Direct structure analysis in protein electron crystallography: crystallographic phases for halorhodopsin to 6-A resolution.

AUTOR(ES)

Dorset, D L

RESUMO

The crystal structure of halorhodopsin was determined in (centrosymmetric) projection to 6-A resolution by direct methods that use only the amplitudes of the electron diffraction pattern. A multisolution technique was used to generate initial 15-A-resolution basis sets, and after selection of the best phase set (by the closest match of magnitude of Eobs and magnitude of Ecalc), annealing of individual reflections was used to improve its accuracy. The Sayre equation was then used to expand the phase terms to 10 A, followed again by phase annealing. A final expansion with the Sayre equation enlarged this corrected phase set to 6 A. When the condition of density flatness was used to locate the best phase solution after each extension, a final structure could be observed that was quite similar to the one found earlier by analysis of electron micrographs.

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