In this space group with |a| ~ equal |c| you could have a twinning matrix l.-k,h You should have been offered the possibility of processing the data with point group Cmmm
did that give a reasonable Rsym?

And you would expect to see some 2 fold symmetry in the h0l h1l etc sections - look at these with hklview.

The newest SFCHECK will also do a twinning test with the above operator
Eleanor


David Schwefel wrote:

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Hi there!
I have a problem during refinement of apparently good data...
the protein crystallised in space group P21 with following cell parameters:
44.5 86.5 44.6 90 112.5 90
the crystal diffracted up to 1.5 A and the diffraction pattern looked very
good

some statistics from the CORRECT.LP:

Res. Range         I/sigma(I)  Chi²     R obs   R exp   refl. accepted rej.
43.162   1.498     8.56        1.00      4.91    5.35  139902  138325   750

after Molrep, rigid body and restrained refinement with ccp4, the R factor
is still around 40 % and won't go further down, and there are some regions
where the density looks really bad...
I read that twinning could be an explanation so i checked <I²>/<I>² which
ranges from 1.75 to 2 depending on the resolution, which means that the
crystal is twinned.
As far as I understood is it possible to detwin the data if you know the
symmetry between and the relative fractions of the twin domains, but I only
found possible twin laws for higher symmetry crystals.
Has anyone a clue or some reference how to proceed with this data (which
looked so fine in the beginning...)?

thanks in advance, David




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