The protein structural entries grew far slower than the sequence entries. This is partly due to the bottleneck in obtaining diffraction quality protein crystals for structural determination using X-ray crystallography. The first step to achieve protein crystallization is to find out suitable chemical reagents. However, it is not an easy task. Exhausting trial and error tests of numerous combinations of different reagents mixed with the protein solution are usually necessary to screen out the pursuing crystallization conditions. Therefore, any attempts to help find suitable reagents for protein crystallization are helpful. In this paper, an analysis of the relationship between the protein sequence similarity and the crystallization reagents according to the information from the existing databases is presented. We extracted information of reagents and sequences from the Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database (BMCD) and the Protein Data Bank (PDB) database, classified the proteins into different clusters according to the sequence similarity, and statistically analyzed the relationship between the sequence similarity and the crystallization reagents. The results showed that there is a pronounced positive correlation between them. Therefore, according to the correlation, prediction of feasible chemical reagents that are suitable to be used in crystallization screens for a specific protein is possible. 相似文献
The present work provides a critical review of polymer crystallization studies using SALS; experimental methods, analysis techniques, observations and their relations with respect to other techniques are discussed. Furthermore, the fact that nucleation might be accompanied by large scale density fluctuations has been investigated for the flow‐induced crystallization of iPB. SALS was applied to measure density and orientation fluctuations, whereas complementary results were obtained from optical microscopy. The observations from both crystallization and melting experiments seem to indicate that the detected density fluctuations result from the presence of weakly anisotropic structures, rather than being an indication of densification before the onset of crystallization.
Separation of acetic acid from acetic acid and water mixture was carried out by melt crystallization. The effect of the cooling rate, the amount of seeds, the seeding temperature, the sweating rate, and the sweating fraction on the distribution coefficient was investigated. The acetic acid was successfully separated by single-stage melt crystallization. As the sweating fraction is increased, the crystalline layers grown at lower cooling rates are purified more highly. Eventually, the crystallization rate is much more important than the sweating rate. The effective distribution coefficient ranges from 0.01 to 0.25 for the crystal growth rates of 1.2 × 10?6 m/s to 4 × 10?6 m/s. 相似文献
Abstract Ice crystalline layers were prepared from a binary eutectic mixture of acetic acid and water using layer melt crystallization. The crystalline layers were obtained under the conditions of the cooling temperature at 269, 268, and 267 K, the feed compositions of 0.5, 1.0, and 5.0 wt% acetic acid, and the cooling rates of 0.1, 0.5, and 1.0 K/min. After crystallization, sweating operations were carried out for various crystalline layers obtained in crystallization. The effect of sweating on the impurity behavior inside crystalline layer was investigated. The crystalline layer formed in higher growth rate was purified more easily by sweating operations. Effective distribution coefficient in the sweating process was in the range of 0.2 to 0.01, which depended on the crystalline layers formed in crystallization process. Eventually, layer melt crystallization can be used for the treatment of acetic acid wastewater. 相似文献
A process for the recovery and purification of terephthalic acid (TA) from alkali reduction wastewater is reported. TA was first precipitated from alkali reduction wastewater by acidification with sulfuric acid, and then the produced crude TA was dissolved in dimethylacetamide (DMA) so that crude TA could be purified from the solution by cooling crystallization. The results indicated that acidification could reduce the chemical oxygen demand of the wastewater by 83 %, and the purity of TA by crystallization could reach 99.91 %. A correlation was proposed in describing the solubility of crude TA in DMA from 303.4 to 358.65 K, which gives a mean relative discrepancy of less than 1.14 %. The cooling rate of the mother liquor had a large influence on the crystal size distribution. At an average cooling rate of 1.18 K min–1, the particle size distribution of TA was narrow and the average size was about 100 μm. In a bench‐scale study, it was demonstrated that the crystallized product can be recycled as the raw material for polyethylene terephthalate production. 相似文献
