[ccp4bb] How to get anomalous signal for Ca

2009-06-30 Thread xianchidong
Dear All: When I solved the crystal structure of protein, I found a metal binding in it. But however, I can not decide which type of atom it is. I tried ICP-AES and the result suggested the protein contained Ca. I tried to get anomalous signal at the wavelength of 2.07A. And I collected the

Re: [ccp4bb] How to get anomalous signal for Ca

2009-06-30 Thread Jens Preben Morth
Dear Xianchidong If you are sure it is a divalent ion, Mg would be hard to detect even at a wavelength of 2.07A. best Preben xianchidong wrote: Dear All: When I solved the crystal structure of protein, I found a metal binding in it. But however, I can not decide which type of atom it is. I

Re: [ccp4bb] How to express a 95KD FAD protein

2009-06-30 Thread Stephen Weeks
With the disclaimer that I have yet to work with a flavoprotein, is there enough FAD around in your culture to allow for proper folding of your protein ? Maybe adding riboflavin to you media, or trying ultimately to refold you protein from inclusion bodies (which will be very pure) in the

Re: [ccp4bb] molrep can't find *_trfn_scr.crd

2009-06-30 Thread Stein, ND (Norman)
Hi Francis This is a known problem. Molrep is prepending the path name twice to the file name, which means that when it subsequently looks for the file, it cannot find it. You can fix the problem by downloading the latest source code version of molrep from Alexei's site:

Re: [ccp4bb] How to express a 95KD FAD protein

2009-06-30 Thread Israel Sanchez
May be this could help, *Protein Expression and Purification 45 (2006) 191–199* * In vitro activation, purification, and characterization of Escherichia coli expressed aryl-alcohol oxidase, a unique H2O2-producing enzyme. Francisco

Re: [ccp4bb] How to express a 95KD FAD protein

2009-06-30 Thread Ronnie Berntsson
Hi, I would like to add one thing to the already good list of suggestions. You can try to express your protein in Lactococcus lactis. We've earlier had successful expression in lactis where it was none or only inclusion bodies in E. coli. See for example: Kunji et al. Biochim Biophys

[ccp4bb] Practical Course for Macromolecular Crystallography M2M-2009

2009-06-30 Thread Victor Lamzin
This is the second announcement of the Practical Course on Training in methods for Macromolecular Crystallography M2M-2009: From Measurement to Model. The course will take place at the EMBL Hamburg Outstation, the DESY synchrotron site during the period: Wednesday October 21st - Wednesday

Re: [ccp4bb] can I try crystallization in high salt?

2009-06-30 Thread Annie Hassell
Rui-- We have crystallized several proteins that required 0.5 M NaCl in the protein buffergetting our initial hits from commercially available screens. You might leave the salt concentration as it is for your initial crystallization screens and see what you get. Sometimes proteins are

[ccp4bb] refmac twin operator problems

2009-06-30 Thread Jan Dohnalek
Dear all, I assume that the current versions (from 5.5.0072) take the input line twin operator parameters. However we are getting the Problem get_symm_from_text message whatever we do. What is the correct format here? We do for example twin operator h,-k,-l thanks Jan --

[ccp4bb] Best 3D stereo combination for Mac OS X today

2009-06-30 Thread Danny G Smith
I need to order a new computer for an investigator to replace a very old SGI. They already have a lot of Mac experience, that that would make an easy transition. They will primarily be using CCP4, CNS, and Main. At this point in time what is the best video card monitor combination, I assume a

Re: [ccp4bb] Best 3D stereo combination for Mac OS X today

2009-06-30 Thread Warren DeLano
Danny, Last I checked, Apple dropped the Quadro option from the Mac Pro, and a quick check on Apple.com seems to confirm that: http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/browse/home/shop_mac/family/mac_pro Lacking indications to the contrary, we can only conclude that OpenGL stereo 3D support has an