With structural knowledge available of the over 80,000 macromolecular crystal structures recorded in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) 1, it should be feasible to solve the 'crystallographic phase problem' ...
Proteins are made of amino acid chains, or polypeptides. Amino acids have a basic backbone made of an amino group and a carboxyl group, and differ in their side-chains. These polypeptide chains of ...