I only deposited the high-res apo coordinates, but pdb code 2AU3 was solved from a thulium soaked crystal. In fact, I also used dysprosium to phase primase from a different bacterium. Go team lanthanide!
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:21:16 +0100, Thomas Womack <twom...@globalphasing.com> wrote: >A perusal of the PDB reveals that the game of Periodic Table bingo still >has eleven rounds to run: > >scandium, titanium, germanium, zirconium, niobium, neodymium, >dysprosium, thulium, hafnium, bismuth and thorium remain absent from PDB >entries. ... > There >must somewhere be a protein with a site that cries out for ThCl2(2+), an >unexpectedly water-stable cation.
