Peculiarities of protein crystal nucleation and growth

CN Nanev - Crystals, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews investigations on protein crystallization. It aims to present a
comprehensive rather than complete account of recent studies and efforts to elucidate the …

Influence of mixing intensity on lysozyme crystallization in a meso oscillatory flow reactor

F Castro, A Ferreira, JA Teixeira… - Crystal Growth & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The influence of mixing intensity on protein crystallization has been investigated for the first
time in a meso oscillatory flow reactor (meso-OFR). For this, lysozyme crystallization was …

Determination methods for crystal nucleation kinetics in solutions

Y Xiao, J Wang, X Huang, H Shi, Y Zhou… - Crystal Growth & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The crystal nucleation process in solutions plays an important role in both the engineering
processes and the physical science. To seek the truth of nucleation, researchers have …

Kinetics of insulin crystal nucleation, energy barrier, and nucleus size

CN Nanev, FV Hodzhaoglu, IL Dimitrov - Crystal growth & design, 2011 - ACS Publications
Number density of insulin crystals versus nucleation time dependences were measured
simultaneously, during the same experiment, at four typical places: in solution bulk, at the …

Relationship between number and sizes of crystals growing in batch crystallization: Nuclei number density, nucleation kinetics and crystal polydispersity

CN Nanev - Journal of Crystal Growth, 2020 - Elsevier
Calculation of the crystal nuclei number density as a function of both nucleation time and
supersaturation is enabled by newly devised formula. A theoretical treatment of crystal …

A contemporary look at the accuracy of the 'double pulse technique'for measuring rates of crystal nucleation; molecular-kinetic and non-classical mechanisms of initial …

CN Nanev - Journal of Crystal Growth, 2023 - Elsevier
Microscopically visible crystals are indispensable for measuring nucleation rates by means
of the 'double pulse technique'(DPT). Therefore, the accuracy of the DPT depends on the …

Hetero-vs homogeneous nucleation of protein crystals discriminated by supersaturation

G Tosi, S Fermani, G Falini, JA Gavira… - Crystal growth & …, 2011 - ACS Publications
In protein crystallization trials there is always some ambiguity in defining if the nucleation
event occurred by a homogeneous or a heterogeneous process. One of the reasons comes …

Controlling protein crystal growth rate by means of temperature

I Santamaría-Holek, A Gadomski… - Journal of Physics …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We have proposed a model to analyze the growth kinetics of lysozyme crystals/aggregates
under non-isothermal conditions. The model was formulated through an analysis of the …

Small temperature oscillations promote protein crystallization

C Ferreira, R Crespo, PM Martins, L Gales, F Rocha… - …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Small temperature oscillations (TOs) are shown to increase the success rates of protein
crystallization experiments by enhancing protein nucleation and by inducing the formation of …

Probabilistic approach to lysozyme crystal nucleation kinetics

IL Dimitrov, FV Hodzhaoglu, DP Koleva - Journal of biological physics, 2015 - Springer
Nucleation of lysozyme crystals in quiescent solutions at a regime of progressive nucleation
is investigated under an optical microscope at conditions of constant supersaturation. A …