International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume F
Crystallography of biological macromolecules
Edited by M. G. Rossmann and E. Arnold

International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. F. ch. 19.3, p. 432   | 1 | 2 |

Figure 19.3.3.4 

H. Tsurutaa and J. E. Johnsonb*

a SSRL/SLAC & Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, PO Box 4349, MS69, Stanford, California 94309-0210, USA, and bDepartment of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
Correspondence e-mail:  jackj@scripps.edu

[Figure 19.3.3.4]
Figure 19.3.3.4

Definition of the electron pair distance distribution function [P({\bf r})]. It is a histogram of all electron pair distances within a particle as depicted here. The largest dimension of the molecule [D_{\rm max}] is determined from the point where [P({\bf r})] falls to zero.