[buster-discuss] Refine occupancy on two different polypeptide chains
Anna Suarez Larsson
anna at xray.bmc.uu.se
Thu Feb 1 12:14:54 CET 2018
Dear Clemens and other Buster users,
On 29 Jan 2018, at 09:48, Clemens Vonrhein <vonrhein at globalphasing.com> wrote:
> Dear Anna
>
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 10:17:01AM +0100, Anna Suarez Larsson wrote:
>> I am dealing with a pentameric structure composed of two different
>> short (80 aa) polypeptide chains, A and B, that are 40%
>> identical. In the crystal packing it looks to be no preferred
>> orientation for the ring with respect to the two different
>> proteins. I would like to combine the two chains in the same
>> structure and refine with Buster to get the relative occupancy.
>
> Yes, that should be doable.
Good.
>
>> We know from gel electrophoresis of the two proteins coexpressed
>> that the relation is 3:2 (A to B) between them, both in crystals and
>> in solution. The crystals diffract to about 2.0 � resolution but the
>> spots are streaky. The R-values when refining with only one of the
>> polypeptide chains are much lower for A compared to B.
>
> Ok.
>
>> My attempt to do the refinement in Buster using first pdb2occ and then run with the command -Gelly failed with the comment:
>>
>> Interpreting CONSTANT and FREE cards:
>> =====NOTE BUSTER_CONSTANT OCC FixOcc
>> *** ERROR found in interpreting atom specifier from CONSTANT card
>> *** ERROR specifier=FixOcc
>> *** ERROR does not match any atoms
>> *** ERROR *** found processing constant cards
>> *** ERROR *** (on call to GELLY_PROCESS_CONSTANT_CARDS_OWN
>> *** ERROR *** by s/r GELLY_PROCESS_CONST_COMBINE_CARDS_OWN)
>
> Yes: we never anticipated that the complete model consists of atoms
> that will get their occupancy refined - so the FixOcc set/group is
> actually empty.
>
>> How should I do to be able to proceed?
>
> What happens if you remove that line (NOTE BUSTER_CONSTANT OCC FixOcc)
> from your Gelly file?
I got a long list of errors in the sanity check about ‘contact between two ‘Protein’ type atoms from distinct residues’ so I added 'StopOnGellySanityCheckError=no’ to the command line to test. The refinement then pushed the chains apart and the R-values rised. As a control I tried to run each pentamer separately (without gelly) and then the refinement went ok.
>
>> Is it possible to refine double occupancy on all the five
>> polypeptide chains or is it required that I keep some of them with
>> fixed occupancy?
>
> You should be able to do that, although using pdb2occ might not be the
> most elegant way: this tool is mainly intended to handle occupancy
> refinement situations with some small(ish) localised items (alternate
> conformation side-chains, partially occupied ligands, alternate loop
> conformations etc).
Do you have any suggestions where to find documentation of how to do it otherwise?
>
> Please let us know if you hit another issue.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Clemens & Andrew (for buster-develop)
Thank you for your answer!
Best regards,
Anna
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