Re: [ccp4bb]: Deleted C terminus

["Eleanor J. Dodson" <ccp4@ysbl.york.ac.uk>]

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> Jan Dohnalek wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> We have seen in two consecutive cases C terminus Oxygens
> deleted or at least with high negative diff. density peaks.
> 
> Is there anyone who encountered this?
> Jan
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 Are you sure that the C terminus is actually the C terminus?

 CNS especially does odd things - it seems to add a OXT in an arbitrary
place even if the last residue is not the end of the chain..

 Eleanor