Re: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

2021-07-01 Thread Steven Herron

Fatty acids are very soluble in glycerol or the PEGs.

Most proteins tolerate high concentrations (30-50%) glycerol and PEGs.� 
So, it is quite possible to make a solution that will allow the protein 
crsytal and the ligand to both be in the same solution.


One of my former colleagues was in charge of dosing mice for drug 
testing.� He often had to get hydrophobic compounds into solution long 
enough to feed the compounds to the mice.


If the key compound is not soluble in the current system, change the 
system.


Some might complain that this is a lot of work (which it might be), but 
that might also be why no one else has done it yet.




On 6/23/2021 5:53 AM, Tim Gruene wrote:

Hi Frank,

heme becomes near completely insoluble when it dimerizes. Fatty acids
are also very insoluble. It is quite hard to get them into HSA, as far
as I remember.

Cheers,
Tim

On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:33:42 +0100 Frank von
Delft  wrote:


And then of course, you need to decide whether you at all care to
know anything about a compound that is so insoluble that it needs
that kind of treatment  :)

On 23/06/2021 09:52, hoh wrote:

Hi

As total insolubility does not exist, I regularly use another
method, which is to deposit a grain of the ligand directly into the
drop.

In this case, we no longer control the concentration. The goal is
to regularly freeze crystals (1 hour, 2 days, 1 week ..). Depending
on the results, it is possible to adjust the time. If after one
hour, the crystal no longer diffracts, redo the experience by
freezing at 10s, 30s, 2mn ..). If a blob appears, frozen after 1
week. This technique needs 2 things
, time and several exploitable crystals in the drop.


FH
  



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Re: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

2021-06-23 Thread Tim Gruene
Hi Frank,

heme becomes near completely insoluble when it dimerizes. Fatty acids
are also very insoluble. It is quite hard to get them into HSA, as far
as I remember.

Cheers,
Tim

On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:33:42 +0100 Frank von
Delft  wrote:

> And then of course, you need to decide whether you at all care to
> know anything about a compound that is so insoluble that it needs
> that kind of treatment  :)
> 
> On 23/06/2021 09:52, hoh wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > As total insolubility does not exist, I regularly use another
> > method, which is to deposit a grain of the ligand directly into the
> > drop.
> >
> > In this case, we no longer control the concentration. The goal is
> > to regularly freeze crystals (1 hour, 2 days, 1 week ..). Depending
> > on the results, it is possible to adjust the time. If after one
> > hour, the crystal no longer diffracts, redo the experience by
> > freezing at 10s, 30s, 2mn ..). If a blob appears, frozen after 1
> > week. This technique needs 2 things
> > , time and several exploitable crystals in the drop.
> >
> >
> > FH
> >  
> 
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Re: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

2021-06-23 Thread Frank von Delft
And then of course, you need to decide whether you at all care to know 
anything about a compound that is so insoluble that it needs that kind 
of treatment  :)


On 23/06/2021 09:52, hoh wrote:

Hi

As total insolubility does not exist, I regularly use another method, 
which is to deposit a grain of the ligand directly into the drop.


In this case, we no longer control the concentration. The goal is to 
regularly freeze crystals (1 hour, 2 days, 1 week ..). Depending on 
the results, it is possible to adjust the time. If after one hour, the 
crystal no longer diffracts, redo the experience by freezing at 10s, 
30s, 2mn ..). If a blob appears, frozen after 1 week. This technique 
needs 2 things

, time and several exploitable crystals in the drop.


FH





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[ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

2021-06-23 Thread hoh

Hi

As total insolubility does not exist, I regularly use another method, 
which is to deposit a grain of the ligand directly into the drop.


In this case, we no longer control the concentration. The goal is to 
regularly freeze crystals (1 hour, 2 days, 1 week ..). Depending on the 
results, it is possible to adjust the time. If after one hour, the 
crystal no longer diffracts, redo the experience by freezing at 10s, 
30s, 2mn ..). If a blob appears, frozen after 1 week. This technique 
needs 2 things

, time and several exploitable crystals in the drop.


FH

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Re: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

2021-06-22 Thread Steven Herron


Dear Gourab,

Sorry for the delayed response, I missed your message earlier.

Can you grow the protein crystals easily (do you have lots of them)?

Is your ligand soluble in PEG, MPD, or Solutol?

Often, you can exchange the crystal solution without destroying the 
crystal.  But, you have to match the water activity of the original 
growth solution with the new solution.  This way you could get your 
ligand into one of these non-salt solutions and then move a crystal from 
your grow solution into the new solution with your ligand.  This would 
expose your crystal to the ligand.


Obviously, you will probably burn through several crystals to see what 
PEG, MPD, of Solutol concentration your crystals will tolerate.  To some 
degree, this is no different than hunting for the best cryo-condition.  
Thus, I would see which solution your ligand prefers first, so you can 
limit your crystal trials.


I worked on an enzyme that required calcium for activity, but we could 
only grow the crystals in ammonium sulfate.  I was able to exchange the 
crystal growth solution for a PEG solution.  The protein has some 
affinity for the sulfate ions, so the exchange needed to be done over a 
~4 hour period of time.  If I went faster, the sulfate would remain in 
the crystal channels and would precipitate when exposed to calcium.  It 
was tedious working this out, but it was essential for everything else 
that came later.


Steven Herron [sherron_...@yahoo.com]


On 4/23/2021 11:40 PM, Gourab Basu Choudhury wrote:
I tried sokaing ,high concentration of DMSO is effecting crystal, so I 
tried other contidtion where 10%DMSO is there. Got 1.9 A data with 
protein co crystalization with 10mM ligand. But ligand occupancy is 
not visble.
 I got the KD value from ITC, with reverse titration. With 10uM ligand 
in cell and 150uM protein in syringe. .


Can anybody suggest some views.please feel free to share your experiences.

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 10:49 AM Peat, Tom (Manufacturing, Parkville) 
 wrote:


Hello Gourab,

DMSO is not the only possible solvent- there are others to try.
I don't want to sound negative, but 40 micromolar is not a very
tight binding compound. It would also depend on how that binding
constant was measured- how did someone get enough in solution to
measure that?
Best of luck, tom

Tom Peat, PhD
Proteins Group
Biomedical Program, CSIRO
343 Royal Parade
Parkville, VIC, 3052
+613 9662 7304
+614 57 539 419
tom.p...@csiro.au


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Hello everyone,
I am finding it difficult for getting a ligand density inside the
protein as the ligand is very much insoluble. It's only soluble in
100% DMSO. I tried for co crystalization. Kd value of the ligand
is near 40um. Any suggestion what to do?



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Re: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

2021-04-26 Thread David Briggs
These are my go-to review articles for ideas for getting a ligand into a 
crystal.

https://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0907444906047020

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5297911/

I have also seen a talk where someone successfully dissolved their 
water-insoluble ligand in Octan-1-ol, and layered that solution over the drop 
after crystals had grown. They incubated for X period of time (I don't recall) 
froze the crystals and found the ligand had diffused into the crystals and was 
in the active site.

Maybe someone else knows of the/a paper describing this?

Hope this helps,

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Hello everyone,

I am finding it difficult for getting a ligand density inside the protein as 
the ligand is very much insoluble. It's only soluble in 100% DMSO. I tried for 
co crystalization. Kd value of the ligand is near 40um. Any suggestion what to 
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Re: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

2021-04-26 Thread Bernhard Spingler
Dear Gourab,
You might just want to add the ligand in pure, solid form to the edge of the 
crystallization drop. This worked in our case beautifully (see Angew. Chem. 
Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 3354). We had to soak it for 4 weeks.
Good luck!
Best regards
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Re: [ccp4bb] Sv: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

2021-04-25 Thread Amit Meir

Some ligands/ small molecules solubility is pH- dependent. (E.g. biotin, EDTA)
Try adjusting the pH (it doesn't have to be accurate, just use a pH
paper if you have very small volumes). It might help you out to
improve ligand solubility (and binding with your protein).
Also, not to ruin the party, but have you done a base line ITC
measurement (protein to buffer, no ligand) and substracted it from the
protein - ligand measurement? It might improve your calculated kd
slightly, or, alas, you'll realise the measured affinity was due to
protein's denaturing upon interaction with the solvent.

Good luck,
Amit


Quoting Jon Cooper <488a26d62010-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk>:


I realised afterwards that this might be an experimental example of
desperately trying to turn a negative result into a positive one,
which is something that has been discussed here recently (sorry,
Dale) ;-0 ;-0

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On 24 Apr 2021, 14:33, Jon Cooper wrote:


If you want to try co-crystallisation again, if you dissolve your
ligand in say DMSO or anything that works, e.g. isopropanol, then
add it to your protein up to its maximum tolerable level (i.e. the
level up to which the protein is not denatured/inactivated by the
solvent - you need to test this), the ligand will start to
precipitate out on a grand scale but don't worry, stir the mix at
4°C for a couple of days so that the ligand can slowly partition
into the protein binding sites, hopefully. Then you can dialyse out
the organic solvent and/or use one of the spin concentrators to
remove it and concentrate the protein for crystallisation. There
will be tons of precipitated ligand which you can centrifuge out
whenever necessary.

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On 24 Apr 2021, 13:08, abhimanyu singh wrote:


You may soak the crystals with ligands in maximum tolerable DMSO
percentage and harvest crystals at different time points. In my
experience working with some poor affinity, highly hydrophobic
compounds, it may take up-to several days for the ligand to bind
with good occupancy (in one instance it was four days). This may
also depend on the crystal soaking/growth temperature.
Ethylene glycol is a good alternative to DMSO in some cases, which
might particularly be helpful in co-crystallisation experiments.

Greetings,
Abhi

On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 at 09:11, Casper Wilkens
<5d34ab0aef35-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote:


How long did you wait before freezing the crystal? Sometimes I
have to wait days before the ligand finds it way into the binding
site.

Casper Wilkens
Asst. Prof.
Structural Enzymology & Biorefining
DTU Bioengineering

Technical University of Denmark

Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine
Søltofts Plads
Building 224
Room 028
2800 Kgs. Lyngby
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Emne: Re: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

I tried sokaing ,high concentration of DMSO is effecting crystal,
so I tried other contidtion where 10%DMSO is there. Got 1.9 A
data with protein co crystalization with 10mM ligand. But ligand
occupancy is not visble.
I got the KD value from ITC, with reverse titration. With 10uM
ligand in cell and 150uM protein in syringe. .

Can anybody suggest some views.please feel free to share your experiences.

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 10:49 AM Peat, Tom (Manufacturing,
Parkville)  wrote:


Hello Gourab,

DMSO is not the only possible solvent- there are others to try.
I don't want to sound negative, but 40 micromolar is not a very
tight binding compound. It would also depend on how that binding
constant was measured- how did someone get enough in solution to
measure that?
Best of luck, tom

Tom Peat, PhD
Proteins Group
Biomedical Program, CSIRO
[343 Royal
Parade](https://www.google.com/maps/search/343+Royal+Parade+%0D%0AParkville,+VIC,+3052?entry=gmail=g)
[Parkville, VIC,
3052](https://www.google.com/maps/search/343+Royal+Parade+%0D%0AParkville,+VIC,+3052?entry=gmail=g)
+613 9662 7304
+614 57 539 419
tom.p...@csiro.au

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Subject: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

Hello everyone,

I am finding it difficult for getting a ligand density inside
the protein as the ligand is very much insoluble. It's only
soluble in 100% DMSO. I tried for co crystalization. Kd value of
the ligand is near 40um. Any sugge

Re: [ccp4bb] Sv: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

2021-04-25 Thread Jon Cooper
I realised afterwards that this might be an experimental example of desperately 
trying to turn a negative result into a positive one, which is something that 
has been discussed here recently (sorry, Dale) ;-0 ;-0

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 Original Message 
On 24 Apr 2021, 14:33, Jon Cooper wrote:

> If you want to try co-crystallisation again, if you dissolve your ligand in 
> say DMSO or anything that works, e.g. isopropanol, then add it to your 
> protein up to its maximum tolerable level (i.e. the level up to which the 
> protein is not denatured/inactivated by the solvent - you need to test this), 
> the ligand will start to precipitate out on a grand scale but don't worry, 
> stir the mix at 4°C for a couple of days so that the ligand can slowly 
> partition into the protein binding sites, hopefully. Then you can dialyse out 
> the organic solvent and/or use one of the spin concentrators to remove it and 
> concentrate the protein for crystallisation. There will be tons of 
> precipitated ligand which you can centrifuge out whenever necessary.
>
> Sent from ProtonMail mobile
>
>  Original Message 
> On 24 Apr 2021, 13:08, abhimanyu singh wrote:
>
>> You may soak the crystals with ligands in maximum tolerable DMSO percentage 
>> and harvest crystals at different time points. In my experience working with 
>> some poor affinity, highly hydrophobic compounds, it may take up-to several 
>> days for the ligand to bind with good occupancy (in one instance it was four 
>> days). This may also depend on the crystal soaking/growth temperature.
>> Ethylene glycol is a good alternative to DMSO in some cases, which might 
>> particularly be helpful in co-crystallisation experiments.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Abhi
>>
>> On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 at 09:11, Casper Wilkens 
>> <5d34ab0aef35-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> How long did you wait before freezing the crystal? Sometimes I have to wait 
>>> days before the ligand finds it way into the binding site.
>>>
>>> Casper Wilkens
>>> Asst. Prof.
>>> Structural Enzymology & Biorefining
>>> DTU Bioengineering
>>>
>>> Technical University of Denmark
>>>
>>> Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine
>>> Søltofts Plads
>>> Building 224
>>> Room 028
>>> 2800 Kgs. Lyngby
>>> [c...@dtu.dk](mailto:c...@bio.dtu.dk)
>>> www.bioengineering.dtu.dk/
>>> https://www.cazypedia.org/index.php/User:Casper_Wilkens
>>> https://twitter.com/protein_artist
>>> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Casper_Wilkens
>>> https://www.cazypedia.org/index.php/User:Casper_Wilkens
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Fra: CCP4 bulletin board  på vegne af Gourab Basu 
>>> Choudhury 
>>> Sendt: 24. april 2021 07:40:20
>>> Til: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>> Emne: Re: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.
>>>
>>> I tried sokaing ,high concentration of DMSO is effecting crystal, so I 
>>> tried other contidtion where 10%DMSO is there. Got 1.9 A data with protein 
>>> co crystalization with 10mM ligand. But ligand occupancy is not visble.
>>> I got the KD value from ITC, with reverse titration. With 10uM ligand in 
>>> cell and 150uM protein in syringe. .
>>>
>>> Can anybody suggest some views.please feel free to share your experiences.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 10:49 AM Peat, Tom (Manufacturing, Parkville) 
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Gourab,
>>>>
>>>> DMSO is not the only possible solvent- there are others to try.
>>>> I don't want to sound negative, but 40 micromolar is not a very tight 
>>>> binding compound. It would also depend on how that binding constant was 
>>>> measured- how did someone get enough in solution to measure that?
>>>> Best of luck, tom
>>>>
>>>> Tom Peat, PhD
>>>> Proteins Group
>>>> Biomedical Program, CSIRO
>>>> [343 Royal 
>>>> Parade](https://www.google.com/maps/search/343+Royal+Parade+%0D%0AParkville,+VIC,+3052?entry=gmail=g)
>>>> [Parkville, VIC, 
>>>> 3052](https://www.google.com/maps/search/343+Royal+Parade+%0D%0AParkville,+VIC,+3052?entry=gmail=g)
>>>> +613 9662 7304
>>>> +614 57 539 419
>>>> tom.p...@csiro.au
>>>>
>>>> ---

Re: [ccp4bb] Sv: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

2021-04-24 Thread Jon Cooper
If you want to try co-crystallisation again, if you dissolve your ligand in say 
DMSO or anything that works, e.g. isopropanol, then add it to your protein up 
to its maximum tolerable level (i.e. the level up to which the protein is not 
denatured/inactivated by the solvent - you need to test this), the ligand will 
start to precipitate out on a grand scale but don't worry, stir the mix at 4°C 
for a couple of days so that the ligand can slowly partition into the protein 
binding sites, hopefully. Then you can dialyse out the organic solvent and/or 
use one of the spin concentrators to remove it and concentrate the protein for 
crystallisation. There will be tons of precipitated ligand which you can 
centrifuge out whenever necessary.

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 Original Message 
On 24 Apr 2021, 13:08, abhimanyu singh wrote:

> You may soak the crystals with ligands in maximum tolerable DMSO percentage 
> and harvest crystals at different time points. In my experience working with 
> some poor affinity, highly hydrophobic compounds, it may take up-to several 
> days for the ligand to bind with good occupancy (in one instance it was four 
> days). This may also depend on the crystal soaking/growth temperature.
> Ethylene glycol is a good alternative to DMSO in some cases, which might 
> particularly be helpful in co-crystallisation experiments.
>
> Greetings,
> Abhi
>
> On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 at 09:11, Casper Wilkens 
> <5d34ab0aef35-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> How long did you wait before freezing the crystal? Sometimes I have to wait 
>> days before the ligand finds it way into the binding site.
>>
>> Casper Wilkens
>> Asst. Prof.
>> Structural Enzymology & Biorefining
>> DTU Bioengineering
>>
>> Technical University of Denmark
>>
>> Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine
>> Søltofts Plads
>> Building 224
>> Room 028
>> 2800 Kgs. Lyngby
>> [c...@dtu.dk](mailto:c...@bio.dtu.dk)
>> www.bioengineering.dtu.dk/
>> https://www.cazypedia.org/index.php/User:Casper_Wilkens
>> https://twitter.com/protein_artist
>> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Casper_Wilkens
>> https://www.cazypedia.org/index.php/User:Casper_Wilkens
>>
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>>
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>> Sendt: 24. april 2021 07:40:20
>> Til: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Emne: Re: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.
>>
>> I tried sokaing ,high concentration of DMSO is effecting crystal, so I tried 
>> other contidtion where 10%DMSO is there. Got 1.9 A data with protein co 
>> crystalization with 10mM ligand. But ligand occupancy is not visble.
>> I got the KD value from ITC, with reverse titration. With 10uM ligand in 
>> cell and 150uM protein in syringe. .
>>
>> Can anybody suggest some views.please feel free to share your experiences.
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 10:49 AM Peat, Tom (Manufacturing, Parkville) 
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Gourab,
>>>
>>> DMSO is not the only possible solvent- there are others to try.
>>> I don't want to sound negative, but 40 micromolar is not a very tight 
>>> binding compound. It would also depend on how that binding constant was 
>>> measured- how did someone get enough in solution to measure that?
>>> Best of luck, tom
>>>
>>> Tom Peat, PhD
>>> Proteins Group
>>> Biomedical Program, CSIRO
>>> [343 Royal 
>>> Parade](https://www.google.com/maps/search/343+Royal+Parade+%0D%0AParkville,+VIC,+3052?entry=gmail=g)
>>> [Parkville, VIC, 
>>> 3052](https://www.google.com/maps/search/343+Royal+Parade+%0D%0AParkville,+VIC,+3052?entry=gmail=g)
>>> +613 9662 7304
>>> +614 57 539 419
>>> tom.p...@csiro.au
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> From: CCP4 bulletin board  on behalf of Gourab Basu 
>>> Choudhury 
>>> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2021 12:46 PM
>>> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
>>> Subject: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.
>>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I am finding it difficult for getting a ligand density inside the protein 
>>> as the ligand is very much insoluble. It's only soluble in 100% DMSO. I 
>>> tried for co crystalization. Kd value of the ligand is near 40um. Any 
>>> suggestion what to do?
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> To 

Re: [ccp4bb] Sv: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

2021-04-24 Thread abhimanyu singh
You may soak the crystals with ligands in maximum tolerable DMSO percentage
and harvest crystals at different time points. In my experience working
with some poor affinity, highly hydrophobic compounds, it may take up-to
several days for the ligand to bind with good occupancy (in one instance it
was four days). This may also depend on the crystal soaking/growth
temperature.
Ethylene glycol is a good alternative to DMSO in some cases, which might
particularly be helpful in co-crystallisation experiments.

Greetings,
Abhi



On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 at 09:11, Casper Wilkens <
5d34ab0aef35-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote:

> How long did you wait before freezing the crystal? Sometimes I have to
> wait days before the ligand finds it way into the binding site.
>
>
>
> Casper Wilkens
> Asst. Prof.
> Structural Enzymology & Biorefining
> DTU Bioengineering
>
>
>
> Technical University of Denmark
> Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine
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> *Fra:* CCP4 bulletin board  på vegne af Gourab
> Basu Choudhury 
> *Sendt:* 24. april 2021 07:40:20
> *Til:* CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> *Emne:* Re: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.
>
> I tried sokaing ,high concentration of DMSO is effecting crystal, so I
> tried other contidtion where 10%DMSO is there. Got 1.9 A data with protein
> co crystalization with 10mM ligand. But ligand occupancy is not visble.
>  I got the KD value from ITC, with reverse titration. With 10uM ligand in
> cell and 150uM protein in syringe. .
>
> Can anybody suggest some views.please feel free to share your experiences.
>
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 10:49 AM Peat, Tom (Manufacturing, Parkville)
>  wrote:
>
>> Hello Gourab,
>>
>> DMSO is not the only possible solvent- there are others to try.
>> I don't want to sound negative, but 40 micromolar is not a very tight
>> binding compound. It would also depend on how that binding constant was
>> measured- how did someone get enough in solution to measure that?
>> Best of luck, tom
>>
>> Tom Peat, PhD
>> Proteins Group
>> Biomedical Program, CSIRO
>> 343 Royal Parade
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/343+Royal+Parade+%0D%0AParkville,+VIC,+3052?entry=gmail=g>
>> Parkville, VIC, 3052
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/343+Royal+Parade+%0D%0AParkville,+VIC,+3052?entry=gmail=g>
>> +613 9662 7304
>> +614 57 539 419
>> tom.p...@csiro.au
>>
>> --
>> *From:* CCP4 bulletin board  on behalf of Gourab
>> Basu Choudhury 
>> *Sent:* Saturday, April 24, 2021 12:46 PM
>> *To:* CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
>> *Subject:* [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am finding it difficult for getting a ligand density inside the protein
>> as the ligand is very much insoluble. It's only soluble in 100% DMSO. I
>> tried for co crystalization. Kd value of the ligand is near 40um. Any
>> suggestion what to do?
>>
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[ccp4bb] Sv: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

2021-04-24 Thread Casper Wilkens
How long did you wait before freezing the crystal? Sometimes I have to wait 
days before the ligand finds it way into the binding site.




Casper Wilkens
Asst. Prof.

Structural Enzymology & Biorefining
DTU Bioengineering




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Fra: CCP4 bulletin board  på vegne af Gourab Basu 
Choudhury 
Sendt: 24. april 2021 07:40:20
Til: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Emne: Re: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

I tried sokaing ,high concentration of DMSO is effecting crystal, so I tried 
other contidtion where 10%DMSO is there. Got 1.9 A data with protein co 
crystalization with 10mM ligand. But ligand occupancy is not visble.
 I got the KD value from ITC, with reverse titration. With 10uM ligand in cell 
and 150uM protein in syringe. .

Can anybody suggest some views.please feel free to share your experiences.

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 10:49 AM Peat, Tom (Manufacturing, Parkville) 
 wrote:
Hello Gourab,

DMSO is not the only possible solvent- there are others to try.
I don't want to sound negative, but 40 micromolar is not a very tight binding 
compound. It would also depend on how that binding constant was measured- how 
did someone get enough in solution to measure that?
Best of luck, tom

Tom Peat, PhD
Proteins Group
Biomedical Program, CSIRO
343 Royal Parade
Parkville, VIC, 3052
+613 9662 7304
+614 57 539 419
tom.p...@csiro.au


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Subject: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

Hello everyone,

I am finding it difficult for getting a ligand density inside the protein as 
the ligand is very much insoluble. It's only soluble in 100% DMSO. I tried for 
co crystalization. Kd value of the ligand is near 40um. Any suggestion what to 
do?



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Re: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

2021-04-23 Thread Gourab Basu Choudhury
I tried sokaing ,high concentration of DMSO is effecting crystal, so I
tried other contidtion where 10%DMSO is there. Got 1.9 A data with protein
co crystalization with 10mM ligand. But ligand occupancy is not visble.
 I got the KD value from ITC, with reverse titration. With 10uM ligand in
cell and 150uM protein in syringe. .

Can anybody suggest some views.please feel free to share your experiences.

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 10:49 AM Peat, Tom (Manufacturing, Parkville)
 wrote:

> Hello Gourab,
>
> DMSO is not the only possible solvent- there are others to try.
> I don't want to sound negative, but 40 micromolar is not a very tight
> binding compound. It would also depend on how that binding constant was
> measured- how did someone get enough in solution to measure that?
> Best of luck, tom
>
> Tom Peat, PhD
> Proteins Group
> Biomedical Program, CSIRO
> 343 Royal Parade
> Parkville, VIC, 3052
> +613 9662 7304
> +614 57 539 419
> tom.p...@csiro.au
>
> --
> *From:* CCP4 bulletin board  on behalf of Gourab
> Basu Choudhury 
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 24, 2021 12:46 PM
> *To:* CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
> *Subject:* [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am finding it difficult for getting a ligand density inside the protein
> as the ligand is very much insoluble. It's only soluble in 100% DMSO. I
> tried for co crystalization. Kd value of the ligand is near 40um. Any
> suggestion what to do?
>
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Re: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

2021-04-23 Thread Peat, Tom (Manufacturing, Parkville)
Hello Gourab,

DMSO is not the only possible solvent- there are others to try.
I don't want to sound negative, but 40 micromolar is not a very tight binding 
compound. It would also depend on how that binding constant was measured- how 
did someone get enough in solution to measure that?
Best of luck, tom

Tom Peat, PhD
Proteins Group
Biomedical Program, CSIRO
343 Royal Parade
Parkville, VIC, 3052
+613 9662 7304
+614 57 539 419
tom.p...@csiro.au


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Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2021 12:46 PM
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
Subject: [ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

Hello everyone,

I am finding it difficult for getting a ligand density inside the protein as 
the ligand is very much insoluble. It's only soluble in 100% DMSO. I tried for 
co crystalization. Kd value of the ligand is near 40um. Any suggestion what to 
do?



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[ccp4bb] Co crystalization with less soluble ligand.

2021-04-23 Thread Gourab Basu Choudhury
Hello everyone,

I am finding it difficult for getting a ligand density inside the protein
as the ligand is very much insoluble. It's only soluble in 100% DMSO. I
tried for co crystalization. Kd value of the ligand is near 40um. Any
suggestion what to do?



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