Abstract
Difference Fourier maps have been calculated at 2.8-A resolution by using neutron diffraction data obtained from a single crystal of RNase A. The phases were derived from a model resulting from the joint refinement of x-ray and neutron data at 2.0-A and 2.8-A resolution, respectively. The orientation of histidine-48 assumed during the refinement of the x-ray model at 2.5 A was confirmed, whereas the other three histidines had to be rotated around C beta--C gamma bonds in order to agree with the neutron difference Fourier maps. In the final model, histidine-12 is clearly hydrogen bonded to the carbonyl oxygen of threonine-45 and to the oxygen of the inorganic phosphate, and histidine-119 is bonded to another oxygen of the phosphate and to the oxygen OD1 of aspartic acid-121.
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