Re: [phenixbb] group on special position

Hi Karine, I did give that a try, but the phosphate jumped out of the density. My guess is that the symmetry relationship between O2, O3 and O4 means that if each is at full occupancy, they then occupy each of the three positions so there’s a clash between all three in each asymmetric unit. I’ve also tried setting O2 to 1.00 occupancy, and O3 & O4 to 0.00. Again, the phosphate jumps out of density... Thanks, Arthur

On Aug 12, 2020, at 10:37 PM, Dr. Karine Röwer wrote:

Hi Arthur, from the way I used to work in small molecule crystallography, I'd set the occupancy of the atoms on the symmetry axis to 0.33, and keep only one of the other three O atoms with an occupancy of 1. I'd expect phenix to generate the other two O atoms via symmetry operators, and applied to the atoms on the symmetry axis, you should get a total occupancy of 1. Does that help? Cheers, Karine

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 2:56 AM Arthur Glasfeld wrote: I’ve run into a situation where I think I have a phosphate sitting on a 3-fold axis, where the P to O1 bond lies on the axis and the atoms O2, O3 and O4 are in symmetry-related positions. The data go to 1.6 Å, so it looks pretty convincing. I’m refining this in Phenix and have tried some tricks with occupancy - fixing the atoms at 0.33, but I get a lot of positive density in the Fo-Fc map and large B-factors. I’ve looked around but am not finding ideas on how to model this correctly in my structure file - the references I find are for monoatomic ions. Any advice would be welcome.

Thanks, Arthur

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