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Interesting PDB Entries

  • Cyclic polymers (1sfi, 6dny, 1HVZ)
  • B-DNA (1bna)
  • Missing carbonyl oxygen (1gfl)
  • Mono-saccharides with alt locs (1B5F)
  • Microheterogeneity
    • Protein (1EJG, 3NIR)
    • DNA (3VOK)
  • PNA: peptide nucleic acid (5eme, 1xj9)
  • Peptide derived residues
    • GFP chromophores (5Z6Y)
  • Nucleotides that don’t have a parent base set, i.e. detect purine/pyrimidine from geometry (THX in 1AUL, OMC in e.g. 5D3G)
  • Bases with modified ring atoms
    • DZ has C1 instead of N1 (e.g. 6I4N)
    • DP has N5 instead of C5 and C7 instead of N7 (e.g. 6I4N)
  • Beta & Gamma peptides (e.g. 1GAC, 6PQF)
  • Helices of D-amino acids (e.g. 7QDI)
  • Mixed (heterogeneous) all-atom/trace-only RNA model (1JGQ)
  • Polymers with residues with missing trace atoms (e.g. 2QFJ)
  • Modified RNA bases (1y26, 5L4O)
  • Discontinuous chains, i.e. gaps in the sequence (3sn6)
  • Lots of sheets (1cbs)
  • DNA (2np2, 1d66)
  • C-alpha only (2RCJ, 6ZIG, 5AJ2)
  • Not cyclic, but termini are backbone-only and within distance but seqIds are not compatible (6SW3)
  • Close backbone atoms but not linked (e.g. 4HIV)
  • Non-standard residues
    • Protein (1BRR, 5Z6Y)
    • DNA (5D3G)
    • Collagen (6JEC)
  • Multiple models with different sets of ligands or missing ligands (1J6T, 1VRC, 2ICY, 1O2F)
  • Long linear sugar chain (4HG6)
  • Anisotropic B-factors/Ellipsoids (1EJG)
  • NOS bridges (LYS-CSO in 7B0L, 6ZWJ, 6ZWH)
  • Non-polymer components in polymer entities
    • PN2 in 1F80
    • ACE (many, e.g. 5AGU, 1E1X)
    • ACY in 7ABY
    • NH2 (many, e.g. 6Y13)
  • Ligands with many rings
    • STU (e.g. 1U59) - many fused rings
    • HT (e.g. 127D) - rings connected by a single bond
    • J2C (e.g. 7EFJ) - rings connected by a single atom
    • RBF (e.g. 7QF2) - three linearly fused rings
    • TA1 (e.g. 1JFF) - many fused rings (incl. a 8-member rings)
    • BPA (e.g. 1JDG) - many fused rings
    • CLR (e.g. 3GKI) - four fused rings
  • Assembly symmetries
    • 5M30 (Assembly 1, C3 local and pseudo)
    • 1RB8 (Assembly 1, I global)