But maybe you can have a try: HADDOCK seems to give good results, once you
have defined the symmetry of your complex...

See:
Mol. Cell. Proteomics 2010
'Building macromolecular assemblies by information-driven docking:
introducing the HADDOCK multi-body docking server' Karaca E. et al.

Cheers,
Annalisa

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Annalisa Bordogna
PhD. Student
Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca
Milano (Italy)

2010/5/19 Maia Cherney <ch...@ualberta.ca>

>
> Docking is very non-reliable.
>
> E. Krissinel (2009). /Crystal contacts as nature's docking solutions/.
> J. Comp. Chem., in press; published on-line 6 May 2009; DOI
> 10.1002/jcc.21303
>
> Maia
>
> humayun scherrif wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thank you for detailed explanation, surely it is helping me to sort
> > out the possibilities. As per your query
> >
> > a) There are many references that the protein is a Hexamer, but I am
> > considering, because the domain which I have got structure, interacts
> > with other proteins to make a biological complex, their interaction
> > could be important for biological hexamerization of the whole complex
> > ( those interacting proteins also exist as hexamer in complex with my
> > protein )
> >
> > b) I coudnt find any hexameric homologue (although there are some good
> > homologue structures but they mostly exist as dimer or monomer)
> >
> > c) the structure is not yet been solved and not reported as yet.
> >
> > So according your reply, does that mean the only possibility left is
> > docking ? because others are not working for me at all.
> >
> > Thank you again for suggestions.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Tsjerk Wassenaar <tsje...@gmail.com
> > <mailto:tsje...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Humayun,
> >
> >     Crystallograpic symmetries are often not of much help to construct
> >     biologically relevant complexes. Do you have (a) a reference of the
> >     hexameric structure, or (b) of a hexameric homologue, or (c) is it
> >     only known to form hexamers and is the structure still unsolved? In
> >     case of (a), the structure is likely to have a recipe to build the
> >     biological unit (possibly as REMARK 350 in the PDB file). In case of
> >     (b), you can try to fit copies of the structure onto each chain of
> the
> >     homologue, being aware that that will give you a crude approximation
> >     as starting point for further work. And in case of (c), you might
> want
> >     to consider doing some docking.
> >
> >     Hope it helps,
> >
> >     Tsjerk
> >
> >
> >     On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:26 AM, humayun scherrif
> >     <hum....@gmail.com <mailto:hum....@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     > Thank you all for the replies.
> >     >
> >     > The protein itself makes hexamer which is well documented and
> proved
> >     > structural evidence from other cytoplasmic domains ( my
> >     structure is also a
> >     > domain).
> >     > I have run PISA, but the online PISA server didnt give me output
> >     like
> >     > standalone PISA in CCP4 (result is mentioned below). Online PISA
> >     results
> >     > show that "there are not significant dimer interfaces and thus
> >     the trimer
> >     > structure is because of only crystal packing result"
> >     > For homology modeling I didnt get any proper homologs which have
> >     hexameric
> >     > assembly (I@ Bryn: I cant send you PDB id since its not
> >     submitted yet)
> >     >
> >     >  Analysis of protein interfaces suggests that the
> >     following  quaternary
> >     > structures are stable in solution (I wonder the DGdiss is
> >     positive value, is
> >     > it significant to make Hexamer assembly because I couldnt find
> >     any help to
> >     > find out about the allowed values)
> >     >  ----.-----.---------------------------------------.---------------
> >     >  Set |  No | Size  Id      ASA       BSA    DGdiss | Formula
> >     >  ----+-----+---------------------------------------+---------------
> >     >    1 |   1 |   6    0   19917.7    5536.3      3.8 |
> >     A(2)B(2)C(2)
> >     >  ----+-----+---------------------------------------+---------------
> >     >    2 |   2 |   3    1   10722.9    2004.1      6.2 |      ABC
> >     >  ----+-----+---------------------------------------+---------------
> >     >    3 |   3 |   4    2   14004.2    3014.9      0.5 |      A(2)B(2)
> >     >      |   4 |   1    3    4217.5       0.0         -0.0 |      A
> >     >  ----+-----+---------------------------------------+---------------
> >     >    4 |   5 |   2    4    7506.2    1003.3      7.0 |        AB
> >     >      |   6 |   1    3    4217.5       0.0        -0.0 |        A
> >     >  ----+-----+---------------------------------------+---------------
> >     >    5 |   7 |   2    5    7443.8    1000.8      6.8 |      AB
> >     >      |   8 |   1    6    4282.4       0.0     -0.0 |         A
> >     >  ----+-----+---------------------------------------+---------------
> >     >    6 |   9 |   2    7    7556.5    1008.3      2.0 |      A(2)
> >     >      |  10 |   1    8    4227.1       0.0     -0.0 |        A
> >     >      |  11 |   1    3    4217.5       0.0     -0.0 |        A
> >     >  ----'-----'---------------------------------------'---------------
> >     >
> >     > Waiting for your reply
> >     > Thanks
> >     >
> >     > H
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Robert Brynmor Fenwick
> >     > <robert.fenw...@irbbarcelona.org
> >     <mailto:robert.fenw...@irbbarcelona.org>> wrote:
> >     >>
> >     >> Also, if you would like to try homology modelling then that
> >     could work.
> >     >> However you would need a couple of hexamer strucutres to start
> >     with. It
> >     >> would probably take some tinkering with current tools. I would
> >     probably use
> >     >> an MD approach to solve this problem.
> >     >> Sorry I don't have a quick fix this is not my current area of
> >     expertise.
> >     >> Bryn
> >     >>
> >     >> Sent from my iPod
> >     >> On 19/05/2010, at 09:22, humayun scherrif <hum....@gmail.com
> >     <mailto:hum....@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >     >>
> >     >>
> >     >> Thank you Bryn for your reply, But I have already tried all
> >     possible
> >     >> symmetries that it generates, but it does not provide a proper
> >     hexameric
> >     >> assembly. Does it mean this is due to problems in crystal packing
> ?
> >     >> Is there any alternative way to generate or by homology, which
> >     server
> >     >> could be suitable ?
> >     >>
> >     >> Regards
> >     >> H
> >     >>
> >     >> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Robert Brynmor Fenwick
> >     >> <robert.fenw...@irbbarcelona.org
> >     <mailto:robert.fenw...@irbbarcelona.org>> wrote:
> >     >>>
> >     >>> There is a symmetry command that will build the crystal
> >     symmetry from
> >     >>> the pdb header you could then delete the irrelevent molecules
> >     to leave
> >     >>> the six that you want.
> >     >>>
> >     >>> Bryn
> >     >>>
> >     >>> If you have trouble with this I can hunt down the commands in
> >     my labbook
> >     >>>
> >     >>>
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> >     Tsjerk A. Wassenaar, Ph.D.
> >
> >     post-doctoral researcher
> >     Molecular Dynamics Group
> >     Groningen Institute for Biomolecular Research and Biotechnology
> >     University of Groningen
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> > Humayun Sharif
> > MS candidate
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> > Gwangju Institute Of Science & Technology,
> > Gwangju, 500-712, Republic of Korea
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