I think that a simple and straight answer is NO. Individual crystal structures compensate for various and differing factors by their individual Bs.
Jan D. IMC Prague On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Michael Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > I am looking to compare the B-factors of a particular stretch of DNA bases > when bound by several different proteins. I have crystal structures for > each, but the structures are of different resolutions and also then > different Wilson B-factors. Is it valid to compare those B-factors > directly? (probably not) or to set the B-factors from the different > structures to a common scale based on the Wilson B-factors from their > respective data sets? -- Jan Dohnalek, Ph.D Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Heyrovskeho nam. 2 16206 Praha 6 Czech Republic Tel: +420 296 809 340 Fax: +420 296 809 410
