Journal of Synchrotron Radiation

Volume 10, Part 1 (January 2003)

research papers

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2003). 10, 9-15 [ doi:10.1107/S0909049502022446 ]

Marriage of XAFS and crystallography for structure-function studies of metalloproteins

S. S. Hasnain and R. W. Strange

Abstract: Metalloproteins constitute a significant proportion of all known genomes. In this article it is shown that the marriage of two synchrotron-radiation-based structural techniques, namely high-resolution crystallography and XAFS, can yield unprecedented levels of structural information that is directly relevant to the mechanism/function of these important macromolecules.

Keywords: metalloproteins; genomes; high-resolution crystallography; XAFS.