| Formation and differentiation of salt crystal is a most common as well as challenging problem during protein crystallography. Although there are some methods used for their differentiation i.e. physical manipulation, birefringence, dye absorption and run a gel but all of them are totally depends on own perception and expertise as well as also require a good crystal (final stage crystal). To escape this problem the screening was done with PACT, JCSG and other automated screens as everyone do. But during optimization the additives/salts were ignored at first and optimization screen was made just based on different buffers and precipitant. After selecting suitable buffer, the type and percentage of precipitant was optimized. We got some ugly crystals and with... |
