Dear all,

I am refining a perfectly twinned structure at 1.8 A using
Shelxl.Currently the Rfactors/Rfree are 20/28%.

I have a problem with the B-values that I get after refinement. Within the
same residue I may get very low numbers or very high numbers as I show
below:

ATOM    415  N   ARG  1091     101.144  31.968  -4.016  1.00 14.74        
  N
ATOM    416  CA  ARG  1091     101.658  32.276  -2.683  1.00 14.88        
  C
ATOM    417  CB  ARG  1091     100.799  31.584  -1.644  1.00  3.05        
  C
ATOM    418  CG  ARG  1091     101.034  31.917  -0.187  1.00  7.64        
  C
ATOM    419  CD  ARG  1091     101.523  33.351  -0.044  1.00 18.07        
  C
ATOM    420  NE  ARG  1091     101.764  33.779   1.335  1.00 20.18        
  N
ATOM    421  CZ  ARG  1091     103.009  34.023   1.741  1.00 12.87        
  C
ATOM    422  NH1 ARG  1091     103.939  33.836   0.817  1.00  5.48        
  N
ATOM    423  NH2 ARG  1091     103.297  34.415   2.955  1.00 18.82        
  N
ATOM    424  C   ARG  1091     103.126  31.903  -2.528  1.00 26.11        
  C
ATOM    425  O   ARG  1091     103.894  32.580  -1.827  1.00 17.11

OR

ATOM    986  N   MET  1162     123.943  36.751  -5.048  1.00 34.77        
  N
ATOM    987  CA  MET  1162     124.217  35.582  -4.228  1.00 22.54        
  C
ATOM    988  CB  MET  1162     122.924  34.775  -4.090  1.00 13.02        
  C
ATOM    989  CG  MET  1162     122.563  34.285  -2.723  1.00 16.29        
  C
ATOM    990  SD  MET  1162     122.884  35.396  -1.350  1.00157.91        
  S
ATOM    991  CE  MET  1162     122.264  34.383  -0.003  1.00 29.22        
  C
ATOM    992  C   MET  1162     125.297  34.673  -4.810  1.00 36.57        
  C
ATOM    993  O   MET  1162     125.791  33.803  -4.091  1.00 25.97        
  O

My input file looks like this:

LATT -7
SYMM -X, -Y, 1/2+Z
SYMM -X, Y, 1/2-Z
SYMM X, -Y, -Z
SFAC  C  H  N  O  S  P
UNIT  37872 70560 9752 11176 192 64

DEFS 0.02 0.1 0.01 0.04
CGLS 30 -1
SHEL 30 0.1
FMAP 2
PLAN 200 2.3
LIST 6
WPDB 2

TWIN 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 -1
BASF   0.48366
STIR 2.2 0.05

DELU $C_* $N_* $O_* $S_* $P_*
SIMU 0.1 $C_* $N_* $O_* $S_* $P_*
REM ISOR and CONN 0 recommended on adding water
BUMP
SWAT
REM HOPE

REM Remove MERG 4 instruction if Friedel opposites should not be merged

MERG 4


Could you please tell me if I am missing some important key word in my
input file?

Also, once I add water molecules with Coot (for example), how do I tell
Shelxl to refine them? It seems that it refuses to do it!
ATOM   7500  W   HOH  4401     101.180  33.600   9.444 1.000 50.00

Thank you!!!!

Eli :o)

-- 
Elisabetta Sabini, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Molecular Biology Research Building, Rm. 1108
900 South Ashland Avenue
Chicago, IL 60607
U.S.A.

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