Thanks Oleg. I investigated some more and found a clue:
A few residues at the termini of the B and C chains in the input pdb file have UNK as the segid (column 73-75). The segids were introduced in autobuild. I had apparently noticed this and removed them in the .pdb when I finished refinement a few months ago, because the final output pdb file has a later edit date than the rest of the output files. In the .cif files, all residues in those chains are labeled as ‘UNK’ in the auth_asym_id. Now three months later when making Table 1 using the .cif file, I was surprised when phenix complained about ‘duplicate atoms’ in the cif file.
So now I guess the mystery to me is why phenix extends the UNK segid to the whole chain, and why phenix sees atoms with the same auth_asym_id (segid) but different label_asym_id (chain) as being duplicates. I’ll leave it to you to decide if this is bug in the program or in the user, but still happy to share my files with you off-list if you like.
Best wishes
Kevin
From: Oleg Sobolev
Date: Friday, February 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
To: Kevin M Jude
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [phenixbb] .cif file has 'UNK' auth_asym_id
Hi Kevin,
Thank you for the report. I would be happy to fix the issue. For this I need to be able to reproduce it myself. Can you please share (off-list) the inputs that you used for the refinement to produce this result? All files will be treated confidentially.
Best regards,
Oleg Sobolev.
On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM Kevin M Jude mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
I’ve finished refining a structure with three protein chains A, B, C. The pdb file looks ‘normal’ to me, but when I inspect the .cif file written by phenix, the auth_asym_id for chains B and C is ‘UNK’. label_asym_id is correct for all chains. I’m not really sure what the difference is between the auth_ and label_ fields. When I try to perform actions on the .cif file, I get duplicate atom label errors.
Here’s a few example lines from the .pdb and .cif files, where auth_asym_id is field 6 and label_asym_id is field 16
ATOM 460 OXT PRO A 59 5.272 55.689 31.481 1.00 52.63 O
ANISOU 460 OXT PRO A 59 6541 6212 7244 1448 1260 96 O
TER
ATOM 461 N ALA B 2 39.292 61.974 39.403 1.00 67.81 N
ANISOU 461 N ALA B 2 7118 8729 9916 -1711 -388 2066 N
ATOM 460 OXT . PRO A 59 ? 5.27169 55.68852 31.48123 1.000 52.63052 O ? A ? 58 1
ATOM 461 N . ALA UNK 2 ? 39.29207 61.97430 39.40271 1.000 67.80544 N ? B ? 1 1
I’m able to convert the pdb file to a usable cif file using gemmi but wanted to report this weird behavior with phenix 1.21.2_5419.
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Kevin Jude, PhD
Structural Biology Research Specialist, Garcia Lab
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Stanford University School of Medicine
Beckman B177, 279 Campus Drive, Stanford CA 94305
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