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Hello Andrew--

> I'm running RDC refinement on the NMR structures of several 
> glycopeptides, and in some of the resulting accepted structures the 
> Rhombicity (which, along with Da was allowed to float during the entire 
> SA run) will consistently hit either the upper (0.667) or lower (0.0) 
> limits, as reported in the pdb file for the resulting structure.  This 
> indicates to me that there is something wrong with my RDC restraints.  
> Perhaps an RDC restraint on a residue that is experiencing a certain 
> amount of conformational averaging?  Da values all look reasonable.  
> When the Rhombicity does hit one of the limits, it will only hit the 
> upper or only the lower limit, but not both for the same construct.  Any 
> thoughts as to what this could be?

Rhombicity values of 0 and 2/3 are quite valid. You might double check
the consistency of the value by back-calculating the alignment tensor
using calcTensor after the calculation. You might also run calcDaRh to
get a structure-independent value of rhombicity. Also, when allowing Da
and Rh to float during a calculation-  carefully look at the Da/Rh
convergence. 

best regards--
Charles
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