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Using Xenon As A Heavy Atom For Determining Phases In Sperm Whale Metmyoglobin, Jacqueline Vitali, Arthur H. Robbins, Steven C. Almo, Robert F. Tilton
Using Xenon As A Heavy Atom For Determining Phases In Sperm Whale Metmyoglobin, Jacqueline Vitali, Arthur H. Robbins, Steven C. Almo, Robert F. Tilton
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Xenon gas can be used as a heavy atom for determining phases in a protein. We demonstrate that an interpretable electron density map can be obtained for sperm whale metmyoglobin from a single xenon derivative using iterative single isomorphous replacement with the anomalous scattering method.