用直接法处理由重原子引起的四重解

溴化五味子醇乙C₂₃H₂₇O₇Br的单晶体属P2₁2₁2₁空间群,每个晶胞含4个分子。由于Br原子的y和z坐标都非常接近于1/4,无论用重原子法还是用Patterson法,相应于每一个轻原子的位置都可能出现四种不同的解,因而正常的分析无法进行下去。用作者之一提出的方法顺利地消除了重原子引起的赝解,从而求出正确的结构。 关键词：     

重原子信息在直接法中的应用——含重原子晶体结构因子相位的统计估算

重原子所提供的信息对测定含重原子晶体结构有重要的作用。如何利用重原子信息将影响到测定工作是否顺利乃至能否成功。本文提出一种利用重原子信息的新方法。这个方法能够更充分地利用重原子信息,并能使重原子法同直接法更有效地结合起来。 关键词：     

SAD phasing by OASIS at different resolutions down to 0.30 nm and below

Single-wavelength anomalous diffraction （SAD） phasing is increasingly important in solving de novo protein structures. Direct methods have been proved very efficient in SAD phasing. This paper aims at probing the low-resolution limit of direct-method SAD phasing. Two known proteins TT0570 and Tom70p were used as test samples. Sulfur-SAD data of the protein TT0570 were collected with conventional Cu-Kα source at 0.18 nm resolution. Its truncated subsets respectively at 0.21, 0.30, 0.35 and 0.40 nm resolutions were used in the test. TT0570 Cu-Kα sulfur-SAD data have an expected Bijvoet ratio 〈 ｜△F｜ 〉 / 〈 F 〉 ～ 0.55%. In the 0.21 nm case, a single run of OASIS-DM-ARP/wARP led automatically to a model containing 1178 of the total 1206 residues all docked into the sequence. In 0.30 and 0.35 nm cases, SAD phasing by OASIS-DM led to traceable electron density maps. In the 0.40 nm case, SAD phasing by OASIS-DM resulted in a degraded electron density map, which may be difficult to trace but still contains useful secondary-structure information. Test on real 0.33 nm selenium-SAD data of the protein Tom70p showed that even automatic model building was not successful, the combination of manual tracing and direct-method fragment extension was capable of significantly improving the electron-density map. This provides the possibility of effectively improving the manually built model before structure refinement is performed.     

5-[(3,5-二溴-2-吡啶)偶氮]-2,4-二氨基甲苯的晶体结构

5-[(3,5-二溴-2-吡啶)偶氮]-2,4-二氨基甲苯对铜和钴是高灵敏度和高选择性试剂,其单晶系P2₁/n空间群,晶胞参数α=11.477(5)Å、b=15.642(6)Å、c=8.311(4)Å、β=110.54(4)°,每个晶胞中有4个分子。