How about halides? Anyone know of criteria for their binding sites? JPK
ps Funny how my recent post was about almost exactly the same thing--serendipity, I guess? On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Nat Echols <nathaniel.ech...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:51 PM, wtempel <wtem...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Dear colleagues, >> following a discussion in our lab, I have volunteered to dig out >> articles from the literature about erroneous assignments of non-water >> entities such as metal ions, halides in protein models. For example I >> have the faint recollection that data mining of the PDB for suspect >> "water" assemblies matching the geometry of coordinated cations has >> previously been described. But none of my google searches has turned >> up the references I was looking for. Could someone point me in the >> right direction, please? > > Do you mean metals incorrectly annotated as waters, or vice-versa? The > latter case is discussed here: > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18614239 > -Nat -- ******************************************* Jacob Pearson Keller Northwestern University Medical Scientist Training Program cel: 773.608.9185 email: j-kell...@northwestern.edu *******************************************
