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 ________________________________________ From: CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Stephen Cusack [cus...@embl.fr] 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 -- ********************************************************************** Dr. Stephen Cusack, Head of Grenoble Outstation of EMBL Group leader in structural biology of protein-RNA complexes and viral proteins Joint appointment in EMBL Genome Biology Programme Director of CNRS-UJF-EMBL International Unit (UMI 3265) for Virus Host Cell Interactions (UVHCI) ********************************************************************** Email: cus...@embl.fr Website: http://www.embl.fr Tel: (33) 4 76 20 7238 Secretary (33) 4 76 20 7123 Fax: (33) 4 76 20 7199 Postal address: EMBL Grenoble Outstation, 6 Rue Jules Horowitz, BP181, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Delivery address: EMBL Grenoble Outstation, Polygone Scientifique, 6 Rue Jules Horowitz, 38042 Grenoble, France **********************************************************************