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Hi Ivan,

https://csgid.org/csgid/metal_sites/

suggest that Mg++ is the correct metal. Ca++ is not acceptable.

I am going to validate it by calculating anomalous peak for Ca++ too.

Thank you
Rajesh

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Ivan Shabalin <
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> Hi, Rajesh,
>
> It does look like Ca to me. It has around 2.4 A distances to waters and
> quite many electrons (18), which correspond to rather wide and high density
> peak in the middle.
>
> Mg has distances at 2.07, and 10 electrons (should be a smaller peak).
>
> Na has 2.41 distances to waters, 10 electrons (should be a smaller peak).
>
> After you place a metal and refine it, try using CheckMyMetal to validate
> it:
>
> https://csgid.org/csgid/metal_sites/
>
>
> It takes into account preferable coordination geometries, coordination
> bond distances, and compares ADPs to average ADP for the surrounding atoms.
>
> If the dataset is very good, and the wavelength of X-ray is rather long,
> you might even get anomalous signal for Ca:
>
> http://skuld.bmsc.washington.edu/scatter/AS_periodic.html
>
> Ivan
>
>
>
> With best regards,
> Ivan Shabalin, Ph.D.
> Research Scientist,
> Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics,
> University of Virginia,
> 1340 Jefferson Park Avenue
> <https://maps.google.com/?q=1340+Jefferson+Park+Avenue&entry=gmail&source=g>,
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> Charlottesville, VA 22908
>
> On 03/06/2018 05:19 PM, Rajesh Kumar wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Have you had experience with this kind of density? I am wandering what
>> this could be?
>>
>> Thank you very much for the help.
>>
>> -Rajesh
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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