HuubR Lv 1
In puzzle 2006, I noticed a strange situation: a Hydrogen Bond that is shown from segment 1 on Chain 1 to segment 9 on Chain 0, but not shown as its "mirror image", from segment 1 on Chain 0 to segment 9 on Chain 1. And, even stranger: it leads directly into a blue Buns.
I found this when a Buns emerged in my solution, and I wanted to fix it by making a Hydrogen Bond. To my surprise, that bond was already there! It could be that I am missing something here, but in my mind, a Buried polar that makes a hydrogen bond cannot be UNSatisfied at the same time, so it cannot be a BUNS.
I made two almost identical views of the same situation, looking at two different corners of the Tetramer. One view, with Chain 0 at the top and Chain 1 (purple) at the right hand side, shows two hydrogen bonds to the backbone of Chain 3 (brown, bottom left), as well as one Buns on the N terminus (segment 1: the yellow one). That could make sense, although one of the acceptors of the purple segment 9 (in the middle of the picture) seems to be in an ideal position for a hydrogen bond.
The second view shows another corner of the Tetramer. This view has Chain 0 at the right hand side and Chain 1 (purple) at the top. The two bonds from segment 1 to the left are not shown in this view, because in this corner they go from Chain 1 (purple) to Chain 2 (green). But the bond to the right, that was not shown in the other view, is now shown, together with the Buns!
Around the time this puzzle closed, I have uploaded a similar solution for scientists (Puzzle 2006, 22155 points), showing the same phenomenon.
I have no idea how often a situation like this occurs. There are a couple of specific circumstances that might play a role here:
- It is a hydrogen bond between backbone (donor side) and sidechain (acceptor), which is not very common.
- The donor side is the N terminus, which means that this Amino group has three Hydrogens (all other residues have only one H in the Amino group). In my example, all three of them make H-Bonds. That is probably even less common. </ul> I do not think this bug (if it is one indeed) should get a high priority to be fixed. But I would like to know whether it is indeed a bug, or I have simply misunderstood something here.
