Neutron Diffractometer for Biological Macromolecule Crystallography

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  • KURIHARA Kazuo
    Neutron Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
  • TANAKA Ichiro
    Faculty of Engineering, Ibaraki University
  • NIIMURA Nobuo
    Institute of Applied Beam Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University

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  • 中性子科学への招待（３）中性子単結晶構造解析，生物回折計
  • ニュウモン コウザ チュウセイシ カガク エ ノ ショウタイ 3 チュウセイシタンケッショウ コウゾウ カイセキ セイブツ カイセツケイ

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Abstract

Neutron diffraction provides an experimental method of directly locating hydrogen atoms in proteins and nucleic acids, and the development of the neutron imaging plate (NIP) became a breakthrough event in neutron protein crystallography. A high resolution neutron diffractometers dedicated to biological macromolecules (BIX-3, BIX-4) with the NIP have been constructed at Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute. The detailed structure of the diffractometer and the systematic procedure of the neutron diffraction experiment from the crystallization of a large single crystal to the data collection and the data processing, and the future prospect of the neutron diffractometry in proteins will be presented.

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