Methodological study demonstrates accurate heavy-atom refinement in macromolecular crystallography without phase data, indicating reliable parameter estimation for structure determination.
A procedure is presented for three-dimensional refinement of heavy-atom parameters without the use of phase information in the methods of single and multiple isomorphous replacement. This procedure is based on the Patterson-function correlation method of Rossmann [Acta Cryst. (1960), 13, 221-226] except that the origins of the Patterson functions are now removed from this correlation and centric and acentric reflections are treated separately. The resulting procedure is shown theoretically and by application to three test cases to yield accurate and essentially unbiased estimates of the occupancies, thermal parameters, and positions of heavy-atom sites.
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