Re: [ccp4bb] Does anyone have used DelPhi to calculate the Electrostatic potentials of DNA ?

2012-07-11 Thread James Stroud
I think delphi doesn't need to know about connectivity, only the atom identities. So the distinction between DNA and protein should be irrelevant and thus the input files would be the same. If you just want to visualize the delphi EP, try this page:

[ccp4bb] Workshop on Advanced Protein Engineering Techniques 3rd P-CUBE User Meeting, Heidelberg, 22-24 Oct 2012

2012-07-11 Thread Darren Hart
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[ccp4bb] sulphur bridge

2012-07-11 Thread amro selem
Hallo every one, i am working on one enzyme who has sulphur bridge , is using 2 mercaptoethnol or DTT  during handling this protein for crystallography is not desirable . best regards Amr

Re: [ccp4bb] Does anyone have used DelPhi to calculate the Electrostatic potentials of DNA ?

2012-07-11 Thread Eleanor Dodson
On 11 Jul 2012, at 03:36, dengzq1987 don't understand the question really. What DELPHI do you mean? Many programs output DELPHI (refmac, SigmaA etc ) and they are usually used as input to a difference map using FFT Eleanor Hi all, recently,I want to use DelPhi to calculate the

[ccp4bb] Punctuation etc.

2012-07-11 Thread Patrick Shaw Stewart
Could I make a request? Could people who ask questions to the bb possibly lay out their questions clearly, capitalize the word I and use the correct punctuation such as question marks? It makes it so much easier to read, and - this is more important - you will get more helpful responses if you

Re: [ccp4bb] Does anyone have used DelPhi to calculate the Electrostatic potentials of DNA ?

2012-07-11 Thread Steiner, Roberto
Dear Eleanor I (capital!) believe the original poster means http://compbio.clemson.edu/delphi.php Best wishes Roberto On 11 Jul 2012, at 09:54, Eleanor Dodson wrote: On 11 Jul 2012, at 03:36, dengzq1987 don't understand the question really. What DELPHI do you mean? Many programs output

Re: [ccp4bb] PS: Chiral volume outliers SO4

2012-07-11 Thread Ian Tickle
HI Joe This and similar cases should be changed in the library from _chem_comp_chir.volume_sign = 'negative' (or 'positive') to 'both'. Then if you're concerned about the standardisation of the atom labelling you can always swap the labels of 2 atoms in the PDB file, but at least with 'both'

Re: [ccp4bb] Chiral volume outliers SO4

2012-07-11 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Joel, out of curiosity: what is the Chiral volume outliers issue? Cheers, Tim On 07/11/12 01:00, Joel Tyndall wrote: Hi people, We are refining a structure with sulfates and we are getting the Chiral volume outliers issue. I understand

Re: [ccp4bb] Chiral volume outliers SO4

2012-07-11 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Well - the problem may well be here - in the REFMAC dictionary (see $CLIBD/monomers.s.SO4.cif ) the chiral volume calculation uses at the order of the O numbering around the S atom . So if your O numbering is not right handed you will have the chiral volume calculated as positive, not negative.

[ccp4bb] FE-Sulfur proteins

2012-07-11 Thread Jan Rashid Umar
Dear All, I will be grateful to your suggestions about Iron-Sulfur cluster protein purification. My colleague has some problems with the purification and it seems that the iron-sulfur cluster might be deformed, and protein is aggregated. The purification is done under aerobic (normal condition),

Re: [ccp4bb] sulphur bridge

2012-07-11 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Amr, Every protein is different, so one cannot make a general remark. However, in my experience disulfide bonds are normally not affected by mercaptoethanol or DTT. I have had one protein where the disulfide bonds were not made, likely because the protein was produced in E.coli. However,

[ccp4bb] Too many symmetry molecules LINKed in refmac 5.5.0109

2012-07-11 Thread Martin Moche
Dear colleagues, When using the LINK command in refmac5 version 5.5.0109 between symmetry related molecules as below LINK PDC B 1191.61O3' DA B 125 1555 2555 p LINKO3' DA B 1251.61 PDC B 119 1555 3555 p LINK PDG C 209

Re: [ccp4bb] Chiral volume outliers SO4

2012-07-11 Thread Robbie Joosten
Hi Joel, I prefer the swapping of atom names, which is pretty much what the program chiron does, over hacking the restraint file. The latter makes the problem reappear as soon as you use your PDB file on a machine with an 'unhacked' restraint file. @Ian: You'd be surprised how well Refmac

Re: [ccp4bb] sulphur bridge

2012-07-11 Thread Allan Pang
Dear Amr, Same here. I didn't put DTT or any reducing agent in my buffer. I got crystals of this protein. Allan Quoting herman.schreu...@sanofi.com: Dear Amr, Every protein is different, so one cannot make a general remark. However, in my experience disulfide bonds are normally not

Re: [ccp4bb] Chiral volume outliers SO4

2012-07-11 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In ccp4-6.3.0, the chiral volume of SO4 is marked as 'both'. SO4 chir_01 S O1 O2 O3both Tim On 07/11/12 12:39, Robbie Joosten wrote: Hi Joel, I prefer the swapping of atom names, which is pretty much what the

Re: [ccp4bb] Chiral volume outliers SO4

2012-07-11 Thread Ian Tickle
On 11 July 2012 11:39, Robbie Joosten robbie_joos...@hotmail.com wrote: @Ian: You’d be surprised how well Refmac can flatten sulfates if you have a chiral volume outlier (see Figure 1d in Acta Cryst. D68: 484-496 (2012)). But this is only because the 'negative' volume sign was erroneously used

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2012-07-11 Thread Messias, Ana, Dr.
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Re: [ccp4bb] Chiral volume outliers SO4

2012-07-11 Thread Robbie Joosten
Hi Ian, @Ian: You'd be surprised how well Refmac can flatten sulfates if you have a chiral volume outlier (see Figure 1d in Acta Cryst. D68: 484-496 (2012)). But this is only because the 'negative' volume sign was erroneously used in the chiral restraint instead of 'both' (or better

[ccp4bb] 2 post-doctoral positions in virus crystallography

2012-07-11 Thread Pavel Plevka
Dear all, two post-doctoral positions are available in Pavel Plevka's group at Ceitec in the Czech Republic: http://www.ceitec.eu/programs/structural-biology/x-ray-crystallography-ii/ The projects involve x-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy of human viruses. If you are

[ccp4bb] Mercury phenylglyoxal

2012-07-11 Thread Vijay Reddy
Hello all, Could someone please advise me on where to purchase Mercury Phenylglyoxal from? Many thanks, Vijay Vijay S. Reddy, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Molecular Biology, TPC6 The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines

Re: [ccp4bb] FE-Sulfur proteins

2012-07-11 Thread Kelly Daughtry
Jan, Do you express the protein with the *E. coli isc* iron-sulfur cluster synthetic operon? I found great success, see: Daughtry, KD et. al. JACS 2012 http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ja2111898 - Kelly Daughtry *** Kelly Daughtry, Ph.D.

Re: [ccp4bb] sulphur bridge

2012-07-11 Thread Edwin Pozharski
If you need reducing agent, the best choice is probably TCEP. If you are to choose between the BME and DTT, I'd recommend DTT, since BME tends to modify cysteines (sometimes in active site which may be quite annoying, although post-crystallization DTT soaks can remove some of these). On the

Re: [ccp4bb] Mercury phenylglyoxal

2012-07-11 Thread David Briggs
Hi Vijay, Not an answer to your question, but I tried and failed to source any about 10 years ago. I had a chemist friend try to make some following the a protocol we found on the web - which didn't work. The consensus on the ccp4bb back then was that it was a bit of mythical beast, and I never

Re: [ccp4bb] off topic detection of oligomerisation

2012-07-11 Thread Carlos Kikuti
Urea?!?!? My arm hair went up. Anyways, DLS (Dynamic Light Scattering) might help. Hard to imagine something quicker and easier, provided that someone next to you already has a DLS machine. (sorry for the late answer) Carlos Em 26/06/2012, às 15:10, Brad Bennett escreveu: Native PAGE

Re: [ccp4bb] FE-Sulfur proteins

2012-07-11 Thread Edward A. Berry
Good to know about this ISC operon! Do you know if it is specific for Rieske-type His2/Cys2 Fe2S2 clusters, or for FeS clusters in general? Thus wild-type E. coli is already making three types of ISC clusters for succinate dehydrogenase or fumarate reductase (although some help might be needed

Re: [ccp4bb] Mercury phenylglyoxal

2012-07-11 Thread Patrick Loll
I second the mythical conclusion. We also tried to make it and failed 10-15 yrs ago (we came up with the di-iodo compound, if I recall). Many of these organomercurials are really tough to handle; I suspect that even if we had succeeded in making the desired compound, it would have been as

Re: [ccp4bb] Mercury phenylglyoxal

2012-07-11 Thread Vijay Reddy
Okay, that settles it. Thank you David and Pat for sharing the knowledge and wisdom. Kind regards, Vijay On Jul 11, 2012, at 6:43 AM, Patrick Loll wrote: I second the mythical conclusion. We also tried to make it and failed 10-15 yrs ago (we came up with the di-iodo compound, if I

Re: [ccp4bb] FE-Sulfur proteins

2012-07-11 Thread Kelly Daughtry
I *believe* that the ISC operon is utilized in E. coli for all FeS clusters, regardless if Rieske or not. I know that when deleted, activity of FeS containing proteins (succinate dehydrogenase and Glutamate synthase) greatly decreases. See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11432781 Thus it

[ccp4bb] Disulphide bonds and closed conformation

2012-07-11 Thread Jan Rashid Umar
Dear all, I am working on a protein where I have to stabilize the closed conformation of the protein using disulphide bond. The strategy to design the cysteine mutants is based on the molecular dynamic simulations, and accordingly the residues were chosen. The ultimate goal is to trap the ligand

Re: [ccp4bb] Disulphide bonds and closed conformation

2012-07-11 Thread Kelly Daughtry
Jan, If the Cys residues are accessible, you could try DTNB to quantify the number of Cys, thus determining if they are reduced or bridged. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellman's_reagent Kelly *** Kelly Daughtry, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Fellow,

Re: [ccp4bb] Disulphide bonds and closed conformation

2012-07-11 Thread Allan Pang
Ellman's assay may help you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellman's_reagent http://www.piercenet.com/instructions/2160311.pdf Allan Quoting Jan Rashid Umar jan...@googlemail.com: Dear all, I am working on a protein where I have to stabilize the closed conformation of the protein using

Re: [ccp4bb] Disulphide bonds and closed conformation

2012-07-11 Thread Dr. Lorenzo Finci
Jan, I agree that the DTNB assay (Ellman's Reagent) can be used to quantify exposed Cysteines. Alternatively, you could do site directed mutagenesis and mutate significant amino acids responsible for the conformational change from the open to the closed state, with hopes to lock the protein

Re: [ccp4bb] Mercury phenylglyoxal

2012-07-11 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
http://www.thermoscientific.com/ecomm/servlet/productsdetail_11152___13721198_-1 Is this what you're looking for? Thierry Hello all, Could someone please advise me on where to purchase Mercury Phenylglyoxal from? Many thanks, Vijay Vijay S.

Re: [ccp4bb] FE-Sulfur proteins

2012-07-11 Thread Colbert, Christopher
Hi Jan, How is the Fe-S cluster deformed? What is the evidence? Has your colleague done Fe and S analysis? There is a lot of missing information to this question that prevents a much more thorough answer. Is the protein membrane associated? Part of a larger complex? Besides the Fe-S

Re: [ccp4bb] FE-Sulfur proteins

2012-07-11 Thread Bosch, Juergen
Have you looked at a UV-vis scan, there are some characteristic bumps you should see depending on the state of your FeS cluster, plus you can monitor if oxidation occurs over time. If I remember it correctly 322 nm is where you want to look at. Jürgen On Jul 11, 2012, at 6:22 AM, Jan Rashid

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Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal Optimization

2012-07-11 Thread Muhammed bashir Khan
Dear All, Thanks alot for your valuable suggestion.I hope I will find out the solution now. As far as to giveup is out of question Thanks once agin Regards; Bashir On Wed, July 11, 2012 05:25, Tuhin Bhowmick wrote: Dear Muhammad, I had a similar case, and the crystals could indeed be

Re: [ccp4bb] One little clash

2012-07-11 Thread James Stroud
It looks like dityrosine, usually caused by radiation damage (I think UV is the usual culprit).http://www.nugowiki.org/images/thumb/c/ca/HMDB06045.png/220px-HMDB06045.pngJamesOn Jul 11, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Lukacs, Christine wrote:Hi all-I have a protein that crystallizes in I422, and diffracts well,

Re: [ccp4bb] One little clash

2012-07-11 Thread James Stroud
The hydroxyls were on the wrong carbons in the previous picture I sent. These are correct.JamesOn Jul 11, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Lukacs, Christine wrote:Hi all-I have a protein that crystallizes in I422, and diffracts well, between 1.3-1.7A. Beautiful density, slightly higher final R-factors than you