Re: [ccp4bb] Aggregated protein for crystallization

2012-02-22 Thread Allan Pang
Not sure if it will be helpful... but my protein is not the most stable protein, in fact, it does aggregate over time (most likely due to its 'sticky' nature). However, I still get crystals. The problem is the crystals are among the gunks and precipitates. Your case might be different

Re: [ccp4bb] Aggregated protein for crystallization

2012-02-22 Thread Savvas Savvides
Dear Raji Running a blue-native gel with lanes in the presence and absence of a reducing agent could prove quite informative. DLS could also return a quick result on the particle distribution in your sample. In that case I would measure samples as fractionated from the superdex200 and compare

Re: [ccp4bb] Putting Text into Movies

2012-02-22 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Jacob, you may also like one of the many google hits with mencoder add subtitles. Tim On 02/21/2012 04:59 PM, Jacob Keller wrote: Dear Crystallographers, is there a good way to put text labels into movies from pymol or otherwise? It would

Re: [ccp4bb] Server or software for B factor analysis

2012-02-22 Thread Thomas Holder
Hi Dialing, if you know some python you can use PyMOL. # get C-alpha b-factors as list from pymol import cmd, stored stored.bfactors = [] cmd.iterate('name CA', 'stored.bfactors.append((b,resv))') # min/max b-factors with residue number print min(stored.bfactors) print max(stored.bfactors) #

[ccp4bb] scala and postref

2012-02-22 Thread Vijay Reddy
Hi all, Does anyone have version(s) of scala and postref that work together in tandem and willing to share. Even older versions of these programs are fine with me. I can not seem to make the recent versions of the programs work together... even though there is a POSTREF option available

Re: [ccp4bb] scala and postref

2012-02-22 Thread A Leslie
Hi Vijay, The obvious person to answer this is Phil Evans, but he is in New Zealand at the moment and may well not be reading Emails, so you might need to wait until he is back in the UK (1-2 weeks). I know that he felt the POSTREF option was not an important one to maintain,

Re: [ccp4bb] residuewise rmsd for multiple chain superposition

2012-02-22 Thread Avinash Punekar
Dear Sreetama, ProFit (http://www.bioinf.org.uk/software/profit/) does the RMS-by-residue calculation for multiple chain superposition. Avinash Punekar

Re: [ccp4bb] HKL2000 indexing problem

2012-02-22 Thread Joe Watts
If you have tried all of the other things suggested by others (especially beam-center and direction of rotation), you can try the keyword 'weak level' in indexing box (see page 29 on HKL manual http://hkl-xray.com/sites/default/files/manual_online.pdf or

[ccp4bb] CCPBioSim workshop: How to set up a Protein Simulation

2012-02-22 Thread Martyn Winn
One of our sister CCPs, CCPBioSim, is running a one-day workshop on How to set up a Protein Simulation on April 20th in Cambridge. It is aimed at people new to biological molecular dynamics simulations, and may be suitable for any crystallographers who want to have a go. It will use the (free) MD

Re: [ccp4bb] Aggregated protein for crystallization

2012-02-22 Thread Pius Padayatti
some more thoughts, Do a cryo-EM imaging, it will be ideal than DLS. if the particle sizes are uniform i would think your protein in that state might be useful. cheers Padayatti On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Raji Edayathumangalam r...@brandeis.edu wrote: Hi Folks, As crazy as it sounds, if

[ccp4bb] OPENING: Genentech, Research Associate/Senior Research Associate in Purification and Crystallization

2012-02-22 Thread James Kiefer
Dear All, We have an open position at Genentech in the Structural Biology group for an Associate/Senior Associate in our protein purification and crystallization laboratory (Job #: 380684). Prior experience in purification and/or crystallization is required. Preference will be given to

Re: [ccp4bb] effects of salt on twinned crystals

2012-02-22 Thread Peter Hsu
Forgot to mention, that this 2.5-3A diffracting crystal was the same one that I have been unable to index and suspect are twinned due to the presence of these other fused crystals in the same drop. Thanks for any input.

Re: [ccp4bb] effects of salt on twinned crystals

2012-02-22 Thread Francis E Reyes
I read your description of the crystals and Figure 4 of the following paper came to mind. Post-crystallization treatment in lower PEG eventually allowed them to tease the bundles apart. 1. MacRae, I. J. Doudna, J. A. An unusual case of pseudo-merohedral twinning in orthorhombic

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2012-02-22 Thread Piotrek Sliz
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Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal twinning

2012-02-22 Thread Andrea Thorn
Dear Theresa, all types of twinning - merohedral, pseudo-merohedral and non-merohedral ones - can be solved given somewhat favorable conditions. In small molecule crystallography, it's quite common, especially for (pseudo) merohedral twins, it becomes increasingly popular for macromolecules as

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Aggregated protein for crystallization

2012-02-22 Thread Pius Padayatti
This was meant to Raji, So here it goes to all. -- Forwarded message -- From: Zhang, Zhen zhen_zh...@dfci.harvard.edu Date: Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:15 PM Subject: RE: [ccp4bb] Aggregated protein for crystallization To: Pius Padayatti ppadaya...@gmail.com Hi Pius, I have done

Re: [ccp4bb] surface residue mutation

2012-02-22 Thread Prem Kaushal
Dear all, Thanks for your response to my quarry about surface residue mutation. I tried the SERp Server, but did not get satisfactory clue. This software classified our protein as difficult to crystallize, however we have crystallized and solved the structure also. But our crystal form is not

Re: [ccp4bb] effects of salt on twinned crystals

2012-02-22 Thread Ms Chiung-Wen Chang
hi did u have other crystals grew in different conditions in your additive screen ? in my case, i did the additve screen for the condition i got twinned crystals i got crystals grew in few conditions one of them is salt but it still gave me twinned crystals then i tried NDSB-221 and the crystals

Re: [ccp4bb] Aggregated protein for crystallization

2012-02-22 Thread Ho Leung Ng
     If you haven't done so already, I would screen buffer conditions (pH, salt concentration, glycerol, strongly reducing conditions, ligands, detergents) by DLS to see if you can reduce aggregation. You might get lucky by setting up crystallization plates, but chances are you won't get very

[ccp4bb] Position Available in Australia

2012-02-22 Thread Margaret M Bills
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Re: [ccp4bb] Aggregated protein for crystallization

2012-02-22 Thread Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.)
You might get lucky by setting up crystallization plates, but chances are you won't get very useful information from them, especially if your aggregated protein is soluble. I seem to fail to understand how crystallization plates would give information in the not-special case of protein

Re: [ccp4bb] Server or software for B factor analysis

2012-02-22 Thread chen c
Why not just use PROCHECK program? 在 2012年2月22日 下午6:24,Thomas Holder thomas.hol...@tuebingen.mpg.de 写道: Hi Dialing, if you know some python you can use PyMOL. # get C-alpha b-factors as list from pymol import cmd, stored stored.bfactors = [] cmd.iterate('name CA',

Re: [ccp4bb] R-mergd-F

2012-02-22 Thread arka chakraborty
Hi all, Thanks for providing the solution. Regards, ARKO On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:14 AM, arka chakraborty arko.chakrabort...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all , I will like to know which program we can use to calculate R-mergd-F( not Rmerge) between two data sets, or more generally R factor