Dear John A unit cell can be produced by the symmetry operations on an asymmetric unit. So, in your summary, if you just include number of copies in the asymmetric unit along with the space group, it should do the job.
On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 4:37 PM, <John Pontty> < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > Some papers write in the way that how many copies of proteins exist in the > crystal unit cell (for example, in each unit cell there was monomer or > dimer or 3 proteins), some write in the way that how many copies of > proteins exist in the crystal assymetric unit. > > I am writing a paragraph to sumarize how many copies of proteins exist in > the crystal unit cell or in the crystal assymetric unit, based on > published papers. In this situation can I treat unit cell and assymetric > unit as same, especially if I need to prepare a table to indicate the > copies of proteins in the unit cell or asymmetric unit? > > I am looking forward to getting a reply from you. > > Best regards. > > John > -- *Regards.* *Adarsh Kumar* *Senior Research Fellow (SPMF)* *Dr. S. Karthikeyan's Group (Protein Crystallography Unit)* *Dept. of Protein Science and Engineering* *Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR)* *Sector 39A, Chandigarh - 160036* *India*
