Hi all,

I want to fill a PDB files with missing residues. I use the help from : http://salilab.org/modeller/wiki/Missing%20residues

I just want to optimize by doing automatically the alignment. I try using salign_align2d.py, I change matrix, playing wih gap_penalties, ...:

Alignment file: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

>P1;3DPL structureX:3DPL.pdb: 401 :C:+465 :R:::-1.00:-1.00 ESKCPEELANYCDMLLRKTPLSKKLTSEEIEAKLKEVLKKLKYVQNKDVFMRYHKAHLTRRLILDISADSEIEEN MVEWLREVGMPADYVNKLARMFQDIKVSEDLNQAFKEMHKNNALPADSVNIKILNAGAWSRSSEKVFVSLPTELE DLIPEVEEFYKKNHSGRKLHWHHLMSNGIITFKNEVGQYDLEVTTFQLAVLFAWNQRPREKISFENLKLATELPD AELRRTLWSLVAFPKLKRQVLLYEPQVNSPKDFTEGTLFSVNQEFSLIKNAKVQKRGKINLIGRLQLTTERMREE ENEGIVQLRILRTQEAIIQIMKMRKKISNAQLQTELVEILKNMFLPQKKMIKEQIEWLIEHKYIRRDESDINTFI YMA/KKRFEVKKWNAVALWAWDIVVDNCAICRNHIMDLCIECQANQASAECTVAWGVCNHAFHFHCISRWLKTRQ VCPLDNREWEFQKYGH*

>P1;3DPL-full sequence:3DPL-full:::::::2.60: 0.24 GSESKCPEELANYCDMLLRKTPLSKKLTSEEIEAKLKEVLKKLKYVQNKDVFMRYHKAHLTRRLILDISADSEIEEN MVEWLREVGMPADYVNKLARMFQDIKVSEDLNQAFKEMHKNNKLALPADSVNIKILNAGAWSRSSEKVFVSLPTELE DLIPEVEEFYKKNHSGRKLHWHHLMSNGIITFKNEVGQYDLEVTTFQLAVLFAWNQRPREKISFENLKLATELPD AELRRTLWSLVAFPKLKRQVLLYEPQVNSPKDFTEGTLFSVNQEFSLIKNAKVQKRGKINLIGRLQLTTERMREE ENEGIVQLRILRTQEAIIQIMKMRKKISNAQLQTELVEILKNMFLPQKKMIKEQIEWLIEHKYIRRDESDINTFI YMA/GSMDVDTPSGTNSGAGKKRFEVKKWNAVALWAWDIVVDNCAICRNHIMDLCIECQANQASATSEECTVAWGVCNHAFHFHCISRWLKTRQ VCPLDNREWEFQKYGH* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Missing residues: ('1:A', '2:A'), ('120:A', '121:A'), ('383:B', '398:B'), ('444:B', '446:B'))

Script file: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # align2d/align using salign

# parameters to be input by the user # 1. gap_penalties_1d # 2. gap_penalties_2d # 3. input alignment file

from modeller import * log.verbose() env = environ() env.io.atom_files_directory = ['../atom_files']

aln = alignment(env, file='align2d_in.ali', align_codes='all') aln.salign(rr_file='$(LIB)/id.sim.mat', # Substitution matrix used output='', max_gap_length=20, gap_function=True, # If False then align2d not done feature_weights=(1., 0., 0., 0., 0., 0.), gap_penalties_1d=(-200, 0), gap_penalties_2d=(3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 0.2, 4.0, 6.5, 2.0, 0.0, 0.0), # d.p. score matrix #output_weights_file='salign.mtx' similarity_flag=True) # Ensuring that the dynamic programming # matrix is not scaled to a difference matrix aln.write(file='align2d.ali', alignment_format='PIR') aln.write(file='align2d.pap', alignment_format='PAP') ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

But the alignment in output is not perfect. Is there some parameters I can use to obtain the good alignment ?

Any suggestions or pointers would be most appreciate.

Aurélien