Hi, I am currently refining some reasonably high (1.4-1.6 Å) resolution protein:RNA complex structures and was trying the approach described in Schwartz et al. Nat. Struct. Biol. 8 (2001) 761-765 where they divided each nucleotide into three TLS groups – the ribose, the phosphorus atom plus both nonesterified oxygens and the base.
When I define a tlsin file that does this with the ribose, P OP1 and OP2, and base from 3 successive nucleotides everything seems to work fine so the groups are defined correctly. However when I divide a single nucleotide into 3 TLS groups only the first group has its origin calculated and actually has TLS parameters refined: TLS origin for group 1 -3.1622999 -6.9280601 -9.6330261 TLS origin for group 2 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 TLS origin for group 3 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 TLS group 1: T tensor ( 1) = 0.046 0.115 0.103 -0.003 -0.008 0.087 L tensor ( 1) = 1.341 1.887 5.684 0.509 -2.040 -0.436 S tensor ( 1) = 0.015 0.015 -0.257 -0.220 -0.024 0.071 0.095 0.060 TLS group 2: T tensor ( 2) = 0.031 0.031 0.031 0.000 0.000 0.000 L tensor ( 2) = 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 S tensor ( 2) = 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 TLS group 3: T tensor ( 3) = 0.031 0.031 0.031 0.000 0.000 0.000 L tensor ( 3) = 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 S tensor ( 3) = 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 An excerpt from my tlsin is below: TLS RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' P RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' O1P RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' O2P TLS RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' C1* RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' C2* RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' C3* RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' C4* RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' C5* RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' O2* RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' O3* RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' O4* TLS RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' N1 RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' C2 RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' O2 RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' N3 RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' C4 RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' O4 RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' C5 RANGE 'B 3.' 'B 3.' C6 I guess I've got the syntax of the tlsin file wrong? Any suggestions for what's wrong would be much appreciated! Thanks, Huw -- Dr Huw Jenkins Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology University of Leeds