[Progresses in predicting the crystallizability of proteins]

Sheng Wu Gong Cheng Xue Bao. 2014 Sep;30(9):1362-71.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

Determination of protein 3-dimensional structure offers very important information in biology researches, especially for understanding protein functions and redundant drug design. The X-ray crystallography is still the main technique for protein structure determination. Obtaining protein crystals is an essential procedure after protein purification in this technique. However, there is only 42% of soluble purified proteins yield crystals by statistics. Experimental verification of protein crystallizability is relatively expensive and time-consuming. Thus it is desired to predict the protein crystallizability by a computational method before starting the experiment. In this paper, combined with our own efforts, some successful in silico methods to predict the protein crystallizability are reviewed.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Crystallization / methods*
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • Proteins / chemistry*

Substances

  • Proteins