Most of these structures can be easily identified as very suspicious in
a few seconds using POLYGON tool (Acta Cryst. D65, 297-300 (2009)); see
pictures here (courtesy of Sacha Urzhumtsev):
http://cci.lbl.gov/~afonine/fakes/Murthy-polygon-1.pdf
Pavel.
P.S. POLYGON tool is available as part of validation tools in PHENIX.
On 12/10/09 6:16 AM, Ibrahim Moustafa wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to share the following e-mail received from pdb-l.
>
> It is sad to see something like that!
>
> regards,
> Ibrahim
>
>
> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: Michael Sadowski <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:22:28 -0800 (PST)
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: pdb-l: Retraction of 12 Structures
>
> Dear All,
>
> Better check your data!
>
> Apologies to those who have seen this.
>
> S.
>
> -----
>
> "The University of Alabama at Birmingham has issued a statement indicating
> that a former UAB researcher may have fabricated or falsified data about
> protein structures that are contained in the Protein Data Bank.
>
> The university did not include a name of the researcher, but the Birmingham
> News this week reported that the scientist is H.M. Krishna Murthy and an
> independent review by BioInform of the PDB shows that Murthy is associated
> with all of the proteins that UAB said were falsified.
>
> The newspaper said that a probe of Murthy's research has been underway since
> 2007.
>
> "After a thorough examination of the available data, which included a
> re-analysis of each structure alleged to have been fabricated, the committee
> found a preponderance of evidence that structures 1BEF, 1CMW, 1DF9/2QID,
> 1G40, 1G44, 1L6L, 2OU1, 1RID, 1Y8E, 2A01, and 2HR0 were more likely than not
> falsified and/or fabricated and recommended that they be removed from the
> public record," the university said in its statement this week."
>
> -----
> http://www.genomeweb.com/informatics/university-alabama-says-researcher-fabr
> icated-protein-structures-now-protein-dat?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=f
> eed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+genomeweb%2Fbioinform+%28BioInform%29
>
>
> http://main.uab.edu/Sites/reporter/articles/71570/
>
> http://blog.al.com/birmingham-news-stories/2009/12/ex-uab_researchers_work_m
> ay_be.html
>
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