6-Feb-2015
Dear Adrian
Maybe a petition could be circulated that many of us could sign requesting
Nature to retract this paper.
I don’t know if this has ever been tried, but my guess is that Nature would
take it seriously, especially
due to the overwhelming evidence that the structure was fabricated.
Adrian, would you possibly consider drafting a short msg, with a pointer to a
file (maybe in the ccp4 archives) with
the evidence, that could serve as the the basis of a petition to Nature???
best regards,
Joel
> On 6Feb, 2015, at 14:01, Adrian Goldman <adrian.gold...@helsinki.fi> wrote:
>
> Well maybe some pressure should be put on Nature to retract the article, so
> that we can get the publication out of the PDB? It’s not good that it is
> there for the unwary.
>
> Adrian
>
>
> On 06 Feb 2015, at 11:44, Folmer Fredslund <folm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, the structure and associated paper for PDB id 2hr0 has _not_
>> been retracted, or marked as invalid.
>>
>> The University of Alabama had a note about it, but only some of the
>> affected PDB entries were removed.
>> http://www.uab.edu/reporterarchive/71570-uab-statement-on-protein-data-bank-issues
>>
>> For 2hr0, the Nature letter (
>> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7116/full/nature05258.html) and
>> the associated structure has not been removed from the archives.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Folmer Fredslund
>>
>> Disclosure: I published the structure of native bovine C3 (2b39)
>>
>>
>>
>> 2015-02-06 12:08 GMT+01:00 David Briggs <drdavidcbri...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Haven'tthat paper and the associated structure been retracted?
>>>
>>> http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091222/full/462970a.html
>>>
>>> There was a huge scandal when it was discovered that Krishna Murthy had
>>> falsified data, including the structure you refer to.
>>>
>>> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M._Krishna_Murthy
>>>
>>> A crystallographer with a wikipedia entry for all the wrong reasons...
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri Feb 06 2015 at 11:02:12 AM Kerff Fred <fke...@ulg.ac.be> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Looking at structure 2HR0 ("The structure of complement C3b provides
>>>> insights into complement activation and regulation. »,Abdul Ajees, A.,
>>>> Gunasekaran, K., Volanakis, J.E., Narayana, S.V., Kotwal, G.J., Krishna
>>>> Murthy, H.M.; (2006) Nature 444: 221-225), I noticed the absence of
>>>> contacts between layers in the crystal. Is it something that has already
>>>> been observed in other crystals?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Fred
>>>> -----
>>>> Frédéric Kerff
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>>>> Cristallographie des protéines
>>>> Centre d'Ingénierie des Protéines
>>>> Université de Liège
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Le 6 févr. 2015 à 10:12, Tim Gruene <t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de> a écrit :
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Smith,
>>>>>
>>>>> The sca file most likely does not contain flags. pointless can read
>>>>> the sca file, standardise it to ccp4 standards and freerflag marks
>>>>> random reflections. You should use the maximum of 500 unique
>>>>> reflections or 5% of the unique reflections, whichever is larger.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Tim
>>>>>
>>>>> On 02/06/2015 09:49 AM, Smith Lee wrote:
>>>>>> Dear All, I have a sca file. Will you please tell me by which
>>>>>> software or how I can know whether the sca file contains R-free
>>>>>> tags? If not, by which software or how I can add the R-free tags?
>>>>>> And how much of the reflections I add the R-free tags? I am looking
>>>>>> forward to getting your reply. Smith
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - --
>>>>> - --
>>>>> Dr Tim Gruene
>>>>> Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
>>>>> Tammannstr. 4
>>>>> D-37077 Goettingen
>>>>>
>>>>> GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A
>>>>>
>>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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>>>>>
>>>>> iD8DBQFU1IWVUxlJ7aRr7hoRAmZHAJ4+6wREnwkFN0EhfErAA0tPSopKKwCgiLdi
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>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Folmer Fredslund
>
