Berkeley lab scientists reveal path to protein crystallization (w/ Video)

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 15:21 in Physics & Chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Growth of two-dimensional S-layer crystals on supported lipid bilayers observed in solution using in situ atomic force microscopy. This movie shows proteins sticking onto the supported lipid bilayer, forming a mobile phase that condenses into amorphous clusters, and undergoing a phase transition to crystalline clusters composed of 2 to 15 tetramers. These initial clusters then enter a growth phase in which new tetramers form exclusively at unoccupied lattice sites along the cluster edges.

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