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Dear Dilip Badjugar,
Perhaps it may be good to take a look at the unmodelled blobs and see if
there is any large densities left unexplained.
Also  how does the Rmerge vary with the resoln ? Is your data good upto
1.7A?
Regards and wishes
Krishnaswamy
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> Topics of the day:
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>   1. Celebrating Crystallography — A short animated film
>   2. Rfree stuck (2)
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> Date:    Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:37:18 +0000
> From:    "Curry, Stephen" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Celebrating Crystallography — A short animated film
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> For your consideration:
>
> Celebrating Crystalllography — a short film made by the Royal Institution
> (in cahoots with production company 12foot6) and funded by the STFC.
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> http://richannel.org/celebrating-crystallography
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> Date:    Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:16:43 +0530
> From:    Dilip Badjugar <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Rfree stuck
>
> Hello Experts,
>
>
> I am trying to solve structure of a protein (213 a.a) complexed with a
> peptide (14mer) using molecular replacement method. The complex crystals
> are diffracted around 1.7 A and  data is processed in p3(2)21 space group.
> The structure was solved using apo protein with good LLG -3148 and TFZ
> score- 49. The modeis refined in phenix the Rfactor -26.0 and Rfree is
> 28.0. I have added ligand molecule in positive density and also added water
> molecules (200), followed TLS refinement  but still the Rfactor not came
> down much ( Rfactor-21.53 and Rfree-25.44). There no outliers in
> Ramachandran plot and most of the residues (97.21) are favored region. Can
> you please suggest, what can be done to reduce the Rfree?
>
> Thanking you in advance.
> DCB
>
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> Mr.Dilip C. Badgujar,
> Senior Research Fellow,
> ACTREC,
> Tata Memorial Center,
> Sector-22, Kharghar,
> Navi Mumbai.
> Pin-410210
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> Date:    Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:11:29 +0200
> From:    Tim Gruene <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Rfree stuck
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> Dear DCB,
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> do not look at the R-values too much, look at your structure and your
> maps. If they look as though you cannot improve the model any further,
> accept that the R1/Rfree are 21% and 25% - at 1.7A resolution these
> values are acceptable. Go publish this structure!
>
> If you do worry, remove the ligand, refine and check if the ligand
> density comes back. That's a good control and probably the part of
> your structure you are interested in.
>
> Best,
> Tim
>
> On 10/12/2013 01:46 PM, Dilip Badjugar wrote:
> > Hello Experts,
> >
> >
> > I am trying to solve structure of a protein (213 a.a) complexed
> > with a peptide (14mer) using molecular replacement method. The
> > complex crystals are diffracted around 1.7 A and  data is processed
> > in p3(2)21 space group. The structure was solved using apo protein
> > with good LLG -3148 and TFZ score- 49. The modeis refined in phenix
> > the Rfactor -26.0 and Rfree is 28.0. I have added ligand molecule
> > in positive density and also added water molecules (200), followed
> > TLS refinement  but still the Rfactor not came down much (
> > Rfactor-21.53 and Rfree-25.44). There no outliers in Ramachandran
> > plot and most of the residues (97.21) are favored region. Can you
> > please suggest, what can be done to reduce the Rfree?
> >
> > Thanking you in advance. DCB
> >
>
> - --
> Dr Tim Gruene
> Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
> Tammannstr. 4
> D-37077 Goettingen
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