[ccp4bb] protein complex crystallisation

2008-09-20 Thread Ron hudson
Dear CCP4 Community, My apologies for the off topic question to the bb. I am trying to crystallise a small protein-protein complex. I purify as a complex protein after expression in BL21DE3 cells through NI-NTA affinity chromatography. pI of one of the protein is around 10.6 where as another

Re: [ccp4bb] protein complex crystallisation

2008-09-20 Thread Radisky, Evette S., Ph.D.
What protein concentration are you using in your screen? It sounds like you need to try lower protein concentration, or a screen with lower precipitant concentration, or both. Hampton makes a Crystal Screen Lite with the precipitant concentrations half of what they are in the normal screen (or

Re: [ccp4bb] protein complex crystallisation

2008-09-20 Thread Chavas Leo
Dear Ron -- On 20 Sep 2008, at 15:59, Ron hudson wrote: it is happily soluble and donot prcipitate at this pH in the same buffer. Just a quick question. How does your complex look like under DLS? You might still have soluble aggregates, which will precipitate... you can screen for

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2008-09-20 Thread Yongna Xing
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[ccp4bb] Crystallogrphy today

2008-09-20 Thread Jayashankar
Dear friends and crystallographers, During One of my lab meeting , I told twinning in crystals are ok, because ccp4's recent releases just need the keyword TWIN to solve them, As a new generation research student, I am now confused, is that I need to learn and understand all programs(so

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallogrphy today

2008-09-20 Thread William G. Scott
On Sep 20, 2008, at 2:18 PM, Jayashankar wrote: Dear friends and crystallographers, Are they mutually exclusive? During One of my lab meeting , I told twinning in crystals are ok, because ccp4's recent releases just need the keyword TWIN to solve them, I believe the closer you get

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallogrphy today

2008-09-20 Thread mjvdwoerd
I agree with Bill. After a few minutes thinking, in between jobs working in the yard: It depends if you need to understand everything (I guess that's impossible these days) --- are you comfortable with publishing and defending research results that you do not understand? I am not. In quite a

Re: [ccp4bb] libxml2

2008-09-20 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 06:56 Thu 18 Sep , William G. Scott wrote: CCP4 6.0.99 builds its own libxml2. It there a way to get it to use a later version I have already installed? The reason is that this is messing up other programs that for some reason I can't fathom (the evil $DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH remains

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallogrphy today

2008-09-20 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Hi, In addition to the excellend comments posted already, I would like to venture an opinion regarding learning, technology, and associated matters. Do not make the problem fit the techniques you know - instead try to make sure that you know (or know where to learn) enough techniques to

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallogrphy today

2008-09-20 Thread Richard Gillilan
6.cryo crystallography This is routine. Well maybe there are still some surprises. Consider the case of high- pressure cooling. 8.radiation damage see cryocrystallography, and take lots of vitamin C There may be some surprises here too as one looks at smaller crystals with

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallogrphy today

2008-09-20 Thread William G. Scott
Now that it is past 12:00 in Brookhaven, I want to be the first to wish Bob Sweet a happy birthday! Bob's brilliance is matched by his helpfulness, kindness and compassion; he very much lives up to his name. So on behalf of probably hundreds of us, happy birthday. It's been awhile (too