Fig. 1: Diffuse scattering map of triclinic lysozyme with intensities on an absolute scale of electron units (Ie). | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Diffuse scattering map of triclinic lysozyme with intensities on an absolute scale of electron units (Ie).

From: Diffuse X-ray scattering from correlated motions in a protein crystal

Fig. 1

a Ribbon diagram of lysozyme (top) and the triclinic unit cell containing one protein (bottom). b A highly detailed three-dimensional map of diffuse scattering was obtained. The outer sphere is drawn at 2 Å resolution. c The total scattering is made up of three components: inelastic Compton scattering (lower left), a broad isotropic ring that dominates the diffuse signal (upper left), and variational features in the diffuse scattering (right). Intense halos are visible in the layers containing Bragg peaks (l  = 0 plane, upper right). Cloudy scattering is best visualized in the planes mid-way between the Bragg peaks (l  = 1∕2 plane, lower right).

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