Supported by the Major State Basic Research Development Project in China(No.2011CB911102);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31000389,31100528 and 31100529)
Under gas pressures of 1–3 MPa, xenon can be bound to discrete sites in hydrophobic cavities of protein,so as to use Xe as a heavy atom for determining phases in protein crystallography. Using single anomalous scatte...