title: Combining image-seeking functions and a subtraction strategy: a vector-space procedure to improve many-body searches in molecular replacement.
abstract: Many-body searches in molecular replacement are usually carried out sequentially and each step benefits from the structural information obtained in previous rotational and translational stages. In this context, the incorporation of known structural information has proved to enhance the discrimination of a rotation function in Patterson space when many independent molecules have to be located in the asymmetric unit of the crystal cell. This improvement is achieved by subtraction of the contributions of already positioned molecules from the observed Patterson map, which makes the determination of the correct orientation of the remaining molecules easier. The quality of the resultant difference Patterson map is greatly influenced by the application of a bulk-solvent correction to the structure-factor amplitudes of the molecules that are being subtracted. The results obtained in the rotation search benefit both from the availability of high-resolution data and from the combination of the subtraction strategy and the refinement of a great number of the peaks of the rotation function.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química Física y Analítica, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Oviedo, C/Julián Clavería 8, 33006 Oviedo, Spain. mcara@sauron.quimica.uniovi.es
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Alvarez-Rúa
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Borge
authors.forename: Santiago
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: García-Granda
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D019759:Carbon-Nitrogen Lyases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D003461:Crystallography / Q000379:methods*; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D012260:Ribonucleases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D011506:Proteins; C057438:barstar protein, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens; D012260:Ribonucleases; C019760:Bacillus amyloliquefaciens ribonuclease; C019953:cyanate hydrolase; D019759:Carbon-Nitrogen Lyases