著者

山本 雅貴

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.65, no.1, pp.55-63, 2023-02-28 (Released:2023-03-08)

参考文献数

39

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In modern life science research, structural information on proteins is indispensable for understanding the mechanisms of their biological functions. Many protein structures have been determined by X-ray crystallography, which has been developed in conjunction with molecular biology experiments and synchrotron radiation development. Since the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017, the rapid progress of cryo-EM hardware and analysis software has led to the use of cryo-EM single-particle analysis for structural analysis. In this article, we compare the features of protein crystallography and cryo-EM single-particle analysis and discuss the best method for protein crystallography.