Re: [ccp4bb] membrane protein and phase separation

2013-08-02 Thread vincent Chaptal
Hi Pascal, this behavior doesn't surprise me. We had crystals in FC12, and didn't get any phase transitions in any PEGs from 200 to 20.000, and with or w/o organic solvents such as MPD. And I can tell you we had a lot of detergent with the purified protein, concentrating on 50kDa. With

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral Position in Protein Biochemistry / X-ray Crystallography (funded by Cancer Research UK) at ICR

2013-08-02 Thread Sebastian Guettler
Dear CCP4 Community, We are currently looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our research programme on the regulation and functions of ADP-ribosyltransferases. Please see the job description for the position and instructions on how to apply below. Best wishes, Sebastian Post-doctoral

Re: [ccp4bb] membrane protein and phase separation

2013-08-02 Thread R. M. Garavito
Pascal, The reason this phenomenon looks odd to you is that detergent phase separation is not a micelle size phenomenon, but a micelle surface phenomenon. Like any colloidal solution, even protein, there can be conditions where the colloidal particles aggregate (the cloud point), creating a

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position in Structural Biology at Oxford University

2013-08-02 Thread John Vakonakis
Dear all, A postdoctoral position in Structural Biology just became available at our group in Oxford Biochemistry. We seek to recruit a candidate with experience in protein work using relevant biophysical tools, such as X-ray crystallography, NMR, SAXS or EM. The deadline for applications is

[ccp4bb] Post-doctoral fellowship on bacterial exotoxins - expressions of interest

2013-08-02 Thread ppereira
The Fish Immunology and Vaccinology and the Biomolecular Structure groups of IBMC invite expressions of interest from candidates wishing to apply to a FCT-funded individual post-doctoral fellowship, for determining the three-dimensional structure of bacterial exotoxins (AIP56, NleC) and of the

[ccp4bb] REFMAC5: linking a modified amino acid to adjacent residues

2013-08-02 Thread Arnon Lavie
Hi: Despite Google and several attempts, I am still having no success in getting Refmac5 to link a modified amino acid to its adjacent residues. Using sketcher, a cif file for the modified amino acid was generated. This cif file was used an input to Refmac5. The relevant part from the Refmac5

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position available: Structural biology of integral membrane proteins

2013-08-02 Thread S Yuan
Postdoctoral Position Available Laboratory of Robert Stroud Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of California San Francisco, USA SUMMARY DESCRIPTION: Structural Biology The Stroud Laboratory seeks a postdoctoral fellow to pursue the structural characterization of integral

[ccp4bb] Are there.cif dictionaries for deuterated aminoacids for Coot?

2013-08-02 Thread Javier Gonzalez
Dear all, I'm refining a neutron structure and I would like to know whether there are available geometry dictionaries for deuterated aminoacids, in order to input them into Coot. At least the version I have (Coot 0.7, revision 4459) is unable to handle aminoacids whose exchangeable H atoms are

Re: [ccp4bb] REFMAC5: linking a modified amino acid to adjacent residues

2013-08-02 Thread Arnon Lavie
Dear Gabriel (and the other members interested in how the issue was solved; original post below): You are this week's winner!! For getting the correct answer - it was just a matter of editing the cif file and exchanging 'non-polymer' with 'peptide' - you get fame and glory on the CCP4 list,

Re: [ccp4bb] REFMAC5: linking a modified amino acid to adjacent residues

2013-08-02 Thread Antony Oliver
For REFMAC, I think you need to alter the cif file for the modified residue - such that the residue type is L-peptide rather than anything else. Tony. Sent from my iPhone On 2 Aug 2013, at 17:08, Arnon Lavie la...@uic.edumailto:la...@uic.edu wrote: Hi: Despite Google and several attempts, I

Re: [ccp4bb] Are there.cif dictionaries for deuterated aminoacids for Coot?

2013-08-02 Thread Esko Oksanen
Hi Javier, The deuterium exchange should not change the chemistry of the residues (neglecting the minor changes in bond lengths), so the cif-file should be exactly the same for the deuterated amino acids. The _chem_comp_atom.atom_id (e.g. HA) in your monomer library (which is also a