina nanomaterials were synthesized via a solution combustion technique using tris-(acetylacetonato) aluminum(III) complex (1) and tris-(2-formylphenolate) aluminum(III) complex (2) at 600, and 1000 °C for 3h. The obtained data showed that the procedure without using fuel resulted in a better phase and morphology. To investigate the phase formation, powder X-ray diffraction technique was use...

The hyperthermophilic glycoside hydrolase family endocellulase 12 from the archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus (EGPf; Gene ID PF0854; EC 3.2.1.4) catalyzes the hydrolytic cleavage of the β-1,4-glucosidic linkage in β-glucan in lignocellulose biomass. A crystal of EGPf was previously prepared at pH 9.0 and its structure was determined at an atomic resolution of 1.07 Å. This article reports the crystall...

Lys48-linked polyubiquitin chains are recognized by the proteasome as a tag for the degradation of the attached substrates. Here, a new crystal form of Lys48-linked diubiquitin (Ub2) was obtained and the crystal structure was refined to 1.6 A resolution. The structure reveals an ordered isopeptide bond in a trans configuration. All three molecules in the asymmetric unit were in the same closed ...

The mixed solvated salt 4-(2-chloro-dibenzo[b,f][1,4]oxazepin-11-yl)piperazin-1-ium acetate-acetic acid-cyclo-hexane (2/2/1), C17H17ClN3O(+)·C2H3O2 (-)·C2H4O2·0.5C6H12, crystallizes with one mol-ecule of protonated amoxapine (AXPN), an acetate anion and a mol-ecule of acetic acid together with half a mol-ecule of cyclo-hexane. In the centrosymmetric crystal, both enanti-omers of the protonated ...

A new form of thr~-dimensioM1 crystals of the 50 S ribosomal subunits from Haiobacterium m~~mortui has been obtained at 19”C, using ~iyethyle~e glycol in the presence of 1.2-1.7 M KC1 in the crystall~tion mixture. The crystals diffract X-rays to 13 A and are stable in the synehrotron radiation beam for 4-8 h. Being aggregates of thin plates, the dimensions of only two unit cell edges, 147 x 181...

The structure of a trigonal crystal form of N-terminally truncated [des-(1-9)] bovine annexin IV, an annexin variant that exhibits the distinctive property of binding both phospholipids and carbohydrates in a Ca2+-dependent manner, has been determined at 3 A (0.3 nm) resolution -space group: R3; cell parameters: a=b=118.560 (8) A and c=82.233 (6) A-. The overall structure of annexin IV, crystal...

The structure of potassium dichromate (P , Z = 4) consists of two layers parallel to (001), between which no crystallographic symmetry relation exists. These layers are nearly coincident with each other when rotated through 90° about c*. One question remained unanswered: do the crystals grow parallel to {001} with d(002) or d(001) layers? The pseudo-fourfold axis does not run parallel to a crys...

Using the thrombin mutant R77aA devoid of the site of autoproteolytic degradation at exosite I, we have solved for the first time the structure of thrombin free of any inhibitors and effector molecules and stabilized in the Na(+)-free slow form. The slow form shows subtle differences compared with the currently available structures of the Na(+)-bound fast form that carry inhibitors at the activ...