Re: [ccp4bb] S-nitrosylation protein

2013-02-14 Thread Savvas Savvides
Dear Uma,

A very complehensive survey of the state-of-the-art in this topic can be found 
in the following literature resources:

(1) 
Garman EF.
Radiation damage in macromolecular crystallography: what is it and why should 
we care?
Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2010 Apr;66(Pt 4):339-51.

(2) 
The January 2013 issue of the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation featuring a 
special section with papers presented at last year's Intl workshop on X-ray 
damage of biological crystalline samples.
The annotated editorial by Garman and Weik in that issue is also very helpful.

Best regards
Savvas


On 13 Feb 2013, at 23:38, Uma Ratu wrote:

 Dear All:
  
 I plan to use X-ray crystallography method to study the S-nitrosylated 
 protein structure.
  
 The native protein crystals diffracted to 2A with synchrontron. I now have 
 the crystals of S-ntrosylated protein.
  
 Since S-NO moiety appears to be unstable to synchrotron radiation, could you 
 advice /  comments on the stratage on the data collection of S-nitrosylated 
 protein crystals?
  
 The protein crystals did not diffract well with in house X-ray.
  
 Thank you for your comments.
  
 Uma
 


Re: [ccp4bb] S-nitrosylation protein

2013-02-14 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Collect small slices of data (instead of a complete data set) on several 
crystals then merge the data together to get a full data set.
The slices of must be small enough so that the damage to the S-NO group is 
still very limited on each slice. You may have to play with beam attenuation a 
bit, depending on how fast the degradation occurs.

Good luck

Thierry

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To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [ccp4bb] S-nitrosylation protein

Dear All:

I plan to use X-ray crystallography method to study the S-nitrosylated protein 
structure.

The native protein crystals diffracted to 2A with synchrontron. I now have the 
crystals of S-ntrosylated protein.

Since S-NO moiety appears to be unstable to synchrotron radiation, could you 
advice /  comments on the stratage on the data collection of S-nitrosylated 
protein crystals?

The protein crystals did not diffract well with in house X-ray.

Thank you for your comments.

Uma
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Re: [ccp4bb] S-nitrosylation protein

2013-02-14 Thread Uma Ratu
Dear All:

Many thanks for your commoents and advice.

I will keep them in mind.

Uma

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Fischmann, Thierry 
thierry.fischm...@merck.com wrote:

  Collect small slices of data (instead of a complete data set) on several
 crystals then merge the data together to get a full data set.

 The slices of must be small enough so that the damage to the S-NO group is
 still very limited on each slice. You may have to play with beam
 attenuation a bit, depending on how fast the degradation occurs.

 ** **

 Good luck

 ** **

 Thierry

 ** **

 *From:* CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] *On Behalf Of *Uma
 Ratu
 *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 5:38 PM

 *To:* CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
 *Subject:* [ccp4bb] S-nitrosylation protein

 ** **

 Dear All:

  

 I plan to use X-ray crystallography method to study the S-nitrosylated
 protein structure. 

  

 The native protein crystals diffracted to 2A with synchrontron. I now have
 the crystals of S-ntrosylated protein. 

  

 Since S-NO moiety appears to be unstable to synchrotron radiation, could
 you advice /  comments on the stratage on the data collection of
 S-nitrosylated protein crystals? 

  

 The protein crystals did not diffract well with in house X-ray. 

  

 Thank you for your comments. 

  

 Uma

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[ccp4bb] S-nitrosylation protein

2013-02-13 Thread Uma Ratu
Dear All:

I plan to use X-ray crystallography method to study the S-nitrosylated
protein structure.

The native protein crystals diffracted to 2A with synchrontron. I now have
the crystals of S-ntrosylated protein.

Since S-NO moiety appears to be unstable to synchrotron radiation, could
you advice /  comments on the stratage on the data collection of
S-nitrosylated protein crystals?

The protein crystals did not diffract well with in house X-ray.

Thank you for your comments.

Uma


Re: [ccp4bb] S-nitrosylation protein

2013-02-13 Thread Ed. Pozharski
Maybe you can try different energies hoping that damage is wavelength 
dependent.  It must be dose dependent though, so you may consider merging short 
sweeps from multiple crystals.

 Original message 
From: Uma Ratu rosiso2...@gmail.com 
Date:  
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 
Subject: [ccp4bb] S-nitrosylation protein 
 
Dear All:
 
I plan to use X-ray crystallography method to study the S-nitrosylated protein 
structure.
 
The native protein crystals diffracted to 2A with synchrontron. I now have the 
crystals of S-ntrosylated protein.
 
Since S-NO moiety appears to be unstable to synchrotron radiation, could you 
advice /  comments on the stratage on the data collection of S-nitrosylated 
protein crystals?
 
The protein crystals did not diffract well with in house X-ray.
 
Thank you for your comments.
 
Uma