Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement at 4A resolution

2015-04-22 Thread Appu kumar
Dear All, Sorry for the wrong pointless file. With this mail i have attached the pointless run file from the unmerged data. This file also suggests the C2221 spacegroup. Appu On 22 April 2015 at 17:40, Christian Roth wrote: > Hi Appu, > > you start already with a fixed spacegroup (scaled merged

Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement at 4A resolution

2015-04-22 Thread Christian Roth
Hi Appu, you start already with a fixed spacegroup (scaled merged data) according to your pointless log. So you can't get another possible solution from pointless. Cheers Am 22.04.2015 um 22:28 schrieb Appu kumar: Dear CCP4 Member, I seek your advice on the refinement issues at the low res

Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement at 4A resolution

2015-04-22 Thread Phil Evans
The Xtriage & Pointless logs don't show definitively that the space group is C2221 as they have been run on the merged data. You may need to check them with the unmerged data, and perhaps run molecular replacement in a lower symmetry such as C2 Phil On 22 Apr 2015, at 22:28, Appu kumar wrote:

[ccp4bb] Refinement at 4A resolution

2015-04-22 Thread Appu kumar
Dear CCP4 Member, I seek your advice on the refinement issues at the low resolution 4A. I am trying to refine a membrane protein structure after getting the phases from MR using the PHASER. The soluble domain structure which comprises of 40% of protein has been used as template (sequence identity 8

Re: [ccp4bb] Cleaved peptide density!

2015-04-22 Thread Roger Rowlett
If your protease depends on an oxyanion hole for stabilizing the transition state, fluoride ions are known to be a potent inhibitor of these proteases. (It is a quasi-diagnostic test for serine-type proteases, and related cysteine proteases.) This might allow you to get reactant bound without c

Re: [ccp4bb] Cleaved peptide density!

2015-04-22 Thread Reza Khayat
Hi Dipkar, My understanding is that the majority of a protease's activity comes from the oxyanion hole activating the scissile bond. Mutating the nucleophile reduces activity, sometimes appreciably, but does not kill the enzyme. Were your SDS-PAGE experiments on the same time scale and buffer c

Re: [ccp4bb] Cleaved peptide density!

2015-04-22 Thread Radisky, Evette S., Ph.D.
We had a similar situation with a catalytically dead serine protease. Initially I was excited to think we might be seeing residual catalytic activity of the mutant enzyme on a highly specific substrate; however, the activity turned out to result from contamination with a very small amount of wt

Re: [ccp4bb] Cleaved peptide density!

2015-04-22 Thread Michael James
hello Dipankar, Your queries have generated much interest. It would be helpful if you told us which clan the cysteine peptidase you are working with is from. Also it would be very helpful if you could show us the electron density of the "cleaved" peptide in the active site. One presumes that you ha

Re: [ccp4bb] Phaser going into infinite loop in Ample

2015-04-22 Thread Dale Tronrud
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for all the help! We will restart the job with the KILL option as Jens suggested. We will also send a copy of the Phaser log file to Randy. This is not a case of Phaser simply trying harder - it is doing the same search over and over

Re: [ccp4bb] Phaser going into infinite loop in Ample

2015-04-22 Thread Claudia Millán Nebot
Dear Dale, as George points out, you may be interested in trying ARCIMBOLDO, as it has been successfully applied to coiled coil proteins recently, as in the case of Franke et al (2014) Open Biology, 4. p. 130172 or Sammito et al (2013) Nature Methods 10: 1099-1101 . Different models can be searc

Re: [ccp4bb] Phaser going into infinite loop in Ample

2015-04-22 Thread Thomas, Jens
Dear Dale, This is a known issue with AMPLE and will be fixed with the next release. In the meantime you can tell AMPLE to pass the KILL option that Randy mentions to PHASER, by adding the following arguments to your script: -mr_keys PKEY KILL TIME 360 this will kill PHASER after 360 minutes (

Re: [ccp4bb] Phaser going into infinite loop in Ample

2015-04-22 Thread Randy Read
Hi Dale, It must actually be AMPLE deciding how many copies to search for. Phaser will give you some information about how consistent the specified composition is with the Matthews volume, but it just searches for the number of copies that it's instructed to look for. We haven't put the intel

Re: [ccp4bb] Phaser going into infinite loop in Ample

2015-04-22 Thread George Sheldrick
Dear Dale, Isabel Uson's ARCIMBOLDO-LITE works well for coiled coils and has the same resolution requirements (2.1A or better) as AMPLE because both use SHELXE to expand the solution. It also employs PHASER to place a small fragment but it is often sufficient to let it search for just two or