Re: [ccp4bb] Does MicroED (microcrystal electron diffraction) have phase problem ?

2020-08-16 Thread Edward A. Berry
For my own info, Does microED encompass work with 2D crystals, or only micro-3D crystals? On 08/15/2020 10:40 PM, Jessica Bruhn wrote: Hi Alex, Welcome to the field of microED! From a practical standpoint, microED also suffers from the phase problem, and somewhat moreso compared to X-ray

Re: [ccp4bb] polarizer

2020-08-16 Thread Alexander Aleshin
Ethan, Thank you for describing existence of two types of polarizers. I use two crystal imagers/incubators, a smaller machine is easy to adjust to compensate for birefringence of plastic plates/covers, another is more capricious and the compensation is uneven over a plate. Company engineers

Re: [ccp4bb] polarizer

2020-08-16 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Sunday, 16 August 2020 12:14:59 PDT Diana Tomchick wrote: > If only glass is placed between the polarizer and analyzer, the crystal will > not show artificial colors (try it in a 9-well Pyrex depression plate). The > artificial colors come from the diffraction of visible light from the

Re: [ccp4bb] polarizer

2020-08-16 Thread Diana Tomchick
If only glass is placed between the polarizer and analyzer, the crystal will not show artificial colors (try it in a 9-well Pyrex depression plate). The artificial colors come from the diffraction of visible light from the plastic ware, which depending upon the type of plastic and the way the

Re: [ccp4bb] polarizer

2020-08-16 Thread Nukri Sanishvili
Hi All, Adding some more details to what's been said already. Only because I've seen too many times the polarizers being used incorrectly. First, you need two polarization filters which are typically called polarizer and analyzer. First one (the polarizer) lets through only the light waves of a

Re: [ccp4bb] polarizer

2020-08-16 Thread Boniecki, Michal
You need to have crystal between polarizing plates. If you use only one on the top (close to your eye) and rotate filter you will “filter/polarize” all the light coming to your eye. What you need to buy is polarizing filter sheet (linear) which you place under your crystal and another one (the

Re: [ccp4bb] polarizer

2020-08-16 Thread V Nagarajan
Hi, place a linear polarizer below the tray and one above it, rotating the top one until you get the desired view. V. Nagarajan JANSi On 8/16/2020 8:26 AM, Diana Tomchick wrote: It's my understanding that you have two polarizers on your polarizer-microscope--one in the base, and the one

Re: [ccp4bb] polarizer

2020-08-16 Thread Diana Tomchick
It's my understanding that you have two polarizers on your polarizer-microscope--one in the base, and the one that attaches to the magnifying lens. When you rotate the one on the lens so that it is 90 degrees to the one in the base, no (or very little) light should pass through to your eyes,

[ccp4bb] polarizer

2020-08-16 Thread Matthias Zeug
Hi all, The polarizer-microscope in our facility is not working properly, and I have to check my plates using a standard stereo-microscope. As a workaround, I thought about buying one at Amazon, placing it on top of the plates and rotating it to still test for birefringence. The product is

[ccp4bb] ADP-Glo assay vs Kinase Glo assay? Or an assay for weak kinase activity?

2020-08-16 Thread Saif Mohd
Greetings everyone, I am looking for an assay suitable to detect atleast, 500nM to 1mM ATP hydrolysis. My Kinase has a very weak activity. The signal should be good enough (also must be duplicated) to have good signal/noise and Z´values. I want to use the assay for Inhibitor screening. Then the