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The effects of thermal disorder on the solution-scattering profiles of macromolecules
1Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Abstract:
The solution-scattering profiles of macromolecules are significantly affected by the thermal motions of their atoms, especially at wide scattering angles, even when only a single conformational state is significantly populated in solution. Here it is shown that the impact thermal motions have on the molecular component of the solution-scattering profile of a single-state macromolecule can be predicted accurately if the variances and covariances of the thermal excursions of its atoms from their average positions are known.
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