Observation of the growth process of protein crystals under high magnetic field

Abstract

The influence of the high static magnetic field to the crystal growth processes of the hen-egg-Lysozyme was studied by method of the observation such as microscopic interferometry to make the mechanism of the crystallographic orientation clear. As a result, orientation of the crystals was obviously controlled by the direction of a magnetic induction under 6.0T, but the magnetic field gives the crystal orientation only and never changes a condition figure.