Hi Douglas--

> 
> I am trying to refine the NMR structure of three different stapled peptides 
> (you
> may have seen my previous emails). For two out of three them, I have (with
> Charles's help) managed to produce structures that match the expected helical
> conformations, consistent with our CD data.
> 
> The third is proving more problematic, in that there are no obvious error
> messages being produced by Xplor, simply an "incorrect" structure. Our CD data
> shows that this stapled peptide is adopting a helix, as it was designed to do,
> but the structures coming out of Xplor have the stapled part disordered. 
> 
> Interestingly, if I refine using the same .tbl files but use an unstapled 
> model,
> I get a helical conformation (and a lot fewer violations!).
> 

Doing a quick diff of the python scripts I see the use different
parameter sets (the wt calculations use Xplor-NIH's default top/par
values), and also the names of the restraint files are different. For
that matter, even the number of residues differs. Please check that
all is self-consistent.

Charles
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