That seems hard work to me! Data quality suffers when you discard
multiplicity..
 Eleanor

On 8 August 2017 at 17:15, Sudipta Bhattacharyya <
sudiptabhattacharyya.iit...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Giorgio,
>
> I also suspect the presence of twining and as Eleanor has suggested the L
> test is the best test to detect that (if also t-NCS is not present). You
> can reprocess your data in P1, do MR in P1 and then feed your P1 model and
> mtz file to zanuda to see what SG it suggests. That trick once worked for
> me.
>
> Cheers,
> Sudipta.
>
>
> Sudipta Bhattacharyya,
> Postdoctoral fellow
> Department of Molecular Biosciences
> University of Texas at Austin
> Texas, USA.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Eleanor Dodson <eleanor.dod...@york.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> First of all - check whether your crystal data shows twinning - thee is
>> an L-test plot which usually gives a clear indication and if you are using
>> GUI2 the report suggests if this is so.
>>
>>
>> If you have twinning the most likely SG is P31 (or P32 ) - you cant tell
>> the difference till the structure is solved.
>>
>> Check the merging stats in that point group -
>> Then try MR searches in the two spacegroups.
>>
>> The C2 and I2 SGs are probably sub-group possibilities if you reindex -
>> there are common cell dimensions -pointless output tells you how to do that
>> - but in general one always chooses the highest symmetry that gives
>> reasonable merging statistics and is sensible.
>>
>> Eleanor
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8 August 2017 at 14:15, Giorgio Giardina <giorgio.giard...@uniroma1.it
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everybody,
>>>
>>> I think I have a pseudo-centering problem.
>>>
>>> I have a 1.6 ang. dataset of a mutant  protein that is an homodimer in
>>> solution.
>>> Data processing gives the following SG:
>>>
>>> Space group: P 31 2 1
>>> Average unit cell:  111.36  111.36   28.56   90.00   90.00  120.00
>>> Average mosaicity:   0.24
>>> Rmerge Overall 0.07
>>>
>>> However with this SG the unit Cell is too small and monomer doesn't fit
>>> the in the AU.
>>>
>>> I reprocessed the data in other possible SG (including P6) and finally I
>>> got 2 equivalent SG's in which I can get a correct Molecular Replacement
>>> solution:
>>>
>>> Space group: I 1 2 1
>>> Average unit cell:   57.07  111.11  192.90   90.00   90.07   90.00
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> Space group: C 1 2 1
>>> Average unit cell:  201.10  111.11   57.07   90.00  106.42   90.00
>>>
>>> Both with Average mosaicity:   0.38 and Rmerge Overall 0.06,
>>> but the corresponding MR solutions do not refine, with R-factor stuck to
>>> 45-47%.
>>>
>>> From what I understand, in the I121 SG I have the NC two-fold axis of
>>> the dimer at 1/2a and this originates the pseudo centering and the small P3
>>> Cell
>>>
>>> Largest Patterson peak with length larger than 15 Angstrom:
>>>  Frac. coord.              :    0.500    0.000    0.000
>>>  Distance to origin        :   28.566
>>>  Height relative to origin :   53.830 %
>>>
>>> I'm really not so good with symmetry, so I'll be grateful for any
>>> suggestion/help/solution from you out there.
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Giorgio
>>>
>>
>>
>

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