Re: [ccp4bb] coot extensions for residue mutation to Cbeta

2008-03-13 Thread Paul Emsley
Hello Byron. byron delabarre wrote: I'm looking for an easy way in coot to trim residues back to Cbeta. There is now. 1) Is there an easy way to do this, other than: click mutate, click residue, click trim to Cb, click mutate to ? Bleugh! 2) I wrote a script but couldn't get it

[ccp4bb] coot extensions for residue mutation to Cbeta

2008-03-13 Thread byron delabarre
Hi - I'm looking for an easy way in coot to trim residues back to Cbeta. This is for regions of the structure where there is no or minimal electron density for side chain location. 1) Is there an easy way to do this, other than: click mutate, click residue, click trim to Cb, click mutate to xxx

[ccp4bb] 2-D crystallization of membrane proteins

2008-03-13 Thread gxzhao
Hi, everyone, who has much more experience about the 2-D crystallization of membrane proteins using the dialysis method. 1) how to avoid the change of whole sample's volume after dialysis? 2) can you tell me some tricks during making grids, that is, when we put dialysis sample on grids,

[ccp4bb] Beam Time at BCSB beamlines in Berkeley

2008-03-13 Thread Peter Zwart
= Synchrotron Beam Time available for Macromolecular Crystallography at Berkeley Center for Structural Biology Beamlines (5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 8.2.1 and 8.2.2). The ALS is now accepting General User applic

[ccp4bb] Post-Doc at Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beatty Labs, London

2008-03-13 Thread Laurence Pearl
The Institute of Cancer Research (University of London) Cancer Research UK Centre for Cell and Molecular Biology & Section of Structural Biology Chester Beatty Laboratories - Chelsea, London Post-doctoral Training Fellow Structure and Interactions of the Retinoblastoma-associated Protein Appli

[ccp4bb] Post-Doctoral positions at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Clare Hall

2008-03-13 Thread Saikrishnan Kayarat
Post-Doctoral positions at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Clare Hall DNA damage and errors made during DNA replication cause cancer. Consequently, cells produce a vast array of different proteins to repair DNA damage and to ensure the fidelity of DNA replication. In order to un

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculating R-factor and maps from a Refmac model containing TLS downloaded from the PDB

2008-03-13 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 18:30, Pavel Afonine wrote: > Hi Martin, > > > 2) in the context of PX, only the total "B factor" contribution to > > Fcalc needs to be positive definite, the TLS component might not be > > (though it is satisfying if it is) Correct (if I understand what you mean).

Re: [ccp4bb] Feature of CCP4i for 6.0.99 (SIGF/Weight label menu)

2008-03-13 Thread P.J.Briggs
Hello Serge Thanks for the clarification - in this case I feel fairly confident that it has already been addressed for the next test release of CCP4 (due very soon), however please let me know if turns out I'm wrong. Best wishes Peter Serge Cohen wrote: > Hello Peter; > > The problem I observe

Re: [ccp4bb] Feature of CCP4i for 6.0.99 (SIGF/Weight label menu)

2008-03-13 Thread Serge Cohen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Peter; The problem I observed is indeed corresponding to what you say should be fixed. To answer Leo, this is a problem of the interface alone, indeed the 'way out' when using the buggy interface is to use the 'Run and See Batch file' t

[ccp4bb] PhD program on 'molecular enzymology', open positions

2008-03-13 Thread Karl Gruber
Dear all, the Austrian Science Foundation has approved a new PhD-program in 'Molecular Enzymology'. The program has been set up at the University of Graz and the Graz University of Technology, involving 20 research groups from both institutions. The aim of the program is to provide outstanding

[ccp4bb] Wellcome funded PhD studentship available

2008-03-13 Thread Rob vanMontfort
The Institute of Cancer Research Sections of Structural Biology and Cancer Therapeutics PhD Studentship Integration, application and development of biophysical techniques in structure-based drug discovery (Chelsea, London & Sutton, Surrey) The Institute of Cancer Research is one of

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculating R-factor and maps from a Refmac model containing TLS downloaded from the PDB

2008-03-13 Thread Martyn Winn
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 18:30 -0700, Pavel Afonine wrote: > Hi Martin, > > > 2) in the context of PX, only the total "B factor" contribution to Fcalc > > needs to be positive definite, the TLS component might not be (though it is > > satisfying if it is) > > > > Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculating R-factor and maps from a Refmac model containing TLS downloaded from the PDB

2008-03-13 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Hi Dale, to my knowledge, sfcheck calculates the contribution of the bulk solvent using the double-exponential scaling model (Babinet model), but not using the mask model that REFMAC applies per default. I sometimes have to discuss similar R-factor differences with RCSB upon PDB submissio

Re: [ccp4bb] Calculating R-factor and maps from a Refmac model containing TLS downloaded from the PDB

2008-03-13 Thread Ulrich Baumann
Dale, I have had a similar problem with two of my entries. However, if I take the TLS information from the PDB header and put it in a "in_tls.tls" file that I feed into REFMAC (0 cycles, just structure factor computation), I can reproduce the R-factors within 0.1% or less. It is just the or

Re: [ccp4bb] Feature of CCP4i for 6.0.99 (SIGF/Weight label menu)

2008-03-13 Thread P.J.Briggs
Hello Serge I have to say that your message wasn't very clear to me, but Leo's email made me wonder if this isn't related to a bug in CCP4i in the 6.0.99 releases, which meant that only a subset of labels were made available to the user for things like the weighting. This was a bug introduced aft

Re: [ccp4bb] Color of heme containing Xtals

2008-03-13 Thread Daniel Picot
Jan, Crystals containing haem protein are not necessarily red, the colour depends on the oxidation state of the haem and on the haem/protein ratio. A FeIII haem will look yellowish, gold or brown depending on the haem/protein ratio, while an FeII haem will look more pink or red. Daniel Ian

Re: [ccp4bb] Color of heme containing Xtals

2008-03-13 Thread Juan Sanchez Weatherby
Dear Jan, I'll try to give you a few explanations that may not involve having upset the hemes in your protein. You say your crystals are not red but what about the solution? Could you have salt or other protein crystals but your target protein be fine but not crystallized. You can get some o