Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] crystals that dont diffract :( :(

2018-08-14 Thread Careina Edgooms
ossibility these days. best jon   Von: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK]Im Auftrag von Careina Edgooms Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. August 2018 11:59 An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Betreff: [ccp4bb] crystals that dont diffract :( :(   I got the most beautiful crystals I have

[ccp4bb] crystals that dont diffract :( :(

2018-08-14 Thread Careina Edgooms
I got the most beautiful crystals I have ever seen and they don't diffract at all. Not poor diffraction, NO diffraction. Anyone know why this could be and how I can go about fixing it? I had three beautiful crystals and not one diffracted. I did leave them in the drop for about 3 weeks before

[ccp4bb] refinement papers

2018-06-25 Thread Careina Edgooms
Hello everyone I am giving talk about refinement and model building. I wonder if anyone knows of latest relevant papers on this topic that you could suggest for me?thank you Careina To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list,

[ccp4bb] validating a homlology model

2018-03-02 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear all What programs are best used for validate homology models? I know of molprobity but if there are no coordinates I cannot use it. Is there a way to use such programs with homology models? Also I wish to use pdbepisa for to charaterise dimer interface but again for homology model this

[ccp4bb] PDBepisa

2017-08-01 Thread Careina Edgooms
HelloI have two questions if anyone can help:1. Does anyone know how PDBe Pisa calculate if the residues interact? I can't find an explanation for this. 2. Also, I want to do SAXS on a liquid sample using a rigaku smartlab x-ray diffractometer. It is set up for powder and the software they use

[ccp4bb] convert hkl data to mtz

2017-05-07 Thread Careina Edgooms
Hi I have not been in the game of solving structures for years. In the past I used the program combat in ccp4 to convert my hkl output file from SAINT into mtz file. Now I don't see combat anymore as an option in ccp4 programs and none of the programs recognise my SAINT output file. Please

[ccp4bb] Protein crosslinking

2014-09-30 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear CCP4 members I do not have any good experience with chemical cross linking, it has not worked for me and I am curious how others have got it to work. In my latest attempt I wished to crosslink two monomers with DSS. The protein is exclusively dimeric according to SEC. I incubated the

[ccp4bb] create electrostatic map

2014-09-22 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear all I wish to do some docking work between a protein structure that I have and a DNA model that I have created using the programme DelPhi. This can be done but i would also like to create an electrostatic map of the interaction. Apparently DNA and protein is to be protonated to generate

[ccp4bb] off topic

2014-08-13 Thread Careina Edgooms
Sorry for off topic question, just wondering if anyone has come across a study that shows the residue pka of certain amino acids is different in vitro compared to in vivo? Best Careina

Re: [ccp4bb] off topic

2014-08-13 Thread Careina Edgooms
Briggs about.me/david_briggs   On 13 August 2014 12:40, Careina Edgooms 02531c126adf-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk wrote: Sorry for off topic question, just wondering if anyone has come across a study that shows the residue pka of certain amino acids is different in vitro compared to in vivo

[ccp4bb] docking program

2014-03-07 Thread Careina Edgooms
Can anyone recommend a good docking program to look at protein-DNA interactions?

[ccp4bb] KD of dimerization, off topic

2014-02-14 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear CCP4 board I have a protein that exists in equilibrium between monomer and dimer and I'm trying to calculate KD using size exclusion. The problem is that the column dilutes my sample so that if I put 20 uM on to the column, I only recover 0.5 uM in dimer fraction and 2 uM in monomer

[ccp4bb] Protein-DNA modelling

2013-12-05 Thread Careina Edgooms
Can anyone recommend  a good modelling program to use to model protein-DNA interactions. I have tried Haddock. Any suggestions? Best Careina

[ccp4bb] small crystals

2013-12-04 Thread Careina Edgooms
Hi all Any advice on how to get bigger crystals from conditions that give showers of tiny crystals? I am getting small pretty looking individual crystals but they are too small and they don't seem to grow. In fact, in some instances if left for a couple of days they actually dissolve. I have

[ccp4bb] off topic CM sepharose

2013-07-11 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear ccp4 bulletin board Sorry for off topic question. I'm working with a protein with pI 9.5 and yet it will not bind to a cm sepharose column when equilibrated at pH 6.5. I have removed all salt from the buffer but it still will not bind. I wonder if anyone has suggestions as to why this

[ccp4bb] off topic

2013-07-05 Thread Careina Edgooms
Just a quick question, does anybody know if ethidium bromide binds to poly(dI-dC)? Careina

[ccp4bb] cryocrystals

2013-05-22 Thread Careina Edgooms
Hi Does anybody know how long one could store a crystal in liquid nitrogen for before it will no longer diffract well? I'm talking in the order of weeks to months... careina

[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

[ccp4bb] off topic, BN PAGE

2013-03-27 Thread Careina Edgooms
Hi Has anyone found the coomassie in a BN PAGE to be interfering with the oligomeric structure of their protein? If so, how did you deal with this? Thanks Careina

Re: [ccp4bb] disulfide engineering

2013-02-28 Thread Careina Edgooms
by varying the ratio.     Best,   Clemens         JPK     On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:06 AM, David Briggs drdavidcbri...@gmail.comwrote:     You might want to try Disulfide by design         Cheers     Dave   On Feb 28, 2013 6:55 AM, Careina Edgooms careinaedgo...@yahoo.com   wrote

[ccp4bb] disulfide engineering

2013-02-27 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear CCP4 members I wish to engineer a disulfide bond at the dimer interface of a protein I am working with. Does anyone know of any available software to assist with this? Best Careina

[ccp4bb] observed reflections

2013-02-13 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear ccp4 I apologise for the straightforward question. I'm just a bit confused about the observed reflections quoted in tables. What exactly is this and should it include outer shell separately? Best Careina

[ccp4bb] protein solubility predictions

2013-01-22 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear ccp4 Apologies for the off topic question. I was wondering whether anyone could suggest a good tool or methodology to use to predict protein solubility and ability to fold from the sequence? I am working with a large protein of multiple domains. I would like to work with as close to the

[ccp4bb] Protein-DNA crystallisation

2013-01-17 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear CCP4 I wish to crystalise a transcription factor in complex with DNA. Are there any good papers you can recommend on protein-DNA crystallisation?  Also any helpful tips on protein:DNA ratios, protein concentrations or buffer conditions that have worked for any of you would be most helpful

[ccp4bb] Detwin

2012-12-10 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear CCP4 I have data that is twinned with an L statistic of 0.43. It seems all the crystals that I produced were twinned sadly. Is there anything I can do to twinned data to make it easier to analyse? I have tried to use the detwin software but it won't let me input a twinning operator for a

[ccp4bb] off topic: oligomer detection

2012-11-13 Thread Careina Edgooms
Anyone have any advice on how to detect whether my protein is forming oligomers? It is monomeric in the native state but I have reason to believe that it may be oligomerising in mild concentrations of urea (intermediate state). I have tried cross linking and BN PAGE and they are inconclusive.

[ccp4bb] protein interactions

2012-09-06 Thread Careina Edgooms
Anybody know of any software out there that can predict potential interaction sites between two proteins? They have been shown to interact via y2h screens but I have no idea if they would interact on their own in vitro. Before I clone them into a vector and purify them I would like some sort of

[ccp4bb] Pisa application

2012-08-08 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear ccp4ers I just wonder whether anybody knows if the PISA software could be used/modified to detect potential interfaces of interaction of different proteins? This would be very useful as a tool to validate protein-protein interactions detected by in vivo methods such as yeast 2 hybrid

[ccp4bb] space group and multiplicity

2012-08-02 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear ccp4 I ask a very fundamental question because I have not had formal training in this and I would like to understand.  How can I obtain the multiplicity (z) from the space group? So for example if the space group is P222 how do I know that there are 4 monomers in the unit cell? Or if it

[ccp4bb] off topic detection of oligomerisation

2012-06-26 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear ccp4 bulletin board I apologise for off topic question. I wonder if anybody knows of a good method to detect oligomerisation?  I suspect an equilibrium intermediate is forming oligomers based on tryptophan fluorescence showing an exposed tryptophan becoming buried in a hydrophobic region.

[ccp4bb] negative density in difference map

2011-11-22 Thread Careina Edgooms
Good morning CCP4 members I have a question about a 2F0-Fc difference map that I calculated with Refmac. In some instances it gives me negative (red) density around part of a side chain and no positive density in sight. Furthermore the entire residue fits well into the blue density of the

[ccp4bb] EDS server

2011-09-02 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear all Simple question, is there a way I can upload my own data into the EDS server? I see only place for it to take from data already published in the PDB. Apologies for non ccp4 based question Careina

Re: [ccp4bb] EDS server

2011-09-02 Thread Careina Edgooms
/ // // / / *From:*CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Careina Edgooms [careinaedgo...@yahoo.com] mailto:careinaedgo...@yahoo.com] *Sent:* Friday, September 02, 2011 11:41 AM

[ccp4bb] large R-Rfree difference in final structure

2011-07-13 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear ccp4 bulletin board I just have a slight concern regarding my Rwork Rfree difference. I have a structure that I have solved. I am reasonably content that it is complete because it has refined well, it no longer has bad geometries and contacts and all the rotamers, ramachandra, bond

[ccp4bb] MR question

2011-06-22 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear ccp4 members I have something that surprises me with molecular replacement. I have obtained a solution for a single point mutation using Phaser, the solution seems ok. I do one round of refinement with refmac and I check the structure using molprobity before I even start really to refine

[ccp4bb] self rotation function

2011-06-03 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear ccp4 members I have question about how to interpret polarrfn log. I wish to know if my crystal display NCS. I am not sure how to interpret the file. I see it have two peak, one is origin and the other is not that high to me. I have attach copy of the file. If someone could assist me to

[ccp4bb] metal binds?

2011-03-25 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear ccp4 users I would like to know, is there a way to check that heavy metal has bound to crystals before I take it to synchrotron which is far away? thanks Careina

[ccp4bb] molecular replacement solution

2011-03-15 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear CCP4 members I have a confusion with molecular replacement. I wish to solve a monomeric protein in P21 where there are 2 monomers in asymmetric unit. I have a search model that also has 2 monomers in asymmetric unit. First I try using Phaser. I use only one chain of the monomer model

[ccp4bb] .pir file

2011-02-17 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear CCP4 mailing list I have a relatively simple question. How do I get sequence file in .pir format which is required for many programs? I normally use fasta format but some programs eg arpwarp do not allow me to use that Thanks for your help Careina

[ccp4bb] So many clashes

2011-01-18 Thread Careina Edgooms
Dear CCP4 bulletin board I am trying to solve structure with molecular-replacement. I have got good solution using Phaser. The refined structure fits well to electron density and appears reasonable in terms of geometry, ramachandran, rotamers etc. The problem I experience is that there are