[phenixbb] Need help in refining my twinned P6322(apparent) dataset
Phil Jeffrey
pjeffrey at princeton.edu
Tue Mar 15 11:00:35 PDT 2011
On 3/15/11 1:18 PM, Ed Pozharski wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 12:12 -0400, Phil Jeffrey wrote:
>> That having been said, I want to raise the unfortunate possibility
>> that
>> you're really in P3 and doubly twinned.
>
> As in P3 with dimer sitting on the axis and resulting in apparent 6-fold
> symmetry (120+180-360=-60)?
>
In this particular case I'd envision it as potentially four
crystallographic trimers formed by crystallographic 3-folds, giving 4
unique monomers per asymmetric unit, with two two-fold NCS elements,
both perpendicular to the 3-fold, and spaced 60 degrees apart (doesn't
this beget 622?). Actually you could probably do this with 3 monomers,
but then you might get some apparent statistical disorder of domains
when treating the data as either P321 or P63 where the asymmetric unit
volume is halved.
In my case I saw something that was at first blush "P321" and pseudo
P622, had one "good" domain and the other half of the asymmetric unit
exhibited statistical disorder that was the superposition of two domains
overlapping on themselves related by a twin operator. This
interpretation was made possible by looking at the SeMet peaks in the
MAD map - it's not something that would be easy to come by from looking
at a model-phased map.
I felt it was better interpreted as P3 -> P321 -> P622 doubly twinned,
because attempts at single twin refinement and handling the statistical
disorder did not yield a more refinable structure. But I'm not sure how
to prove it one way or the other.
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