[ccp4bb] What is an aceptable spread in ADP values?

2010-01-28 Thread Jose Antonio Cuesta Seijo
Dear all, I am refining a 3.1Å structure with Phenix.refine, using two ADP groups per residue. When doing refinement in Refmac, the way to go would be to tighten the weights quite a bit to make up for the low resolution, resulting in small deviations in bond lenghts and angles from the ideal

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-28 Thread Colin Nave
John, Ethan Some good points being made regarding the discrepancy between TLS models and measured diffuse scatter. However, as James has pointed out, measuring the diffuse scatter is not that easy due to the contribution of the lattice This could be why there are some problems as large motions

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2010-01-28 Thread Luca Pellegrini
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[ccp4bb] Phosphatase, which is the best?

2010-01-28 Thread Nenci Simone
I need to dephosphorilate blunt ends and, surfing on internet I found this two enzymes: - Shrimp Alkaline Phosphatase (SAP) - Calf Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase (CIP) Have you any experience about these phosphatases, I mean wich is the best for blunt ends? All the best Nenci Simone

Re: [ccp4bb] how to superpose density maps?

2010-01-28 Thread Folmer Fredslund
Hi Mark. This is hidden in the Extensions menu. Extenstions - Maps- Transform map by LSQ model fit Or at least that is what I think you want. Best regards, Folmer Fredslund On 28 January 2010 15:29, Matt Warkentin mattw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I have a seemingly simple task that I can't

Re: [ccp4bb] What is an aceptable spread in ADP values?

2010-01-28 Thread Ed Pozharski
Jose Antonio, I've seen similar behavior few years ago with grouped B-factor refinement in CNS. The argument for the grouped refinement is as follows: This is better than individual B-factor refinement at low resolution because you significantly reduce the number of parameters. There are two

Re: [ccp4bb] Phosphatase, which is the best?

2010-01-28 Thread Dima Klenchin
I need to dephosphorilate blunt ends and, surfing on internet I found this two enzymes: - Shrimp Alkaline Phosphatase (SAP) - Calf Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase (CIP) Have you any experience about these phosphatases, I mean wich is the best for blunt ends? Either will do dephosphorylation

Re: [ccp4bb] DSSP server

2010-01-28 Thread Robbie Joosten
Dear CCP4BB-ers, The official DSSP is now also available for Intel Macs: http://swift.cmbi.ru.nl/gv/dssp/ We have limited access to Mac computers, so the software is not as thoroughly tested as the Linux and Windows versions. Feel free to send bug reports. Best wishes, Gert Vriend Robbie

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-28 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear James, Am 27.01.10 10:08, schrieb James Holton: snip I'm still not really sure what the difference is between a Bragg spot and a feature under it. Why not define a Bragg intensity operationally? Subtracting local background with a least-squares plane is pretty much universally done,

[ccp4bb] Very high B-factors of some atoms of ligand in Refmac

2010-01-28 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Dear all, I am refining a crystal structure with two enantiomers of the ligand lying on a two-fold crystallographic axis (making the density an average of 4 orientations/optical identity). The ligand fits pretty well over all in the density, but some atoms stick out of density. While B-factors

[ccp4bb] Biorad Profinia vs GE AKTAPrime Plus, for affinity tagged proteins

2010-01-28 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Dear all, My lab is looking into buying a protein purification system. The AKTA is more versatile, but does anyone know if the Profinia is in any way superior to the AKTA for purification of affinity-tagged proteins? If it is, I would really appreciate if you can tell me in what way it is

Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] peroxids in Triton

2010-01-28 Thread Justin Lecher
On 24/01/10 23:11, Matt Harrington wrote: Hi Justin, Did you receive a response to this? Would you mind if I reposted your question to http://www.BioKlatch.com? It's an online forum for structural biology that I'm starting. I haven't announced it yet and am pre-seeding it with questions.

Re: [ccp4bb] Very high B-factors of some atoms of ligand in Refmac

2010-01-28 Thread Clemens Vonrhein
Dear Sangeetha, before worrying about the B-factor column in your PDB file I would be worrying about atoms not having density. This should tell you that your model (atoms and/or parametrisation) isn't correct. One possible reason for those high-B side-chain atoms could be a sequence shift:

Re: [ccp4bb] Biorad Profinia vs GE AKTAPrime Plus, for affinity tagged proteins

2010-01-28 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Thanks for your response, Edward. Yes, that is what I thought. For the most part, people plan to tag their proteins in my lab. I'll possibly be the only one purifying non-tagged proteins in my lab. I love the AKTA. Another was all praise of the Profinia. To my knowledge, tagged proteins don't

Re: [ccp4bb] Very high B-factors of some atoms of ligand in Refmac

2010-01-28 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
You know what, decarboxylation could be an issue. But that'll explain the B-factors only for the side chains and some of the atoms in the ligand. I don't see in what other orientation/conformation the ligand can fit the density, not clash with itself or with the protein, lie on a 2-fold symmetry

Re: [ccp4bb] Biorad Profinia vs GE AKTAPrime Plus, for affinity tagged proteins

2010-01-28 Thread Roger Rowlett
You really don't need much of a system to do just affinity purification, so almost anything would be workable unless you are doing really high throughput work. On the other hand, if you need to do traditional protein purification (IEX, HIC, GEC), which would include untagged proteins, and

Re: [ccp4bb] Biorad Profinia vs GE AKTAPrime Plus, for affinity tagged proteins

2010-01-28 Thread Mark Del Campo
We've been using Bio-Rad biologic duoflow FPLCs for over 5 years (we have 4 of them on site). They can also handle abuse and cold room storage. Their hardware and software are user-friendly. It seems the Profinia system is geared toward simpler purifications.

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-28 Thread Phil Evans
This is the basis of the TAILS correction in Scala, but I'm not convinced it works very well, particularly if you don't have lots of fully recorded reflections Phil On 28 Jan 2010, at 15:41, Dirk Kostrewa wrote: Dear James, Am 27.01.10 10:08, schrieb James Holton: snip I'm still not

Re: [ccp4bb] Phosphatase, which is the best?

2010-01-28 Thread Akram Alian
Dear Nenci I always used CIP with great success. A good control to test whether CIP worked, a plate with a plasmid (containing no insert) should not ligate and will not be circular, hence if CIP worked, this plate should not contain any plasmids grown on it (or very few). However, if you were

Re: [ccp4bb] Phosphatase, which is the best?

2010-01-28 Thread Chun Luo
NEB recommends adding Zn for Antarctic Phosphatase. Although we found it works in all NEB restriction enzyme buffers. The answer can be found at http://www.neb.com/nebecomm/products/faqproductM0289.asp. --Chun _ From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-28 Thread John Badger
Hi Ethan, Your effort to play devils advocate is appreciated - I have not seen much debate on the applicability of TLS so at risk of diverging into a separate thread: I would not argue that TLS is necessarily a valid model for correlated motion in proteins because it 'works' in fitting the

Re: [ccp4bb] What is an aceptable spread in ADP values?

2010-01-28 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hello, 1. The reduction in number of parameters is not that significant. On average, you have some 8 atoms per residue, and thus 32 parameters with individual B-factors (4 per atom). With grouped B-factors you have 26, about 20% difference. While it sounds like a lot (hey, I just removed

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-28 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Thursday 28 January 2010 09:57:31 John Badger wrote: Hi Ethan, Your effort to play devils advocate is appreciated - I have not seen much debate on the applicability of TLS so at risk of diverging into a separate thread: I would not argue that TLS is necessarily a valid model for

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining against images instead of only reflections

2010-01-28 Thread Ian Tickle
If all cells are completely unsynchronized, then the occupancy-weighted average electron density map of all the conformers will fully explain the background-subtracted spot intensities, but if there is cell-to-cell synchronization: it won't! This is not correct: as I tried to explain in a

Re: [ccp4bb] What is an aceptable spread in ADP values?

2010-01-28 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Jose Antonio Cuesta Seijo, - at 3.1A I would try 1) refining individual isotropic ADPs, 2) combined strategy of refining TLS+individual isotropic ADPs, 3) combined strategy of refining TLS+group isotropic ADPs with one or two definable isotropic B-factor per residue. Look at Rfree and

[ccp4bb] how to deal with the DNA in Refmac?

2010-01-28 Thread Xun Lu
Dear all, I am dealing with a protein/DNA complex. After restrained refinement in Refmac, the bases have been brought closer to each other (about 2A instead of 3A for H-bonding). But in our model, the geometry of the DNA is fine (I even replaced my DNA with theirs by superimposing and