Re: [ccp4bb] Atom clashes in active site?

2016-12-19 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Andrew, yes, exactly as you describe: set distance_ideal to a meaningful value (approx. distance between density peaks, doesn't have to be very accurate), and set sigma to some large number, say 1 or so. Pavel On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Andrew Marshall < andrew.c.marsh...@adelaide.edu.a

Re: [ccp4bb] Atom clashes in active site?

2016-12-19 Thread Andrew Marshall
Hi Pavel, To define a weak bond, would you use "geometry_restraints.edits { ... bond {... " , and just set a rough distance_ideal and a very high sigma (like say 5A)? Or are you referring to something different? Andrew Marshall PhD Candidate Laboratory of Protein Crystallography Dept. of Molecula

Re: [ccp4bb] Atom clashes in active site?

2016-12-19 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Perdo, technically this should work too with the caveat that non-blanc altid will trigger occupancy refinement for corresponding atoms which may not be desired. Pavel On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:54 AM, Pedro Matias wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > The simplest way would be to place the "offending" a

Re: [ccp4bb] Atom clashes in active site?

2016-12-19 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Andrew, you can define a weak bond between clashing atoms which will disable repulsion. A weak bond should not introduce any bias. Pavel On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Andrew Marshall < andrew.c.marsh...@adelaide.edu.au> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a structure of a condensing enzyme with s

Re: [ccp4bb] Atom clashes in active site?

2016-12-19 Thread Joel Tyndall
Could this be a covalent interaction? Difficult to judge without seeing anything From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Andrew Marshall Sent: Tuesday, 20 December 2016 2:48 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Atom clashes in active site? Hi all, Th

Re: [ccp4bb] Atom clashes in active site?

2016-12-19 Thread Andrew Marshall
Hi all, Thank you for your suggestions. I tried the pdb file edit (making the offending atoms of both the ligand and the protein 'B' altconf), but it didn't seem to make any difference to their positions after a single round of refinement..? The atoms in the active site concern two acetyl groups -

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Re: [ccp4bb] AW: unusual monoclinic relation?

2016-12-19 Thread David Schuller
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Re: [ccp4bb] unusual monoclinic relation?

2016-12-19 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear Andrew, did you remove all cysteins, and all methionines with the mutations? Your resolution is about 2A, if I understand correctly. This may be suitable for S- SAD. I would try to get access to a modern inhouse machine to get high quality data at high multiplicity. Some modern synchrotron

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Re: [ccp4bb] unusual monoclinic relation?

2016-12-19 Thread Andrew Lovering
Thanks again Herman, The protein is a two domain protein (approx 40aa, 350aa split) - searching with either is proving fruitless. Original, wild-type cell = 49 x 75 x 80 P212121 This painful mutant = 39 x 157 x 75 beta=98.26 P21 (so one can say that there seems to be a relationship there, wt b

[ccp4bb] AW: unusual monoclinic relation?

2016-12-19 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Andy, I don't think you will solve this pre-Xmas, but here are some more suggestions: -is there any relationship with the unit cell of the parent, unmutated protein? This might give some ideas of the packing of the problem crystals. -are some promising solutions being rejected due to clashes

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Re: [ccp4bb] Reading CCIF files.

2016-12-19 Thread Ian Tickle
Hi All OK sorted, I need: tccif CCIFIN ./4j8q.cif Cheers -- Ian On 19 December 2016 at 13:14, Ian Tickle wrote: > > Oooops sorry last email is incomplete: > > Im trying to read CCIF files using a simple Fortran program. Essentially > this is all it is: > > REAL CC(6) > CALL CCP

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Re: [ccp4bb] Reading CCIF files.

2016-12-19 Thread Ian Tickle
Oooops sorry last email is incomplete: Im trying to read CCIF files using a simple Fortran program. Essentially this is all it is: REAL CC(6) CALL CCPFYP CALL CCP4CCIF_INIT CALL CCP4CCIF_ROPEN('CCIFIN','',ID) CALL CCP4CCIF_GETCELL(ID,CC,VC,IE) PRINT *,CC

[ccp4bb] Reading CCIF files.

2016-12-19 Thread Ian Tickle
Hello All Im trying to read CCIF files using a simple Fortran program. Essentially this is all it is: CALL CCPFYP CALL CCP4CCIF_INIT CALL CCP4CCIF_ROPEN('CCIFIN','',ID) CALL CCP4CCIF_GETCELL(ID,CC,VC,IE) PRINT *,CC END

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Re: [ccp4bb] unusual monoclinic relation?

2016-12-19 Thread Andrew Lovering
Thanks Herman. In short: -no twinning suggested from xtriage etc -P2 doesn't give a solution either -monoclinic cell would have 2 (60% solvent) or 3 (40% solvent) copies -I originally thought the zanuda P1 route would be the way to go, but phaser was still churning away after running overnight an

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Atom clashes in active site?

2016-12-19 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Hi Andrew, in the past I solved this problem by either switching off certain van der Waals repulsions, or by specifying a very small van der Waals radius for certain atoms. In Xplor/CNX this was rather easy. I do not know how this is with phenix. Best, Herman Von: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CC

[ccp4bb] AW: unusual monoclinic relation?

2016-12-19 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Andrew, Just a few questions: -Do the processing/refinement programs suggest twinning? -Are you sure your space group is P21 and not P2? Did you try MR in P2? -How many protein molecules do you expect in the asymmetric unit? P2(1) is a very low symmetry space group. In this case I would not

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Need suggestion

2016-12-19 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Dhaval, To check whether your compound precipitates, you could set up crystallization drops with everything (buffer, precipitant, compound), but without the protein. If the precipitates still form, it’s your compound. Remember, getting cocrystals with your ligand of interest might be as dif

Re: [ccp4bb] Atom clashes in active site?

2016-12-19 Thread Pedro Matias
Hi Andrew, The simplest way would be to place the "offending" atoms in separate conformers as used to refine alternate conformations. This is a 1-letter code that goes just before the 3-letter residue name: > ATOM139 SG *B*CYS A 21 -20.620 4.518 34.501 0.39 > 12.23 AS Thi

[ccp4bb] unusual monoclinic relation?

2016-12-19 Thread Andrew Lovering
Dear All, I have just collected data on a mutant of a protein that should be facile to solve by molrep (one residue/320 changed, approx 2Ang resolution) but is proving problematic. Data merging stats look good. The spacegroup is monoclinic, P21, the cell: a=39.47 b=157.36 c=74.9 beta=98.26 I