Re: [ccp4bb] MacBook Pro graphics card options - what about Mavericks?

2013-10-23 Thread Carlos Kikuti
Hi, Can I profit from Kristin's question and add one: is it too soon to know if the crystallography software (CCP4, Coot, Autobuster, XDS) will work fine with Mavericks (Mac OS X 10.9)? (I remember a bit of trouble when Lion came off). Carlos Em 23 oct. 2013, às 22:10, Kristin Low

Re: [ccp4bb] The binding between disordered and ordered proteins

2013-10-24 Thread Carlos Kikuti
Hmmm… is it really (physiological-like) binding, or your protein A is aggregating/precipitating on the partner? Do you have a good negative control (a similar protein to which protein A should not bind)? Also, as a general rule, be careful about your detection method for the pull-down, don't

[ccp4bb] Double screen bug in Xquartz, Mac OS 10.9 (Mavericks)

2013-10-24 Thread Carlos Kikuti
working... F - Francis E. Reyes PhD 215 UCB University of Colorado at Boulder On Oct 23, 2013, at 3:16 PM, Carlos Kikuti kik...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can I profit from Kristin's question and add one: is it too soon to know

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: thermal melt

2012-05-14 Thread Carlos Kikuti
Hi Anita, You don't state the WL of the melting and back folding CDs, I'm guessing it's around 210 nm? In any case, the refolding that you see might be just the formation of aggregates. For saying if it's really refolding you'd need a new spectrum WL vs AU in the end of the reverse thermal

Re: [ccp4bb] off topic detection of oligomerisation

2012-07-11 Thread Carlos Kikuti
Urea?!?!? My arm hair went up. Anyways, DLS (Dynamic Light Scattering) might help. Hard to imagine something quicker and easier, provided that someone next to you already has a DLS machine. (sorry for the late answer) Carlos Em 26/06/2012, às 15:10, Brad Bennett escreveu: Native PAGE

Re: [ccp4bb] Tricky MR problem

2012-10-01 Thread Carlos Kikuti
Not sure I understood your problem but it looks like it's related to flexibility. You can try cutting the domains apart (and chopping off the loops) in two different pdbs. They can be used as separate ensembles. Try to find the bigger one first. 35% homology is not that low, just search with

Re: [ccp4bb] Tricky MR problem

2012-10-02 Thread Carlos Kikuti
That's good to know, Rhys. But would you mind sharing why did it work with Balbes? Is there a big change in the position of the domains as related to your first searching model, or huge loops that had been removed? Carlos Em 02/10/2012, às 14:42, RHYS GRINTER escreveu: Thanks for your

Re: [ccp4bb] Salt bridge in crystallization

2012-10-22 Thread Carlos Kikuti
In think most of the salt bridges I recall in structures are either in the core of the protein or in interfaces (crystallin or complex interfaces with little or no polar solvent around). Just like charge interactions, the lower dielectric constant of the environment makes them stronger.

Re: [ccp4bb] Fab Preparation

2012-12-27 Thread Carlos Kikuti
Hi Abdul Yes, I had the same bad experience with some of the Fabs I was preparing by papain digestion several years ago. By the time I just walked around it by starting with more antibody, yields were less than 20% of the starting antibody mass (bad as compared to the 60% from the good ones).

Re: [ccp4bb] Problems in scaling up expression

2013-01-31 Thread Carlos Kikuti
I'm replying quite late, so you've probably solved the problem by now, but here it goes: I agree with Shane, and I bet your procedure needs LESS aeration (15 ml in a - I guess - 50 ml Falcon doesn't leave much space for air, and Falcons are hermetically closed). In BL21 that's usually done for

Re: [ccp4bb] Mac OS 10.8 Mountain Lion and CCP4?

2013-02-22 Thread Carlos Kikuti
Hi all, On the same topic, I'd like to know wether the retina display is also fine, because I've found complains about X11 (non crystallographic) programs appearing ugly in it. Is anybody using it? Just for info, I'm also using Mountain lion without problems ( Fink got weird but I don't really

Re: [ccp4bb] protein monitoring

2010-05-30 Thread Carlos Kikuti
4. protein monitoring Dear Yogesha, You can use the absorbance at 215 or 220 nm to follow your peptide during purification. Compounds like DTT and EDTA can increase the noise at those wavelengths, go to 220 nm if you have things like that in your purification buffers. Quantification

Re: [ccp4bb] Displaying repeats in an amino acid sequence

2010-06-05 Thread Carlos Kikuti
Hi, there is a dot plot function in Geneious (www.geneious.com) that may be useful when the repeats are short. Carlos Kikuti Le 5 juin 10 à 01:00, CCP4BB automatic digest system a écrit : On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 08:15:03PM +, Klaus Sengstack wrote: Dear all, I am looking

Re: [ccp4bb] gst-tag protein purify problem

2011-08-06 Thread Carlos Kikuti
What happens if you load your elution fraction into a size exclusion column? If your protein of interest comes in the void volume together with most of its contaminants, you'd better test a different construct, and that's much more than only changing the tag from N- to C-terminus. Sumo and GST

Re: [ccp4bb] Mystery density

2011-12-01 Thread Carlos Kikuti
It's bang on the Y axis I'd just ignore it (treat it as just noise) and work on the rest of the model. There seems to be some trouble in other parts of it. (Had a similar case but at 3.5 A data). I wonder what is the gap between Rfree and Rwork. And I'm curious for what more experienced

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] protein degradation

2012-02-16 Thread Carlos Kikuti
I agree with Mark, except that I wouldn't even try sonication, Triton or freeze/thaw cycles in that case. I'd look for emulsification (with a Homogenizer) in a cold room, but if you go quickly and gently with the French Press (either in a cold room or by using a cold piston) it might help.

Re: [ccp4bb] Na acetate as purification buffer

2012-03-02 Thread Carlos Kikuti
You might be giving too much importance to the THEORETICAL pI of the protein. If it's supposed to be well charged at pH 7,4 (only a titration curve, and not simply knowing the pI will tell you this) and it's still precipitating, the problem might be due to a bad fold, for instance, or to the

Re: [ccp4bb] recommendations_on_purification

2012-03-26 Thread Carlos Kikuti
the culture volume and move on. Carlos Kikuti Em 26/03/2012, às 14:39, Lorenzo Finci escreveu: Petros, It has indeed been speculated that high concentrations of Magnesium and/or other metals present in the cell lysate effect the binding of the Histidine-tag, and thus specific conditions

Re: [ccp4bb] off topic: Alternatives to GE HiTrap columns

2017-02-15 Thread Carlos Kikuti
Well GE sells empty columns (XK for low back-pressure, tricorn for higher back-pressure) that you can fill with the resin you want. They seem expensive but for that kind of things I don't think any option will be real 'savings'. For nickel affinity we have been having good results with Roche's

Re: [ccp4bb] size exclusion columns

2018-04-28 Thread Carlos Kikuti
I like the Xbridge columns from Waters, but for SEC-MALS you can also use Superose 6 Increase (GE), which will take longer to equilibrate and will go a bit noisier than a silica-based column, but might be advantageous in case a number of your proteins decide to interact with the silica resin.

[ccp4bb] ARP/WARP won't install - old glibc trouble

2020-09-03 Thread Carlos Kikuti
Dear CCP4BB, I am unable to install ARP/WARP on a server with Debian 10, it says: Segmentation fault *** ERROR *** This machine cannot run ARP/wARP executables that are statically linked to glibc. *** INSTALLATION OF ARP/wARP 8.0 FAILED *** Modified version exit status 1 -- after some

Re: [ccp4bb] ARP/WARP won't install - old glibc trouble

2020-09-15 Thread Carlos Kikuti
://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/1462#issuecomment-274398213 > > Hope this helps! > Art > > >> On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 8:34 AM Carlos Kikuti wrote: >> >>> Dear CCP4BB, >>> >>> I am unable to install ARP/WARP on a server with Debian 10, it say

[ccp4bb] Job opening for a postdoctoral position to join the Structural Motility team at the Curie Institute Paris, France.

2023-02-22 Thread Carlos Kikuti
*Job opening for a postdoctoral position to join the Structural Motility team at the Curie Institute Paris, France. * The *Structural Motility *team is searching for *a post-doctoral fellow to join a dynamic laboratory *directed by Anne Houdusse at the Curie Institute (Paris Center). We

[ccp4bb] Post-doc in Paris

2023-07-06 Thread Carlos Kikuti
The Structural Motility team, directed by Anne Houdusse at the Curie Institute (Paris Center), is searching for a post-doctoral fellow. This dynamic laboratory is looking for an expert in sample preparation and structural determination via X-ray crystallography or cryoEM studies. We use a

Re: [ccp4bb] what is isomorphous?

2024-02-07 Thread Carlos Kikuti
Hello! I have to admit my maths is a bit lazy, but this discussion got me stitched up, because of a point I believe has not been addressed: the Rfree flags. I've been trained to import Rfree flags whenever the crystals have the same space group and similar cell dimensions to the search model for