Hi, I try to refine a long loop in my protein model by adding several secondary structure restraints and I've confronted the following problem: some restraints do not have any effect unless other ones are removed from the restraint list. In other words, after removing some of the restraints others start working properly. I would like to know the reasons and how can this problem be solved. I use the following script:

from modeller import * from modeller.automodel import * # Load the automodel class log.verbose() env = environ() # directories for input atom files env.io.atom_files_directory = [’.’, ’../atom_files’] class MyModel(automodel): def special_restraints(self, aln): rsr = self.restraints at = self.atoms # Add some restraints from a file: # rsr.append(file=’my_rsrs1.rsr’) # Residues 20 through 30 should be an alpha helix: rsr.add(secondary_structure.alpha(self.residue_range(’20:’, ’30:’))) # Two beta-strands: rsr.add(secondary_structure.strand(self.residue_range(’1:’, ’6:’))) rsr.add(secondary_structure.strand(self.residue_range(’9:’, ’14:’)))

a = MyModel(env, alnfile = ’alignment.ali’, knowns = ’5fd1’, sequence = ’1fdx’)

a.starting_model= 1 a.ending_model = 1

a.make()

Thank you for attention.