Hi Yu Seon,

A couple things to trh:


1. You might try SAD with the autosol option

part_pdb_file=my_mr_model.pdb

which will use your SAD data in phaser along with the MR model to try to identify the anomalously-scattering atom locations and to phase including the MR model and the SAD data.

2. You might check whether the Se sites you have previously found are near your SD atoms of Met using phenix.emma if you have not already. This routine will take care of origin offsets and inversions for you so it is more comprehensive than simply superimposing the ha sites on your model.  I'm thinking of something like this:

cat mr.pdb |grep 'ATOM'|grep ' MET '| grep ' SD ' > sites_from_mr.pdb
phenix.emma sites_from_mr.pdb ha.pdb

All the best,
Tom T 
On Aug 27, 2009, at 8:58 AM, YS. Chung wrote:

Dear all,

I have a 3 angstrom structure which I am trying to solve with MAD or
SAD. The structure was previously solved with molecular replacement but
refinement could not continue due to poor phasing at the N-terminal
domain of the protein. I have run solve and autosol which are able to
find the Se sites. However, Se sites are not anywhere near the
methionines when I superimpose the ha.pdb and the pdb file that I
obtain from a new run of molecular replacement. The
exptl_fobs_phases_freeR_flags.mtz and the overall_best.pdb do not show
any connected densities. I have also tried autobuild with the solutions
from AutoSol, but the model that it builds in is incorrect. Any
suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Yu Seon Chung
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