Thank you guys so much!
Hi Matthias, yes, the bond length in the ligand in my structure is much
longer than expected... I got the cif file from Phenix. eLBOW. I am
wondering how I can check whether there is cif file already exiting for my
ligand. Thank you so much!

Best,
Wei


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Matthias Zebisch <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Wei,
>
> your double bond is clearly not correctly defined in your cif file.
> It should be significantly shorter - 1.3A instead of 1.5A.
> However, it is easy to edit the expected values manually into your cif
> file.
>
> Try to find PAM.cif in your coot directory (palmitoleate) to find the
> correct value.
> Be careful that you edit the correct bond. Your numbering might be
> different.
>
> Are you sure that there is no cif file for your ligand already existing?
>
> Best, Matthias
>
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> On 8/20/2014 3:45 PM, Wei Shi wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I am working on solving a X-ray crystallographic protein-ligand
>> structures.
>> Attached please find initial oleoyl-CoA structure (elbow.001.pdb) and the
>> ligand structure in the final model (ligand in structure.pdb). When open
>> these in pymol and use "show as lines and set valence, 0.1" to show double
>> bond, the double bond between C9 and C10 in oleoyl-CoA fatty acid part is
>> only visible in the initial ligand structure (elbow.001.pdb) but not in the
>> ligand in the final model (ligand in structure.pdb). I got the initial
>> ligand using smile string by Phenix. eLBOW and fit the initial ligand to
>> the electron density, and then refine the structure in the presence of cif
>> file.
>> I am wondering whether any of you happen to know why in the final model
>> (ligand in structure.pdb), double bond (C9) is not visible. Is it because
>> the double bond is missing or is it because I didn't display it correctly?
>> Thank you so much!
>>
>> Best,
>> Wei
>>
>
>

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