X-ray Structural Studies of Proteins at the Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract

The development and formation of X-ray crystallography of macromolecules, or protein crystallography, is one of the most important achievements of science in the 20th century. The possibility of establishing the three-dimensional structures of macromolecules of proteins and nucleic acids at atomic level has ensured the rapid development of molecular biology, biochemistry, bioengineering, and biotechnology and allowed researchers to reach the modern level of pharmacology. The review considers the results of studies of protein structures performed at the Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of the Russian Academy of Sciences from the 1960s up to now.