research papers Acta Crystallographica Section D
Biological Crystallography ISSN 0907-4449
D. C. Yin,a,b Y. Inatomi,b* N. I. Wakayama,c,d W. D. Huanga and K. Kuribayashib a
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, Shaanx, People's Republic of China, bSpace Utilization Research Center, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Yoshinodai 3-1-1, Kanagawa 229-8510, Japan, cCore Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Japan, and d National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan
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An investigation of magnetic field effects on the dissolution of lysozyme crystal and related phenomena It is now widely known that a magnetic ®eld, either homogeneous or inhomogeneous, depresses the growth process of protein crystals. In this report, the dissolution process of tetragonal lysozyme crystals is also con®rmed to be depressed by a homogeneous magnetic ®eld (inhomogeneity