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Thank you - that is a super useful tool.

Of course alphafold should always do better when used for testing a known
structure - it has used thst model presumably as part of the basis for its
prediction.
Eleanor

On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 at 06:42, Ricardo Padua <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi,
> You can also use Theseus (https://theobald.brandeis.edu/theseus/) to
> superimpose the NMR states using maximum likelihood.
> By running:
> theseus 4hiq.pdb
> it will spit out the superimposed ensemble and also the average structure
> which you can use as a guide to trim the flexible bits. That resulted in a
> TFZ of 6.4 against the 4ey9 data in Phaser (2h run).  The
> Alphafold predicted model performed significantly better, Phaser found a
> solution with a TFZ of 10.7 in a couple of minutes.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 1:25 PM Eleanor Dodson <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for all the excellent suggestions.  (And the aligned models!)
>> I am not ACTUALLY trying to solve the structure - it is insulin, which I
>> have seen before..
>> It was a student project - solve 4ey9 using 1hiq.. which didn't work in a
>> straightforward way. Hence my puzzlement..
>> Insulin MR is never easy - there is only 30% solvent, metal ions not in
>> the model,  two molecules in the asymmetric unit, each with two chains to
>> position,
>> and several different folds to choose from in the PDB (would be
>> interesting to see what Alphafold predicts from sequence alone..)
>> To add to the difficulty - the strong low resolution data for 4ey9 is
>> missing which is never good for MR either.
>> Will try to rationalise what I have learnt.
>> Eleanor
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 at 16:53, Olson, Linda <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Typically we only align regions within a certain rmsd for backbone heavy
>>> atoms since regions lacking NOE’s are just randomly placed.  The aligned
>>> regions should be listed in the original manuscript in their statistics
>>> table.  You can just make these selections in pymol to get the best
>>> alignment.  We used to use a program called MolMol
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Linda
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> *Date: *Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 10:19 AM
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>>> Hi Eleanor,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Normally they are aligned, but I guess not for really old ones.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I tried to use Ensembler to align them, but it uses SSM, which didn’t
>>> find enough to work with I guess. However, ChimeraX’s matchmaker tool did
>>> manage, and you can see the ensemble isn’t very tight!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Randy
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2 Mar 2023, at 15:09, Eleanor Dodson <
>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have been looking at 1hiq - an NMR structure with 20 models.
>>> I had always assumed that an attempt had been made to overlap the first
>>> with the second, third etc, but this does not seem to be so for this
>>> structure..
>>> Have I been labouring under a misapprehension?
>>> Eleanor Dodson
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