Re: [ccp4bb] Lowering R factor from small molecule structure

2021-06-03 Thread Jon Cooper
Agreed, ANIS is the command to try. Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On 3 Jun 2021, 20:18, Philip D. Jeffrey wrote: > R1 of 17% is bad for small molecule. > 0.8 Å is in the eye of the beholder - if you're using macromolecular cutoffs > then these might be too aggre

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2021-06-03 Thread Yogesh Gupta
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Re: [ccp4bb] Lowering R factor from small molecule structure

2021-06-03 Thread Rangana Warshamanage
Hi Jacob, >>The systematic absences in the hkl file pointed to P212121 being the space group, which is what it was processed in. If the data were processed in this space group (Laue class), the analysis of the systematic absence won't tell anything else. Probably, it would be more useful to proces

Re: [ccp4bb] Computational Crystallography Newsletter (CCN) submissions

2021-06-03 Thread Nigel Moriarty
Quick reminder about the CCN deadline in about one week. Rough drafts are an acceptable submission with the realisation that it can be worked into reasonable standard. Cheers Nigel --- Nigel W. Moriarty Building 33R0349, Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Lawrence Berkeley National L

Re: [ccp4bb] Lowering R factor from small molecule structure

2021-06-03 Thread Jacob Summers
The systematic absences in the hkl file pointed to P212121 being the space group, which is what it was processed in. As for the peaks, the highest peaks are 3.92 at 2.72 A from an oxygen (Q1), 3.67 at 2.74 A from an oxygen (Q2), and 2.68 at 2.75 A from an oxygen (Q3). Q1 and Q3 seem to be about

Re: [ccp4bb] help needed with link description

2021-06-03 Thread Rob Nicholls - MRC LMB
Dear Gerlind, I'm glad that we were of help! I should point out that the "Make link (click 2 atoms)" is dangerous as it only generates a LINK record but not a full link dictionary - it should only be used for common known links that are present in the monomer library. This issue is discussed in

Re: [ccp4bb] Lowering R factor from small molecule structure

2021-06-03 Thread Philip D. Jeffrey
R1 of 17% is bad for small molecule. 0.8 Å is in the eye of the beholder - if you're using macromolecular cutoffs then these might be too aggressive for small molecule-type refinement stats - try a more conservative cutoff lie 0.9 and see how that changes R1. However I suspect it's more to do w

Re: [ccp4bb] help needed with link description

2021-06-03 Thread Gerlind Sulzenbacher
Dear David and Rob, thanks a lot for your help and your suggestions. Following your suggestions I found in Coot the very neat solution "Make link (click 2 atoms ...): Much better than my previous dinosaur approach. Thanks again and all the best, Gerlind On 03/06/2021 20:17, David Briggs wrote

Re: [ccp4bb] Lowering R factor from small molecule structure

2021-06-03 Thread Kristof Van Hecke
Dear Jacob, An R-value of 17% is indeed suspiciously high for a small molecule structure. Some thoughts: Are you sure the space group is correct? There might be twinning involved,. Have you checked the ’signs of twinning’ for small molecules? There might be disordered solvent molecules, which

[ccp4bb] Lowering R factor from small molecule structure

2021-06-03 Thread Jacob Summers
Greetings! I am currently trying to reduce the R factor of a cyclic small molecule peptoid in ShelXle. The max resolution of the molecule is 0.8 angstroms. The molecule itself fits the density very well, but there are a few unexplained densities around the molecule which do not seem to be anyth

Re: [ccp4bb] help needed with link description

2021-06-03 Thread Rob Nicholls - MRC LMB
Dear Gerlind, Where did you get your mad_monlib.cif file? It shouldn't be neccesary for you to be manually modifying such restraint dictionaries (any more). You can generate these using AceDRG, either via CCP4i2 or Coot. Shameless plug: https://journals.iucr.org/d/issues/2021/06/00/ir5021/index

Re: [ccp4bb] help needed with link description

2021-06-03 Thread David Briggs
Hi Gerlind, Rob Nicholls gave a talk on how to deal with covalent linkages using AceDrg at CCP4 study weekend in 2020. https://youtu.be/p4oTJ0bjD3M And Paul Emsley has written up a guide about it... https://pemsley.github.io/coot/blog/2020/06/30/make-a-link.html Hopefully these will be useful

[ccp4bb] help needed with link description

2021-06-03 Thread Gerlind Sulzenbacher
Dear all, I am going litteraly mad (or just old). I would like to make a covalent link between a carbohydrate moiety and and ASP of my well-cheered protein. The identifier for the carbohydrate moiety is MAD, chain C, res number 1. The link is established between C5 of MAD and OD2 of ASP 518,

Re: [ccp4bb] unknown density in 1.6 A structure

2021-06-03 Thread Peer Mittl
Dear Nick, I like your idea and your comments on this substance. 1,2-hexandiol supposed to be chiral but probably it is used as a racemic mixture in cosmetics. There is even a crystal structure in the PDB (4EUS) and an associated 3 letter code. I´ll give it a try because it seems to fit nicel

Re: [ccp4bb] unknown density in 1.6 A structure

2021-06-03 Thread Sevvana, Madhumati
Hi Peer, Reminds me of a lipocalin structure I solved which co-purified fatty acid with it. I could model fatty acids and we along with our collaborators used several complementary biophysical methods followed by functional assays to identify the ligand. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art

Re: [ccp4bb] unknown density in 1.6 A structure

2021-06-03 Thread Andrew Mesecar
Dear Peer, This reminds me of my colleague Michael Rossmann's discovery of a Pocket Factor which is a fatty acid-like molecule residing in a hydrophobic pocket underneath the "canyon" in enteroviruses. See https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13238-014-0092-6. You likely have an endogenous

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] unknown density in 1.6 A structure

2021-06-03 Thread Meyer, Timo
Hi Peer, this density reminds me of something I saw in one of my own structures as well and which also was not a component that should have been in there (PDB ID 6SMT). I never truly found out what it was, but I modeled it as 2-ethylhexanol, which is known to be a precursor for the synthesis a

Re: [ccp4bb] unknown density in 1.6 A structure

2021-06-03 Thread Dom Bellini - MRC LMB
Hi Peer, If I understand you correctly you are saying that you do not know what substance may be in the density; then perhaps you only need to extend by an extra atom to create a new kind of symmetrical molecule that will fit the density? BW, D On 03/06/2021 11:55, SHEPARD William wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] unknown density in 1.6 A structure

2021-06-03 Thread SHEPARD William
Hi Peer, Have you tried to model the hydroxyl O1 disordered at the carbonyl position? Check the H-bonding pattern to the end groups, this might give some clues. Cheers, Bill Le 03/06/21 12:50, « Peer Mittl » a écrit : >I'm struggling with the electron density shown in the attachment. The >

Re: [ccp4bb] superpose crystal objects in CCP4MG or other software

2021-06-03 Thread Stefano Trapani
Hi This is more or less what I do in PyMOL, but I was looking for some quicker and more user-friendly tool. A (less cumbersome ?) procedure is the following (thanks to Arwen Pearson for the hint). It requires external manipulation of the PDB files and some matrix calculations (I have not tes