David, You found a bug -- it turns out PyMOL was getting confused by the presence of a "P" atom in P-tyr. It thought the residue contained both protein and DNA, and so the cartoon had an extra gap.
The following workaround should get you a complete cartoon with 1fmk. Future versions of PyMOL should not suffer from this problem. alter all.type='ATOM' alter name P,name='P1' sort Thanks for your help in quashing that bug! Cheers, Warren -- mailto:war...@delanoscientific.com Warren L. DeLano, Ph.D. Principal Scientist DeLano Scientific LLC Voice (650)-346-1154 Fax (650)-593-4020 > -----Original Message----- > From: David A. Horita [mailto:dhor...@wfubmc.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 5:27 AM > To: Warren L. DeLano > Subject: RE: [PyMOL] cartoons through nonstandard residues > > Warren, > Thanks for the reply, but I still don't get the cartoon running through > the phosphotyrosine. I've tried it on Src (1fmk.pdb), and still get a > break between residues Gln526, Ptr 527 and Gln 528. > Regards, > David Horita > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Warren L. DeLano [mailto:war...@delanoscientific.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 7:17 PM > > To: David A. Horita; pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: RE: [PyMOL] cartoons through nonstandard residues > > > > > > David, > > > > The problem: PyMOL sorts PDB hetatms apart from molecules. The > > solution: > > > > alter all, type='ATOM' > > sort > > rebuild > > > > I'm thinking about disabling this behavior before the next release... > > > > Cheers, > > Warren > > > > -- > > mailto:war...@delanoscientific.com > > Warren L. DeLano, Ph.D. > > Principal Scientist > > DeLano Scientific LLC > > Voice (650)-346-1154 > > Fax (650)-593-4020 > > -----Original Message----- > > From: pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net > > [mailto:pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of > > David A. Horita > > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 1:53 PM > > To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [PyMOL] cartoons through nonstandard residues > > > > Hi, > > When I try to draw a cartoon through the backbone of a > > nonstandard residue (in this case, phosphotyrosine), the > > cartoon strand stops prior to the PTR and starts after. How > > do I get a continuous strand through the phosphotyrosine > > backbone (or other residues, in the general case)? > > Ribbons seem to go through the PTR without problem, and > > selenomets don't seem to cause trouble, either. Thanks, David Horita > > ----------------------------- > > David A. Horita, Ph.D. > > Department of Biochemistry > > Wake Forest University School of Medicine > > Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1016 > > Tel: 336 713-4194 > > Fax: 336 716-7671 > > email: dhor...@wfubmc.edu > > web: http://www.wfubmc.edu/biochem/faculty/Horita/ > > > > > >