Re: [ccp4bb] cryoprotection ideas for salt based condition

2014-02-11 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
near to where you are looping your crystals to reduce evaporation of water from your drop. Good luck! Liz Quoting Mahesh Lingaraju mxl1...@psu.edu on Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:28:15 -0500: Hello folks, I have crystals for a protein which form in 0.1 M MES pH 6-6.75, 10% dioxane and 1.6

[ccp4bb] cryoprotection ideas for salt based condition

2014-01-22 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
Hello folks, I have crystals for a protein which form in 0.1 M MES pH 6-6.75, 10% dioxane and 1.6-2 M Ammonium sulphate. Based on little experience I have finding the right cryoprotection for salt based conditions; I have tried glycerol (15-25%), Ethylene glycol (20-25%), DMSO (15-20%) and

Re: [ccp4bb] cryoprotection ideas for salt based condition

2014-01-22 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
with higher amounts. Very often crystals are much happier when you don't soak/tinker with them and freeze them straight out of the drop. Good luck. Mark -Original Message- From: Mahesh Lingaraju mxl1...@psu.edu To: CCP4BB CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Wed, Jan 22, 2014 10:38 am

Re: [ccp4bb] seeding, reproducibility

2014-01-17 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
description of the random microseeding method*D'Arcy, Allan, Frederic Villard, and May Marsh. An automated microseed matrix-screening method for protein crystallization. Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography 63, no. 4 (2007): 550-554. On 17 January 2014 22:24, Mahesh

Re: [ccp4bb] structural homologs as cross seeds

2013-12-28 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
Thanks for the input folks. Ill surely try it. Hopefully some christmas/new year miracles will happen. Thanks again Mahesh Dear all, I was wondering if it sounds logical to use the crystals from a possible structural homolog as seeds to induce nucleation ? (in terms of overall sequence,

[ccp4bb] structural homologs as cross seeds

2013-12-27 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
Dear all, I was wondering if it sounds logical to use the crystals from a possible structural homolog as seeds to induce nucleation ? (in terms of overall sequence, the proteins are considerably different but based on sequence alignment and structures from other related proteins, it is highly

Re: [ccp4bb] small crystals

2013-12-05 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
Hi All On similar lines, I have been trying to optimize crystallization conditions for my protein. Initially, I had showers of needles in a PEG screen which did not really improve after screening around the condition. So, I seeded these needles into all the screens that I have available and I

Re: [ccp4bb] changes in small sections of secondary structure

2013-10-21 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
Hello experts Thanks for your insights. For one of the structures, it turned out to be a rendering issue by pymol like matt pointed out. For the other, the residues are clearly in a less than ideal position. Even if I see deviation from the RMSD plots, i cannot be sure that the structure were

[ccp4bb] R and R free from CIF file deposited in PDB

2013-10-11 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
Hello Experts, I was wondering if the R, Rfree, RMSD for bonds and angles calculated by polygon plug in in PHENIX GUI using the cif file pdb file deposited in protein structure database would be the same as reported in database/publication ? I apologize in advance if this is a PHENIX specific

Re: [ccp4bb] R and R free from CIF file deposited in PDB

2013-10-11 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Mahesh Lingaraju Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 21:59 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] R and R free from CIF file deposited in PDB Hello Experts, I was wondering if the R, Rfree, RMSD

Re: [ccp4bb] Stuck rfree - possible non merohedral twinning ?

2013-08-26 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
converted to XDS now ? Welcome to the club. Jürgen On Aug 25, 2013, at 8:35 PM, Mahesh Lingaraju wrote: Hello everyone, I collected a dataset which looked like it is twinned ( or a really long axis in the cell) and did not process in HKL2000 and MOSFLM but with some of help

[ccp4bb] Stuck rfree - possible non merohedral twinning ?

2013-08-25 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
Hello everyone, I collected a dataset which looked like it is twinned ( or a really long axis in the cell) and did not process in HKL2000 and MOSFLM but with some of help and suggestions from CCP4BB, XDS was able to process it. The data looks good upto 1.7 Å. However, the rfree is stuck at 0.34

[ccp4bb] Twinabs-cell_now

2013-08-23 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
hello everyone Can anyone point to me where i could obtain the programs twinabs, cell_now ? i cannot seem to locate them by simple googling. Thanks mahesh

Re: [ccp4bb] Purification of a protein

2013-08-23 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
i am not sure this would work as his protein seems to be degraded by the n end degradation pathway. i feel like it almost needs to be expressed as a fusion protein with some stabilizing sequence On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Roger Rowlett rrowl...@colgate.eduwrote: Why not adopt a

Re: [ccp4bb] Data processing - twinned xtals

2013-08-22 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
will get a better quality of data with a more optimal strategy, but I would never say never. If I had a penny every time people told me 'you cannot process that'… Petri On Aug 19, 2013, at 11:40 PM, Mahesh Lingaraju mxl1...@psu.edu wrote: Thank you experts for your valuable suggestions. I

Re: [ccp4bb] non-diffracting xtals

2013-08-20 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
, Mahesh Lingaraju пишет: Hi Jürgen you are right, I did not try any major optimization yet. I only tried to vary PEG and protein concentration. That did not really improve things too much. The protein mostly forms spherulites beyond 25% PEG. I am also thinking that these crystals are poorly

Re: [ccp4bb] Data processing - twinned xtals

2013-08-19 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
Thank you experts for your valuable suggestions. I think Ill try to solve it by proper data collection strategy the next time as i am unable to process my current data even with the tricks that were mentioned here. Thanks again Mahesh On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Bosch, Juergen

[ccp4bb] non-diffracting xtals

2013-08-19 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
Hello people I recently obtained hexagonal rod like crystals (150x50x20 um) which turned out to be non diffracting. What is the usual convention for cases like this ? do people usually give up on the condition or still try to optimize it ? The crystals are also not very reproducible. I believe

Re: [ccp4bb] non-diffracting xtals

2013-08-19 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
, Mahesh Lingaraju mxl1...@psu.edu wrote: Hello people I recently obtained hexagonal rod like crystals (150x50x20 um) which turned out to be non diffracting. What is the usual convention for cases like this ? do people usually give up on the condition or still try to optimize it ? The crystals

Re: [ccp4bb] non-diffracting xtals

2013-08-19 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
On Aug 19, 2013, at 5:46 PM, Mahesh Lingaraju wrote: Hi Petri They are non-diffracting at the home source and they are cryo cooled. Like david suggested I guess ill try introducing a buffer as my condition does not have a buffer. it is ammonium acetate and PEG 3350. Thanks for the encouragement