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SUBMITTER: Touw WG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5053137 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Touw Wouter G WG van Beusekom Bart B Evers Jochem M G JM Vriend Gert G Joosten Robbie P RP
Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology 20160915 Pt 10
Many crystal structures in the Protein Data Bank contain zinc ions in a geometrically distorted tetrahedral complex with four Cys and/or His ligands. A method is presented to automatically validate and correct these zinc complexes. Analysis of the corrected zinc complexes shows that the average Zn-Cys distances and Cys-Zn-Cys angles are a function of the number of cysteines and histidines involved. The observed trends can be used to develop more context-sensitive targets for model validation and ...[more]