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Phasing in iodine for structure determination

Nature Biotechnology volume 22, pages 1239–1240 (2004)Cite this article

A new method for solving X-ray crystal structures relies on the introduction of iodine into proteins in the form of p-iodophenylalanine.

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Figure 1: Scheme of the method in Xie et al.

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