[ccp4bb] agarose-acrylamide composite gels

2008-08-24 Thread Alexandra Deaconescu
Hello everyone: Sorry for the off-topic question. I am trying to separate by SDS-PAGE really big proteins (500 kDa), and lower percentage (3-8%) acrylamide gels do not do the trick. Based on literature searches, acrylamide-agarose composite gels seem the way to go. Is anyone willing to share a

Re: [ccp4bb] agarose-acrylamide composite gels

2008-08-24 Thread Dima Klenchin
Sorry for the off-topic question. I am trying to separate by SDS-PAGE really big proteins (500 kDa), and lower percentage (3-8%) acrylamide gels do not do the trick. Based on literature searches, acrylamide-agarose composite gels seem the way to go. Is anyone willing to share a protocol? I

Re: [ccp4bb] Wilson plot from truncated.mtz

2008-08-24 Thread Ian Tickle
Phil OK I admit I didn't delve very deeply into the code, but looking at the printer output it obviously does do a linear fit to the Wilson plot to get an overall B scale. However, looking at the man page (if all else fails read the documentation!) I see that it does say that this is only used

Re: [ccp4bb] Wilson plot from truncated.mtz

2008-08-24 Thread Phil Evans
You're right. The smoothed I is used for the Truncate procedure, though it is difficult in the very low resolution bins. Also it doesn't allow for pseudo-translations, which it should. As you say, the linear fit is only used to put data on a very rough absolute scale. This isn't necessary,

Re: [ccp4bb] protein degradation

2008-08-24 Thread Artem Evdokimov
If your protein precipitates at low ionic strength you may want to establish what concentration of salt does it tolerate (by slowly diluting a fraction of your pool with water just until you see precipitation) then try to adjust your cation exchange conditions so that you load with enough salt to

Re: [ccp4bb] agarose-acrylamide composite gels

2008-08-24 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Also, for very large proteins you should not boil the samples - if you must heat, just go to 50-60C for a few minutes. You also may have better luck with CTAB-PAGE rather than SDS-PAGE (CTAB tends to smear less, for some reason). Artem -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board

Re: [ccp4bb] Wilson plot from truncated.mtz

2008-08-24 Thread Ian Tickle
Phil Squaring the F (i.e. the best estimate of Ftrue) that Truncate estimates does not give you F^2 (the best estimate of Itrue): F = Integral[0:infinity] sqrt(J) p(J|I) dJ var(F) = Integral[0:infinity] (sqrt(J)-F)^2 p(J|I) dJ F^2= Integral[0:infinity] J

Re: [ccp4bb] Software for Drawing Protein Secondary Structure

2008-08-24 Thread Nian Huang
You can try TOPS. http://www.tops.leeds.ac.uk/ Best, Nian On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Buz Barstow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Does anyone know of a program that is capable of drawing the secondary structure of a protein molecule? I'd really like to be able to take a protein