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@ARTICLE{Fadini:641758,
author = {Fadini, Alisia and Apostolopoulou, Virginia and Lane,
Thomas and van Thor, Jasper},
title = {{D}enoising and iterative phase recovery reveal
low-occupancy populations in protein crystals},
journal = {Communications biology},
volume = {8},
number = {1},
issn = {2399-3642},
address = {London},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
reportid = {PUBDB-2025-05169},
pages = {1649},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Advances in structural biology increasingly focus on
uncovering protein dynamics and transient macromolecular
complexes. Such studies require modeling of low-occupancy
species like time-evolving intermediates and bound ligands.
In protein crystallography, difference maps that compare
paired perturbed and reference datasets are a powerful way
to identify and aid modeling of low-occupancy species.
Current methods to generate difference maps, however, rely
on manually tuned parameters and, when signals are weak due
to low occupancy, can fail to extract clear, chemically
interpretable signals. We address these issues, first by
showing that negentropy – a measure of how different a
signal looks from anticipated Gaussian noise – is an
effective metric to assess difference map quality and can
therefore be used to automatically determine difference map
calculation parameters. Leveraging this, we apply total
variation denoising, an image restoration technique that
requires a choice of regularization parameter, to
crystallographic difference maps. We show that total
variation denoising improves map signal-to-noise and enables
us to estimate the latent phase contribution of
low-occupancy states. We implement this technology in an
open-source Python package, METEOR. METEOR opens new
possibilities, for time-resolved and ligand-screening
crystallography especially, allowing detection of
low-occupancy states that could not previously be resolved.},
cin = {FS-CFEL-1-PBIO},
ddc = {570},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)FS-CFEL-1-PBIO-20210408},
pnm = {633 - Life Sciences – Building Blocks of Life: Structure
and Function (POF4-633) / Helmholtz Young Investigators
Group: Structure of Matter (HGF-YIG-Matter) / AIM, DFG
project G:(GEPRIS)390715994 - EXC 2056: CUI: Advanced
Imaging of Matter (390715994)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-633 / G:(DE-HGF)HGF-YIG-Matter /
G:(GEPRIS)390715994},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.1038/s42003-025-09031-6},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/641758},
}