https://site.uit.no/norcryst

NORCRYST - Norwegian macromolecular crystallography consortium

The Norwegian Crystallography Consortium (NORCRYST) provides instrumentation and expertise covering crystallization, structure determination and analysis of biologically relevant macromolecules (proteins, DNA, and RNA) and their intermolecular and ligand interactions to users from both academia and industry in Norway. The determination of 3-dimensional structures at atomic resolution using X-ray crystallography has a central role in elucidating the roles and mechanisms of action of the macromolecules and their complexes both in living systems and when applied for example in biotechnology processes. This knowledge, combined with biophysical property analysis, is in turn crucial for understanding disease mechanisms (human and animal medicine), and for the development of new drugs and biotechnology tools.