[phenixbb] Rfree doesn't decrease and keeps around 36%, High ramachandran outlier, High RMSD

Pavel Afonine pafonine at lbl.gov
Fri May 13 12:12:34 PDT 2016


Hi Chen,

I'm happy to have a closer look at this and try my best to help! Could 
you please send me the current model, data and sequence files? Once I 
have files I will try a things myself and see what's going on.

Pavel

On 5/12/16 05:48, chen c wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am solving a structure which diffracted to 2.8 angstrom resolution 
> and containes 8 molecules (MW:12 kDa) per ASU. It's noteworthy that 
> though the model used for molecular replacement shares 50% sequence 
> identity with my protein, however, severe clashes were found as listed 
> below:
>
>
>    Packing Table
>    -------------
>    Solutions accepted if total number of clashes <= 5% of trace atoms
>       i.e. total number of clashes <= 32
>    AND if number of clashes <= 5% of trace atoms for each ensemble
>       i.e. ensemble1: number of clashes <= 4
>    #    #  #Clash Packs SpaceGroup  Annotation
>    1         17    NO   C 2 2 21    ... PAK=11 LLG=802 RFZ=3.8 TFZ=9.3
>
>
> Only after I changed the packing criteria from 5% to 100%, can I get 
> the solution.
>
> Severe clashes and even coincidence of different molecules were found 
> as briefly listed below:
>
> Molecule A (C-terminal)  vs Molecule D (N-terminal) of neighbouring ASU
> Molecule B (C-terminal)  vs Molecule C (N-terminal)
> Molecule C (C-terminal)  vs Molecule D (C-terminal)
> Molecule E (C-terminal)  vs Molecule G (N-terminal)
> Molecule F (C-terminal)  vs Molecule H (N-terminal)
> Molecule G (C-terminal)  vs Molecule G (C-terminal) of neighbouring ASU
> Molecule H (C-terminal)  vs Molecule H (C-terminal) of neighbouring ASU
>
> Upon this, I manually rebuild the structure in COOT and particularly 
> deleted those coincided atoms.
> Then I refined the structure in phenix. However, all the refine gives 
> a bad result, namely, RMSD(angle) at 1.8-2.1, RMSD(bond) at 
> 0.015-0.02, The Rwork/Rfree at around 0.28/0.36, Ramachandran outlier 
> + Rotamer outlier at around 15-20%. I tried a lot of refinement 
> strategy and the current status is :
>
> RMSD(angle)= 1.545, RMSD(bond) = 0.01, Rwork/Rfree = 0.290.36, 
> Ramachandran outlier=11.3%,Rotamer outlier =1.5%.
>
> The data set belonged to C2221 and phenix.xtriage analysis reflects no 
> twinning or pseudotranslation problem. In addition, there are two 
> beta-turns in each molecule which displays poor electron density and 
> geometry. And this two loop are the very residues which appears in 
> disallowed regions in ramachandran diagram apart some other residues. 
> However, these residues should have little effect on the R factor 
> considering of their low contribution to the overall structure due to 
> their poor electron density.
>
> Has anyone has experiences about this? Your help and advice is greatly 
> appreciated!
>
> Thank you!
> Chen
>
>
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