The abstract of the papers says they used MIR.

Mark J van Raaij
Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas
Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC
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E-28049 Madrid, Spain
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http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij



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> On 23 Apr 2015, at 18:57, Todd Jason Green wrote:
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>> My guess is they had the best data they could get, did molecular replacement 
>> with the two halves of the repressor and the dna, got a solution and didn't 
>> use appropriate restraints in the refinement. Like Phoebe mentioned, we have 
>> better tools for this these days.
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>> ________________________________________
>> From: CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Mark J van 
>> Raaij [mjvanra...@cnb.csic.es]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 11:49 AM
>> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] 3BDN, 16.5% Ramachandran Outliers!!!!!
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>> How reliable is too general a question - it depends on what you want to know.
>> At 3.9Å they could probably place the phosphate atoms quite well and see the 
>> general fold of the protein.
>> Finer details will be less reliable, i.e. where the exact side-chains are 
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>> They could probably have forced more amino acids into favourable 
>> Ramachandran angles, but would that have made the structure "better"? Would 
>> these favourable angles have been more "right"? At 3.9Å you can't know for 
>> sure.
>> Would they have been able to draw more biological conclusions? I'd say not.
>> As long as they do not draw more conclusions in the paper than what is 
>> supported by the medium-resolution data, the structure provides useful 
>> information.
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>> Mark J van Raaij
>> Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas
>> Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC
>> c/Darwin 3
>> E-28049 Madrid, Spain
>> tel. (+34) 91 585 4616
>> http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij
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>> On 23 Apr 2015, at 18:03, Misbah ud Din Ahmad wrote:
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>>> Dear crystallographers,
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>>> The PDB entry
>>> http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=3BDN
>>> has 16.5% Ramachandran outliers. When I opened this PDB file in coot and 
>>> checked for Ramachandran outliers, the results are:
>>> In preffered region: 58.04%
>>> In allowed regions: 19.78%
>>> Outliers: 22.17%      !!!!!!!!!
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>>> With an R-free of 37.4% at 3.9 A resolution, could you please tell me how 
>>> reliable this structure of Lambda repressor bound to DNA is?
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>>> Thanks
>>> Misbha
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