Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Selenium single-wavelength anomalous diffraction de novo phasing using an X-ray-free electron laser

  • Mark S. Hunter,
  • Chun Hong Yoon,
  • Hasan DeMirci,
  • Raymond G. Sierra,
  • E. Han Dao,
  • Radman Ahmadi,
  • Fulya Aksit,
  • Andrew L. Aquila,
  • Halilibrahim Ciftci,
  • Serge Guillet,
  • Matt J. Hayes,
  • Thomas J. Lane,
  • Meng Liang,
  • Ulf Lundström,
  • Jason E. Koglin,
  • Paul Mgbam,
  • Yashas Rao,
  • Lindsey Zhang,
  • Soichi Wakatsuki,
  • James M. Holton,
  • Sébastien Boutet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13388
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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X-ray free electron lasers are increasingly available for use in macromolecular structure determination. Here, the authors describe the successful use of selenium single-wavelength anomalous diffraction data to calculate experimentally derived phases.