[phenixbb] Phenix.refine distorts geometry during rigid body refinement

Ian Slaymaker iamslaymaker at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 12:46:17 PDT 2011


Arthur, it looks like something similar may have happened. Thanks!

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Arthur Glasfeld <glasfeld at reed.edu> wrote:
> This may not be helpful - but I had a similar thing happen at low resolution a few months ago.  It turned out that a couple of residues just "blew out" of the structure for some reason.  Their crappy geometries skewed everything else (though I had bad bond angles to go with the bad distances).  It took me a while to see it, since everything else (99% of the structure) looked fine.
>
> Good luck,
> Arthur
>
>
> Arthur Glasfeld
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> On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Ian Slaymaker wrote:
>
>> I am bringing a PDB refined in Refmac back to phenix.refine. After an
>> initial rigid body refinement to compare numbers (one chain per
>> group), the geometry (specifically the bond length rmsd) had
>> surprisingly increased. Phenix.validate confirmed the Refmac (initial)
>> geometry numbers and then afterwards confirmed the distorted geometry.
>> What is strange is that when opened in COOT, the initial and final
>> models are completely super imposed.
>>
>> REMARK Start: r_work = 0.3375 r_free = 0.3624 bonds = 0.006 angles = 0.768
>> REMARK Final: r_work = 0.3379 r_free = 0.3626 bonds = 0.145 angles = 1.019
>>
>> can you help me figure out what is going on here? These are the final
>> few refinements of a 4.1 A structure.
>> Thanks,
>> Ian
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