Alhtough perhaps a little more macabre--maybe you could crystallize
hemoglobin or myoglobin from blood or muscle (meat?). I recollect some
story of whale myo- or hemo-globin crystallizing on the salty decks of a
whaling ship...
Jacob
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:59 AM, David Smith wrote:
> Dear crystallographers,
>
> I am working on an outreach program through the APS to get motivated high
> school students some/more research experience. As I work at a
> crystallography beamline (LS-CAT), we are trying to get a
> crystallographically centered experiment in place that will be interesting
> to a high school student. Among other ideas, I had mentioned to the
> teacher the possibility of crystallizing lysozyme directly from egg
> whites. The teacher picked up on this idea as the one he and his students
> would like to pursue. I have done a bit of reseach and I have found the
> Alderton and Fevold paper from '46 about direct crystallization from egg
> whites. However I am unable to find any papers that refine or expand upon
> this experiment. While there appears to be some literature about lysozyme
> and crystallizing the same, these papers do not use lysozyme directly from
> hen egg whites. Do any of you know of any more recent papers or procedures
> that would be relevant or easily adapted to an high school environment?
>
> Our goal is to get diffraction quality crystals, expose the crystals at
> the beamline, and present a poster of the experience.
>
> Cheers and thanks,
>
> David Smith
>
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> David W Smith
> Research Scientist
> LS-CAT
> APS, Argonne IL
> W:(630)343-9811
> F:(630)252-4664
>
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Jacob Pearson Keller
Northwestern University
Medical Scientist Training Program
email: j-kell...@northwestern.edu
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