[ccp4bb] Ligand Refinement

2010-05-12 Thread Larry Grant
Hello Everyone, I am attempting to fit NAD to a 2.1 A lactate dehydrogenase structure I've built and I'm running into several problems: 1. I loaded NAD from the COOT monomer library and was able to fit roughly 2/3 of it into the density using the real space refine zone function but the

Re: [ccp4bb] Ligand Refinement

2010-05-12 Thread Paul Emsley
Larry Grant wrote: I am attempting to fit NAD to a 2.1 A lactate dehydrogenase structure I've built and I'm running into several problems: 1. I loaded NAD from the COOT monomer library and was able to fit roughly 2/3 of it into the density using the real space refine zone function but the

[ccp4bb] smeared bacteria pellets in protein expression

2010-05-12 Thread Hannes Uchtenhagen
Dear ccp4bb, We used to routinely overexpress a number of mammalian proteins to inclusion bodies in E.coli. Lately however we get from time to time smeared and small or no pellets after spinning down the cultures (lysed I assume). I have read (with some horror) previous threads pointing at

Re: [ccp4bb] smeared bacteria pellets in protein expression

2010-05-12 Thread Tom Murray-Rust
Hi Hannes, We have recently had a batch of phage contamination - one of the symptoms was exactly as you described, when pelleting the cultures, a smeary, fluffy pellet appeared. The other symptoms we had were that during growth, the OD would rise up until ~0.5, then drop, a foam would develop on

Re: [ccp4bb] smeared bacteria pellets in protein expression

2010-05-12 Thread Martin Hallberg
Dear Hannes, I am afraid it can still be phage problems. There are many kinds of phages that infect E. coli and some of them behave like you describe: not always lysed cells but from time to time and coming and going. The phage may anyway be present but in its lysogenic state and only entering

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[ccp4bb] problems with hydrogen names in PDB file from Shelx refinement

2010-05-12 Thread Alice Dawson
Usual apologies for non-CCP4 question. I have been working on two high resolution protein structures using Shelx for refinement. I included idealised riding C-H and mainchain amide N-H hydrogens in the refinement. In the PDB output by Shelxl the hydrogen atom names for valine,

Re: [ccp4bb] smeared bacteria pellets in protein expression

2010-05-12 Thread Atlanta Cook
We have had problems with phage contamination, either through contaminated plasmid stocks or more sporadic infections. Even if the cultures don't look clear, you can usually spot the contamination if the E. coli pellets are slimy and spread all the way up the centrifuge bottles. We have

[ccp4bb] Fwd: regarding purification of DNA binding protein

2010-05-12 Thread Arpit Mishra
-- Forwarded message -- From: Arpit Mishra ar...@igib.in Date: Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:20 PM Subject: regarding purification of DNA binding protein To: ccp...@jiscmail.ac hi all i am trying to purify DNA binding protein, but i couldnt get rid of the DNA after performing hi-trap

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: regarding purification of DNA binding protein

2010-05-12 Thread Tim Gruene
Hello Arpit, don't you use DNAse during lysation of the cells? Or do you mean that you want to get rid of unspecific DNA and want to add some specific DNA after purification? In that case I'd understand you don't want to use DNAse. Tim On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 06:23:56PM +0530, Arpit Mishra

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: regarding purification of DNA binding protein

2010-05-12 Thread Ibrahim Moustafa
Hi Arpit, You can use PEI (polyethyleneimine). Adding PEI at low conc. (e.g. 0.25%) after cell lysis should precipitate most of the DNA. Note, it is best to do the addition step-wise at 4 deg with gentle steering over a period of time 10-15 min or so. Ibrahim On 5/12/10 10:20 AM, Tim

[ccp4bb] Electron Microscopy Position

2010-05-12 Thread Christos Savva
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Re: [ccp4bb] thread protein sequence using pdb coordinates that are not avaliable on RCSB?

2010-05-12 Thread Robert Immormino
Kelly, This can be done with the Swiss-PDBviewer itself. Download the viewer if you don't have it. load your pdb ( File Open PDB File... ) load the sequence you want to thread (fasta format) ( SwissModel Load Raw Sequence from Amino Acids...) then thread with ( Fit Fit Raw Sequence) Good

Re: [ccp4bb] thread protein sequence using pdb coordinates that are not avaliable on RCSB?

2010-05-12 Thread Scott Pegan
Kelly, You can do it with swiss-model, just have to use the alignment mode. I will ask for a pdb or RCSB code. Also, in the past I have found Jigsaw 3D model server to be a comparable tool. Scott On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Kelly Daughtry kddau...@bu.edu wrote: Hello all, I would

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2010-05-12 Thread mesters
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[ccp4bb] noncovalent interactions

2010-05-12 Thread gauri misra
Hi, Which free online servers are best for calculation of non covalent interactions present in several pdb structures? Thanks for any insights provided by the community members... Cheers GM

Re: [ccp4bb] Ion exchange protein lost

2010-05-12 Thread Ursula Schulze-Gahmen
Like Juergen suggested, your protein is most likely stuck to the column, either because it never was really was refolded or because it doesn't like to be at pH 4.5. Do you really need such a low pH to have it bind to source 15S. Check the pI of the protein and perhaps some different pH buffer

Re: [ccp4bb] Ion exchange protein lost

2010-05-12 Thread Nadir T. Mrabet
Human gcsf has a pI ~ 6. As Ursula suggests you might be better off with anion exchange. There are protocols that show you can both refold and purify onto such column type. Nadir Pr. Nadir T. Mrabet Structural Molecular Biochemistry Nutrigenex - INSERM U-954 Nancy University, School of

Re: [ccp4bb] thread protein sequence using pdb coordinates that are not avaliable on RCSB?

2010-05-12 Thread Kelly Daughtry
Thanks for all the suggestions. I was able to use swiss-pdb viewer to accomplish my goal within 2 minutes of installing! Very useful software in general! I didn't realize all of the tools present. Thank you everyone! Kelly *** Kelly Daughtry

Re: [ccp4bb] Micro-g Crystal Growth and the literature

2010-05-12 Thread Frank von Delft
(I noticed these words of wisdom did not make it to the thread. Hereby belatedly corrected.) The relevant TLI here is ROI: for the money to put one crystallization plate in space, you can employ enough postdocs probably to solve all membrane proteins in the human genome terrestrially 3 times

Re: [ccp4bb] noncovalent interactions

2010-05-12 Thread Gyanendra Kumar
You could try LPC CSU Server: http://bip.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/lpccsu -Gyan On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:02 PM, gauri misra kamga...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Which free online servers are best for calculation of non covalent interactions present in several pdb structures? Thanks for any

Re: [ccp4bb] software to represent raw reflections in hkl zones

2010-05-12 Thread Nicholas K. Sauter
Tillmann, I've added a jiffy script to synthesize pseudo-precession photos from a rotation dataset, to the latest PHENIX package. We build this package nightly, so any PHENIX bundle with a version number greater than dev-402 will workhowever I see that dev-402 is not yet on the public

Re: [ccp4bb] General user proposal deadline May 15, 2010

2010-05-12 Thread Peter Zwart
Dear All, Just a reminder that May 15, 2010 is the deadline for the July-August 2010 Rapid Access Proposal cycle for PX beamtime at the ALS. The BCSB beamlines (5.0.1,5.0.2, 5.0.3, 8.2.1 8.2.2) can all be operated remotely and are all equipped with ADSC Q315(R) detectors. Beamlines 8.2.2, 8.2.1