With due respect ! I want to ask that,
If it is protonated at neutral pH,  what about the local pka of the active
site key residues involved ? would not it make any difference if it adds
extra H-atom and actual case is different when the reaction is carried out
?

With Kind regards
Prem


On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Boaz Shaanan <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi,
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> A trick that has worked for me a few times is to skip the regularization
> stage in Jligand, although some may argue that it's "illegal". If your
> ligand/cofactor has a decent geometry without regularization it may well
> work for you too.
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>      Cheers,
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> *From:* CCP4 bulletin board [[email protected]] on behalf of Abhinav
> Kumar [[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 07, 2014 8:04 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [ccp4bb] Jligand help
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>   Thanks Ian.
> Is it possible to force Jligand to keep only two hydrogens in this case? I
> tried setting the N's charge to 0, but it reverts back to 1 after
> regularization.
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> Thanks,
> Abhinav
> ______________________________________
> Abhinav Kumar, Ph.D.
> The Joint Center for Structural Genomics
> MS99, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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>  On 08/07/2014 10:02 AM, Ian Tickle wrote:
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> Hi, I would say three: aliphatic amines such as the one you show are weak
> bases so at neutral pH the protonated form predominates.  Aromatic amines
> are obviously trickier.
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>  Cheers
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>  -- Ian
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> On 7 August 2014 17:37, Abhinav Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I am making a ligand in Jligand (figure attached) and have a question
>> about valency of nitrogen.
>> Jligand puts three hydrogens on nitrogen N1 when the ligand is
>> regularized.
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>> Should there be two hydrogens or three?
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>> Thanks,
>> Abhinav
>> ______________________________________
>> Abhinav Kumar, Ph.D.
>> The Joint Center for Structural Genomics
>> MS99, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
>> 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025
>> (650) 926-2992
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