[ccp4bb] screen kit

2011-05-26 Thread dengzq1987
hello all, is there any screen kit that is highly effective for the crystallization of protein-nucleic acids complexes? deng.

Re: [ccp4bb] recommendation for ammonium dihydrogen phosphate cryo

2011-05-26 Thread Chris Ulens
Hi, I would like to get recommendations for a proper cryo solution for a crystallization hit from the Hampton crystal screen Ammonium di- hydrogen phosphate 0.4M. I tried increasing glycerol up to 30% with the same ammonium phosphate concentration or increasing glycerol up to 30% in the

Re: [ccp4bb] Pymol question

2011-05-26 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear Maher, as far as I know pymol uses the APBS (http://www.poissonboltzmann.org) for the calculations and your question is answered in the FAQ: http://www.poissonboltzmann.org/apbs/frequently-asked-questions/what-are-the-units-of-electrostatic-potential (kT/e) I don't know if this also answers

Re: [ccp4bb] recommendation for ammonium dihydrogen phosphate cryo

2011-05-26 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Chris, I have not used this particular condition, but as a rule of thumb I use like with like, e.g. glycerol, ethylene glycol, PEG400 etc. with PEG conditions, and saltlike compounds (sucrose, xylitol, salts) for salt conditions. In your case I would try glucose or xylitol or just look what

Re: [ccp4bb] Problems in refinement

2011-05-26 Thread Eleanor Dodson
How very odd! I have no ideas on the Zn phenonema - what do the R factor plots look like against resolution - is there some aberrant reflection which was part of the FreeR set? The theory is that excluding 5% of the data should not affect the model seriously at all.. Re the 2nd point. Two

Re: [ccp4bb] Histogram/Plot of Buried Surface Areas

2011-05-26 Thread Eugene Krissinel
Dear Jacob, I do not have exactly what you are asking about but some clues. I am not fond of using buried surface area as an indicator of anything in particular and always use energy estimates, however unreliable they may be. In J.Comp.Chem. 31(1),133-143, I put a probability plot for PISA to

Re: [ccp4bb] Problems in refinement

2011-05-26 Thread Jürgen Bosch
60% occupied Zn site perhaps ? Q2 do you have leftover atoms from a previous dual conformation refinement ? Try deleting the corresponding residues in a texteditor and not coot to ensure they are really gone, then rebuild the section into the new diff- map. Jürgen .. Jürgen

Re: [ccp4bb] Problems in refinement

2011-05-26 Thread Petr Kolenko
Dear colleagues, Thanks for the responses. But, Zn occupancy is not an issue. There is positive maximum, not negative. And Q2, I tried to do it in coot and also in text editor. Both results were the same. And I double-checked the line for the atoms in the pdb file for ADP and occupancy. Regarding

Re: [ccp4bb] Problems in refinement

2011-05-26 Thread Mark J van Raaij
regarding the first question - is it now not much more common to refine only against work reflections, and not do a final refinement agains all reflections? (avoids the problem rather than solve it, I admit) regarding the second question - if you take the model from refmac and calculate a map

Re: [ccp4bb] recommendation for ammonium dihydrogen phosphate cryo

2011-05-26 Thread Kristof Van Hecke
Dear Chris, Indeed,. according to McFerrin and Snell, 2002, Appl. Crystallogr., they recommend 30%(v/v) PEG400, or 35% EG (ethlylene glycol) or 30% PG (propylene glycol) However, they also mention the use of 35% (v/v) glycerol. regards Kristof On 26 May 2011, at 13:01,

Re: [ccp4bb] Problems in refinement

2011-05-26 Thread Garib N Murshudov
If you are using TLS refinement the please check TLS definitions.It may be that atoms for which you have positive density are not in TLS definitions. Try to use without TLS. regards Garib On 26 May 2011, at 11:11, Petr Kolenko wrote: Dear colleagues, I have two problems in two structure

Re: [ccp4bb] {**SPAM**} [ccp4bb] screen kit

2011-05-26 Thread Kushol Gupta
The screen described here might be worth checking out as well: Crystallization of bFGF-DNA aptamer complexes using a Sparse Matrix designed for protein-nucleic acid complexes Jamie J. Cannone, , Cindy L. Barnes, , Aniruddha Achari, and Craig E. Kundrot , Journal of Crystal Growth Volume 232,

Re: [ccp4bb] Pymol question

2011-05-26 Thread Xiaoguang Xue
Firstly, I think in Pymol there is no true electrostatic potential calculator, but only a charge-smoothed surface presentation ( http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Protein_contact_potential). So, If you want to calculate the real electrostatic potential in Pymol (by Possion-Boltzman method), you

Re: [ccp4bb] recommendation for ammonium dihydrogen phosphate cryo

2011-05-26 Thread Jim Pflugrath
I always try sugars for everything. There is a cryocrystallography webinar at rigaku.com with embedded videos on how to do this. 50% to 100% saturated sugar (sucrose, glucose, trehalose, sorbitol, et al.) in reservoir buffer is usually what I try. :) -Original Message- From: CCP4

Re: [ccp4bb] Histogram/Plot of Buried Surface Areas

2011-05-26 Thread Kushol Gupta
Hi Jacob - These references might(?) be helpful: Proteins. 1995 Dec;23(4):580-7. Protein-protein interaction at crystal contacts. Janin J, Rodier F. J Mol Biol. 2004 Feb 27;336(4):943-55. A dissection of specific and non-specific protein-protein interfaces. Bahadur RP, Chakrabarti P, Rodier F,

Re: [ccp4bb] recommendation for ammonium dihydrogen phosphate cryo

2011-05-26 Thread R. M. Garavito
Chris, As others have said, using sugars as cryoprotectants is a good first choice. However, we have run into problems freezing crystals with sugars when the primarily crystallization reagent is a salt at high concentrations (0.8-2M). Although 0.4M ammonium phosphate, is not

Re: [ccp4bb] recommendation for ammonium dihydrogen phosphate cryo

2011-05-26 Thread Enrico Stura
Chris, Crystals can be very tollerant of cryo-solutions that respect the degree of hydration of the lattice. You can use any cryo-solution you want, including oil. Try 10% Di-ethylene glycol, 10% 1.2-propanediol, 10% glycerol, 10% PEG 10K, 10% buffer solution, 1M NaCl (pH close to the one

[ccp4bb] Hydrophobic protein surface and SDS page

2011-05-26 Thread Debajyoti Dutta
Dear All, Sorry for the off topic question. I am purifying one protein which is showing increased molecular weight +5kDa (more than adding up the Hexa His and cloning artifact) in normal 12% SDS PAGE. The DNA sequence is as it is. The gel runs without blurring the lanes and without any

Re: [ccp4bb] Hydrophobic protein surface and SDS page

2011-05-26 Thread Pascal Egea
Hi Debajyoti, Migration of proteins in SDS containing gels is dependent on hydrophobicity, the amount of SDS that your protein binds (despite the fact that in theory all proteins should behave the same way under these conditions) and charge. Highly basic or acidic proteins will migrate

[ccp4bb] Structural Biologist/Protein Biochemist position at Heptares Therapeutics Ltd.

2011-05-26 Thread joao dias
We are looking for an outstanding Structural Biologist/Protein Biochemist for our group at Heptares Therapeutics Ltd. Heptares is a Drug Discovery Company located in Hertfordshire UK, working on G protein coupled receptors involved in CNS and metabolic disease. We are using a unique structure

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral Position in Structural Biology Computing, Boston, MA

2011-05-26 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
Hi! There is an immediate opening for a computationally-minded structural biology post-doc in the Sliz Group at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA working in support of the SBGrid Consortium. The SBGrid Consortium is a non-profit service center of Harvard Medical School developed to support

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4BB Digest - 25 May 2011 to 26 May 2011 (#2011-146)

2011-05-26 Thread Geoffrey Feld
Two topics today... 1) Problem with LIBCHECK. Thanks to all who replied to my issue. I was able to resolve the issue before the flurry of responses came in. Basically, I took my CSA modified amino acid, aligned it as best I could to the CYS (especially at the CA), and then manually edited the