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Abstract
A method is proposed to restore ab initio low resolution shape and internal structure of chaotically oriented particles (e.g., biological macromolecules in solution) from isotropic scattering. A multiphase model of a particle built from densely packed dummy atoms is characterized by a configuration vector assigning the atom to a specific phase or to the solvent. Simulated annealing is employed to find a configuration that fits the data while minimizing the interfacial area. Application of the method is illustrated by the restoration of a ribosome-like model structure and more realistically by the determination of the shape of several proteins from experimental x-ray scattering data.Entities:
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Year: 1999 PMID: 10354416 PMCID: PMC1300260 DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77443-6
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biophys J ISSN: 0006-3495 Impact factor: 4.033