How about halides? Anyone know of criteria for their binding sites?
JPK
ps Funny how my recent post was about almost exactly the same
thing--serendipity, I guess?
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Nat Echols <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:51 PM, wtempel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Dear colleagues,
>> following a discussion in our lab, I have volunteered to dig out
>> articles from the literature about erroneous assignments of non-water
>> entities such as metal ions, halides in protein models. For example I
>> have the faint recollection that data mining of the PDB for suspect
>> "water" assemblies matching the geometry of coordinated cations has
>> previously been described. But none of my google searches has turned
>> up the references I was looking for. Could someone point me in the
>> right direction, please?
>
> Do you mean metals incorrectly annotated as waters, or vice-versa? The
> latter case is discussed here:
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18614239
> -Nat
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