I agree with Dr Breyton. The variability in an NMR ensemble does not reflect "mobility" but simply "uncertainty" in conformation. The spread in coordinates in some regions simply reflects the lack of experimental data which could define a single conformation. There are many reasons why these data are be absent and high mobility is only one.

Dale Tronrud

On 5/26/2021 8:45 AM, Cécile Breyton wrote:
Hello,

In my understanding of NMR, the loops and terminii that adopt very different conformations in the structure ensemble rather reflect the fact that for those residues, the number of constraints is lower, thus the number of structures that fulfil the constraints is larger.... A dynamics study of the protein will be much more informative.

Cécile

Le 26/05/2021 à 17:29, S. Mohanty a écrit :
Hi Harry,

The superpose/overlay of all the structures in PyMol should inform you the rigid part of the protein as well as the flexible part. The rigid part would have very low backbone RMSD or overlay tightly and the flexible part (loops, N-term and C-term etc.) would not superpose tightly. If you check literature, the dynamics of the protein may have been studied through NMR relaxation.

Smita


On Wednesday, May 26, 2021, 10:05:05 AM CDT, Harry Powell - CCP4BB <[email protected]> wrote:


Hi

Given that there are plenty of people on this BB who are structural biologists rather than “just” crystallographers, I thought someone here might be able to help.

If I have a structure in the PDB (e.g. 2kv5) that is an ensemble of structures that fit the NOEs, is there a tool available that will give me some idea about the bits of the structure that do not vary much (“rigid”) and the bits that are all over the place (“flexible”)?

Would superpose or gesamt be a good tool for this? Ideally I’d like something that could add a figure to the B columns in a PDB file so I could see something in QTMG (or PyMol if forced…) or do other useful things with the information.

Harry

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