CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crystallography mean? 

• CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun CRYSTALLOGRAPHY has 1 sense:

1. the branch of science that studies the formation and structure of crystals

  Familiarity information: CRYSTALLOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of science that studies the formation and structure of crystals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("crystallography" is a kind of...):

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Domain member category:

monoclinic (having three unequal crystal axes with one oblique intersection)

anorthic; triclinic (having three unequal crystal axes intersecting at oblique angles)

isometric (of a crystal system characterized by three equal axes at right angles)

rhombohedral; trigonal (having threefold symmetry)

bladed (composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade)

 Context examples 

Using these modifications, they were able to create small crystals suitable for X-ray crystallography.

(Serotonin transporter structure revealed, NIH)

They used time-lapse crystallography to capture snapshots at different time points during assembly.

(Structural Snapshots of Damaged DNA, NIH)

A method of crystallography for the elucidation of protein structure with ultra-high resolution (< 1.2 Angstrom).

(Atomic Resolution X-Ray Crystallography, NCI Thesaurus)

Crystallography study reveals that two ~95 amino acid BRCT repeats within the domain adopt similar structures that pack together in a head-to-tail arrangement.

(BRCT Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

A structure of one glutamate receptor variant in its resting state had previously been determined by using X-ray crystallography.

(Structural states of a brain receptor revealed, NIH)

Unfortunately, X-ray crystallography, the gold standard for determining the structure of proteins, has many limitations when dealing with those found in the cellular membrane.

(Study shows limitations of method for determining protein structure, National Science Foundation)

They used a technique called X-ray crystallography to decipher the structure of the enzyme when borrelidin interacts with it.

(Scientists Discover Antibiotic Mechanism, NIH)

Using X-ray crystallography, they were able to resolve the structure of the complete protein.

(Structure of receptor involved in brain disorders, NIH)

In this study, the researchers were able to visualize beta-galactosidase at a resolution of 2.2 angstroms, which is comparable to the level of detail that has thus far been obtained only by using X-ray crystallography.

(Near-atomic resolution of protein structure by electron microscopy holds promise for drug discovery, NIH)

The serotonin transporter can be difficult to prepare for X-ray crystallography, a technique that creates an image of a protein’s 3-D structure.

(Serotonin transporter structure revealed, NIH)