Re: [ccp4bb] Ambiguous metal ion at active site.

2015-07-09 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Dear Dilip, it's difficult to exactly analyse the coordination of your metal in 2D. But, my suggestion is : Try another metal like Zn, which maybe is a contamination (from the plastic of eppendorf for example). Zn has more electron than Mg maybe that's the reason why it's still green. I

Re: [ccp4bb] anomalous phasing with HySS - phaser - Autobuild

2015-06-26 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Dear Almudena, I have some questions to help you, how many molecules are presents in the ASU ? If more than one, maybe you can try to find NCS in the substructure. To perform that it could be necessary to increase (more than 20) the radius of NCS research parameters. You can try to find NCS

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 not working with OSX Yosemite version 10.10.3

2015-05-28 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Hi Saleem, in my own experience with the yosemite update, after the update, i have had to do that : 1) Xcode via apple store (itunes) you have to create or use you apple ID etc... 2) Install XQuartz : http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/SL/XQuartz-2.7.7.dmg 3) Install ccp4 :

Re: [ccp4bb] Hi

2015-05-26 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Dear Vijay, Have you try to use superpose in ccp4 ? In superpose it's possible to select exactly what you want (atoms, residues...) . In your case if you use only the atoms or the nucleotids that you want to be superpose, it could be ok. Hope to help. Nicolas

Re: [ccp4bb] Hi

2015-05-26 Thread FOOS Nicolas
] Envoyé : mardi 26 mai 2015 14:56 À : FOOS Nicolas Objet : Re: [ccp4bb] Hi Dear Nicolas, I ahd tried in superpose but it is not alligning and simultaenousli I had given only the pdb containing only the nucleotide but both of them dosen't work. regards Vijay On Tuesday, 26 May 2015 6:22 PM, FOOS

Re: [ccp4bb] merge weak anomalous signal from multiple datasets

2015-03-02 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Hi Charles, I have some differents suggestions, maybe it could be a good idea to reconsider the criteria for keep or discard data : Diederichs, K., et P. A. Karplus. «  Better Models by Discarding Data? ». Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography 69, nᵒ 7 (1 juillet 2013):

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein precipitating at higher concentration!!

2015-01-09 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Hi Ivan, according to my experience, if you remove at the same time GuHCl and Triton, you have huge risk of precipitation if the protein is not properly folded. In my opinion, you have to do something like re-folding. It seems that your protein could be solubilized from inclusion-body. In the

Re: [ccp4bb] water at the same exactly position

2014-10-29 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Dear Lu, one simple solution is to remove the water molecules with text editor for example. It depend of how-many times you have multiply water molecules and if your model have several or more water molecules. In coot you can remove it graphically, but according to my knowledge not

Re: [ccp4bb] How to separate BSA present in Thrombin

2014-10-08 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Hi Manjalu, In my opinion, one way is to use iEX column. Depending of the Pi of you protein and the one of the BSA, if they are sufficiently different, Ion exchange is on possible way. To separate your protein from BSA, you have to give us more information about your protein if it's possible.

Re: [ccp4bb] calculation of the orientation angles between helices

2014-09-17 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Hi Gajanan, i never try Qhelix, but i use Chimera to do that. It's possible to mesure angle, distance etc between helix. Hope to help. Nicolas De : CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] de la part de Gajanan Arbade [gajanan_pbi...@diat.ac.in]

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein-DNA structure solution

2014-07-31 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Dear Sasha, i try to answer one by one your question : 1) Not sur to understand what you mean by validate DNA constraints, if it's about the geometry parameters liken angle bond length, you have to use Moleprobity for example. 2) Fitting DNA in density, you can use coot, it's exactly the

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem in molecular replacement

2014-07-24 Thread FOOS Nicolas
...@gmail.com] Envoyé : jeudi 24 juillet 2014 14:46 À : FOOS Nicolas Cc : CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Objet : Re: Problem in molecular replacement How do I use DNA as search model? Can I use it in molrep or phaser? On Thursday, July 24, 2014, FOOS Nicolas nicolas.f...@synchrotron-soleil.frmailto:nicolas.f

Re: [ccp4bb] ITC with heterogeneous protein

2014-07-18 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Dear Sajid, one first problem in your study is how-to adress if the deltaH mesured is caused by the ligand interaction, or by the modification of dimer-monomer equilibrium. You have to well caracterise your system dimer-monomer. One other problem is about the accessibility of the interaction

Re: [ccp4bb] ITC with heterogeneous protein

2014-07-18 Thread FOOS Nicolas
it depend of what you expected as information : In this case your measure is resulting from ligand binding AND dimerization (except if all the protein is already dimerized). I am not sur to understand, do you know how many binding sites exists on one monomer ? You should be able to determine the

Re: [ccp4bb] Naccess

2014-07-09 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Hello, i cited this program with : Hubbard, S.J., and Thornton, J.M. (1993). NACCESS (Computer Program, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London.). I am not absolutly certain that's th best way. Nicolas De : CCP4

Re: [ccp4bb] Buried surface area calculation..

2014-07-02 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Dear Gajana, you can use . PISA ((Krissinel and Henrick, 2007) (EMBL server) and NACCESS (Hubbard and Thornton, 1993). (not for windows i think). Hope to help Nicolas De : CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] de la part de Gajanan Arbade

Re: [ccp4bb] How to transfer non-frozen crystals with less disturbance?

2014-07-02 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Dear Meisam, i don't know exactly what you need to do after the transfert, but if you want collect without frozen, maybe you can try to use capillar. Maybe can you mount your crystall in capillar before the travel ? It's simple suggestion, i never did that. Nicolas

Re: [ccp4bb] solvent flattening with resolve - phenix

2014-06-05 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Dear Almudena, i think your problems com from the Flag in your input.mtz . You have to check if your mtz has the correct column name. And you have to designate the one which correspond to PHIB. It depend from which programm com your input.mtz . Hope to help. Nicolas

Re: [ccp4bb] Xia2 / XDS issues

2014-05-19 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Dear Antony, Have you try to use the option - parralel 1, to see what hapen. Maybe it's problem with the parallelism option. If you try this option you force to use only one core and i think you decrease your need in memory. If this solution help, you probably have to check the xdsInput

Re: [ccp4bb] data processing with XDS

2014-05-19 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Hi Almudena, you can also try mosflm as said Harry. And you can try different setting in the XDS.INP, you can try to reduce the STRONG_PIXEL (because you said spots are weak) number or/and MINIMUM_NUMBER_OF_PIXELS_IN_A_SPOT (if the spot are small). Nicolas

Re: [ccp4bb] Add an atom in Coot

2014-03-18 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Hi Remi, you place the pointer (pink cube) at the place where you want put the atom. After you click on Place atom at pointer (yellow square with blue cross). HTH Nicolas De : CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] de la part de Remie Fawaz-Touma

Re: [ccp4bb] Add an atom in Coot

2014-03-18 Thread FOOS Nicolas
along Y, you replace and it should be good. Finnaly, you have to turn your model in different position and replace the pointer at the right place. De : Edward A. Berry [ber...@upstate.edu] Envoyé : mardi 18 mars 2014 17:50 À : FOOS Nicolas; CCP4BB

Re: [ccp4bb] Determining concentration of membrane protein

2014-02-14 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Hi Raji, i the kit i used for this purpose was from Pierce it's call Protein BCA RAC assay. BCA : for the colorimetric parts, en ad the RAC is for Reducing agent compatibility. This RAC is also efficient with detergent. (according my remember) But you if you use at the same time detergent

Re: [ccp4bb] Determining concentration of membrane protein

2014-02-14 Thread FOOS Nicolas
The problem is that if you put detergent or reducing agent in Bradford or BCA, the reaction is complet also without protein. You can't determine the color gradient because every tubes are blue or purple. De : CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK]

Re: [ccp4bb] KD of dimerization, off topic

2014-02-14 Thread FOOS Nicolas
I agree with Dave, and i suggest one more method to estimate Kd, The intrinsic fluorescence of proteins thanks to the aromatic chain side. Maybe it's also possible to have an estimation with native gels if you use prot A concentration as fixed and B protein concentration as variable. I am not

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein Purification Problem

2014-01-30 Thread FOOS Nicolas
hello Andy, i have different questions about your problem : Is the hetero-dimer co-expressed ? Or the two partners are express separately ? Have you controlled where are you proteins after the lysis, because if you have many of your proteins in the pellet, it's not a good sign for the folding

Re: [ccp4bb] Docking model

2014-01-16 Thread FOOS Nicolas
Hi Thomas, maybe you can try to use AMBER programs. http://ambermd.org/ I think these programs allow you to use different forcefield to minimise the energy of your model. Hope to Help Nicolas De : CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] de la part