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Hi Tom, Elaine</div>
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You could regard this as an independent email. I missed out on another important thing to ask: on how to color this castP-pocket surface by, say electrostatic potential.</div>
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Once, I generated the surface using the commands using the distance cutoff command, I tried to color the surface of this pocket, using hydrophobicity.</div>
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>> First run the comands, open 1blw; addh; open 1poc001.cif; sel #2 @<1; surface #1 enclose #1; ~surface ~sel</div>
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Then, color by hydrophobicity.</div>
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>>> mlp sel</div>
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However, the resulting hydrophobicity-colored-surface is very different from the pocket that we saw earlier (image attached - white background). I also tried to first color the whole pdb: 3blw by hydrophobicity, then, carve out using the command: </div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">>>> sel #2 @<1; surface #1 enclose #1; ~surface ~sel</span></div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">But then the pocket-surface is not colored (image in black background).</span></div>
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I agree that the CastP-pocket might not necessarily indicate the <b>surface</b> of the atoms in-selection, in ChimeraX, as we see in the example above. And that we might have to fill up the patches/holes. But is there a rough fix - show the pocket, yet color
the pocket by say, electrostatic potential?</div>
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It would be very helpful.</div>
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Thanks</div>
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Hi Elaine, Tom</div>
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I have figured out the surface holes problem. It seems to be a problem of the hydrogens, that were not added in the pdb. However, there're a few finishing-touch problems.</div>
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The approach I took was add hydrogens in the parent pdb (pdb: 1blw in this case), then to take the atoms relevant for that CastP-calculated pocket (say poc0001) from pymol as described earlier, select these corresponding atoms in the original pdb '<b>within
a certain distance</b>', then to generate a surface of these in ChimeraX. The commands I used were, (in order) :</div>
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>>> <a href="" style="font-size:medium; font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-weight:700; background-color:rgb(221,221,221)">open</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:medium; font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-weight:700; background-color:rgb(221,221,221)"> 3lbw</span></div>
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Then, open the 1poc001.cif (atoms for that pocket poc001 saved from pymol)</div>
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@<1</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> (This distance parameter is varied 2.5 A, 1 A to illustrate a point described later)</span></div>
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<span class="x_cxcmd_as_doc" style="display:inline">>>> <a href="">surface</a><span> </span>#1 enclose #1</span></div>
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<span class="x_cxcmd_as_doc" style="display:inline">>>> <a href="">~surface</a><span> </span>~sel</span></div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">There are no holes in this new surface,
<i><b>provided the distance is 'optimum' for that surface. </b></i>The problem with this approach seems to be that the surface generated is quite dependent on the distance cut-off chosen - please have a look at the screenshots (for selected within a distance
of 2.5 A and 1.0 A (images attached in black and blue background respectively). You can see different levels of holes, depending on the distance chosen.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">This surface is compared with the script in the previous email (image attached as white background), where there are a few holes. I actually, like the script generated by Tom - it is
quite convenient for loading surfaces for these pockets of large pdb models, except for the holes - which I assume a way around is to add the hydrogens. Is there a way to modify this script - I<b><i> am not sure of what exact distance parameters to use</i></b>,
once we have added the hydrogens in the parent pdb. In other words, I am also not sure how to 'enclose' this surface generated. Could you please have a look at this script?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">Please feel free to correct this approach - I might not be entirely correct in adding the hydrogens either. I tried adding hydrogens to the pdb: 3lbw before running Tom's script, but
these hydrogens seems to mess the surface originally intended (more holes - see image attached in pink background).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">Another thing - there are other unconnected patches in my approach, as we increase this distance. Some of these surface patches are unconnected with the actual pocket and quite far away.
I am not exactly sure how to get rid of these patches - could you please suggest ways to remove these fragmented patches? I tried the argument visiblePatches in the commands described above:<br>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">>>> ~surface ~sel enclose protein visiblePatches 1</span></div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">But this is giving an error. I am not sure how to just show only the main surface (in this case, largest patch)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">The atoms contributing to the pocket in observation, generated from pymol, -1poc0001.cif, is attached, just in case you need it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">Thanks</span></div>
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Wow! This is amazing!<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 20, 2021 6:19:33 AM<br>
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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space">Hi Yaikhomba,
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<div class=""> The .poc file has the format of a PDB file with pocket numbers at the end of each atom line. I wrote some example Python code to read that in ChimeraX and define names pocket1, pocket2, ... which are atom specifiers for the atoms lining each
pocket.</div>
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<div class=""> There are over 500 pockets for the complex III structure 3cx5.</div>
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<div class=""> Some day we will probably implement the Chimera CASTP tool in ChimeraX.</div>
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Could you please describe the sightly tedious way to generate that type of surface - I'm slightly interested in keeping on using ChimeraX and giving it a try.
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This is because there are a couple of volume media that I want to display asking with the surface. Also, not to mention the good graphics in ChimeraX is quite easy to use too<span id="x_x_x_ms-outlook-android-cursor" class=""></span>.<br class="">
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<div class="x_x_x_x_PlainText">Hi Yaikhomba,<br class="">
I tried to describe it earlier, but I probably wasn't clear. You would need to calculate the surface for the whole protein (not just those atoms) but then just show the contributions to that overall surface from the pocket atoms. That is exactly what the
castp tool in Chimera does in an automated way, but you would have to do it manually in ChimeraX. I.e. instead of opening a separate coordinate file for those atoms, just select or specify them within the overall structure and show the parts of the overall
surface resulting from those atoms. That is what I was saying would be tedious in ChimeraX, listing all of those atoms in the command line for selection or surfacing.<br class="">
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> On Jan 19, 2021, at 3:40 PM, Y. Mutum <<a href="mailto:ym337@cam.ac.uk" class="">ym337@cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> I got a workaround but there are a few 'finishing-touch' problems.<br class="">
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> In this case, as it is just for proof-of-principle, let's take the small pdb: 1bxw, as in the CastP website. I downloaded its generated surfaces, loaded them in pymol. The first one, 'poc0001', enders the surface as a thin surface - almost like a folded paper
(attached as an image here - black background image).<br class="">
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> I later exported these set of atoms forming 'poc001', as a .cif file. Then, opened this set of atoms in ChimeraX and generated a surface. The surface does look similar. However, ChimeraX renders this surface, as a continuous 3D blob, as it appears from a
distance (picture attached - in the white background).<br class="">
> I played around with a couple of options in surface command (such as >>> suface zone #1 near sel distance 2), but am unable to get it work - like 'paper thin'.<br class="">
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> Is there a way to make the surface thin, like the one pymol generates (image attached in black background). I think in this case, it looks as if pymol has ignored the outer surface, so, just the 'inner suface' if my description is alright.<br class="">
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> I have attached the set of atoms (1poc.cif), relevant for this pocket (poc0001), just in case, you may need it.<br class="">
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> Thanks<br class="">
> Yaikhomba<br class="">
> <br class="">
> <br class="">
> From: Elaine Meng <<a href="mailto:meng@cgl.ucsf.edu" class="">meng@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>><br class="">
> Sent: 19 January 2021 17:28<br class="">
> To: Y. Mutum <<a href="mailto:ym337@cam.ac.uk" class="">ym337@cam.ac.uk</a>><br class="">
> Cc: <a href="mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" class="">chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu" class="">chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a>><br class="">
> Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] CastP surfaces in ChimeraX/ Chimera<br class="">
> <br class="">
> Hi Yaikhomba,<br class="">
> When Chimera shows Castp results, it is not showing a surface that Castp calculated, but instead molecular surface (calculated in Chimera) for a list of atoms from Castp. Castp calculates which atoms are in each pocket, then Chimera calculates molecular
surface and shows the patches of surface contributed by those atoms. <br class="">
> <br class="">
> Your structure is a huge complex. You could try making very small changes in probe radius or VDW radii in Chimera, or (instead of split) using surfcat to specify a different surface to enclose each protein instead of the default enclosing all the proteins
in one giant surface, e.g. after opening your 3cx5 castp results:<br class="">
> <br class="">
> surfcat one :.a & protein<br class="">
> surf one<br class="">
> surfcat two :.b & protein<br class="">
> surf two<br class="">
> [... etc. for all protein chains]<br class="">
> <br class="">
> ... but then using the dialog, the pocket surfaces would look messier because you'd have all the interchain interface surfaces in addition to the outside surface of the whole complex.<br class="">
> <br class="">
> I don't think Castp was originally meant for use on large complexes, but instead to explore the shape of individual proteins.<br class="">
> <br class="">
> However, if you cannot get the molecular surface calculated in Chimera, for a given pocket you could manually take the list of atoms and show molecular surface for those atoms in ChimeraX, but it would be tedious. We don't have a tool in ChimeraX for automatically
showing Castp results, so you would have to look in the .poc file with a text editor, find all the atoms associated with the pocket of interest (maybe pocket ID number is the next-to-last column?), and then show the molecular surface from those atoms using
a ChimeraX command. Sometimes the same atom contributes to more than one pocket.<br class="">
> <br class="">
> I hope this helps,<br class="">
> Elaine<br class="">
> -----<br class="">
> Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. <br class="">
> UCSF Chimera(X) team<br class="">
> Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry<br class="">
> University of California, San Francisco<br class="">
> <br class="">
> > On Jan 19, 2021, at 7:10 AM, Y. Mutum <<a href="mailto:ym337@cam.ac.uk" class="">ym337@cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br class="">
> > <br class="">
> > Hi<br class="">
> > <br class="">
> > Is there a way to open the results from CastP results in 'ChimeraX' and visualise the surfaces calculated using CastP? In this case, the pdb is 3cx5, and the surfaces are calculated from CastP webserver.<br class="">
> > <br class="">
> > Just on using Chimera (version 1.15c) - I have also tried to open the CastP results using 'Chimera', but the molecular surfaces display are failing (picture attached). I followed up the abberant surface-calculation problems
<a href="" class="">inhttps://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/surfprobs.html</a>.
<br class="">
> > <br class="">
> > However, the display surfaces are all still failing - I tried the first 2 suggestions relevant to mine, but they are still failing. The first - which involves splitting the chain using the command 'split', shuts down the Castp: surfaces-window in Chimera
and I can't see of a way to retrieve this CastP window with the list of surfaces.
<br class="">
> > <br class="">
> > As, I do not want to split the model, I tried the second suggestion of 'surfcat one' (as CastP server selects atoms from multiple chains to create surfaces).<br class="">
> > <br class="">
> > I am not sure if I want to mess up with the Vanderwaal radii (the third suggestion) either, as these surfaces were calculated in CastP with a specific probe radius.<br class="">
> > <br class="">
> > Would you have any suggestions of how to use ChimeraX to open and analyse molecular surfaces calculated by CastP? Last, but not the least, if suppose you have to end up using Chimera if ChimeraX doesn't support .poc files, could you please suggest this
work-around for opening these problematic CastP-calculated-surfaces in Chimera?<br class="">
> > <br class="">
> > Thanks<br class="">
> > Yaikhomba<br class="">
> <br class="">
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