A comprehensive and approachable introduction to crystallography
— now updated in a valuable new edition
The Second Edition of this well-received book continues to offer
the most concise, authoritative, and easy-to-follow introduction to
the field of crystallography. Dedicated to providing a complete,
basic presentation of the subject that does not assume a background
in physics or math, the book’s content flows logically from basic
principles to methods, such as those for solving phase problems,
interpretation of Patterson maps and the difference Fourier method,
the fundamental theory of diffraction and the properties of
crystals, and applications in determining macromolecular
structure.
This new edition includes a vast amount of carefully updated
materials, as well as two completely new chapters on recording and
compiling X-ray data and growing crystals of proteins and other
macromolecules.
Richly illustrated throughout to clarify difficult concepts,
this book takes a non-technical approach to crystallography that is
ideal for professionals and graduate students in structural
biology, biophysics, biochemistry, and molecular biology who are
studying the subject for the first time.
Table of Content
PREFACE.
1. AN OVERVIEW OF MAROMOLECUEAR CYRSTALLOGRAPHY.
2. CRYSTALLIZATRION OF MACROMOLEUCLES.
3. THE NATURE OF CRYSTALS: SYSMMETRY AND THE UNIT CELL.
4. WAVES AND THEIR PROPERTIES.
5. DIFFRACTION FROM POINTS, PLANES, MOLECULES, AND CRYSTALS.
6. INTERPRETATIN OF DIFFRACTION PATTERNS.
7. DATA COLLECTION.
8. SOLVING THE PHASE PROBLEM.
9. INTERPRETING PATTERSON MAPS.
10. ELECTRON DENSITY, REFINEMENT, AND DIFFERENCE FOURIER
MAPS.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
INDEX.
About the author
Alexander Mcpherson, Ph D, is Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the University of California, Irvine’s School of Biological Sciences. The author of six books and 300 papers or reviews, he is widely considered the nation’s foremost authority in the field of macromolecular crystallography. For over a decade, he has served as principal instructor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory course inmacromolecular X-ray crystallography, an intensive course for which much of the material in this text was originally conceived.
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