Dear colleague,

            I am refining a structure containing a carbohydate chain using CNS, 
which is SIA(a2-3){Gal(b1-3)GalNac(b1-4)}Gal(b1-4)Glc.  I bulit the model of 
the carbohydrate chain as five single carbohydrate like residues in peptides.  
The parameter and topology files are  from CNS.  However, CNS consider them as 
five molecules but not a chain.  My question is how to construct the linkage 
between carbohydrates for CNS to refine them as a carbohydrate chain like 
residues in peptide.     The .pdb file of my carbohydrates is following.

ATOM      1  C1  SIA A 298      -5.799   2.161 -26.738  1.00 34.36   6
ATOM      2  C2  SIA A 298      -5.671   0.671 -26.962  1.00 31.76   6
ATOM      3  C3  SIA A 298      -5.638   0.352 -28.454  1.00 32.16   6
ATOM      4  C4  SIA A 298      -4.364   0.876 -29.124  1.00 31.01   6
ATOM      5  C5  SIA A 298      -3.108   0.412 -28.399  1.00 28.11   6
ATOM      6  C6  SIA A 298      -3.240   0.709 -26.911  1.00 28.56   6
ATOM      7  C7  SIA A 298      -2.064   0.132 -26.117  1.00 26.99   6
ATOM      8  C8  SIA A 298      -2.327   0.184 -24.611  1.00 26.24   6
ATOM      9  C9  SIA A 298      -1.015   0.210 -23.835  1.00 26.43   6
ATOM     10  C10 SIA A 298      -0.814   0.406 -29.304  1.00 28.70   6
ATOM     11  C11 SIA A 298       0.313   1.265 -29.804  1.00 18.45   6
ATOM     12  N5  SIA A 298      -1.915   1.058 -28.920  1.00 31.12   7
ATOM     13  O1A SIA A 298      -6.336   2.867 -27.625  1.00 29.15   8
ATOM     14  O1B SIA A 298      -5.404   2.624 -25.644  1.00 36.52   8
ATOM     15  O4  SIA A 298      -4.324   0.422 -30.484  1.00 31.93   8
ATOM     16  O6  SIA A 298      -4.460   0.160 -26.383  1.00 30.71   8
ATOM     17  O7  SIA A 298      -1.837  -1.222 -26.522  1.00 32.06   8
ATOM     18  O8  SIA A 298      -3.091   1.348 -24.260  1.00 23.18   8
ATOM     19  O9  SIA A 298      -1.281   0.059 -22.435  1.00 25.41   8
ATOM     20  O10 SIA A 298      -0.718  -0.809 -29.255  1.00 32.33   8
ATOM     21  C1  GAL A 299      -6.289   3.311 -20.096  1.00 25.26   6
ATOM     22  C2  GAL A 299      -7.266   4.390 -19.652  1.00 25.78   6
ATOM     23  C3  GAL A 299      -6.509   5.590 -19.087  1.00 25.52   6
ATOM     24  C4  GAL A 299      -5.451   5.166 -18.067  1.00 28.53   6
ATOM     25  C5  GAL A 299      -4.610   4.010 -18.596  1.00 25.75   6
ATOM     26  C6  GAL A 299      -3.682   3.463 -17.519  1.00 27.70   6
ATOM     27  O2  GAL A 299      -8.068   4.799 -20.744  1.00 26.14   8
ATOM     28  O3  GAL A 299      -7.428   6.465 -18.474  1.00 30.49   8
ATOM     29  O4  GAL A 299      -6.068   4.771 -16.860  1.00 29.57   8
ATOM     30  O5  GAL A 299      -5.440   2.962 -19.032  1.00 28.60   8
ATOM     31  O6  GAL A 299      -3.033   2.302 -17.991  1.00 31.34   8
ATOM     32  C1  NGA A 300      -6.337  -0.595 -23.070  1.00 28.11   6
ATOM     33  C2  NGA A 300      -7.066   0.573 -22.405  1.00 26.79   6
ATOM     34  C3  NGA A 300      -6.202   1.254 -21.344  1.00 28.29   6
ATOM     35  C4  NGA A 300      -5.597   0.221 -20.404  1.00 28.03   6
ATOM     36  C5  NGA A 300      -4.892  -0.878 -21.187  1.00 27.92   6
ATOM     37  C6  NGA A 300      -4.337  -1.937 -20.245  1.00 29.15   6
ATOM     38  C7  NGA A 300      -8.738   1.852 -23.615  1.00 26.66   6
ATOM     39  C8  NGA A 300      -8.997   2.884 -24.671  1.00 25.05   6
ATOM     40  N2  NGA A 300      -7.459   1.553 -23.393  1.00 22.87   7
ATOM     41  O3  NGA A 300      -7.020   2.194 -20.631  1.00 27.10   8
ATOM     42  O4  NGA A 300      -6.635  -0.351 -19.605  1.00 34.07   8
ATOM     43  O5  NGA A 300      -5.806  -1.488 -22.096  1.00 27.66   8
ATOM     44  O6  NGA A 300      -3.460  -2.806 -20.972  1.00 31.34   8
ATOM     45  O7  NGA A 300      -9.648   1.324 -23.000  1.00 26.79   8
ATOM     46  C1  GAL A 301      -8.740  -3.102 -26.426  1.00 44.56   6
ATOM     47  C2  GAL A 301      -8.407  -1.636 -26.696  1.00 40.52   6
ATOM     48  C3  GAL A 301      -6.950  -1.312 -26.381  1.00 35.19   6
ATOM     49  C4  GAL A 301      -6.532  -1.910 -25.053  1.00 34.19   6
ATOM     50  C5  GAL A 301      -6.862  -3.393 -25.047  1.00 40.29   6
ATOM     51  C6  GAL A 301      -6.375  -4.085 -23.775  1.00 42.31   6
ATOM     52  O2  GAL A 301      -8.675  -1.358 -28.056  1.00 38.59   8
ATOM     53  O3  GAL A 301      -6.831   0.079 -26.335  1.00 35.06   8
ATOM     54  O4  GAL A 301      -7.210  -1.238 -24.016  1.00 29.27   8
ATOM     55  O5  GAL A 301      -8.263  -3.522 -25.167  1.00 41.33   8
ATOM     56  O6  GAL A 301      -6.752  -5.443 -23.791  1.00 50.74   8
ATOM     57  C2  GLC A 302     -11.902  -6.342 -25.344  1.00 64.49   6
ATOM     58  C3  GLC A 302     -11.437  -4.894 -25.352  1.00 62.01   6
ATOM     59  C4  GLC A 302     -10.468  -4.657 -26.503  1.00 60.61   6
ATOM     60  C5  GLC A 302     -11.080  -5.134 -27.814  1.00 62.56   6
ATOM     61  C6  GLC A 302     -10.096  -4.956 -28.963  1.00 60.98   6
ATOM     62  C1  GLC A 302     -12.402  -6.767 -26.721  1.00 66.71   6
ATOM     63  O1  GLC A 302     -12.661  -8.153 -26.709  1.00 71.09   8
ATOM     64  O2  GLC A 302     -12.939  -6.491 -24.400  1.00 63.57   8
ATOM     65  O3  GLC A 302     -10.807  -4.594 -24.128  1.00 61.51   8
ATOM     66  O4  GLC A 302     -10.159  -3.283 -26.587  1.00 53.36   8
ATOM     67  O5  GLC A 302     -11.434  -6.496 -27.713  1.00 66.33   8
ATOM     68  O6  GLC A 302     -10.580  -3.973 -29.850  1.00 62.54   8







                                
               
           Your sincerely
                De-Feng Li
                 [email protected]
                 2009-05-27


Defeng Li, Dr., 
Email: [email protected]
National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, 
Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 
15 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, 
Beijing 100101, China

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