Skip to main content
. 2004 Mar 29;101(14):4793–4798. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0308315101

Table 1. Quenching times, temperatures, and populations for a two-state process during flash-cooling of a protein crystal.

a = 0.1 mm
a = 0.5 mm
Inner Middle Outer Inner Middle Outer
t*, ms 5.7 1.6 0.1 155 47 3.5
T*, K 209 212 221 200 202 208
Inline graphic 0.92 0.90 0.83 0.95 0.94 0.92

The results are for conductive cooling from 293 to 77 K of a spherical crystal of radius, a. For each radius, the three columns refer to the inner, middle, and outer thirds of the crystal volume. The parameter values describing the A ↔ B interconversion process are as in Fig. 1.