Hello,
As far as I can tell, these angle parameters are a holdover from the Weiner
et al. 1986 force field, and have never been updated. You can read about
how the parameters were generated here:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcc.540070216/abstract
Is there any reason these deviations aren't "real"? If there was a
significant force field artifact, I'd expect it to show up in more than one
CT-CT-CT / OS-CT-N* angle.
-Christina
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Blatter Markus <blatter.mol.biol.ethz.ch>
wrote:
> In the validation report of pdb deposition I get the error of covalent
> bond angles to be more than six std off. I refined my solution structure
> using an simulated annealing protocol in implicit water and using the
> ff12SB force field. As far as I can see the bond angles are taken from
> parm99.dat file. Comparing the values for the violated angels in the
> parm99.dat file with the dictionary angels the PDB validation uses reveals
> a significant discrepancy.
> Specifically I talk about the RNA bond angles O4'-C1'-N9 -- > type
> OS-CT-N* --> 109.5 (PDB 108.5) and C3'-C2'-C1' --> type CT-CT-CT --> 109.5
> (PDB 101.5).
> Where are these specific angles in the parm99.dat come from. Since there
> is no literature mentioned in the parm99.dat file I searched myself and
> found only a paper from 1996 (New Parameters for the Refinement of Nucleic
> Acid-Containing Structures). In this publication the angels agree with what
> PDB validation refers to. Can someone explain me where the amber values
> come from and maybe why they appear to be significantly off?
>
> Here a part of the output of the PDB validation
>
>
> ==> Covalent Angle Values:
> The overall RMS deviation for covalent angles relative to the standard
> dictionary is 1.5 degrees.
> The following table contains a list of the covalent bond angles greater
> than 6 times standard deviation.
>
> Deviation Residue Chain Sequence Model
> AT1 − AT2 − AT3 Bond Dictionary Standard
> Name ID Number
> Angle Value Deviation
>
> −−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−
> 4.8 U B 3 1
> C1’ − C2’ − C3’ 106.3 101.5 0.8 0.8
> 4.4 A B 4 1 N9
> − C1’ − O4’ 112.9 108.5 0.7 0.7
>
> Thanks very much
> Markus
>
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