Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

A multi-crystal method for extracting obscured crystallographic states from conventionally uninterpretable electron density

  • Nicholas M. Pearce,
  • Tobias Krojer,
  • Anthony R. Bradley,
  • Patrick Collins,
  • Radosław P. Nowak,
  • Romain Talon,
  • Brian D. Marsden,
  • Sebastian Kelm,
  • Jiye Shi,
  • Charlotte M. Deane,
  • Frank von Delft

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15123
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Building a ligand into a weak region of an electron density map of a protein is a subjective process. Here, the authors present a new method to obtain a clear electron density for a bound ligand based on multi-crystal experiments and 3D background correction.