Analysis of the crystal content. (a) Protein analysis. Coomassie-stained 15% denaturing SDS–polyacrylamide gel. Lane 1, markers; lane 2, dissolved crystals; lane 3, purified Pop6–Pop7 heterodimer used in crystallization. Pop7 is known to have anomalously low mobility on SDS gels (Perederina et al., 2007 ▶). (b) RNA analysis. Ethidium bromide-stained 15% denaturing (8 M urea) polyacrylamide gel. Lane 1, markers; lane 2, dissolved crystals; lane 3, initial preparation of the P3-domain RNA used in crystallization.