On 03/24/12 15:15, Kendall Nettles wrote:
> David, how can you justify reducing occupancy of some parts of amino acids?
I don't have to, since I didn't do it. Read again the bit about this
being a carryover from the MR model.
Cheers,
> I don't understand this. I can understand deleting stuff that's not there and reporting it as not modelled. This is factually false. The side chains are not there at partial occupancy.
> Best regards,
> Kendall Nettles
>
> On Mar 24, 2012, at 2:39 PM, "David Schuller"<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> CCP4 6.2.0
>> Refmac_5.6.0117
>> Scientific Linux 6.1
>>
>> In my current model, I notice that several sidechains are falling apart,
>> despite having gone through a few rounds of refinement with REFMAC5 and
>> model building with COOT. The worst examples were all Glu and Arg residues.
>>
>> I tried switch to the REFMAC5 executable on the updates page, which was
>> Refmac_5.6.0114, with no obvious difference.
>>
>> Eventually I noticed that these are all residues containing atoms with
>> occupancy less than 1.00, which must be a carry over from the MR search
>> model. I set all the occupancies to 1.00 and this seems to have fixed
>> the problem.
>>
>> This seems counter-intuitive to me. If the occupancies are set low,
>> shouldn't the geometry restraints be stronger relative to the density
>> refinement?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> ATOM 1479 N GLU A 7 -51.844 -33.605 37.318 1.00
>> 60.26 N
>> ATOM 1480 CA GLU A 7 -53.137 -33.849 37.966 1.00
>> 59.28 C
>> ATOM 1481 CB GLU A 7 -52.997 -33.664 39.476 1.00
>> 61.37 C
>> ATOM 1482 CG GLU A 7 -52.799 -32.212 39.905 0.48
>> 60.42 C
>> ATOM 1483 CD GLU A 7 -53.349 -32.573 41.635 0.00
>> 54.47 C
>> ATOM 1484 OE1 GLU A 7 -52.557 -31.998 42.106 0.83
>> 52.26 O
>> ATOM 1485 OE2 GLU A 7 -55.014 -32.911 42.408 0.68
>> 50.75 O
>> ATOM 1486 C GLU A 7 -54.293 -32.985 37.412 1.00
>> 62.61 C
>> ATOM 1487 O GLU A 7 -55.444 -33.240 37.737 1.00
>> 63.42 O
>> ATOM 3165 N ARG A 77 -46.032 -33.003 26.272 1.00
>> 55.82 N
>> ATOM 3166 CA ARG A 77 -44.959 -32.368 27.071 1.00
>> 60.92 C
>> ATOM 3167 CB ARG A 77 -44.050 -31.428 26.231 1.00
>> 54.56 C
>> ATOM 3168 CG ARG A 77 -42.702 -31.102 26.892 1.00
>> 69.21 C
>> ATOM 3169 CD ARG A 77 -42.278 -29.628 26.867 0.46
>> 63.93 C
>> ATOM 3170 NE ARG A 77 -41.587 -29.303 25.625 0.79
>> 61.76 N
>> ATOM 3171 CZ ARG A 77 -41.607 -28.610 24.146 0.00
>> 37.32 C
>> ATOM 3172 NH1 ARG A 77 -43.177 -26.956 23.467 0.85
>> 60.52 N
>> ATOM 3173 NH2 ARG A 77 -41.267 -28.245 23.427 0.95
>> 58.82 N
>> ATOM 3174 C ARG A 77 -45.585 -31.698 28.281 1.00
>> 64.89 C
>> ATOM 3175 O ARG A 77 -45.949 -32.377 29.262 1.00
>> 77.93 O
>>
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