Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Gel filtration of membrane protein

2013-07-26 Thread Nazia Nasir Phd2009,ProteinCrystall.Lab
Dear all, Thank you for the prompt and valuable suggestions. I had made a typo in my earlier mail. I use 50mM NaCl, not 5mM NaCl. I am facing this problem only while using DDM in buffers. My other runs, even with 8M urea run perfectly fine. I will try increasing the salt concentartion and degas b

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Gel filtration of membrane protein

2013-07-26 Thread Ho Leung Ng
If your buffer can't go through a 0.2 micron filter easily, you shouldn't run it through your FPLC. Detergent purity may be an issue. I also experienced problems filtering a buffer containing CHAPS from vendor X. When I switched to Anatrace CHAPS, no more clogging. Ho Ho Leung Ng University

Re: [ccp4bb] Processing files from XSCALE in Aimless

2013-07-26 Thread Kay Diederichs
Hi Sam, Your version of XSCALE is OK since it prints out the string "XSCALE" (the date is OK - my fault!). Rp.i.m. is indeed not listed in XSCALE.LP. Best, Kay -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet.

Re: [ccp4bb] Processing files from XSCALE in Aimless

2013-07-26 Thread Horrell, Sam
Thanks for the replies Harry, Joe and Kay, @Harry (1) I've had a look at the com files and the the run with the file from XSCALE reaches the ROGUEPLOT stage (command line) and says mtz MERGED (Script from file), when I press continue from that stage it switches from running to failed. The run

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Gel filtration of membrane protein

2013-07-26 Thread Raji Edayathumangalam
Hi Nazia, The DDM concentration you mention seems fine to me. I routinely run the FLPC at 4C with buffers containing 0.05% (1mM) DDM and 2% glycerol without issues. I have also used buffers with 5% glycerol in the past but I usually adjust the flow rate, as needed and when I know all else is good

Re: [ccp4bb] Processing files from XSCALE in Aimless

2013-07-26 Thread Kay Diederichs
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:19:57 +0100, Joe.Lyons wrote: > >Hi Sam, > >Assuming the XDS_ASCII.HKL is from XSCALE. I generally run it through >Pointless then aimless with (a scales constant command) using something like >the following. >pointless -copy xdsin XDS_ASCII.HKL hklout sorted.mtz << eof >

Re: [ccp4bb] Processing files from XSCALE in Aimless

2013-07-26 Thread Kay Diederichs
Hi Sam, one possibility: there was a little bug in a recent build of XSCALE that resulted in one of the header lines of the output file to not specify the name XSCALE - it wrote: !GENERATED BY: July 4, 2012 and it should have been !GENERATED BY: XSCALE (VERSION March 30, 2013) The lack of the

Re: [ccp4bb] Processing files from XSCALE in Aimless

2013-07-26 Thread Joe.Lyons
Hi Sam, Assuming the XDS_ASCII.HKL is from XSCALE. I generally run it through Pointless then aimless with (a scales constant command) using something like the following. pointless -copy xdsin XDS_ASCII.HKL hklout sorted.mtz << eof > pointless.log eof aimless hklin sorted.mtz hklout Scaled_1.mt

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Gel filtration of membrane protein

2013-07-26 Thread Bert Van-Den-Berg
The first thing is that you'll have to increase the salt concentration in your buffer. 5 mM is way too low and may cause non-specific binding of the protein to the resin. 100 mM is the minimum you should use. There is nothing in your buffer that will precipitate, so you should't have to worry ab

[ccp4bb] Off topic: Gel filtration of membrane protein

2013-07-26 Thread Nazia Nasir Phd2009,ProteinCrystall.Lab
We are trying to purify a membrane protein using different detergents (DDM, OG etc.). We have tried using 1mM DDM in 20mM Tris, 5mM NaCl and 5% glycerol buffer to purify the protein. however, we are facing problems in running the buffer in 16/60 Superdex 200 pg gel filytration coloumn using AKTA Ex

[ccp4bb] Processing files from XSCALE in Aimless

2013-07-26 Thread Horrell, Sam
Hi Everyone, I've been trying to process some data using Xia2, XSCALE, Pointless and Aimless. I have a large number of datasets (over 100) so have used Xia2 to produce the XDS_ASCII.HKL files using the 3daii pipeline. I now want to process them manually (with a script) using XSCALE and pointles