Hi Pedro,

quick answer: no.

Longer answer:
see article "13 typical occupancy refinement scenarios and available
options in phenix.refine" here:
http://phenix-online.org/newsletter/

Pavel

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Pedro Matias <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Pavel,
>
> If the occupancies are 1 does phenix still refine them? Anyway, they can
> be explicitly fixed if necessary.
>
> Pedro
>
> Às 03:00 de 20/12/2016, Pavel Afonine escreveu:
>
> Hi Perdo,
>
> technically this should work too with the caveat that non-blanc altid will
> trigger occupancy refinement for corresponding atoms which may not be
> desired.
>
> Pavel
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:54 AM, Pedro Matias <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> The simplest way would be to place the "offending" atoms in separate
>> conformers as used to refine alternate conformations. This is a 1-letter
>> code that goes just before the 3-letter residue name:
>>
>> ATOM    139  SG *B*CYS A  21     -20.620   4.518  34.501  0.39
>> 12.23      A    S
>>
>> This trick should cause PHENIX to ignore close distances between atoms in
>> the A and B conformers.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Pedro Matias
>>
>>
>> Às 05:39 de 19/12/2016, Andrew Marshall escreveu:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a structure of a condensing enzyme with substrate bound. The
>> active site is very tight, requiring some of the substrate atoms to clash
>> with a catalytic cysteine. This means that although the substrate fits the
>> density nicely upon manual real-space refinement, phenix recognises the
>> clash, resulting in the displacement of substrate atoms so that they are
>> outside the density. I can mostly fix this by using distance restraints,
>> but I'd rather allow it to refine in a less biased manner, but ignore the
>> clash. Is this a acceptable way forward? If so, is there a parameter I can
>> edit to tell phenix to ignore clashes between these specific atoms?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>

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