Hey Paul,

I'm not sure how to check that? Would you be able to provide a resource to
check this?

Best,

Nick Clark

On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 9:21 PM Paul Emsley <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> On 27/05/2023 00:43, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> I have a cysteine residue that is oxidized and needs to be modeled as CSO.
> In the past, when "replace residue" was used to substitute for CSO, the CSO
> would "behave" during real-space refinement and essentially take the place
> of the Cys. However, when Cys is replaced by CSO now the CSO is behaving as
> an "external ligand" and does not maintain covalent bonds to the residue
> before or after (repulsion between CSO & preceding and subsequent residue).
> The only way I can get it to maintain covalent bonds in Coot is to add CSO
> as a monomer and place it before merging into the chain and renumbering the
> residue (afterwards, real space refinement behaves the same as direct
> replacement of CYS->CSO). Similarly, during refinement with Refmac, only
> one of the CSO conformations will maintain its position, the alternate
> conformation breaks the linkage to the preceding residue.
>
> *TLDR: CSO replacement of CYS not working in Coot or Refmac, acting as
> external ligand*.
>
>
> As you may know the monomer library has been undergoing substantial
> reworking over the last several months. Is the group of the CSO in your
> dictionary "peptide"?
>
> Paul.
>
>
>

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Nicholas D. Clark (He/Him)
PhD Candidate
Malkowski Lab
University at Buffalo
Department of Structural Biology
Jacob's School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
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