Dear all,
I refined a protein structure in the space group P6(1)22, with one copy in the
asymmetric unit, resolution ~1.8 A, Rwork=0.20, Rfree=0.22.
Then I tried to feed Phaser (version 1.3.3) with this structure. It found
quickly a very prominent solution, but the first euler angle is 180 instead of 0
degrees (the others are 0, as well as the fractional coordinates). This solution
is not symmetry-related with the structure that I used as search model: indeed,
there are a lot of clashes. However, when I refine this solution, I obtain
immediately R factors as good as the search model, and also the electron density
map looks perfect. Of course, I used the same reflections file to refine the
initial structure and the MR solution rotated of 180 degrees.
How can I explain this? The analysis with Truncate (moments and cumulative
intensity distribution) don't suggest any twinning, as well as the
Padilla-Yeates test. Is it possible, that I refined the structure in the wrong
space group?
Thank you in advance,
Michele Lunelli
