PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Michael E. Wall
AU  - Alexander M. Wolff
AU  - James S. Fraser
TI  - Bringing Diffuse X-ray Scattering Into Focus
AID  - 10.1101/219113
DP  - 2018 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 219113
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/01/12/219113.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/01/12/219113.full
AB  - X-ray crystallography is experiencing a renaissance as a method for probing the protein conformational ensemble. The inherent limitations of Bragg analysis, however, which only reveals the mean structure, have given way to a surge in interest in diffuse scattering, which is caused by structure variations. Diffuse scattering is present in all macromolecular crystallography experiments. Recent studies are shedding light on the origins of diffuse scattering in protein crystallography, and provide clues for leveraging diffuse scattering to model protein motions with atomic detail.