Re: [ccp4bb] sodium thiocyanate as cryoprotectant

2016-09-27 Thread abhimanyu singh
Hi Alex, You may also think of gradually increasing PEG3350 concentration to around 40% which has worked pretty well in some of my cases. Greetings, Abhi Abhimanyu Kumar Singh, Ph.D. School of Biosciences University of Kent Canterbury, UK. On 27 Sep 2016 23:43, "Alex Lee"

Re: [ccp4bb] sodium thiocyanate as cryoprotectant

2016-09-27 Thread Srivastava, Dhiraj
Probably you can not use thiocyanate as cryoprotectant because its a chaotropic agent. Although its a very mild denaturant (destabilizer) but at high concentration, it can destroy your crystals. I have recently used 30 % sucrose for cryo protection of crystals growing under same condition and

[ccp4bb] sodium thiocyanate as cryoprotectant

2016-09-27 Thread Alex Lee
Hi CCP4bb members, I have a condition for my protein crystals at "0.2M sodium thiocyanate, 25% PEG3350, pH6.9". I'd like to try cryoprotectant with just higher concentration of sodium thiocyanate, but I have no google hits of the range of concentration I should use. I wonder anyone in this

[ccp4bb] MXIS 2016

2016-09-27 Thread ferrer
The deadline for subscription is extended to 7 Oct. Still some places available * MXIS 2016: Practical course on in-plate crystallography, with special focus on ligand screening* *Part 1: *7-9 Nov., at the CNRS campus, Montpellier, France *Part 2: *30 Nov. - 2 Dec., at the EPN