Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Refinement of a structure with intermolecular disulfide bond

From: Ke, Jiyuan
Date: 27 October 2011 14:56


Dear All,

 

I have a question regarding refinement of a crystal structure with intermolecular disulfide bond. There is one monomer in an asymmetric unit. The biological assembly for the molecule is a disulfide bond linked dimer. And the disulfide bond is on a 2-fold crystallographic symmetry. During refinement using refmac, how do I tell the program to keep the disulfide bond? Currently two S atoms are pushing away from each other after refmac refinement. Thanks!

 

Jiyuan Ke, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Van Andel Research Institute

333 Bostwick Ave NE

Grand Rapids, MI 49503

 


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From: Tim Gruene

Dear Jiyuan Ke,

the SSBOND
(http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/refmac5/files/coordinates.html#pdb_ssbond)
does allow symmetry related molecules, so it seems that is the header
entry you are looking for.

Tim
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Dr Tim Gruene
Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
Tammannstr. 4
D-37077 Goettingen



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