Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology

期刊简介：Acta Crystallographica Section D welcomes the submission of articles covering any aspect of structural biology, with a particular emphasis on the structures of biological macromolecules or the methods used to determine them.Reports on new structures of biological importance may address the smallest macromolecules to the largest complex molecular machines. These structures may have been determined using any structural biology technique including crystallography, NMR, cryoEM and/or other techniques. The key criterion is that such articles must present significant new insights into biological, chemical or medical sciences. The inclusion of complementary data that support the conclusions drawn from the structural studies (such as binding studies, mass spectrometry, enzyme assays, or analysis of mutants or other modified forms of biological macromolecule) is encouraged.Methods articles may include new approaches to any aspect of biological structure determination or structure analysis but will only be accepted where they focus on new methods that are demonstrated to be of general applicability and importance to structural biology. Articles describing particularly difficult problems in structural biology are also welcomed, if the analysis would provide useful insights to others facing similar problems.

【译文】《Acta Crystallographica Section D》欢迎提交涵盖结构生物学任何方面的文章，特别强调生物大分子的结构及其确定方法。关于具有生物学重要性的新结构的报告可能涉及最小的生物大分子到最大的复杂分子机器。这些结构可能使用任何结构生物学技术确定，包括晶体学、NMR、冷冻电镜和/或其他技术。关键标准是这些文章必须展示对生物学、化学或医学科学的重要新见解。鼓励包含支持从结构研究中得出的结论的补充数据（如结合研究、质谱、酶分析或生物大分子突变体或其他修饰形式的分析）。方法文章可能包括生物结构确定或结构分析任何方面的新方法，但只有在它们关注已证明对结构生物学具有普遍适用性和重要性的新方法时才会被接受。描述结构生物学中特别困难问题的文章也受到欢迎，如果分析能为面临类似问题的其他人提供有用的见解。