[phenixbb] explicit solvent in low resolution refinement

Tue Nov 25 02:27:09 PST 2014

Occupancies of water molecules? O dear, o dear, what resolution are you
talking about?

But there is nothing to prevent you copying conserved water molecules to
another structure if you are confident.

You, Frank, know what you are talking about, but if this is automated, I
am sure there will be even more poor structures in the PDB.

Cheers,
Tim

On 11/25/2014 08:16 AM, Frank von Delft wrote:
> Okay, so could one build them and restrain their positions and
> occupancies to those of the high res structure?
> 
> The point is:  if you've seen a 1st shell water in conserved 20
> structures, the chances of it not being there are in fact rather slim -
> which is the identical assumption we make to justify NCS.
> 
> 
> On 25/11/2014 07:11, Pavel Afonine wrote:
>> No, this is different. Note: you restrain to high-res structure, not
>> add it to the model.
>> Pavel
>>
>> On 11/24/14 10:54 PM, Frank von Delft wrote:
>>> Well, we happily restrain (these days) low resolution structures to
>>> high resolution structures.  I see no philosophical difference.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 25/11/2014 05:58, Pavel Afonine wrote:
>>>> Hi Guenter,
>>>>
>>>> while I clearly understand your motivations, I don't feel very
>>>> comfortable with placing explicit atoms that are not supported by
>>>> the data.
>>>>
>>>> The fact that those atoms are present in high-resolution structure
>>>> does not mean that they are also present in low-resolution
>>>> structure. You can argue that adding these waters improves Rfree and
>>>> you may think of it as an improvement. However, as a counterargument
>>>> one can say that R-factor is a global metric that is unlikely to be
>>>> sensitive to adding/removing just one single molecule. Therefore,
>>>> while adding bulk of "structured" waters may be an improvement in
>>>> general this still does not mean that all the waters you add are
>>>> true and good ones. Say what if 70% of them are good and 30% are
>>>> rubbish? In this case still Rfree may improve because you add more
>>>> good water than bad, but adding bad ones is counterproductive anyway
>>>> and introduces model bias and thus must be avoided.
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>> Pavel
>>>>
>>>> On 11/17/14 1:33 AM, Guenter Fritz wrote:
>>>>> Dear Pavel,
>>>>>
>>>>> yes, such an exact prediction of ordered water molecules might be
>>>>> very helpful. I was sure that somebody else had this idea already.
>>>>> I was playing around with a few datasets truncated a low resolution
>>>>> (3.5 - 4.0 A) and then compared Rwork/Rfree using an input model
>>>>> with and without water molecules. Clearly the water molecules had a
>>>>> large contribution in the refinement of  these artificially
>>>>> truncated datasets. Sascha pointed me to an example in your paper
>>>>> from 2002:
>>>>>
>>>>> Lunin, V.Y., Afonine, P. & Urzhumtsev, A.G. (2002)
>>>>> "Likelihood-based refinement. 1. Irremovable model errors.". Acta
>>>>> Cryst., A58, 270-282.
>>>>>
>>>>> I had a look into the  literature to get an idea and found several
>>>>> programs evaluating the inner shell water molecules and some
>>>>> programs predicting water positions. I had a try only on a few
>>>>> programs. I found that a nice summary is given in the publication
>>>>> on an approach called WaterDock:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ross GA, Morris GM, Biggin PC (2012) "Rapid and accurate prediction
>>>>> and scoring of water molecules in protein binding sites." PLoS One
>>>>> 7(3):e32036.
>>>>>
>>>>> But before analyzing many structures and see whether it might work
>>>>> in general,  my aim is much simpler. I have high resolution
>>>>> structures of with water molecules and try to implement the ordered
>>>>> water molecules into the refinement of a protein complex at low
>>>>> resolution. My approach was maybe a bit of naive so far but I am
>>>>> sure there is good way to do that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best wishes, Guenter
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried this idea back in 2004. In a nutshell: using all (or
>>>>>> categorized subset of) structures in PDB we can learn about
>>>>>> distribution of structured water and given this knowledge we can
>>>>>> build an a priori contribution of scattering arising from such
>>>>>> water to the scattering of any given new structure or a structure
>>>>>> at low resolution (where the water is not visible in maps).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Either I did not spend enough time on this or the idea wasn't
>>>>>> viable, but one way or another this did not work in my hands. I
>>>>>> think it may be worth revisiting this 10 years later! Perhaps I
>>>>>> would do it better now than back then!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All the best,
>>>>>> Pavel
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/16/14 2:19 PM, Nathaniel Echols wrote:
>>>>>>> I will leave it to others to debate the wisdom of this strategy,
>>>>>>> but to answer the purely technical question:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Guenter Fritz
>>>>>>> <guenter.fritz at uni-konstanz.de
>>>>>>> <mailto:guenter.fritz at uni-konstanz.de>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     Is it possible to use protein and water atoms from the
>>>>>>>     reference models to generate restraints for the low
>>>>>>>     resolution refinement?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't think so.  You'll probably find it easier to refine the
>>>>>>> atoms separately, i.e. one run with reference model and the
>>>>>>> individual sites selection set to "not resname HOH", followed by
>>>>>>> a run with harmonic restraints on waters and selection "resname
>>>>>>> HOH". Alternately, you could try applying harmonic restraints to
>>>>>>> the entire model, although I suspect that the waters and protein
>>>>>>> require different weights (or sigmas).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -Nat
>>>>
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