Hi Paul,

thank you for your answer. My problem is that I am building a cyclic peptide
with non-standard amino acids, the side chains of which are linked by click
chemistry... I know how to make modified amino acids that will make peptide
bonds with their neighbors in the polypeptide chain, but I don't know how to
make a covalent link between side chains of amino acids say No. 3 and 12 for
example (of a 15 AA long chain). I was trying to solve the issue by making a
CONECT record in the pdb file, but Coot ignored it. LINK "sort of" worked,
but it was not possible to control the geometry (bond length and angles), 
often the real space refinement simply "explodes" probably in a attempt to
avoid clashes. My current workaround is to make a cif file for the whole 15
AA long polypeptide (the bonds and angles now behave more or less as
expected), but I don't consider this as a good general practice for building
long polypeptide chains...

Thanks in advance for any hints guiding me in the right direction.

Pavel
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Od: Paul Emsley <[email protected]>
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Datum: 1. 11. 2019 21:16:11
Předmět: Re: [ccp4bb] why does Coot ignore CONECT?
"On 01/11/2019 20:17, Pavel Mader wrote:
> Hello,

Hello.

>
> I have a question, can anyone explain, why does Coot not display a
covalent bond manually specified by
> CONECT line in a pdb file?

Because I have never thought them necessary. Using SSBOND, LINK and residue
dictionaries seemed to me to
cover the bases for which CONECT would be used.

Paul.

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