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Hi Natesh

Yeates TO, Fam BC.      Related Articles, Links
Protein crystals and their evil twins.
Structure. 1999 Feb 15;7(2):R25-9. Review. 

Yeates TO. Related Articles, Links
Detecting and overcoming crystal twinning.
Methods Enzymol. 1997;276:344-58. 
PMID: 9048378 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Also for this specific case

Eleanor Dodsons' 2005 post and related items may be helpful.
 
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00947.html

J

Ramanathan NATESH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Dear All,
> 
>      Could anyone please point me to similar references for P61/P6122
> twinning issues, on similar lines suggested for P21/C2221 by James ?
>    
>      Thanks in advance.
> 
> natesh
> 
> R. Natesh
> IGBMC
> 
> On Tue, 23 May 2006, James Whisstock wrote:
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> > Hi David - Check out
> > 
>  > Yang F, Dauter Z, Wlodawer A.      Effects of crystal twinning on the
>  ability to solve a macromolecular structure using multiwavelength
>  anomalous diffraction.
>  > Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2000 Aug;56(Pt 8):959-64. 
>  > PMID: 10944332 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > Ban N, Nissen P, Hansen J, Capel M, Moore PB, Steitz TA.    Placement of 
> > protein and RNA structures into a 5 A-resolution map of the 50S ribosomal 
> > subunit.
> > Nature. 1999 Aug 26;400(6747):841-7.  and related papers
> > 
> > Which provides a nice description of the P21 / C2221 twinning issueand
>  also some ways of resolving it.
> > 
> > J 
> > 
> > Eleanor Dodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 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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