Re: [ccp4bb] Anomalous map creating

2009-11-02 Thread Guenter Fritz
Hi, I was looking recently for weak anomalous scatterers, when refined model is known. I used phaser as described here: http://www.phenix-online.org/pipermail/phenixbb/2008-July/001136.html or running phaser from the ccp4 gui SAD with molecular replacement partial structure Works very well,

Re: [ccp4bb] loop modelling?

2009-11-02 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Sloop can generate both a best conformation and ensembles. http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/sloop/sloop.html Coot has both its own loop building code, and an interface to loopy from ARP/wARP. If people like sloop we'll add that to Coot too in due course. Tommi Kajander wrote: Dear all I

Re: [ccp4bb] Anomalous map creating

2009-11-02 Thread Randy Read
Hi, We should probably clarify the documentation on this point. When you complete the anomalous substructure in Phaser, it's an iterative process where LLG maps are computed looking for places where anomalous scattering should be added (or subtracted). New sites are introduced, and

[ccp4bb] In vitro protein interaction analysis using Diazirine crosslinkers.

2009-11-02 Thread Rohan Agashe
I hoping for some advice regarding the use of sulfo-NHS diazirine crosslinker (Pierce) for in vitro protein interaction analysis. Have tried labeling the protein (8.8kDa, 10 to 20uM conc) with 2 primary amines using 30-40X of crosslinker in PBS (1hour at 4deg). Have tried other concentration

Re: [ccp4bb] Anomalous map creating

2009-11-02 Thread Guenter Fritz
Hi Randy, thanks a lot! That explains everything. best regards, guenter Hi, We should probably clarify the documentation on this point. When you complete the anomalous substructure in Phaser, it's an iterative process where LLG maps are computed looking for places where anomalous scattering

[ccp4bb] Crystallization of lysine and arginine rich proteins

2009-11-02 Thread Jan Rash
Dear All, I have a question regarding the crystallization of lysine and arginine rich protein around 13%. So far our attempts to crystallize this protein have not been successful although the secondary structure predictions, CD spectroscopy measurements clearly show that this protein is folded.

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallization of lysine and arginine rich proteins

2009-11-02 Thread Stephen Graham
Try reductive methylation of the lysines: Walter, T. S., Meier, C., Assenberg, R., Au, K. F., Ren, J., Verma, A., Nettleship, J. E., Owens, R. J., Stuart, D. I. Grimes, J. M. (2006). Structure, 14, 1617–1622. Cheers, Stephen 2009/11/2 Jan Rash jan...@googlemail.com: Dear All,  I have a

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallization of lysine and arginine rich proteins

2009-11-02 Thread Flip Hoedemaeker
Hi Jan, We have tried crystallizing a similar protein without success, later on it turned out that the protein was having a strong interaction with DNA that was not sequence specific. You might have a case like that Flip Jan Rash wrote: Dear All, I have a question regarding the

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallization of lysine and arginine rich proteins

2009-11-02 Thread Simon Bushell
Following on from Stephen's comment. Jena Biosciences sell a kit that allows you to do it quickly and easily. check it out here: http://www.jenabioscience.com/cms/en/1/catalog/529_jbs_methylation_kit.html We have had success in our lab using lysine methylation to crystallise an otherwise

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallization of lysine and arginine rich proteins

2009-11-02 Thread gohlke, ulrich
Dear Umar, It's probably not local flexibility or the interaction with other molecules, such as DNA, that prevents your protein from crystallising but an unfavourable enthalpy/entropy balance of long side chains which are potentially restricted by forming crystal contacts. Mutation of

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallization of lysine and arginine rich proteins

2009-11-02 Thread Andy Torelli
Umar, Check out: Czepas et al. The impact of Lys--Arg surface mutations on the crystallization of of the globular domain of RhoGDI, Acta D (2004) 60 275-280. They point out that sulfate ions can help mediate contacts between arginine residues from neighboring molecules in the crystal.

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallization of lysine and arginine rich proteins

2009-11-02 Thread Enrico Stura
Before deciding to change the protein sequence it is best to look at the precipitation pattern of the protein as a function of various precipitants. If this shows that precipitation is not within the standard range commonly observed for other basic proteins even at high protein concentrations

[ccp4bb] definition file

2009-11-02 Thread Oganesyan, Vaheh
Colleagues, Do any of you have created a def.site file for LRL-CAT 31-ID-D beamline to be used by HKL2000? I'll appreciate if you can share. __ Oganesyan Vaheh, Ph.D Antibody Discovery MedImmune, Inc. To the extent this electronic communication or any of its

[ccp4bb] automar

2009-11-02 Thread james09 pruza
Dear All, I need help regarding installing Automar in ferora. After gunzip and untar the file when I run automar/autiomar-install , it says commant not found. Can anyone suggest why it is happening and its solution. Thanks james

[ccp4bb] gfortran compiler direct access files

2009-11-02 Thread Vellieux Frederic
Dear subscribers, I was having a small problem with a program (compiled with gfortran) that gave me run time errors when writing to a direct access file. Fortran runtime error: Record number not allowed for sequential access data transfer. And I could not figure out why. So I wrote a

Re: [ccp4bb] gfortran and direct access files

2009-11-02 Thread Vellieux Frederic
Well, I did hear from the gfortran people... Immediately after I sent my message to the bb. So sorry about the post (the error had never occurred on all previous compilers). Fred. ---BeginMessage--- On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 05:58:09PM +0100, Vellieux Frederic wrote: Dear gfortran developers,

Re: [ccp4bb] automar

2009-11-02 Thread Ed Pozharski
Check if you have csh installed in your system. If it still fails, try installing tcsh. If I am right, then this is happening because automar-install script is written for csh but which is not installed by default on your system (most modern linux distros use bash). On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 22:06

[ccp4bb] Position at Med Univ Innsbruck

2009-11-02 Thread Bernhard Rupp
Dear All: The Division of Human Genetics/Clinical Genetics, Innsbruck Medical University, seeks to appoint a Group Leader in Mitochondrial Protein Research for the expansion of a research focus on the analysis of protein function and interaction in the pathogenesis of inherited mitochondrial

[ccp4bb] Unit of electrostatic potential in PyMol

2009-11-02 Thread Parthasarathy Sampathkumar
Dear All, I used PyMol to generate a qualitative Vacum Electrostatic surface (without APBS calculations). Positve and negative potentials are displayed in the range 56.3 to -56.3. What is the units of these numbers? Thank you, -Partha

[ccp4bb] Fwd: Unit of electrostatic potential in PyMol

2009-11-02 Thread Parthasarathy Sampathkumar
Oops.., I meant to ask a different quesition. Let me try again: I used PyMol to generate a qualitative Vacum Electrostatic surface (without APBS calculations). The potential is displayed in the range -56.3 to +56.3. Is it possible to change this scale in PyMol, if so how? Thank you, -Partha

[ccp4bb] experience with the new coot 0.5.2 and a couple of questions

2009-11-02 Thread lei feng
I just downloaded the new CCP4 package and installed it. comparing with the old version ( I used CCP4 6.0.2 on my windows xp computer and finished my Ph.D projects.), I found the new version of coot is kind of slow in moving to the next residue of the structure by hitting the space. Can

Re: [ccp4bb] Unit of electrostatic potential in PyMol

2009-11-02 Thread Warren DeLano
Partha, Sorry, but PyMOL's built-in potential calculation is qualitative -- if you care about the actual units, then you should be using APBS instead. Cheers, Warren From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Parthasarathy