Re: [ccp4bb] refmac5

2008-04-16 Thread Chavas Leo
Dear Sajid -- Thanks for your suggestions to run revise. Suggestions from Mike Latchem helped me to overcome the problem. I have another question. I am trying to run REFMAC5. It is giving some warning message. # There is no file name for parameter MAPOUT1 The CCP4 program

Re: [ccp4bb] How to dissolve a hydrophobic peptide?

2008-04-16 Thread David Briggs
This might help... Hassell AM, An G, Bledsoe RK, Bynum JM, Carter HL 3rd, Deng SJ, Gampe RT, Grisard TE, Madauss KP, Nolte RT, Rocque WJ, Wang L, Weaver KL, Williams SP, Wisely GB, Xu R, Shewchuk LM. Abstract Crystallization of protein-ligand complexes. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2007 Ja

Re: [ccp4bb] How to dissolve a hydrophobic peptide?

2008-04-16 Thread Chavas Leo
Dear Jiamu Du -- I want to crystallize a mAb Fab in complex with a hydrophobic cyclic peptide. The peptide contains 1 hydrophilic residue, 2 Cys, and 9 hydrophobic residues. The problem is that I can not dissolve this peptide in common buffers. I think it is need to dissolve it in some or

[ccp4bb] refmac5

2008-04-16 Thread sajid akthar
Dear All Thanks for your suggestions to run revise. Suggestions from Mike Latchem helped me to overcome the problem. I have another question. I am trying to run REFMAC5. It is giving some warning message. # There is no file name for parameter MAPOUT1 The CCP4 program is la

Re: [ccp4bb] Optimization of needle crystals?

2008-04-16 Thread Katya Heldwein
Dear Ngo, You could try additive screens, such as those sold by Hampton Research. Using an additive identified during screening, I was able to optimize conditions giving thin, fiber-like needles to get chunky plates. This was with a soluble protein, though. I don't know whether this approach will

[ccp4bb] small crystallisation incubator

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Hothorn
Dear all, sorry for the off-topic question. I am looking for an affordable+small crystallisation incubator (16-21 deg Celsius). Ideally, it would fit neatly under my bench (in a genetics lab) and hold a few dozen 96 and some 24 well plates. A friend already suggested to get a wine-cooler?! I

[ccp4bb] S-Met replacement

2008-04-16 Thread Joerg Stetefeld
Dear All what are the experiences in the community in terms of physico-chemical property changes if one replace a S-Methionine by a Se-Methionine? Are there structural  a/o functional changes known, e.g. the wild type protein binds a ligand whereas the Se-Met version does not? tha

Re: [ccp4bb] Optimization of needle crystals?

2008-04-16 Thread R.M. Garavito
DDM does not form crystals in aqueous solution. The published phase diagrams show this. In fact, few of the alkyl glycoside detergents crystallize if the sugar group is a beta anomer, even in organic solvents. This is one of the reasons why they are so difficult to purify by recrystalliz

Re: [ccp4bb] Optimization of needle crystals?

2008-04-16 Thread Sanishvili, Ruslan
Hi Ngo, Obviously, you can spend years optimizing crystallization conditions for a membrane protein. Or, you may get lucky and do it quickly. In any case, I would recommend to try, in parallel, collecting data on one of the micro-diffraction beamlines. We offer such capability at GM/CA-CAT beamli

Re: [ccp4bb] Optimization of needle crystals?

2008-04-16 Thread Jayashankar
hi Ngo, Reduce such showering by increasing the reservoir volume, or by increasing the protein concentration. On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Van Den Berg, Bert < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ngo, > > your needles actually look like very thin plates. They seem promising to > me. From appeara

Re: [ccp4bb] Optimization of needle crystals?

2008-04-16 Thread Van Den Berg, Bert
Hi Ngo, your needles actually look like very thin plates. They seem promising to me. From appearance its impossible to tell whether the crystals are detergent or not. DDM is apparently known to form crystals, but I've never really gotten any (DDM is very soluble). What temperature have you use

Re: [ccp4bb] Optimization of needle crystals?

2008-04-16 Thread Jon Wright
You may be able to check whether the cyrstals are protein or detergent this using powder diffraction. (please excuse the shameless plug): Acta Cryst. (2008). A64, 169-180 "Powder crystallography on macromolecules" I. Margiolaki and J. P. Wright http://journals.iucr.org/a/issues/2008/01/00/sc5011

Re: [ccp4bb] Optimization of needle crystals?

2008-04-16 Thread Hubing Lou
You didn't mention which detergent in the conditions. From the picture it looks like crystals of detergent. -- Hubing Lou Centre for Biomolecular Sciences University of St Andrews North Haugh St Andrews Fife KY16 9ST Scotland Quoting Ngo Duc Tri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear ccp4 users, > I cry

[ccp4bb] Job offer: beamline scientist at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-04-16 Thread Edgar Weckert
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron A Research Centre of the Helmholtz Association DESY is one of the world's leading accelerator centres for investigating the structure of matter. DESY develops, builds and operates large accelerator facilities for photon science and particle physics. DESY looks bac

Re: [ccp4bb] Revise

2008-04-16 Thread Stein, ND (Norman)
Dear Sajid It sound as though you are running Revise through CCP4i. If you do this, the first thing you normally select is your mtz file. The buttons labelled 'FPH+1' and 'FPH-1' in the gui then default to the same thing. You need to click on at least one of these buttons and select a different la

[ccp4bb] How to dissolve a hydrophobic peptide?

2008-04-16 Thread Jiamu Du
Dear All, I want to crystallize a mAb Fab in complex with a hydrophobic cyclic peptide. The peptide contains 1 hydrophilic residue, 2 Cys, and 9 hydrophobic residues. The problem is that I can not dissolve this peptide in common buffers. I think it is need to dissolve it in some organic solvent, su