Dear Michelle,

CSO is a peptide in the latest monomer library, which is included in
CCP4 9.0. I suppose you are using an old version. At least the first
issue may be sorted by using COOT from CCP4 9.0.

Best regards,
Keitaro

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 at 13:30, Michelle Miller
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I’m trying to model a N-O-S bond between a lysine side-chain and an oxidised 
> cysteine (CSO) as described in 
> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48109-3
>
>
>
> I’m facing two problems in Coot (v 0.9.8.3):
>
>
>
> Firstly, when I go >Replace residue and replace the cysteine with a CSO – 
> Coot does not recognise the CSO as part of the peptide chain. I can manually 
> (roughly) put it in place and Phenix will fix it during refinement, however 
> this continues to be a problem for coot.
>
>
>
> Secondly, I have tried a couple of ways to model the NOS bond and none of 
> them seem to work correctly.
>
>
>
> I defined the link using JLigand, saved the cif file and the LINK record. I 
> manually put this link in place in Coot, loaded the cif file into Phenix and 
> it sort of worked, although the O-N bond length is too long and doesn’t match 
> what is defined in the cif file (~1.99 Å vs 1.38 Å). Furthermore, after 
> loading the cif file in coot, when I try to do a real space refine, it does 
> not recognise the O-N link (or the CSO as part of the peptide chain as 
> described above).
> I defined the entire CSO-LYS as a ligand and generated cif restraints in 
> Phenix using elBOW, loaded the pdb into Coot and placed into the density, 
> merged with the pdb and tried to define “links” to the peptide backbone on 
> both sides. As above, these bonds are not recognised by coot. After running 
> through phenix, the planarity of the amide bonds is lost.
>
>
>
> To add to the complexity, there are two conformations of the N-O-S 
> modification/linkage, so I also want to be able to model that.
>
>
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michelle
>
>
>
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