| Basis for
Anaerobic Crystallization |
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| • | Many proteins
exist in an anaerobic environment |
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| – | Lose cofactors
such as iron-sulfur clusters in oxygen |
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| environment |
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| – | Need to reproduce
redox state of cofactors such as |
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| FAD+
and NAD+ |
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| • | Many
crystallographers need to see different redox |
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| states of protein
conformations for biological studies |
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