Hi Stephen,

I think that while the PDB may accept the new numbering that you provide with 
your truncated structure (I'm not sure about that though), it'll be  quite 
annoying for somebody who'd like to compare your structure with that of the 
untruncated one. Besides, from what I've seen and experienced myself, residue 
numbering in entries usually adheres to the position in the sequence. Also, 
many structures are missing segments in the N-termini and the number of the 
first residue is usually the correct sequence number and not 1. Upon deposition 
you'll be asked  to provide the information about the missing piece and its 
position in the sequence.

  Cheers,

             Boaz


Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D.
Dept. of Life Sciences
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva 84105
Israel

E-mail: bshaa...@bgu.ac.il
Phone: 972-8-647-2220  Skype: boaz.shaanan
Fax:   972-8-647-2992 or 972-8-646-1710





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Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 6:42 PM
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [ccp4bb] PDB deposition of internally truncated protein

Dear All,
     I need to deposit in the PDB the co-ordinates of a protein with an
internal truncation.
If I do this in the normal way with consecutive numbering according to
the actual polypeptide sequence
in the crystal, the residue numbers after the truncation will not
correspond to the equivalent residues
in the untruncated protein (of which there is also a structure). Is
there any good solution to this problem?
thanks
Stephen Cusack

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