Abstract:
The invention relates to methods of crystallizing a peptide or polypeptide comprising linking a peptide or polypeptide to a terminus of a crystallizable carrier protein to form a chimeric protein and crystallizing the chimeric protein. The invention also includes methods for determining the three-dimensional structure of a peptide or polypeptide, the crystallized chimeric proteins themselves, and methods for designing a peptide or polypeptide for screening for improved binding to a molecule by using the three dimensional structural information.