Hi all,
I recently solved the structure of a protein containing 395aa using phenix autosol. After autoBuild I got about 65% of the sequence docked with 2 monomers in the ASU.
After several refinement cycles the map has been improved and I build manually the remaining amino acids. But the problem is that R and Rfree didn't decrease below 0.28 and 0.33 respectively. I tried with NCS restraints, TLS but without success.
When I revised phenix autosol logs carefully, I found that in xtriage the analyses of the Patterson function reveals a significant off-origin peak that is 41.59 % of the origin peak, indicating pseudo translational symmetry and no twin laws were found.
The space group is P212121 (36.898, 59.45, 393.908, 90, 90, 90). The basic statistics suggested 1 copy in the ASU (but the solution gave 2 copies per ASU !!!). The same analysis done by ccp4i gave the same solvent content and math. coef. in p21212 but with 2 copies per ASU.
In xtriage I found this suggestion: If the observed pseudo translationals are crystallographic the following spacegroups and unit cells are possible:
space group P 21 21 2 (b-1/4,2*c,a) operator x, y+1/2, z unit cell of reference setting (393.91, 36.90, 29.73, 90.00, 90.00, 90.00)

I am really stucked with the refinement and don't know how to deal with this pseudo translation.

Any help or suggestions are welcome.

Thank you.

Youssef