[ccp4bb] Summary - Stop Refmac from refining B factors?

2007-04-19 Thread Eva Kirchner
Hi all, thanks for all your help so far, and as we ended up in a more general discussion about temperature factor refinement at not-so-great resolution, here is a quick summary of what I'll try out: 1.) Refine overall B's instead of isotropic B's. 2.) Use isotropic B's with the following

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein expression in Minimal media (M9)

2007-04-19 Thread Eric Toth
I had a similar situation, i.e. the cells wouldn't grow past an OD of 0.1 on minimal media, but in my case I did get protein expression. The way I got around it was as follows. I grew the cells up in minimal media plus the amino acids that suppress methionine biosynthesis, plus L-methionine.

[ccp4bb] Post doctoral positions in Structural Immunology

2007-04-19 Thread Steve Almo
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Re: [ccp4bb] Protein expression in Minimal media (M9)

2007-04-19 Thread jwallen
Manish, I also had a similar problem getting cells (C41 (DE3) in my case) to grow in minimal media. To get around this problem, I took cells from an agar plate and grew them in a small volume (5 mL) of the minimal media. Once that culture got thick, I then inoculated 200 mL of minimal media with

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein expression in Minimal media (M9)

2007-04-19 Thread Cynthia Kinsland
Are you adding vitamins to your M9 minimal? RosettaBlue is thiamin requiring and can not grow in the absence of thiamin. The thiamin requirement is so low that you can often get slow growth to a low OD based on residual thiamin in the cells, but you will not get robust growth. Also,

[ccp4bb] I/sigma in XDS output

2007-04-19 Thread Michele Lunelli
Dear all, I'm a bit confused from the output of the CORRECT step in XDS. In one of the first tables I can read the mean I/sigma for each resolution shell, but these values are much different from the I/sigma reported in the table at the end of the output files, titled completeness and quality

Re: [ccp4bb] I/sigma in XDS output

2007-04-19 Thread Kay Diederichs
Michele Lunelli wrote: Dear all, I'm a bit confused from the output of the CORRECT step in XDS. In one of the first tables I can read the mean I/sigma for each resolution shell, but these values are much different from the I/sigma reported in the table at the end of the output files, titled

[ccp4bb] MSc in Structural Biology and Biophysics at Manchester, UK

2007-04-19 Thread Martyn Winn
[Posted on behalf of Lydia Tabernero. Full text of this posting available here: http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/martyn/MSc-Leaflet.doc ] 1 year MSc in Structural Biology and Biophysics at Manchester, UK, starting in September 2007 Aims Objectives: Structural and biophysical analyses are essential in

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein expression in Minimal media (M9)

2007-04-19 Thread artem
Manish, Assuming that you need the minimal medium for Se, have you tried the regular heavy atom derivatives? You already have diffracting crystals... M9 medium can be slightly difficult. However, no one says that you *have* to use minimal medium such as M9 (again, assuming that you're doing

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein expression in Minimal media (M9)

2007-04-19 Thread Roger Rowlett
Manish, In practice, we have found that it is very helpful to grow up an overnight starter culture in minimal media to acclimatize the cells for growth under minimal conditions. (Cells transferred from LB to M9 do not perform well for overexpression). We inoculate 1 L of modified M9 (see below)

[ccp4bb] recommendation for heavy atoms used in lithium sulfate and ammonium sulfate

2007-04-19 Thread Tiancen Hu
Dear all, Could any one recommend some heavy atoms used for crystals grown in 0.1M tri-sodium citrate pH 5.6, 1M Lithium sulfate and 0.5M ammonium sulfate? I read from Hampton user guide of heavy atom kit that high salt concentrations are not the ideal medium for heavy atom reactions with