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CCP4bb navigationCCP4bb <-- 2007 <-- June 2007 <-- 08 June 2007Subject: From: Marius Schmidt marius {- dot -} schmidt {- at -} PH {- dot -} TUM {- dot -} DE Date: 2007-06-08 I have a strange problem. Recently, we have collected some data on some myoglobin derivative. Crystals were quite twinned and we had to cut a leavlet out of a bundle of crystals. Crystal scattered to 2.6 A. Apparent space group P212121 with paramters [in A]: 30 58 and 118. One single mol-rep solution was found with sig to noise of rotation: 17 sig to noise of transl: 15 In two dimensions molecules pack nicely (see attached image vowi34.gif) in the other direction there is much to much space between the layers of molecules that one could envision proper crystal packing (see other image vowi32.gif). And indeed: refinement stops with R-cryst/R-free ~34/42 [%] with some spurious e-density outside the molecule which does not look like water. Matthew coefficient: 2.8 with one mol per asy unit. I tried to find another MR solution with the first one fixed and I failed (signal to noise of the best Rot and Trans solutions around 3). What could be the problem? I always thought that twinning cannot be the reason in P212121. Density distributions (from truncate) however seem to indicate some degree of twinning although this might also be a problem of data processing (data are quite weak). Maybe some of you have encountered similar problems and know how to solve them. Any hint very much wellcome. Marius CCP4bb navigationCCP4bb <-- 2007 <-- June 2007 <-- 08 June 2007 |
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