Re: [ccp4bb] Concentrating protein

2008-06-27 Thread Guenter Fritz
A mild and quick method is to use dry Sephadex G-25. The material will swell and take up all the liquid except molecules larger than ca. 5 kDa. Dear All, we have GCSF protein produced in inclusion bodies. we solubilise it refold it and then concentrate it using proflux system. still the

Re: [ccp4bb] Reminder - still no 3D stereo under OS X 10.5

2008-06-27 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 02:38:54PM -0700, James Stroud wrote: Has anyone tried XQuartz for this: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki That's the X11 that comes with OS X. It's the development arm, so it's newer than what is in the base, but it's the same code. If you follow the x11-users

Re: [ccp4bb] Concentrating protein

2008-06-27 Thread Roger Rowlett
Guenter Fritz wrote: A mild and quick method is to use dry Sephadex G-25. The material will swell and take up all the liquid except molecules larger than ca. 5 kDa. Dear All, we have GCSF protein produced in inclusion bodies. we solubilise it refold it and then concentrate it using proflux

[ccp4bb] Reducer and crystallization

2008-06-27 Thread Sam
Dear all, Can anyone enlighten me the effect of reducer in crystallography? I understand that it removes disulphide bond, and prevent protein aggregation. But how do we find a balance point and must we remove it before screening crystals? Thanks for answering first. Cheers sam

Re: [ccp4bb] Friedel vs Bijvoet

2008-06-27 Thread Marius Schmidt
Thanks very much for this interesting discussion. We should have that more often. Marius -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 26 juin 08 à 18:49, Ethan Merritt a écrit : On Thursday 26 June 2008 09:36:16 am Serge Cohen wrote: Please some one tells me if I'm wrong ... but I

Re: [ccp4bb] Reminder - still no 3D stereo under OS X 10.5

2008-06-27 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 17:41 Thu 26 Jun , Warren DeLano wrote: In point of fact, however, Linux-based stereo 3D remains dependent on proprietary graphics drivers tied to the underlying hardware. There is no 100% open-source option for stereo 3D visualization. Therefore, the scientific visualization

Re: [ccp4bb] Concentrating protein

2008-06-27 Thread Jeremy Lohman
RE: [ccp4bb] Concentrating proteinInstead of using solid NaCl with dialysis tubing use PEGs which have molecular weights larger than the cutoff of the dialysis membrane. This avoids the need to remove the NaCl later. If you can get away with loading the solution directly on the column or in

Re: [ccp4bb] Concentrating protein

2008-06-27 Thread Tommi Kajander
couldnt agree more.. just pump the dilute solution through the ion exhange column.. or was there salt in it to prevent binding? or what was wrong with just using 80 ml centripreps or equivalent? not that high-tech, all you need is a regular 250 ml centrifugre tube rotor... (well the centrifuge

Re: [ccp4bb] Concentrating protein

2008-06-27 Thread Tommi Kajander
yes, but you have to check fisrt the protein doesnt crash out in 1 M (NH4)2SO4 or whatver concentration needed.. problem with amm. sulfate is that its good at salting-out proteins also, which we of course know... (which is of course another way to concetrate your protein, but there are more gently

Re: [ccp4bb] Friedel vs Bijvoet

2008-06-27 Thread James Holton
Ahh. The history of science. I've always wondered how these naming conventions get decided. Who is the authority on what gets named after who? Historically, it seems to vary a lot. - When Patterson published his incredibly useful map he called it the F-square synthesis. Does anyone NOT

[ccp4bb] Binding to Nickel in the presence of SDS or arginine

2008-06-27 Thread Jose Antonio Cuesta-Seijo
Dear CCP4BBers, One of those questions regarding purification rather than crystallography: Reading the Qiagen manual for the Ni-NTA matrices, in the table of compatibility of reagents with Ni-NTA matrices, SDS is mentioned (only together with sarkosyl) as Not recommended, but up to 0.3%

Re: [ccp4bb] Binding to Nickel in the presence of SDS or arginine

2008-06-27 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Ni salt of dodecyl sulphate is not soluble. Therefore (at least in theory) SDS may leach the Ni out of the chelate and deposit it throughout the column in baby-blue soapy flecks. Having said that, I must add that if you have to use more than 0.1% SDS then you're dealing with a truly extreme case!

Re: [ccp4bb] Concentrating protein

2008-06-27 Thread Gina Clayton
Hi there I quite like the Amicon stirred ultra concentration cell systems. You can put large volumes in, maximum 1 litre size, I think. As well you can attach an inert gas such as Argon or Nitrogen, for the gaseous pressure, this reduces oxidation of your sample while it concentrates.