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International Union of Crystallography, Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography, 12(70), p. 3266-3272

DOI: 10.1107/s1399004714021610

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Perdeuteration: Improved visualization of solvent structure in neutron macromolecular crystallography

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Abstract

The 1.8 Å resolution neutron structure of deuterated type III antifreeze protein in which the methyl groups of leucine and valine residues are selectively protonated is presented. Comparison between this and the 1.85 Å resolution neutron structure of perdeuterated type III antifreeze protein indicates that perdeuteration improves the visibility of solvent molecules located in close vicinity to hydrophobic residues, as cancellation effects between H atoms of the methyl groups and nearby heavy-water molecules (D2O) are avoided.