Thanks for the answer. Actually, it's the opposite. I have many structures
that have different protein but with the same ligand(sugar). And I want to
fixed the ligand and align the different proteins to see the active site.

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 7:36 PM, John Badger <jbadg...@san.rr.com> wrote:

> If you mean that you have many structure files for the same protein but
> with
> different ligands you can automatically align them all based on just the
> target
> site CA atoms (i.e. defined as those close to one of the ligands) using the
> Job/Cocrystal superposition application in MIFit8
> http://code.google.com/p/mifit/
> See tutorial lesson 15. One of the outputs is a file containing all of the
> aligned
> ligands.
>
> It is also possible to perform bulk import of prealigned PDB files placed
> in the
> same directory with the normal File/Open Models... command but holding down
> the shift button and selecting the many structure files with the mouse.
> Different models will be displayed in different colors.
>
> For medically interesting proteins it is increasingly the case that there
> are
> dozens of cocrystals in the PDB and it becomes tedious to understand how
> they relate to each other without an alignment tool that can automatically
> run
> over the whole set.
>
>

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