Hi,
Why is it that you are so reluctant to identify this compound
as Ser-Gly? Its fit to the density is great.
To wax historical, we saw unexpected density in the active site
of "apo" Thermolysin. It appeared to be Val-Ala, but with refinement
it developed into Val-Lys. It happens that Val-Lys are the last
two residues of the protein. Residues 315 and 316 were present at
full occupancy in the crystal so I presume the peptide was clipped
off molecules that didn't crystallize.
Of course proving that the density actually represents Ser-Gly,
or any other compound you decide upon is much harder than building
a model to fit the density. What is harder than identifying a bit
of density, is coming up with an experiment to prove it.
Dale Tronrud
Ronaldo Alves Pinto Nagem wrote:
> Dear CCP4bb users,
>
> As suggested by some users, I am attaching to this email the electron
> density of the unidentified ligand. As I mentioned before it looks like a
> dipeptide GlySer, but we are still in doubt. Attempts to correlate with
> the protein function are being done. One might see in the pictures that
> the ligand coordinate a metal ion.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ronaldo.
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