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On Tuesday 31 January 2006 11:27 am, Artem Evdokimov wrote:
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> Have you refined overall anisotropicity in SHELX or TLS in Refmac ?
I'm a great fan of TLS, but for a 0.9A resolution anisotropic refinement
I have to point out that both the overall anisotropy and any TLS
components to the ADPs should already be accounted for nicely
in the individual atomic U^{ij} terms. Go ahead and do a TLS
analysis if you are interested in the dynamic properties of your
protein, but don't expect it to improve the R factors of a 0.9A
refinement [*].
[*] This is getting off topic, but here goes...
In principle, including an explicit TLS model could add something
even at very high resolution. This is because the 20-parameter
TLS model describes electron density distributions that are
"banana-shaped". To the extent that the real electrons in your
actual crystal are distributed like that, a complex TLS model could
be a better description than the standard U^{ij} anisotropic ADP
description.
However in practice you can't test this, because the way TLS
refinement is implemented in existing programs is to use it
to generate approximate anisotropic ADPs for the individual
atoms. That brings you right back to the same trivariate
Gaussian description of atomic centers used by standard aniso
refinement, and therefore you will lose the potential benefit
of modeling any higher-order anisotropy.
--
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA
