Dear All,
a News & Views article in Nature 458, pages 37-38 of 5 March 2009
(link below) states:
"The development of structural biology WAS historically based on the
principle of divide and conquer — individual proteins were purified to
homogeneity and their atomic structures were solved in vitro by using
either X-ray crystallography or nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
spectroscopy. This approach WAS tremendously successful, and led to
the creation of a protein-structure databank that currently contains
more than 50,000 structures."
I find the past tense here too much...
Greetings,
Mark
Mark J. van Raaij
Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia
Universidad de Santiago
15782 Santiago de Compostela
Spain
http://web.usc.es/~vanraaij/
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7234/full/458037a.html
Structural biology: Inside the living cell
