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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology2018

Overview of refinement procedures within REFMAC5: utilizing data from different sources.

Oleg Kovalevskiy, Robert A Nicholls, Fei Long, Azzurra Carlon, Garib N Murshudov

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 170 papers.

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Oleg KovalevskiyStructural Studies Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, England.
Robert A NichollsStructural Studies Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, England.ORCID 0000-0002-8577-8617
Fei LongStructural Studies Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, England.ORCID 0000-0002-2553-9841
Azzurra CarlonMagnetic Resonance Center (CERM), University of Florence and Interuniversity Consortium for Magnetic Resonance of Metalloproteins (CIRMMP), Via L. Sacconi 6, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0806-4266
Garib N MurshudovStructural Studies Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH, England.ORCID 0000-0001-6483-3587

Funding

PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY OF ANTITUMOR AGENTSK04CA001012 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI LAZO, JOHN S · 1985 to 1989
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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L007010/1EMBO ASTF 620-2015Horizon 2020 Framework Programme 675858Medical Research Council MC_UP_A025_1012Science and Technology Facilities Council PR140014
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Abstract

Refinement is a process that involves bringing into agreement the structural model, available prior knowledge and experimental data. To achieve this, the refinement procedure optimizes a posterior conditional probability distribution of model parameters, including atomic coordinates, atomic displacement parameters (B factors), scale factors, parameters of the solvent model and twin fractions in the case of twinned crystals, given observed data such as observed amplitudes or intensities of structure factors. A library of chemical restraints is typically used to ensure consistency between the model and the prior knowledge of stereochemistry. If the observation-to-parameter ratio is small, for example when diffraction data only extend to low resolution, the Bayesian framework implemented in REFMAC5 uses external restraints to inject additional information extracted from structures of homologous proteins, prior knowledge about secondary-structure formation and even data obtained using different experimental methods, for example NMR. The refinement procedure also generates the `best' weighted electron-density maps, which are useful for further model (re)building. Here, the refinement of macromolecular structures using REFMAC5 and related tools distributed as part of the CCP4 suite is discussed.

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Bayes TheoremProtein ConformationSoftwareComputer SimulationCryoelectron MicroscopyCrystallography, X-RayHumansMacromolecular SubstancesModels, MolecularNuclear Magnetic Resonance, BiomolecularProteinsMacromolecular SubstancesProteinsLORESTRNMR restraintsProSMARTrefinementREFMAC5

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