Hello, my numpty-level understanding is that being intrinsically disorder and 
giving high-resolution structural data are mutually exclusive. I will re-read 
your e-mails. Hope this helps. Cheers, Jon.C.

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On 15 Aug 2021, 09:16, Sorin Draga wrote:

> Hello Ethan,
>
> Thank you for the suggestions. I should have mentioned in my initial post 
> that my intention is to first conduct a high throughput virtual screening on 
> these proteins, thus I would need high "resolution" of the structures which 
> SAXS could not provide, as far as I understand.
> SAXS/SAS might become useful at a later stage, when I have a small number of 
> potential inhibitors identified.
> Kind regards,
> Sorin
>
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 5:55 PM Ethan A Merritt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It is possible that you could address some of your questions
>> more quickly and much more cheaply by small-angle scattering,
>> either light (SAS) or X-ray (SAXS).
>>
>> I would suggest looking into those avenues first.
>>
>> If you have well behaved (i.e. non-aggregating) purified proein
>> and access to synchrotron beam time (easily requested),
>> a series of SAXS experiments could probably be conducted in one day.
>> I don't want to oversell SAXS, I'm not really an enthusiast.
>> But this case, categorizing the interaction of two poorly ordered proteins
>> in solution and in particular the facilitation or disruption of this
>> interaction by small molecules, should be well within its scope.
>>
>> best
>>
>> Ethan
>>
>> On Saturday, 14 August 2021 14:12:40 PDT Sorin Draga wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I do realize that this is not a NMR focused group, but I do hope that there
>>> are a few spectroscopists lurking around that could possibly answer a few
>>> questions (I am more of a modeler/computationalist):
>>>
>>> The problem: I have two intrinsically disordered proteins that are known to
>>> interact (let's call them 1 and 2). I would like to get structural
>>> information (a conformational ensemble) for 1 and for the "complex" (1+2).
>>> Further down the line (depending on whether this is possible) I would also
>>> like to evaluate potential small molecule inhibitors for the said complex.
>>> Both 1 and 2 are <200 aminoacids long.
>>>
>>> The questions:
>>>
>>> 1. Could the cost of determining the "structure" for 1 and 1+2 be
>>> estimated? To be more precise, I am looking for a ball-park figure on how
>>> much a NMR measurement would cost in this case.
>>> 2. Could anyone recommend a good group/CRO that could provide such a
>>> service and not have an astronomical cost?
>>> 3. Any other suggestions/thoughts that you think might be worth mentioning
>>> (minimum quantity of protein necessary, purity, type of NMR etc)
>>>
>>> Many thanks for your help and time!
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> Sorin
>>>
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>> --
>> Ethan A Merritt
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