Hello Santhos--

My apologies for being slow to reply.

> I have a question regarding the usage of RSCA as validation dataset and hoping
> you could shed some light on this. 
> 
> I have followed the details presented in "Validation of Protein Structure from
> Anisotropic Carbonyl Chemical Shifts in a Dilute Liquid Crystalline Phase" in
> Jacs 1998, 120, 6836 which used chemical shift anisotropies as validation data
> for 1d3z nmr structure of Ubiquitin and also the recent paper introducing 
> 2MJB. 
> 
> The chemical shift tensor orientation for Carbonyl atoms are dependent upon 
> the
> beta angle it makes to the CN bond vector while N and HN depend upon the bond
> vector orientation of NH. (Jacs 2000, 122, 10143). 
> 
> Since RDC's also contain information about bond vector orientations, any
> structure/ensemble that is optimized with CN, NH RDC data could also optimize 
> the
> RCSA.This along with the observation that alignment tensors of Ubiquitin are 
> very
> similar (they take one of the 2 orientations in my calculations and one of 
> your
> papers), makes RCSA a very weak validation dataset. Am I missing something in 
> my
> observations? How can one justify RSCA as cross-validation data?

Certainly the CSA data thus validate the results obtained with RDCs-
showing that improvements are not simply fits to noise. Moreover, the
results place limits on dynamics, as the timescales allowed by CSAs
may well differ from those of RDCs.

> 
> I have observed one small glitch in the documentation of XPLOR-NIH,
> in varTensorTools. normalizedScalarProduct(t1,t2) : t1, t2 should be the 
> tensor
> objects instead of RDCpot. 
> (http://nmr.cit.nih.gov/xplor-nih/doc/current/python/
> ref/varTensorTools.html). Sorry if it was obvious. 
> 

Thanks for the note. It is corrected for the next release.

best regards--
Charles

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