Hi Robbie,

That works!

If I call one C-alpha "CA", I can use the standard TRANS definition in 
mon_lib_list.cif for the LINKR record. To restrain the other, I duplicated the 
TRANS section in this file and called it TRANS2. Then I replaced the 
appropriate CA entries with the name of my second C-alpha (CA2) and used the 
TRANS2 definition for the LINKR record for this peptide linkage.

Thanks very much,

Dave

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Dr. David M. Lawson
Department of Biological Chemistry,
John Innes Centre,
Norwich,
NR4 7UH, UK.
Tel: +44-(0)1603-450725
Fax: +44-(0)1603-450018
Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

From: Robbie Joosten [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robbie 
Joosten
Sent: 27 September 2017 17:04
To: david lawson (JIC) <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ccp4bb] restraints for pseudo-amino acids within a peptide chain

Hi David,

You can copy the TRANS definition from the CCP4 dictionary and hack it to match 
your atom names. It's in a file called mon_lib_list.cif

Cheers,
Robbie

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From: david lawson (JIC)<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: woensdag 27 september 2017 17:44
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [ccp4bb] restraints for pseudo-amino acids within a peptide chain

Hi All,

I am having issues with getting pseudo-amino acids to behave in refmac such 
that they correctly form peptide bonds with standard residues before and after 
them. The problem I have is that when naming atoms forming the peptide bonds, 
there are effectively two C-alpha atoms, as shown below, where the pseudo-amino 
acid is contained within the square brackets:

standard_aminoacid-[N-CA-some_stuff-CA-CO]-standard_aminoacid     (both CA 
atoms have R groups, but I have not shown them)

I have inserted the "L-peptide" line into the cif dictionary for the 
pseudo-amino acid, but in order to get the correct geometry, in particular the 
planarity of the peptide bond, the C-alpha atoms need to be called "CA", but I 
can only use that label once per residue.

I did wonder whether it's possible to create some special TRANS definitions to 
use in LINKR lines in the pdb header, but I can't figure out how to do that.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks

Dave Lawson

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Dr. David M. Lawson
Department of Biological Chemistry,
John Innes Centre,
Norwich,
NR4 7UH, UK.
Tel: +44-(0)1603-450725
Fax: +44-(0)1603-450018
Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

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