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1 CRISTALLOGRAFIA A RAGGI X

2 Perche’ i raggi X? Per vedere un oggetto le sue dimensioni devono essere almeno la meta’ della lunghezza d’onda della luce usata per rivelarlo.

3 The wavelength of visible light is far from small enough to see an atom, it is far to big. X-Rays have short enough wavelengths to “see” the atoms and the molecular structure of molecules.

4 Crystallization*

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6 Crystallization Protein Crystal

7 The Setup: X-ray Source: x-ray tubes, rotating anode tubes, or particle storage rings Gonoimeter Detectors: X-ray films, CCD cameras, or Multiwire detectors. CHESS at Cornell is an example of a particle storage ring. Usually produce X-rays by bombarding Cu or Mb with electrons produced by a heated filament and accelerated in an electric field. When electron knocked out of low energy level, another falls and fills its space, emitting and x-ray photon. Multiwire detectors are lots of anode and cathode wires crisscrossing that pick up the x-ray signal. CCD camera set up so x-rays hit a phosphor face plate which then emits photons picked up by an optical detector.

8 How Does X-Ray Crystallography Work ?
Image of diffraction

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11 From diffraction to electron density map
Fourier Transform To get from the diffraction pattern to the electron density, you have to use a Fourier Transform. A transform is an eqn that transforms a function with some variables into a function with reciprocal variables. It is a way of going from the reciprocal lattice to the real lattice.

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13 Resolution Resolution: another measure of how good your model is.
Resolution gives the size of the smallest molecule you can see or resolve. Dependent on the amount of data ultimately phased and used in structure determination.

14 The Final Result A PDB coordinate file
ORIGX TRX 147 ORIGX TRX 148 SCALE TRX 149 SCALE TRX 150 SCALE TRX 151 ATOM N SER A TRX 152 ATOM CA SER A TRX 153 ATOM C SER A TRX 154 ATOM O SER A TRX 155 ATOM CB SER A TRX 156 ATOM OG SER A TRX 157 ATOM N ASP A TRX 158 ATOM CA ASP A TRX 159 ATOM C ASP A TRX 160 ATOM O ASP A TRX 161 ATOM CB ASP A TRX 162 A PDB coordinate file

15 The PDB


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