Dear Artem,

Thank you for your help. And I will use the hyperlink option next time.

Cheers
On May 7, 2015 10:08 PM, "Artem Evdokimov" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Blobs 3, 5, and 7 are likely poorly modeled or alternative sidechains. The
> rest - hard to say from static imagery.
>
> Artem
>
> P.S. the etiquette of the board is that large attachments are not nice to
> people who read stuff on portable devices or over slow connections. It is
> considerably nicer to use hyperlinked free image hosting options, instead.
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> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Mohd Syed Ahangar <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am on the final stages of refining my structure. It is a 2.1 a data
>> and the Rwork and Rfree currently are 23.75 and 27.23. I am trying to
>> now figure out some blobs for which I need help. I have attached the
>> pictures of 6 blobs (sorry, the pictures are numbered till 7, with 5
>> missing). Can anyone help me fihure out what could fit in these blobs?
>> The crystallization condition and protein buffer contained HEPES,
>> NaCl, PEG 2,000 and sodium acetate.
>>
>> The specific description of each blob is:
>> Blob-1: I am confused about the four blobs showing up
>> Blob-2: There are similar blobs at many other places. It doesnt show
>> any Fo-Fc density, but lies in between two residues
>> Blob-3: There is one such blob in all the three chains of the molecule
>> Blob-4: I have tried flipping the neighbouring residues, but it doesnt
>> help.
>> Blob-6: The main chain amino groups already show good fitting into the
>> density. So, what could be this blob in the main chain? Similar blobs
>> are also present at other places.
>> Blob-7: I tried fitting an alternate confirmation of Arginine, but
>> that didnt work either.
>>
>> Moreover, how do I get rid of lone positive and negative densities in
>> the difference map with no corresponding density in the Fo-Fc map?
>>
>> Also, are the default values in coot validation used for finding
>> difference peaks (sigma cutoff 5) and analyzing waters (B-factor: 80
>> and sigma cut off less than 1) good enough? Or what other values can I
>> play around with?
>>
>> I know the queries are many, but hope to get some useful tips.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> *A.M.Saeed*
>>
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