The R and Rfree are low enough so your space group is correct. I don't see a
resolution in the log file. If it is 3 A dataset, 28% is not bad for a start
at all. The N terminal region is probably completely disordered if it is not
degraded.

Nian

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Appu kumar <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear CCP4 User,
>                              I am new to crystallography and i need your
> valuable suggestion to help me out. We have crystallized full length protein
> and I am solving protein structure by molecular replacement method and
> molecular weight of protein is 37kDa.  Template pdb i am using have only
> C-terminal 24kDa protein structure. HKL2000 gave a space group C2221 and
> Mathews Coefficient indicate one molecule of 37 kDa with solvent content 17%
> only. When i am running phaser, it gave me a most probable molecualr weight
> of protein in ASU to be 23kDa. and also i am not getting any density for
> N-terminal of protein. Right now my Rwrk and Rfree are 28% and 37% but it
> not decreasing further.
> When i am indexing in lower symetry sapce group P1211, most probable
> molecular weight ofpreotin com comes to be 46kDa in ASU. Would please anyone
> can help, and suggest me what is the real situation?.
> Thanks in advance
> Mathews table
>
>
> Data line--- CELL 57.8080 70.0520 105.7080 90.0000 90.0000 90.0000
>  Data line--- SYMM 'C 2 2 21'
>
> Cell volume:        428071.531
>
> For estimated molecular weight   36000.
> Nmol/asym  Matthews Coeff  %solvent       P(2.30)     P(tot)
> _____________________________________________________________
>   1         1.49            17.30         1.00         1.00
> _____________________________________________________________
>
>
> Space-Group Name: C 2 2 21
>    Space-Group Number: 20
>    Unit Cell:   57.81   70.05  105.71   90.00   90.00   90.00
>    MW of "average" protein to which Matthews applies: 36000
>    Resolution for Matthews calculation:  2.30
>
>    Z       MW         VM    % solvent  rel. freq.
>    1       36000      1.49  17.25      0.002       <== most probable
>
>    Z is the number of multiples of the total composition
>    In most cases the most probable Z value should be 1
>    If it is not 1, you may need to consider other compositions
>
>
>    Histogram of relative frequencies of VM values
>    ----------------------------------------------
>    Frequency of most common VM value normalized to 1
>    VM values plotted in increments of 1/VM (0.02)
>
>         <--- relative frequency --->
>         0.0  0.1  0.2  0.3  0.4  0.5  0.6  0.7  0.8  0.9  1.0
>         |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
>    10.00 -
>     8.33 -
>     7.14 -
>     6.25 -
>     5.56 -
>     5.00 -
>     4.55 -
>     4.17 --
>     3.85 ---
>     3.57 -----
>     3.33 --------
>     3.12 -------------
>     2.94 -------------------
>     2.78 ---------------------------
>     2.63 ------------------------------------
>     2.50 --------------------------------------------
>     2.38 -------------------------------------------------
>     2.27 --------------------------------------------------
>     2.17 ---------------------------------------------
>     2.08 -----------------------------------
>     2.00 -----------------------
>     1.92 -------------
>     1.85 ------
>     1.79 --
>     1.72 -
>     1.67 -
>     1.61 -
>     1.56 -
>     1.52 -
>     1.47 * (COMPOSITION*1)
>     1.43 -
>     1.39 -
>     1.35 -
>     1.32 -
>     1.28 -
>     1.25 -
>
>
>    Most probable VM for resolution = 2.30957
>    Most probable MW of protein in asu for resolution = 23168.4
>
>
> Thanks in advance
> Appu Kumar singh.
>

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