Argonne's Midwest Centre for Structural Genomics determines 1000th protein structure
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 04:28
in Physics & Chemistry
For nearly a decade, researchers at the Midwest Centre for Structural Genomics (MCSG), an international consortium led by Andrzej Joachimiak at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, have been patiently cracking the genetic code of important proteins. Using X-ray crystallography, researchers sketch an image of a protein's atomic structure - laying the basis for further studies and treatments by scientists all around the world. On Friday, 17 July, they deposited their 1,000th protein structure into the Protein Data Bank...