Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: General rule for maximum flow rate for affinity column?

2008-02-28 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Dear Eric, There are several essential variables that govern protein chromatography (whether affinity, ion exchange, sizing, or other). It would be silly of me to reproduce a protein chromatography handbook here, so instead I would just list some practical pointers: If your column is e.g. 10-15

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: General rule for maximum flow rate for affinity column?

2008-02-28 Thread Stephen Weeks
Eric, I second Chun's reply. As the Volumetric flowrate (ml/min) is equal to the linear flowrate times the area of the column, and the linear flowrate is fixed for a particular resin (Sigma is terrible at providing this value for their resins) you basically just need to increase the

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: ask about cryoprotectant selection using lithium sulfate as precipitant for crystal growth

2008-02-27 Thread R.M. Garavito
Donghui, We have several membrane proteins crystallized in salt-based conditions, actually in high sodium citrate. Yes, LiCl or lithium formate are good alternatives, but also try lithium citrate, as citrate also depresses the freezing point quite well. Good luck, Michael

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: ask about cryoprotectant selection using lithium sulfate as precipitant for crystal growth

2008-02-27 Thread Jim Pflugrath
There are many excellent review articles about cryocrystallography and cryoprotectants. Do labs generally have these articles handy in a methods folder? Do lab heads help their colleagues by making them read them? Mineral oil is generally not a good oil to use because it changes volume too

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: ask about cryoprotectant selection using lithium sulfate as precipitant for crystal growth

2008-02-27 Thread Christian Biertuempfel
Hi Donghui, I just want to draw your attention to the following article. It sums up suggestions which were already made by others for using concentrated (lithium) salt solutions for cryoprotection: Rubinson, K.; Ladner, J.; Tordova, M. Gilliland, G. Cryosalts: suppression of ice formation in

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: ask about cryoprotectant selection using lithium sulfate as precipitant for crystal growth

2008-02-27 Thread Jim Pflugrath
Hi everyone, I received a lot of positive e-mails about my post on cryo methods. One theme was, Well, what are the papers I should read? Blatant self-promotion I know of one such paper published in Methods. I have made the PDF of it downloadable from our web site at

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: ask about cryoprotectant selection using lithium sulfate as precipitant for crystal growth

2008-02-26 Thread Juergen Bosch
Have you tried the various oils ? As a last resort Greek olive oil if paratone and others fail. How about sugars ? Stay away from propanol, your crystals will start floating through your wells with very rapid movements. I once had a 30% 2-propanol crystal condition and mounting crystals only

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: ask about cryoprotectant selection using lithium sulfate as precipitant for crystal growth

2008-02-26 Thread wu donghui
Dear Lokesh, Actually I have tried to dip my crytal directly into mineral oil, no ice ring, but also no diffraction, which might indicate crystal packing under mineral oil is not stable. Anyway, thanks a lot for your valuable information. Other friends mention the use of LiCl or Lithium formate

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic, but am desparate...

2008-01-16 Thread Tim Gruene
Are you familiar with pm3d? I couldn't give the solution from the top of my head, but http://t16web.lanl.gov/Kawano/gnuplot/plotpm3d-e.html seems a good source of information. -- Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A On Wed, 16

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic, but am desparate...

2008-01-16 Thread Bryan W. Lepore
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Jacob Keller wrote: I would like to plot as a heat or color map on the 2d rectangle [...] cannot figure out how to do this in gnuplot or anywhere, consider gnuplot pm3d (not readily obvious for googling, is it) http://t16web.lanl.gov/Kawano/gnuplot/plotpm3d-e.html -bryan

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic, but am desparate...

2008-01-16 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 13:27, Jacob Keller wrote: Hello all, It might just take you a few minutes to tell me how to do this: I have a set of data in three columns xyz (resid1, resid2, value), which I would like to plot as a heat or color map on the 2d rectangle formed by the

Re: [ccp4bb] off topic - back-up servers

2007-12-10 Thread Roger Rowlett
You don't need much of a machine to be a Linux backup server. I built mine from a salvage box (a discarded PIII machine) and a couple of EIDE HDDs. The OS went on a 80 Gbyte drive and the data is stored on a 500 Gbyte drive. The machine is located in another building on campus. My master server

Re: [ccp4bb] off-topic-Heat shock protein gets precipitated

2007-08-30 Thread Martin Hallberg
Dear Shivesh, Try some buffer screening. If you have a real-time PCR machine nearby you can easily screen 96 buffer conditions in about an hour. Check out: Ericsson et al. Analytical Biochemistry 2006 Aug;357(2):289-98 Best regards, Martin On Aug 30, 2007, at 6:06 PM, shivesh kumar wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic summary: where to buy just spin column without kits

2007-07-11 Thread James Stroud
Perhaps someone would barter with you for your reagents? On Wednesday 11 July 2007 18:28, Eric Dollins wrote: Thank you to all who replied to my original post. Here is the result. Original query: Sorry for the off-topic question.Does anyone know a way to just buy the spin columns from

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: where to order just miniprep columns?

2007-07-05 Thread Cynthia Kinsland
There are several sources. You can often get them from the manufacturer of your miniprep kit (the catalog # is written on the side of the bag they come in within the kit). Many times, they don't list in their catalog that they will sell it separately, but you can call and get them to give

Re: [ccp4bb] off-topic Apple computer question

2007-02-09 Thread Steve Lane
Bill: My $0.02 (speaking as someone who has not been happy lately with Apple tech support and customer care). This strikes me as a completely unacceptable response. Unless I'm missing something, if the machine is no longer under warranty then you are simply asking for a fee-for-service repair,

Re: [ccp4bb] off-topic Apple computer question

2007-02-09 Thread Mischa Machius
It's not that simple, it seems. First off, there are numerous reports that Apple repair centers are routinely taking out third-party RAM, sending along a form letter that that RAM was the likely culprit. Giving the customer the option of installing RAM does not mean one can expect to

Re: [ccp4bb] off-topic Apple computer question

2007-02-09 Thread William Scott
My $0.02 (speaking as someone who has not been happy lately with Apple tech support and customer care). This strikes me as a completely unacceptable response. Unless I'm missing something, if the machine is no longer under warranty then you are simply asking for a fee-for-service repair,

Re: [ccp4bb] off-topic Apple computer question

2007-02-09 Thread William Scott
We also currently have a laptop at Apple for repair. The repair center charges a flat rate of $329, no matter what the repair entails. We have a similar deal here, but my understanding is that if the actual cost of parts exceeds $329, you get charged the difference. Since it was a hard drive,

Re: [ccp4bb] off-topic Apple computer question

2007-02-09 Thread Andreas Forster
Steve, Steve Lane wrote: Given the current situation at Apple, particularly their shift in focus and revenue percentage from computers to other types of devices, i.e. iPods, either/both of the above reasons for refusal to do the work are plausible. are you saying one shouldn't buy one's

Re: [ccp4bb] off-topic Apple computer question

2007-02-09 Thread Mischa Machius
We have a similar deal here, but my understanding is that if the actual cost of parts exceeds $329, you get charged the difference. Since it was a hard drive, I didn't get to test the hypothesis. If the repair for a 2 year old laptop is much more than that, there is no point in doing the

Re: [ccp4bb] off-topic Apple computer question

2007-02-08 Thread Jeff Speir
Hi Bill, This sounds very unusual. We have 3rd party RAM in almost all of our Macs, and I've never had a repair request denied by AppleCare. This is an allowed DIY (do it yourself) installation in most if not all their recent machines. It's common knowledge now that hard drives fail

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