Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac: sidechain bond breaks

2011-01-17 Thread Ed Pozharski
Marcus, it appears that coot "breaks" bonds when the distance between atoms exceeds 1.64A pretty much irrespective of the bond type. Two exceptions are, of course, sulfurs in MET/CYS. CB-SG bond in cysteine does not seem to have any cutoff (when you do rotate/translate zone in coot, you can move

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac: sidechain bond breaks

2011-01-17 Thread Garib N Murshudov
Dear Marcus The most likely reason is that geometry is a bit loose. You need to tighten it a bit. You can do by decreasing weight using weight matrix option on the interface. You need also check the electron density to make sure that ILE is in electron density. Please let me know if you hav

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac: sidechain bond breaks

2011-01-17 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Well - REFMAC and I think other refinement programs simply read in an atom with occupancy 0.00 and write it out again in exactly the same place.. All refinement contributions for atoms both Xray and geometrical are weighted by the atom occupancy so such an atom will not shift. The assumption i

[ccp4bb] Refmac: sidechain bond breaks

2011-01-17 Thread Marcus Fislage
Dear all, I might excuse myself for the silly question but it is the first time I solve an x-ray structure. After modell building in coot and running of refmac with restrained refinement I have the problem that the pdb output file contains distances between e.g. ILE Cb and Cg that are so long tha