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> 
>>refmac5 must be assuming that you number your protein according to your
> 
> protein sequence, which is continuous. In my opinion, this is reasonable.
> 
> Uhhh... this assumption turns perilious quickly, because there
> are post-translational mods and splicing (see Concanavalin), 
> and biologists sometimes prefer keeping the
> key residues in related structures (trypsin, fabs, etc) at 
> a certain residue number. This causes 
> sequence insertions (addressed correctly, as you say) 
> and gaps (not addressed correctly, my situation.) 
> 

Sure, but after any modification whatsoever the sequence of the final
protein is, except for perhaps a few pathological cases, continuous.
Now, I can understand, though not always agree, that biologists (I am
one) prefer to give a consistent number to a particular residue in a
family of proteins, but for a refinement program I still think it is
reasonable to consider the numbering as continuous by default: this
would be the most usual situation, I would say.

In any case, knowing that you can fix the problem using TRANS (perhaps
even CIS if the thing is really bizarre) is very useful, thanks!


Miguel
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