著者
中川 敦史
出版者
日本結晶学会
雑誌
日本結晶学会誌 (ISSN:03694585)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.35, no.5, pp.327-333, 1993-10-25 (Released:2010-09-30)
参考文献数
21
被引用文献数
3 5

Flower colors, from red through purple to blue, are mostly from anthocyanins. Although there are many colors, only a few anthocyanins are found. We have succeeded to solve the structure of real anthocyanin and a sugar containing flavonoid, Cd-commelinin, using the Weissenberg camera for macromolecular crystallography with imaging plates at the Photon Factory. The blue flower-color development and the stability of the color can be explained by metal complexation of anthocyanin and intermolecular hydrophobic association. Commelinin is a new type of stoichiometric supramolecule, which consists of low molecular mass components.
著者
東浦 彰史 中川 敦史
出版者
日本結晶学会
雑誌
日本結晶学会誌 (ISSN:03694585)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.53, no.5, pp.332-338, 2011-10-31 (Released:2011-11-20)
参考文献数
11

Recent technical developments in macromolecular X-ray crystallography have significantly improved the resolution limit of protein structures. However, numbers of high-resolution structures are still limited. In this study, the X-ray crystal structure of bovine H-protein, a component of the glycine cleavage system, was determined at 0.88 Å resolution. This is the first ultrahigh-resolution structure of an H-protein. The data were collected using synchrotron radiation. Because of limitations of the hardware, especially the dynamic range of the CCD detector, three data sets (high-, medium- and low-resolution data sets) were measured in order to obtain a complete set of data. To improve the quality of the merged data, the reference data set was optimized for merging and the merged data were assessed by comparing merging statistics and R factors against the final model and the number of visualized hydrogen atoms. In addition, the advantages of merging three data sets were evaluated. The omission of low-resolution reflections had an adverse effect on visualization of hydrogen atoms in hydrogen-omit maps. Visualization of hydrogen electron density is a good indicator for assessing the quality of high-resolution X-ray diffraction data.