Great reminder. But there are real non proline cis peptide bonds, including
highly conserved motifs in active sites, e.g. 3UAO and its homologs. I
would hope these don't get "corrected".

Roger Rowlett
On Feb 16, 2015 5:09 AM, "Tristan Croll" <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Dear all,
>
>
>  My apologies for the spam-like nature of my post, but I would like to
> draw your attention to an important issue (outlined in an upcoming short
> communication to *Acta D*, which will appear at doi:10.1107/S1399004715000826
> once it's online). At present, neither the structural quality checks in
> commonly-used crystallography packages nor those run on deposition of a
> structure to the PDB are flagging the presence of non-proline *cis *peptide
> bonds. This has led to the presence of many erroneous *cis *bonds
> creeping into the PDB - primarily in low-resolution structures as one would
> expect, but I have identified clearly erroneous examples in structures with
> resolutions as high as 1.3 Angstroms. From my analysis, I estimate that a
> few thousand structures have been affected to some extent, with the worst
> cases having as high as 3% of their peptide bonds in *cis*. Particularly
> if you have published anything >2.5 Angstroms in the past few years, may I
> gently suggest that you make a quick double-check of your deposited
> structures? This can be done quickly and simply in Coot
> (Extensions-Modelling-Residues with Cis peptide bonds).
>
>
>  Best regards,
>
>
>  Tristan
>
>
>

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