Today, crystallization is used primarily to analyze the structures of proteins. It also is gaining favor as a purification method for elastase, proteases, albumin, and lipase, in addition to ...

Within biopharmaceutical companies, crystallography is generally the purview of research scientists involved in structure-based drug design. Its potential for protein purification has been known for ...

Conventionally, chromatography is used for protein purification, which is extremely expensive. Alternatively, the protein crystallization method could be used to determine protein structure, but this ...

A quick, purification-free method was developed by researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo, to capture the detailed 3D structures of flexible sugar molecules. By growing crystals of galectin-10 ...