Re: [ccp4bb] SAD data is enough

2012-06-11 Thread Murray, James W
Dear Debajyoti, It is likely that you have crystallized a contaminant in your preparation. You can put the unit cell into BALBES which will tell you if the PDB has seen it before. Another thing is to submit your polyalanine trace to DALI to see if the fold is recognised. James -- Dr. James

Re: [ccp4bb] High Resolution Cutoff

2012-06-11 Thread Kay Diederichs
Dear Michael, the purpose of our paper (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6084/1030) was to develop and document methods that enable to check for yourself what the best high resolution cutoff is - no rules of thumb are necessary! However, repeated use of the paired refinement technique (3

[ccp4bb] protein precipitate in all PEG kit

2012-06-11 Thread fengjuanlv12
hi all, I got a protein with good condition without precipitating in the purification process.And the protein is stalbe at 4oC, but when i try crystallization screens, it precipating in all the kit(with PEG), in the kit with high concentration of salt ,the situation was better(but still no

Re: [ccp4bb] protein precipitate in all PEG kit

2012-06-11 Thread Zhijie Li
Hi, The idea used by the Qiagen pre-screen might be relevant to your case: http://www.qiagen.com/products/protein/crystallization/screeningproteincrystallizationconditions/prescreenassay.aspx http://www.qiagen.com/literature/handbooks/literature.aspx?id=239 Zhijie From: fengjuanlv12

Re: [ccp4bb] protein precipitate in all PEG kit

2012-06-11 Thread Zhijie Li
Hi Fengjuan, It has been proposed that for a specific protein there are hard precipitants and soft precipitants. Hard ones precipitates the the protein effectively, while soft ones may help stabilizing the protein. By playing with the two types of precipitants, one may get better

[ccp4bb] Beamline scientist position at the HZB BESSY-II MX-beamlines (application reference: F 2012/7), deadline 30.06. 2012

2012-06-11 Thread Müller , Uwe
The HZB MX-team is seeking a beamline scientist to support the operations of the three MX-beamlines at BESSY-II. The initial contract will run over a period of three years. Payment will be on the basis of germans TVöD-Bund salary scheme. HZB-MX is offering state-of-the-art MX-beamlines to the

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral Position at ICR, London, UK

2012-06-11 Thread Sebastian Guettler
Postdoctoral Position at ICR, London, UK We seek to appoint a Post-doctoral Training Fellow to the Divisions of Structural and Cancer Biology of the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR; http://www.icr.ac.uk) in London, UK, to a new team led by Dr. Sebastian Guettler. The successful applicant

[ccp4bb] Coot get monomer issue

2012-06-11 Thread Joel Tyndall
Hi folks, Sorry for the cross post / off topic question. I have just noticed a recurring/repeatable problem when using the get monomer option in Coot. E.g. when getting ILE (and a few others) but not ala, Coot freezes on a windows 7 machine (using 64-bit thingies). I am using 0.6.2 and there