Re: [phenixbb] alternative conformation of residues
Hi all, I have a protein where three consecutive amino acids have alternative conformations. I edited the PDB file to have those altloc and made total occupancy of A and B to 1.00. But after refinement both A and B are overlapping and I could see the positive density for one conformation away from that (may be b'se I didn't change coordinates of B conformation). How can I move the B altloc in to the positive density. Do I have to edit the coordinates on PDB and if so how can Ido that? Thanks in advance for any help Subhani
Hi Subhani,
I have a protein where three consecutive amino acids have alternative conformations. I edited the PDB file to have those altloc and made total occupancy of A and B to 1.00. But after refinement both A and B are overlapping and I could see the positive density for one conformation away from that (may be b'se I didn't change coordinates of B conformation). How can I move the B altloc in to the positive density. Do I have to edit the coordinates on PDB and if so how can Ido that?
I'm sure I fully understood your question. Once you correctly formatted the PDB file (assigned altloc identifiers to corresponding conformers) just run phenix.refine and then inspect the refined model in the map. You don't need to change manually the occupancy values, coordinates, etc. For details see: http://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/refinement.htm#anch22 Let me know if you have any questions or problems with this. Pavel
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Subhani Bandara
I have a protein where three consecutive amino acids have alternative conformations. I edited the PDB file to have those altloc and made total occupancy of A and B to 1.00. But after refinement both A and B are overlapping and I could see the positive density for one conformation away from that (may be b'se I didn't change coordinates of B conformation). How can I move the B altloc in to the positive density. Do I have to edit the coordinates on PDB and if so how can Ido that?
phenix.refine won't automatically move the alternate conformations for you - you need to do this with Coot. An alternative is to try simulated annealing to try to "shake" them into the correct place, but rebuilding in Coot is probably going to be faster and more accurate. -Nat
Another idea is to use qfit:
http://smb.slac.stanford.edu/qFitServer/qFit.jsp
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Nathaniel Echols
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Subhani Bandara
wrote: I have a protein where three consecutive amino acids have alternative conformations. I edited the PDB file to have those altloc and made total occupancy of A and B to 1.00. But after refinement both A and B are overlapping and I could see the positive density for one conformation away from that (may be b'se I didn't change coordinates of B conformation). How can I move the B altloc in to the positive density. Do I have to edit the coordinates on PDB and if so how can Ido that?
phenix.refine won't automatically move the alternate conformations for you - you need to do this with Coot. An alternative is to try simulated annealing to try to "shake" them into the correct place, but rebuilding in Coot is probably going to be faster and more accurate.
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Nathaniel Echols
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Pavel Afonine
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Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve
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Subhani Bandara