Re: [ccp4bb] How to determine the concentration of biotinylated peptide?

2017-02-05 Thread Debasish Kumar Ghosh
Hi Alex, In addition to Mirella's suggestion I would like to make an addition which might be specifically useful for you. Since your peptide has biotin tag, You may use HABA dye assay for the exact quatifiation of biotin (and thus biotinylated peptide). As far I recall, Thermo scientific

Re: [ccp4bb] How to determine the concentration of biotinylated peptide?

2017-02-05 Thread Vivoli, Mirella
Hi Alex, you can measure the absorbance at 214-220 nm, which is where the peptide bonds absorb, but you should know/calculate/predict the extinction coefficient of your peptide at that wavelength. Furthermore, you might try BCA assay which is colorimetric as the bradford but the reaction

Re: [ccp4bb] on the resoution of crystal

2017-02-05 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear Pavel, I believe words have a meaning, but they are not defined. This may make languages a little more demanding than mathematics, since you have to deal with a variety of a few hundred thousand to millions, depending how popular the language in question is, but personally I enjoy the

[ccp4bb] How to determine the concentration of biotinylated peptide?

2017-02-05 Thread Alex Lee
Dear All, Sorry for the off-topic question, I'd like to do Biacore SPR assay with N-terminal biotinylated peptide as ligand (to Biacore SA chip) and my protein as analyte. I have a question of how to determine the concentration of biotinylated peptide (synthetic peptide), if the peptide has no

Re: [ccp4bb] on the resoution of crystal

2017-02-05 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Tim, hi Natesh, one expression is mathematically, the other one is technically 'more > correct'. > I favour the terms poor and good resolution to avoid confusion, or > explicitly > list the values. just out of curiosity.. what's your definition of 'poor' and 'good' resolutions? I suspect

Re: [ccp4bb] on the resoution of crystal

2017-02-05 Thread Natesh Ramanathan
Dear John, In protein crystallography, the ranges customarily applied to resolution are: Low resolution --> worse than 2.7 A Medium resolution --> better than 2.7 A but worse than 1.8 A High resolution --> better than 1.8 Aand worse than 1.2 A

Re: [ccp4bb] on the resoution of crystal

2017-02-05 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear John, one expression is mathematically, the other one is technically 'more correct'. I favour the terms poor and good resolution to avoid confusion, or explicitly list the values. Best, Tim On Sunday, February 5, 2017 12:09:11 PM CET wrote: > Dear All, > For one protein crystal, its

Re: [ccp4bb] on the resoution of crystal

2017-02-05 Thread Dale Tronrud
It is confusing, but "high" is meant to indicate the quality of the final electron density map based on the data. Your 1.8 A data set will give the better map, and is the high resolution data set. Dale Tronrud On 2/5/2017 4:09 AM, wrote: > Dear All, > > For one protein crystal, its

[ccp4bb] on the resoution of crystal

2017-02-05 Thread
Dear All, For one protein crystal, its resolution was 1.8 A. For another crystal for the same protein,  its resolution was 3.8 A. In literature, do we call the 1.8 A crystal as the high resolution crystal (because of quality), or do we call the 3.8 A crystal as the high resolution crystal