[ccp4bb] Toxicity of exposed hydrophobic alpha helices

2008-07-21 Thread Francisco J. Enguita
Dear All : I am studying a mutant protein related with a disease. In the mutated version of this protein there is an alpha helical segment that protrudes into the solvent. This alpha helix is not present in the wild type protein. I was wondering if any of you know some papers in which the

[ccp4bb] ccp4mg doesn't start in windows error in startup script

2008-07-21 Thread Demetres D. Leonidas
Dear CCP4rs This morning we encountered a problem with ccp4mg in windows. It does not start and a window entitled error in startup script pops in with several lines referring to the code. Uninstalling and reinstallation of the program did not help. Has anyone else encountered this ?

[ccp4bb] SUMMARY: synchrotron remote data collection

2008-07-21 Thread Christina Bourne
Thanks to everyone for their replies- very helpful!  Below is a summary: SEC-CAT 22-ID and 22-BM at APS will do both mail-in and remote The canadian light source http://www.lightsource.ca/ has at least mail in protein crystallography. Remote access data collection is available on all the ESRF

Re: [ccp4bb] Expression vector with NdeI-ClaI sites

2008-07-21 Thread Dunten, Pete W.
May be old fashioned, but what about cut with ClaI, fill in, and then you have a blunt end to work with. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Artem Evdokimov Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 12:02 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re:

Re: [ccp4bb] Expression vector with NdeI-ClaI sites

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Collins
Or do the new school cloning, SLIC (Sequence Ligation Independent Cloning) and subclone into any position in a vector. This method uses a PCR product and vector, the PCR primers have 20-40bp overlap with a region in the vector. Mix cut and purified vector with PCR product. Digest with T4

[ccp4bb] Spooky, moving crystals

2008-07-21 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
Dear all, in a recent synchrotron trip we had a problem with our crystals moving after mounting them onto the goniometer, in some cases they moved out of the beam and even out of the zoomed camera picture - it seemed the pins, upon equilibrating to room temperature, extended. It happened

Re: [ccp4bb] Expression vector with NdeI-ClaI sites

2008-07-21 Thread David M Shechner
...Or do the slightly-less-new-but-not-quite-old school technique: QuickChange. Find a vector with roughly the properties you want, and just quickchange mutagenize in NdeI and ClaI sites at the desired positions. Works like a charm for me, assuming the vector is 10Kb or so, and I typically

Re: [ccp4bb] Spooky, moving crystals

2008-07-21 Thread Kevin Jude
I've seen haunted crystals before - the culprit was indeed with the mounting of the pins in their bases (I was re-using some pins and apparently the adhesive had cracked or otherwise failed). Fortunately I never leave home without a tube of Duco cement and was able to correct the problem in

Re: [ccp4bb] Expression vector with NdeI-ClaI sites

2008-07-21 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Another new school cloning reference: Klock, H.E., Koesema, E.J., Knuth, M.W. Lesley, S.A. Combining the polymerase incomplete primer extension method for cloning and mutagenesis with microscreening to accelerate structural genomics efforts. Proteins (2008) 71, 982-994. published online 14

Re: [ccp4bb] Expression vector with NdeI-ClaI sites

2008-07-21 Thread Dima Klenchin
...Or do the slightly-less-new-but-not-quite-old school technique: QuickChange. Find a vector with roughly the properties you want, and just quickchange mutagenize in NdeI and ClaI sites at the desired positions. Works like a charm for me, assuming the vector is 10Kb or so, and I typically

Re: [ccp4bb] Spooky, moving crystals

2008-07-21 Thread Edward Snell
This reminded me of a haunted beamline that removed crystals from the loop. You'd loop the crystals up nicely, block the stream, transfer the crystal fast to the goniometer head, unblock the stream then look in the microscope - no crystal! After a few tries (and head scratching) the culprit was

Re: [ccp4bb] Spooky, moving crystals

2008-07-21 Thread Rizkallah, PJ (Pierre)
Hi Mark, Cryocooled loops stored in tubes inside dewars do flex a little when the loops are put on the goniometer. This is natural, as in the dewar, the whole pin was in liquid nitrogen, but on the goniometer, it is only the loop that is in the cryo stream. Having said that, the degree of

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Spooky, moving crystals

2008-07-21 Thread Richard Gillilan
I recently had exactly this problem only I caught the crystal frozen in the act of being catapulted out of the loop. I was using a thicker- than usual oil for cryoprotectant and kept seeing empty loops with what looked like long clear hairs attached. Finally, one loop had a graceful arc of

Re: [ccp4bb] SUMMARY: synchrotron remote data collection

2008-07-21 Thread Tom Caradoc-Davies
Hi All, Beamline 3BM1 at the Australian Synchrotron http://www.synchrotron.org.au has full remote access available for users. We use the same Blu-Ice gui as SSRL and use the SAM robot. When 3ID is available for general user program (2009) it will also have full remote access capabilities.

[ccp4bb] Na Acetate Buffer

2008-07-21 Thread Meg
Dear All, I want to prepare 25 mM sodium acetate buffer pH 4.5. can anyone give the exact composition of how to prepare it. we prepare it using sodium acetate and acetic acid combination. i am not able to arrive at the calculatation correctly, so if anyone can explain me with the above buffer

Re: [ccp4bb] Na Acetate Buffer

2008-07-21 Thread William G. Scott
This is a job for the trusty Henderson-Hasselbach equation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henderson-Hasselbalch_equation On Jul 21, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Meg wrote: Dear All, I want to prepare 25 mM sodium acetate buffer pH 4.5. can anyone give the exact composition of how to prepare it. we

Re: [ccp4bb] SUMMARY: synchrotron remote data collection

2008-07-21 Thread Chavas Leo
Dear all -- On 22 Jul 2008, at 00:45, Tom Caradoc-Davies wrote: Beamline 3BM1 at the Australian Synchrotron I believe in Japan as well there is a remote control available, at SPring8. It is called Mail-in system. You can probably find more informations there: