posted on 2019-10-24, 10:22authored byP Roversi, E Blanc, S Johnson, SM Lea
Tetartohedral crystal twinning is discussed as a particular case of (pseudo)merohedral twinning when the number of twinned domains is four. Tetartohedrally twinned crystals often possess pseudosymmetry, with the rotational part of the pseudosymmetry operators coinciding with the twinning operators. Tetartohedrally twinned structures from the literature are reviewed and the recent structure determination of tetartohedrally twinned triclinic crystals of human complement factor I is discussed.
Funding
PR and SJ were funded by the Wellcome Trust (083599) and
MRC (G0400775) Project Grants to SML. We thank Garib
Murshudov, Dale Tronrud and Jade Li for discussions on
aspects of the work and the referees for helpful suggestions on
the manuscript.