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Iron (FE2) metalloprotein
by Egor Tchesnokov 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

Hello, Active site contains iron (FE2) coordinated by three histidines. After Phaser the active site does not contain un-explained green density. After Refinement blobs of various shapes appear in the vicinity and upto 3-4A of active site iron. Refinement is done using occupancy and anomalous of iron options. Buffers do not contain molecules that could fit in those blobs. Any suggestions? Thank you Egor

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Geometry problems
by Yarrow Madrona 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

Hello, I have a ligand bound to a heme and I have supplied a CIF for phenix in refinement. I did not include all atoms just, those close to the iron. Unfortunately, I am getting very large reported bond deviations for other atoms. For example I get: bond pdb="FE HEM A 410 " pdb=" N3 CPZ A 500 " ideal model delta sigma weight residual 2.100 4.054 -1.954 2.00e-01 2.50e+01 9.54e+01 N3 and FE are not bonded and not expected to be close to one another. it is not supported by the structure. I suspect that this is causing my overall bonds deviations to be ~0.03 even if I greatly reduce the weight of wxc. Is it necessary to enter all of these outliers into the .cif file or is there an easier way? Thank you.

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Sulfate at 3-fold axis
by Zhou, Tongqing (NIH/VRC) [E] 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

Dear Colleagues, I am refining a structure and there is a SO4 on the 3-fold axis. What I did was to put atom S and O1 on the 3-fold with occ=0.33, and O2 with occ=1, and no O3 and O4 in the pdb (O3 and O4 will be the symmetry of O2). But when I refine it, Phenix complains close non-bounded distances for both S and O1. Is there a way to refine this sulfate? Thanks! Best regards, Tongqing Tongqing Zhou, Ph.D. Staff Scientist Structural Biology Section Vaccine Research Center, NIAID/NIH Building 40, Room 4609B 40 Convent Drive, MSC3027 Bethesda, MD 20892 (301) 594-8710 (Tel) (301) 793-0794 (Cell) (301) 480-2658 (Fax) ****************************************************************************** The information in this e-mail and any of its attachments is confidential and may contain sensitive information. It should not be used by anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage devices. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shall not accept liability for any statements made that are sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of the NIAID by one of its representatives. ******************************************************************

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after updating my system 1.9 1692
by Afshan Begum 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

Dear Developers, I am wondering why my system is getting too much slow after update the phenix new version??? before that its take few mints to finish my job but now its take more than 7 hour just finish one job .could you help me regarding this. Many thanks Best Regards AFSHAN

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Update waters and chain ID
by Scott Lovell 19 Jun '14

19 Jun '14

Hi All, I'm refining a structure (dev-1726) that contains 24 protein subunits which are assigned to chains A-X in the PDB file. Chains Y and Z are assigned to a couple of ligands and the ordered solvent molecules are chain w (lower case). I decided to give the "Update waters" option a try during refinement but it seems that the chain ID of the ordered solvent is changed to chain S by default. Since I already have a protein subunit assigned to chain S, the following error is obtained when I try to open the model in Coot (ERROR 39 READ: Duplicate sequence number and insertion code.). To enable visualization of the model in Coot, I can of course manually change the chain ID for the ordered solvent in the output PDB file using a text editor. However, is there a way to override the ordered solvent default chain ID in Phenix to prevent duplication? Thanks, Scott __________________________________ Scott Lovell Ph.D., Director Protein Structure Laboratory University of Kansas Del Shankel Structural Biology Center

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More problems with HEM.cif?
by Yarrow Madrona 19 Jun '14

19 Jun '14

Hello, The HEM.cif in $Phenix/chem_data/mon_lib has ideal angles of 1.337 for single bonds on the vinyl groups. HEM CAC CBC coval 1.337 0.02 HEM CAB CBB coval 1.337 0.02 As far as I know these are single bonds and the ideal bond angles should be around 1.5. -Yarrow

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Rigid ligand placement into density map
by Phan, Jason 19 Jun '14

19 Jun '14

Hi All, Is there an option or flag in Phenix LigandFit to place the ligand rigidly with pre-generated conformations without torsional adjustments? Would setting "conformers = 1" and "refine_ligand = false" work? Coot Find Ligand with the "flexible" option unchecked seems to work but it won't tell you which original conformer (SD file) the "fitted ligand" comes from since all the conformers have the same residue name and number. Coot doesn't write out SD format either so any ID associated with the original conformer is lost. Jason

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molprobity coot TODO python script
by wtempel 19 Jun '14

19 Jun '14

Hello, I noticed the following when loading a phenix-created python TODO script using the 4730 and 5100 Linux-x86_64-ubuntu-12.04.3-python-gtk2 coot builds. A "MolProbity to-do list" window opens. GUI functions such as "Show Probe dots" and "Overlap only" are working as expected. Clicking anywhere within the "C-beta outliers" or "Severe clashes" areas of the window moves the display center to problem areas of the structure. But: no text is visible in any of the columns ("Chain", "Residue", "Name", etc. of the "C-beta outliers area"; "Atom 1", Atom 2", "Overlap" of the "Severe clashes"). As a result, I cannot select a specific problem spot for centering. Any ideas? Another molprobity related question: us there a phenix script that produces a list of NQH flip candidates? Thank you, Wolfram Tempel Attached image: Clicking in the white areas on the window in the attached screen grab will move the center of the coot display, but labels for the problem areas are not shown in the window's columns.

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GUI program to calculate effective resolution of a data set
by Alexandre OURJOUMTSEV 19 Jun '14

19 Jun '14

Dear All, Recently, there was a ccp4bb conversation concerning the definition of a ‘real’ (effective) resolution of (incomplete) diffraction data sets. I am happy to announce that a corresponding GUI program EFRESOL is available now and you may download it from the Web site: http://www-ibmc.u-strasbg.fr/arn/Site_UPR9002/efresol/Efresol.html http://www-ibmc.u-strasbg.fr/arn/Site_UPR9002/Sites.html The method is described in L.Urzhumtseva, B.P.Klaholz, A.Urzhumtsev (2013) Acta Cryst., D69, 1921-1934. We would like to thank Joel Bard, Tom Peat, Rajan Prabu and especially Boaz Shaanan for testing the original version of the program. With best wishes, Sacha Urzhumtsev

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Re: [phenixbb] special positions
by Yarrow Madrona 18 Jun '14

18 Jun '14

Hi Pavel, It turns out I do have some special positions. Waters sit near a 2 fold axis. I have given them 0.5 occupancy. No error comes up but they simply get kicked out of the electron density. Maybe I should turn off rigid body refinement since I don't need it? Below is a link to a screen shot. https://www.dropbox.com/s/lt3hqzjmygin9l8/special_position.png On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Pavel Afonine <pafonine(a)lbl.gov> wrote: > Hi Yarrow, > > oh good! I'm glad you solved the problem -:) > > All the best, > Pavel > > > On 6/18/14, 8:02 AM, Yarrow Madrona wrote: > > Hi Pavel, > > Thanks for your quick response. It turns out that after I reprocessed a > data set in a higher symetry space group I forgot to use a reference mtz so > the orientation was completely off. I just re-ran phaser and everything > worked fine. I didn't run rigid body refinement after phaser. > > The original error message didn't list the atoms and I am not sure how > it could have any atoms on special positions with the solution being > completely wrong. Probably nothing to worry about. > > -Yarrow > > On Tuesday, June 17, 2014, Pavel Afonine <pafonine(a)lbl.gov> wrote: > >> Hi Yarrow, >> >> ok, I wish that error message (that I put a while ago, in 2009 to be >> precise) lists those atoms... Can you send me the file so I can tell you >> what these atoms are? >> >> In general, if at rigid-body refinement stage you have atoms at special >> positions it is unlikely to be right. >> >> Pavel >> >> On 6/17/14, 12:56 PM, Yarrow Madrona wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am trying to do rigid body refinement, however I get an error in >>> phenix telling me that there are atoms at special positions. >>> >>> I am not sure how to determine which atoms are at special positions so >>> that I can exclude them from rigid body refinement. Can someone help me >>> with this? Thank you. >>> >>> -Yarrow >>> >> >> >

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