Along the same lines as Dialing’s recent post about inserting a residue, I’d 
like to ask: Is it possible to insert a residue with an insertion code in the 
residue number?  For example, what’s the best way to insert residue 100A 
between residues 100 and 101?

This situation arises frequently for me in antibody CDR loops, for example.  I 
ran into it most recently just last week, and Coot wouldn’t allow this kind of 
insertion, even though the consecutively numbered residues were too far apart 
to be covalently linked.  (In the terminal window, it explained "that residue 
was not at a terminus.”)  My workaround has been either to increment the 
residue numbers of the C-terminal portion of the chain, then renumber manually 
in a text editor; or, to position a lone amino acid in approximately the right 
spot, save the coordinates, copy them manually into the working PDB and adjust 
the numbering in a text editor, reload the PDB in Coot, and real space refine 
the loop with the insertion.

Any suggestions for how to do this more efficiently?  Thanks!

Cheers,
Jared

--
Jared Sampson
Xiangpeng Kong Lab
NYU Langone Medical Center
http://kong.med.nyu.edu/






On Jan 14, 2015, at 9:54 AM, Emilia C. Arturo (Emily) 
<ec...@drexel.edu<mailto:ec...@drexel.edu>> wrote:

If the residues are consecutively numbered (Calculate > Renumber residues), and 
are assigned the same chain ID (Calculate > Change Chain ID), Coot might 
surprise you and link them on its own.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Zhijie Li 
<zhijie...@utoronto.ca<mailto:zhijie...@utoronto.ca>> wrote:
Have you done it?
1) Click “add residue...”
2) Click that “real space refine zone” button.
You will see what will happen.


From: Dialing Pretty<mailto:000003f1d08ed29c-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 9:24 AM
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Subject: [ccp4bb] Coot: How to connect N-terminal to neighbouring C-terminal

Dear All,

Suppose I delete a residue ( residue 100 for example) for outlier refinement, 
then I add the same residue at the C-terminal of residue 99 (by Add terminal 
residue function of the Coot). By coot, how can I connect the C-terminal of 
residue 100 to the N-terminal of residue 101?

I am looking forward to getting your reply.

DIaling


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