Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

A method for validating the accuracy of NMR protein structures

  • Nicholas J. Fowler,
  • Adnan Sljoka,
  • Mike P. Williamson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20177-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The authors present a method for calculating the accuracy of an NMR structure, where flexibility from backbone chemical shifts is compared to structural flexibility predicted using rigidity theory. The authors validate their method and use it to compare the accuracy of NMR and X-ray structures.