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Hi Jacob
I agree with Juergen, and just add that your Cys and Cl might not be 
fully occupied.
cheers
Preben

On 9/1/11 10:03 PM, Jacob Keller wrote:
> Dear Crystallographers,
>
> I recently have been working with a 2.5 Ang SeMet peak wavelength
> dataset which contains 2 cys's and also a couple of bona fide Cl ions
> (reasonable b-factor/site is semi-buried/water does not work). In the
> FFT anomalous difference map using PhiC from the refined model and
> Dano, I can see the MSE's at ~10 sigma, but no Cl ions, even though Cl
> should have f" = ~0.3 versus Se's f" = ~4, and no S's in the cys,
> despite f" = 0.23e. There is really no anomalous peak at all--is it
> just the smallness of the signal, or are the Se's somehow "swamping
> out" the other signal? Perhaps the phases are tainted by the presence
> of semet in the model?
>
> Looking for suggestions,
>
> Jacob Keller
>
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