Dear All,

I have a pdb structure of a triple helix having a non-nucleotide residue 
conjugated between two residues of one of the strands. I would like to 
represent the backbone of all the three strands as a continuous tube. However, 
the tube of the modified strand gets interrupted right before and after the 
conjugate. I assume that pymol is not recognizing the atoms linking the 
non-nucleotidic modification to both ends of the strands as backbone atoms. The 
backbone in nucleic acids is 
P(i)-O5’(i)-C5’(i)-C4’(i)-C3’(i+1)-O3’(i+1)-P(i+1), in the case of my molecule 
the linkage is P(i)-O5’(i)-C5’(i)-C3’(i+1)-O3’(i+1). So the C4’ (and no other 
sugar atoms are present in the “modified” residue that is conjugate between the 
flanking nucleotides.

Is there any way to make Pymol consider some atoms as atoms of the backbone or 
to represent certain atoms like a “tube” or cartoon-like backbone?

Thank you very much for you help.

All the best,

Miguel
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