title: A highly automated heavy-atom search procedure for macromolecular structures.
abstract: A new highly automated heavy-atom search procedure combines a fast Fourier transform translation function, Patterson superposition functions and Patterson correlation refinement. The search procedure can be applied to various native and difference Patterson maps and their statistically weighted averages. The procedure was tested with diffraction data for several crystal structures with up to 30 heavy-atom sites in the asymmetric unit and with minimum Bragg spacings ranging from 3 to 4 A. In all cases, the correct sites were found with modest computing time.
authors.affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8114, USA.
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Grosse-Kunstleve
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Brunger
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray / Q000379:methods*; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D017356:Synchrotrons
chemical_list: D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D011506:Proteins