Re: [ccp4bb] asking for a reference for cacodylate decomposition in protein crystals upon X-ray exposure

2012-07-30 Thread Karsten Niefind
Am 29 Jul 2012 um 18:53 hat Tatyana Sysoeva geschrieben: Hi! I heard a couple of times that use of cacodylate buffers in crystallization is bad, and not only because of the compound toxicity. As I understood, presence of the cacodylate in a protein crystal will cause a particular

[ccp4bb] manipulation of water molecules in pdb files

2012-07-30 Thread Zhiyi Wei
Dear all, I have a refine structure with 8 ncs copies and several hundreds of water molecules (which was put in one chain). Now I try to separate these molecules by renaming to the chain id of each adjacent protein molecule. I know RCSB can do this during deposition process. Do anyone know a

Re: [ccp4bb] asking for a reference for cacodylate decomposition in protein crystals upon X-ray exposure

2012-07-30 Thread Sergei Strelkov
Dear Tatyana, We once had a project where the crystallization condition contained cacodylate. The crystals diffracted to 1.9A and survived reasonably well under the beam (maybe there was indeed some colour change upon exposure, I do not remember exactly). We were working with drug soaks. The

Re: [ccp4bb] Alternative conformation of Phe and Tyr?

2012-07-30 Thread Tri Ngo
Dear experts, Thank you for your helpful input. I think it's clear now to conclude that the alternative conformations exist on both Phe and Tyr residues. Counter level = 1 sigma http://i50.tinypic.com/anzfrn.png Counter level = 0.7 sigma - the alternative conformation of Phe can be confirmed.

Re: [ccp4bb] manipulation of water molecules in pdb files

2012-07-30 Thread Folmer Fredslund
Dear Zhiyi, I think that sortwater (http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/sortwater.html), will do something along what you want. Remember to read the documentation ;-) Best regards, Folmer 2012/7/30 Zhiyi Wei ustcwebri...@gmail.com Dear all, I have a refine structure with 8 ncs copies and several

[ccp4bb] refinement of ligands

2012-07-30 Thread Damian Niegowski
Dear all, I am currently trying to refine co-crystallized ligand structures at 2.8-3.4 Å resolution. After initial molecular replacement the density in the maps, both 2Fo-Fc and Fo-Fc looks good and the ligand seams to have bound. However after running Refmac directly on the output files the

Re: [ccp4bb] refinement of ligands

2012-07-30 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Damian, The initial map after molecular replacement and BEFORE atomic refinement is maybe not the highest quality map, but definitively the map with the least model bias. If you see good density for you inhibitors in those maps, they almost certainly will have bound. In that case I would

Re: [ccp4bb] Space group R32 and H32

2012-07-30 Thread Ian Tickle
Without wishing to re-ignite previous discussions on this topic (perhaps FLAME ... /FLAME tags would be in order!), I would point out that this and similar confusion with other space groups has arisen largely from a failure of some programmers (and users!) to fully comprehend the important

Re: [ccp4bb] Space group R32 and H32

2012-07-30 Thread Sebastiano Pasqualato
Hi there, at this point I'm confused, at least with respect to one thing. If I have a solved a structure in spacegroup #155, with a=b and different from c, and alpha=beta=90, gamma=120, this would be reported as R32 in the international tables. However programs refers to it as H32. What should

Re: [ccp4bb] Space group R32 and H32

2012-07-30 Thread Ian Tickle
Hi Sebastiano How programs refer to it is irrelevant for the purposes of publication! If you want to be precise and stick to the ITC convention on nomenclature it's space group R32 in the setting R32:h, since as I explained it's only the standard symbol R32 which is generally shown in the main

Re: [ccp4bb] Space group R32 and H32

2012-07-30 Thread Sebastiano Pasqualato
That is perfectly clear. What was confusing me was indeed (mostly) the PDB CRYST1 record. I guess I will go for R32:h. Thanks a lot, ciao, s On Jul 30, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Ian Tickle wrote: Hi Sebastiano How programs refer to it is irrelevant for the purposes of publication! If you want to

Re: [ccp4bb] Space group R32 and H32

2012-07-30 Thread Gerard Bricogne
Dear Ian, I made a modest contribution to this discussion a long time ago, and I will only limit myself to one point. I think you may be confusing setting and lattice mode. A change of setting is performed by an integer matrix with determinant 1 (a unimodular matrix) whereas a change