Re: [ccp4bb] Protein rapidly precipitates when off ice

2017-07-14 Thread Vicky Tsirkone
Dear all, I will give my advice once again and hopefully you will discuss on it the next 2 days :P Chris might be worth trying a 2ndary or 3ary structure prediction tool to ensure that you do not have f.i. flexible ends. Disordered regions may lead to this kind of issues, as well. Personally I

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein rapidly precipitates when off ice

2017-07-14 Thread Debanu Das
Hi, I was in Sung-Hou Kim's group when this work below was performed and published and I also tried it out on many occasions. Elegant piece of work and certainly worth trying. Aside from the suggestions of trying different pH and related optimum solubility screening and if higher salt and

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein rapidly precipitates when off ice

2017-07-14 Thread Mark J van Raaij
I'd try varying the pH independent of the theoretical pI, sometimes the real pI is very different. (I've worked on a protein with theoretical pI 9.2, real pI determined by iso-electric focussing 7.8). I'd also try limited proteolysis on the milky sample and see if you can solubilise it while a

[ccp4bb] Announcement of the Congress "ICG - Italian Crystal Growth"

2017-07-14 Thread Marjolein Thunnissen
On behalf of the organising committee I would like to publicise the upcoming third edition of the Congress "ICG - Italian Crystal Growth", which will be held the next Fall on November 20-21, 2017 at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca in Milan (Italy). For some years now, this Conference

Re: [ccp4bb] Fine Phi Slicing

2017-07-14 Thread Harry Powell
hi folks Just my two ha'porth - the small molecule crystallographers have been doing multi-orientation data collections since they moved from point detectors to area detectors in the early 1990's, for the very reasons that Gerard gives (their cusps are huge compared to ours...). Since they

Re: [ccp4bb] Fine Phi Slicing

2017-07-14 Thread CHAVAS Leonard
Just to comment on what Graeme just introduced. We (and I know we are not the first ones and not the only ones) are pushing our user community towards this procedure as a standard: lowering the transmission (less juicy, yet...) and getting few data with various chi. It does help greatly in

Re: [ccp4bb] Fine Phi Slicing

2017-07-14 Thread CHAVAS Leonard
Attenuation... cut the beam with primary slits! We do not use attenuators, only for getting very very low when performing energy scans. Else, cutting the flux at the source is somehow much more reliable. Not mentioning scattering coming from the attenuators as well... Cheers, leo - Leonard

Re: [ccp4bb] Fine Phi Slicing

2017-07-14 Thread CHAVAS Leonard
Reading back my email, when I mentioned 'just introduced', it is not giving justice to the reality and those who came up with the concept. I should have mentioned 'just reminded us', as the concept has been introduced quite a long time ago and few tens of communications. It is therefore a

Re: [ccp4bb] Fine Phi Slicing

2017-07-14 Thread stenkamp
I'm not understanding much of this discussion, but I've noticed the use of words reminiscent of old issues concerning omega-two theta scans on four-circle goniostats (see Stout and Jensen, pages 168-173, second edition). p.s. In my upbringing, crystals were placed on goniometer heads so they

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein rapidly precipitates when off ice

2017-07-14 Thread Chun Luo
Hi Chris, Does you protein polymerize? We had examples that protein solution turned turbid at high temperature and become aggregates. We also had proteins precipitated on ice but not at 4C. Sometimes not much protein loss after clearance. Looks like your Ni-NTA buffer (500 mM NaCl, 30 mM

Re: [ccp4bb] Fine Phi Slicing

2017-07-14 Thread Diana Tomchick
And the instrument makers (e.g., Rigaku and Bruker) currently sell multi-axis goniostats for in-house data collection--and not just for small-molecule purposes. Diana P.S. Ron, we still call 'em goniometer heads and goniostats at UT Southwestern. > On Jul 14, 2017, at 1:00 PM,

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein rapidly precipitates when off ice

2017-07-14 Thread Zhang, Yuzhu
I did not follow all the responses to this, but, did you try to use the Ni-NTA buffer (500 mM NaCl, 30 mM HEPES pH 7.5, 10% glycerol) to run the gel filtration? Yuzhu. From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Chris Fage Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 3:33 AM To:

[ccp4bb] Phenix version 1.12 released

2017-07-14 Thread Paul Adams
The Phenix developers are pleased to announce that version 1.12 of Phenix is now available (build 1.12-2829). Binary installers for Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows platforms are available at the download site: http://phenix-online.org/download/ Highlights for this version: New tools for

[ccp4bb] Pilatus Issues

2017-07-14 Thread John Hardin
Hi, We have recently noticed an issue with our Pilatus (biased pixels/vertical lines). I was curious as to whether anyone else has seen this or might know what could have caused it? Best, John

[ccp4bb] postdoc opportunities in cryo-EM and in vito reconstitution

2017-07-14 Thread Lars-Anders Carlson
Dear all, We have two open postdoc fellowships in my group at Umeå University, Sweden. Each of the projects could be suitable for a person with background in X-ray crystallography and biochemistry eager to expand their methods scope to single particle cryo-EM and/or membrane reconstitution

Re: [ccp4bb] Fine Phi Slicing

2017-07-14 Thread Gerard Bricogne
Dear Leo, What seems to have happened is that an existing thread where fine phi (actually: omega!) slicing was discussed, among many other things, digressed into a discussion of data collection protocols using more than one instrumental setting (either using a 2-theta motion of the detector,

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein rapidly precipitates when off ice

2017-07-14 Thread Chris Fage
Dear All, Thank you for the many suggestions. After sending my first message to the BB, I tried exchanging the sample into buffer containing 5 mM EDTA and also into buffer at pH 9.0 (using BICINE). Neither of these appear to have helped the instability--precipitation still occurred within ~1 min

Re: [ccp4bb] Fine Phi Slicing

2017-07-14 Thread Keller, Jacob
Hi Graeme, I see your point about the blind region and also the tile lines. But 2-theta would have the advantage of also shifting the low-res spots to entirely new pixels, which would be harder through rotation. Also, wouldn't rotating about the beam axis shift the spots to variable degrees