Sorry a late comer to this thread but the OP mentioned "tweaking the
error model" in HKL2000. I have heard this before.What's the validity
in this? Does it actually help or does it only help the integration
numbers but you'll pay for it during refinement?
FR
On Jun 23, 2010, at 8:25 AM, "Zhou, Tongqing (NIH/VRC) [E]" <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> The problem has also been solved with a new 2.0A dataset collected
> over the last weekend. Same space group and dimensions, much less
> radiation damage. This time I used APS SER-CAT's weaker BM beamline.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Tongqing
>
> Tongqing Zhou, Ph.D.
> Staff Scientist
> Structural Biology Section
> Vaccine Research Center, NIAID/NIH
> Building 40, Room 4607B
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zhou, Tongqing (NIH/VRC) [E]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 10:45 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Stuck refinement
>
> Hi, Everyone,
>
> Thank you all very much for the nice suggestions. I am trying to
> reply within this email.
>
> I agree that the problem may be rooted from the crystal itself, we
> noticed during data collection that a wedge of the rotation was very
> mosaic, HKL2000 was able to pick up the right spots, but the scaling
> gives high chi^2, and when I used the rejection files, HKL2000
> complained "more than 50000 rejections". Colleagues suggested
> tweaking the error model, the complaint of "more than 50000
> rejections' went away and rejection dropped to below 300 spots. The
> new error model reduced the chi^2 as well as the I/sigI in the low
> resolution shells.
>
> I run the P222 data set with Xtriage, the report says no twining,
> but the symmetry was too low. However, HKL2000 won't even pick up
> higher symmetry groups during indexing. I also rescaled the data
> omitting the bad wedge, xtriage gives "normal" report.
>
>
> Refinement was done with combination of simulated annealing, TLS,
> ADP, individual sites in Phenix. The molecular replacement was done
> with CDR-loop-trimmed antibody Fab and antigen structures. The map
> quality was good and I was able to rebuild the new loops without any
> problem.
>
> I will have beam time later this week, I think it will be better to
> put a better crystal on.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Tongqing
>
> Tongqing Zhou, Ph.D.
> Staff Scientist
> Structural Biology Section
> Vaccine Research Center, NIAID/NIH
> Building 40, Room 4607B
> 40 Convent Drive, MSC3027
> Bethesda, MD 20892
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eleanor Dodson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 4:46 AM
> To: Zhou, Tongqing (NIH/VRC) [E]
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Stuck refinement
>
> When this happens, I firstly suspect that the spacegroup may be
> wrong. We had a case where the symmetry was pseudo I4212 but was
> really
> I222 (or was it really I212121) Anyway most of the structure obeyed
> the
> I41212 symmetry but there was a tail which did not..)
>
> Feed the unmerged reflections into pointless and see what it suggests
>
> Eleanor
>
> Zhou, Tongqing (NIH/VRC) [E] wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I have some problem in refining a structure. The data goes to 2.4A
>> (with some 30% completeness at 2.15A), the structure was solved by
>> MR with Phaser, refinement was done with Phenix, but the r and r-
>> free are now staying at 26% and 32%, even with all possible waters
>> and missing fragments added. Data was collected at APS at cryo
>> condition. One thing I noticed during HKL2000 data processing was
>> that the chi^2 were way too high at lower resolutions shells, I
>> had to adjust the default error model in HKL2000 to get the chi^2
>> to around 1, but this adjustment reduced the overall I/sigI ratio a
>> lot (from around 20 to 5).
>>
>> The quality of electron density maps looks fine to me for a 2.4 A
>> data set and I was able to build all the missing CDR loops for the
>> antibody in the complex. I am lost now, should I just re-collect a
>> new data set?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Tongqing
>>
>> Tongqing Zhou, Ph.D.
>> Staff Scientist
>> Structural Biology Section
>> Vaccine Research Center, NIAID/NIH
>> Building 40, Room 4607B
>> 40 Convent Drive, MSC3027
>> Bethesda, MD 20892
>> (301) 594-8710 (Tel)
>> (301) 793-0794 (Cell)
>> (301) 480-2658 (Fax)
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