Re: [ccp4bb] Angle restraints

2013-04-15 Thread Robbie Joosten
Hi Kavya, Which validation program did you use? How big is the deviation (in sigma values)? Is it the only outlier? What is your overall bond angle rmsZ? Using external restraints is a bit over the top here, especially if it is the only outlier. If your rmsZ is high (close to or over 1) then

Re: [ccp4bb] Angle restraints

2013-04-15 Thread Kavyashree Manjunath
Sir, I used RCSB validation server. Deviations are as given below - Deviation Resi AT1 - AT2 - AT3BondDict Std Angle ValueDev -- 3.2ARG NE - CZ - NH1

Re: [ccp4bb] Angle restraints

2013-04-15 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Kavya, I would examine the electron density of your Arginine. It may be present in two alternative conformations and you may have fitted the Arginine in the middle, e.g. with the NH1 in one conformation and the NH2 in the other. The Arginine may also just be incorrectly fitted. Using

Re: [ccp4bb] Angle restraints

2013-04-15 Thread Robbie Joosten
Dear Kavya, First try Herman's suggestions. You can try changing the restraint weight but it will probably not solve the problem; it may hide it. If you cannot solve the problem and you did the best you can do, you can deposit the model with the outlier. The PDB does not reject models with

[ccp4bb] salt or not?

2013-04-15 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear ccp4 I have been performing trials on a protein DNA complex for a while now and have not seen any crystals form. Today I checked an old plate (over a month old) and I see 4 large crystals. *excitement* Three of them look tetragonal in shape (like a pyramid) and one of them looks

Re: [ccp4bb] salt or not?

2013-04-15 Thread Hargreaves, David
Dear Careina, I would be cautious of using dyes. Much better to 1) try in-situ diffraction if possible as this is least invasive or 2) pick a sensible cryo and just freeze the crystal(s). I would try to same something from the experiment for seed stock possibly sequencing. Dave David

Re: [ccp4bb] salt or not?

2013-04-15 Thread RHYS GRINTER
What else in in the conditions? Calcium Sulphate/Phosphate is poorly soluble, so if there is any sulphate or phosphate in your condition I would be suspicious. The age of the plate is also a bad sign, as evaporation over an extended time can lead to salt crystals. Check the well solution for

Re: [ccp4bb] Angle restraints

2013-04-15 Thread Kavyashree Manjunath
Sir, Thank you Sir. It worked. I used alternate conformations which differ by 180 deg around CZ-NE bond. Now there is no angle deviation error. Thank you all for useful suggestions. With Regards Kavya what you may have is two alternate conformations - i.e. your current one and one with the

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] cell disruptor / homogenizer - final summary

2013-04-15 Thread Clemens Steegborn
P.S.: The C5 is what we had in Bochum. Also not perfect, but I guess there’s no perfect machine .. Von: Clemens Steegborn [mailto:clemens.steegb...@ruhr-uni-bochum.de] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. März 2013 13:58 An: 'Clemens Steegborn'; 'CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK' Betreff: AW: [ccp4bb] cell

Re: [ccp4bb] salt or not?

2013-04-15 Thread Ulrike Demmer
Dear Careina, altough your crystals does't take up the Izit dye it sounds promising. The uptake of Izit depends on the solvent channels of the protein molecule - sometimes the dye just can't enter the molecule. Concerning the Calciumchloride - if the concentration is not too high and without

[ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB statistics

2013-04-15 Thread Raji Edayathumangalam
Hi Folks, Does anyone know of an accurate way to mine the PDB for what percent of total X-ray structures deposited as on date were done using molecular replacement? I got hold of a pie chart for the same from my Google search for 2006 but I'd like to get hold of the most current statistics, if

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2013-04-15 Thread Antoine Royant
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Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB statistics

2013-04-15 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Raji, the numbers you have accumulated might already be accurate, it is more a question of how precise your numbers should be - and this might become a long discussion without resulting in a single answer: Take into account that the PDB query

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB statistics

2013-04-15 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Structures of a protein-ligand complex are often determined without the need of running a molecular replacement program: a difference Fourier is generated to locate the ligand, usually after a few rounds of rigid bodies and / or atom positional refinement.. They may account for many of the

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB statistics

2013-04-15 Thread Phil Jeffrey
From my own db program: Number of entries in histogram: 711 Total number of instances : 78467 0 48249 0.6149 MOLECULAR REPLACEMENT 1 8557 0.1091 NULL 2 5632 0.0718 SAD 3 5128 0.0654 MAD 4 3600 0.0459 FOURIER SYNTHESIS 5 1762 0.0225 OTHER 6 1171 0.0149 MIR 7

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB statistics

2013-04-15 Thread Raji Edayathumangalam
Thanks to everyone who responded. I appreciate your pointing out the caveats of such statistics mining expeditions. I remember (with no accuracy or precision) sitting in a lecture by Wayne Hendrickson years ago and watching him cringe at the notion of considering the simple case of difference

Re: [ccp4bb] Puzzling Structure

2013-04-15 Thread Michel Fodje
Just to round up this topic, a bug report was submitted to PDBe concerning entry 2wlv and the PDB has how responded acknowledging the problem. An updated entry will be available in one week. As pointed out by Savvas, it is very likely the CRYST1 record was manually edited prior to deposition

Re: [ccp4bb] Puzzling Structure

2013-04-15 Thread Huw Jenkins
On 15 Apr 2013, at 17:19, Michel Fodje michel.fo...@lightsource.ca wrote: I imagine somebody accidentally deleted a space between P 21 21 2 and 18 and tried to fix it by adding it back, between 1 and 8. As this has now been mentioned twice in this discussion it should probably be noted

Re: [ccp4bb] salt or not?

2013-04-15 Thread James Holton
I may be biased, but the only way to really be sure is to shoot them. If you see no spots at all, be sure to do a wide oscillation (rotation during the exposure) shot as well. It is not unlikely for a salt crystal to be oriented so that no relps are on the Ewald sphere, giving no spots.

Re: [ccp4bb] salt or not?

2013-04-15 Thread Ed. Pozharski
Protein-DNA complex crystal with channels too small for the dye is *extremely* unlikely, imho. Original message From: Ulrike Demmer ulrike.dem...@biophys.mpg.de Date: 04/15/2013 8:48 AM (GMT-05:00) To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] salt or not? Dear

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB statistics

2013-04-15 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Raji Edayathumangalam wrote: Hi Folks, Does anyone know of an accurate way to mine the PDB for what percent of total X-ray structures deposited as on date were done using molecular replacement? I got hold of a pie chart for the same from my Google search for 2006 but I'd

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB statistics

2013-04-15 Thread James Holton
The only way to really do creative stats on the PDB is to just download the whole thing. It is a sobering thought to realize just how tiny it is! Less than 17 GB. Once you've got it all on your hard disk you can start writing little programs to look for different things. I have posted

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB statistics

2013-04-15 Thread Nat Echols
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:47 AM, James Holton jmhol...@lbl.gov wrote: However, I'm sure the day is not far off when phenix.refine or the like will check if the starting R factor is too high and just automatically invoke a run of MR to see if something clicks. I think the latest Phaser code

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[ccp4bb] Post-doc positions

2013-04-15 Thread James Naismith
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