Hello,

Recently, I deposited a structure in PDB with a ligand, and they changed how 
the ligand is described to match PDB guidelines, which slightly altered the 
validation parameters (primarily for Clashscore, but also others) of the 
structure compared to what I submitted initially.

In my submission, the ligand was defined in the .cif file as a small molecule 
covalently attached to a nucleotide in RNA. However, PDB described the small 
molecule as the ligand, and the nt was merged into the RNA backbone. While 
there was no positional change of either the small molecule or the nt from what 
was modeled, my validation parameters (determined by MolProbity) are slightly 
different (for example, clashscore increases from 8 to 9). Given the whole 
molecule has a low MW (60 kDa), I have noticed that differences in one or two 
residues can affect the MolProbity scores.

I would greatly appreciate any suggestions to circumvent the issue. While the 
difference is not huge, I would still like to know the reason behind this 
observation. Thank you!

Best,
Suparno Nandi, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biochemistry
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA

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