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From: Kevin Cowtan cowtan {- at -} YSBL {- dot -} YORK {- dot -} AC {- dot -} UK
Date: 2008-10-23
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Subject: Re: twinning in monoclinic space group
From: Eleanor Dodson ccp4 {- at -} YSBL {- dot -} YORK {- dot -} AC {- dot -} UK
Date: 2008-10-23

Those plots dont look too bad to me - not ideal but acceptable..
There are not many centric reflections so any stats are a bit suspect..

So I would go on working assuming no twinning - and try for a solution
from MR or exptl phasing..
That is not so easy I know, but IF you can get an MR solution then those
phases may be good enough to find anomalous scatterers..
Eleanor


Michael Karl Uhl wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> we looked at the graphs produced by truncate in the monoclinic SG -->
> that's why we thought about twinning. The cumulative intensity
> distribution does not fit to a sigmoid (indicates twinning) curve but
> shows a strange distribution for the centric reflections. If I look at
> the acentric and centric moments there is no straight line
> (particularly for the centric reflections), the distribution is more
> or less something in between twinned and not twinned.
>
> If we index the dataset triclinic and look at the truncate graphs
> again, we can find the same distribution for the acentric reflections
> (no straight line). The observed cumulative intensity distribution
> fits very well to the theoretic one.
>
> Thanks for the fast answer and the help,
>
> Michael.
>
>
>
>
> Eleanor Dodson schrieb:
>> I dont think that is a twinning law, and that SG and cell dimensions
>> are unlikely to be twinned.
>>
>> It could be really P1 I suppose with a twin operator -h,k,-l - ie the
>> SYM op is actually a twin operator..
>> But twinning usually shows up in the intensity statistic plots - have
>> you looked at the TRUNCATe plots (Import scaled task if you are
>> reading scalepack output to convert to mtz file)
>>
>> Eleanor
>>
>> Michael Karl Uhl wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>>
>>> I have collected a dataset with a resolution of 1.5 A. The indexing
>>> with
>>> denzo went very well with the monoclinic cell (62.3120 84.2860
>>> 72.8720
>>> 90.0000 111.9620 90.0000).
>>> After many trials to determine the structure with MR as well as SAD I
>>> thought that my dataset might be twinned. I reindexed the dataset
>>> triclinic and used detwin to analyse it. The found twinning law
>>> corresponds to "-h,-k,l". But nevertheless it was not possible for
>>> me to
>>> determine the structure.
>>> I was thinking about a possible twin law in P21 and tried refmac5 with
>>> the keyword "twin" and the monoclinic dataset. Refmac5 found a twinning
>>> law of "-h, -k, l+h" with a twinning fraction of about 20%. Detwin was
>>> not able to deal with these data and gave following error:
>>>
>>> *** FATAL ERROR ***
>>> One of Twin related reflection indices -15 0 52 exceed maximum
>>> allowed values ( 43 59 51)
>>> Increase PARAMETER MAXIND and recompile.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is this twinning law correct? For me it looks more like a cell
>>> transformation than a twinnnig law.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help.
>>>
>>> Best wishes, Michael
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Mag. Michael Karl Uhl
>>> Research Centre Applied Biocatalyses
>>> c/o Department of Molecular Biosciences - Structural Biology
>>> Karl-Franzens-University Graz
>>> Humboldtstraße 50/3th floor/room 186
>>> 8010 Graz, Austria
>>>
>>> Phone: +43 316 380 5466
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>>> http://strubi.uni-graz.at/
>>>
>>>
>>>
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