Hi,
- I think someone already pointed out that you should try P6522.
- check that it isn't really a twinned P61 or P65 with 2 per asymmetric unit
- buy DNA with BrdU and some more with IdU, and/or grow your protein
in SeMet - at your resolution, the more "real" phase info the better!
Phoebe
At 06:30 PM 8/29/2007, you wrote:
>Hello,
> I am trying to solve a multi-protein DNA complex structure
> from a 3.6 A native data set. The target structure is a dimer (95
> aa in each monomer) in complex with DNA( 15 base pairs) plus a
> second protein of 131 aa. The data has been scaled to P6(1)22 sp.
> gr. and one target structure is expected to be in the asymmetric
> unit that corresponds to 68% solvent content. 70 % of the target
> structure is known in two parts(two different pdb structures
> previously solved contributing 55% and 15% of the target
> structure). I tried with molrep and phaser considering the first
> part(55%) as the search model but it turned out to no good solution
> which all clashes with symmetry related copies. If I assume the sp.
> gr. is not the case what else I can try. Any suggestion is well appreciated.
>Thanks...
>Raja
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