Sorry to make things confusing.  After I have the correct peptide definition in 
my cif file as suggested by Sabine, like the following.

data_comp_list
loop_
_chem_comp.id
_chem_comp.three_letter_code
_chem_comp.name
_chem_comp.group
_chem_comp.number_atoms_all
_chem_comp.number_atoms_nh
_chem_comp.desc_level
DPH    DPH 'D-PHENYLALANINE                     ' D-peptide          23  12 .

COOT is happy to treat DPH as a normal amino acid and doesn't give me the 
chiral volume warning and tries to make it a L amino acid.  

COOT did draw a line between my N and C -termini of the cyclic peptide based on 
the LINK record I added into the pdb file, but wouldn't enforce the distance in 
the LINK record during regularization.

-- Jianghai




On Nov 23, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Paul Emsley wrote:

> On 23/11/11 16:04, Jianghai Zhu wrote:
>> I can take the D-PHE cif out and rename it to DPH.
> 
> Yes...
> 
>> But the peptide bonds at the N and C terminus of DPH are broken in COOT 
>> since COOT doesn't consider DPH as an amino acid.
> 
> To be more precise, Coot does not consider DPH to be a standard amino acid 
> (it isn't).
> 
>> Any way to circumvent that?
>> 
> 
> I am a bit confused about what is going on - Coot quite happily draws the N-C 
> bonds in gramicidins.
> 
> You should get a dotted line for a LINK record if you have such a thing...
> 
> Paul.
> 

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