[gmx-users] em and backbone

[David]

On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 19:53, jxs818 at bham.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi all, 
>  I have producted a homology model of a enzyme i am 
> working on. Although there is very good sequence 
> similarity between target and template there is a region 
> which contains a proline which is at different positions 
> throughout the family. I have performed em (cg and steep) 
> on the protein, but on comparing the pre & post em 
> structures i can not see any change in the area of this 
> proline. Should I expect to ?? or does the MD take care of 
> this??
> As always any help will be emotionally recieved

No, don't expect EM to do anything visible. Usually rmsd after em is <
0.1 Å

MD may or may not change the conformation. If it does you know something
wasn't good in the structure, otherwise you still know nothing...


> JOhn  
> 
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Groeten, David.
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