Re: [ccp4bb] frosted crystals during storage in pucks

2013-07-11 Thread Nathaniel Clark
At our last synchrotron trip, the beamline staff suggested that the problem was due to moisture accumulation in the dry shipper. They recommended storing them inverted (for a few weeks, if I recall), and/or putting a supply of dry air in the dewer. Haven't tried it yet! Nat On Thu, Jul 11,

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

2013-02-22 Thread Nathaniel Clark
I can't resist bashing 10.8 a little. I don't know if I would rush to upgrade... I find the removal of 'save as' to be very annoying (holding down option brings it back). Also the way Text edit would hide the scroll bar by default was annoying when looking through log files (easily changed

Re: [ccp4bb] please recommend a crystallization incubator

2010-06-01 Thread Nathaniel Clark
Here is an incubator about the size of the Ecotherms but much cheaper: http://www.tritechresearch.com/DT2-MP-38.html We have one for insect cell culture that has worked great for several years, and there is no vibration. However for crystallization we have BOD incubators from Fisher. Nat On

Re: [ccp4bb] insect cell media

2010-06-07 Thread Nathaniel Clark
I mentioned to to Chris already, but we use nothing but HyClone SFX-Insect powder. We make 20-30 L batches, sterilize with a large peristaltic pump and a disposable Millipak filter from Millipore. We never have contamination problems that are due to preparing our own media from powder. We buy

Re: [ccp4bb] Quality of His-Select Resin After Regeneration

2010-07-25 Thread Nathaniel Clark
I use a 10 ml GE-healthcare Ni-sepharose FF column, packed myself. I strip it with EDTA after a run and then recharge before the next one. It's has probably been used 30+ times, and I have no plans or repacking it anytime soon, it still works as good as it ever did. We purify secreted proteins

Re: [ccp4bb] Map density level

2010-09-16 Thread Nathaniel Clark
Hi, It can, just do fm-mode select rmsd I am curious though, I have heard that it is 'better' to build in units of absolute density, but I couldn't find any values. Does any one have a suggestion as to what absolute electron density setting is 'correct' for an Fo-Fc difference map? Or do you

Re: [ccp4bb] Question about movie making

2011-03-07 Thread Nathaniel Clark
I use ImageJ for this purpose. There is a flag for something like 'use virtual stacks' or 'use virtual memory' that I needed to prevent crashing. Nat On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Sean Seaver s...@p212121.com wrote: Dear Mark, I put together a post about creating a movie using PyMOL,

Re: [ccp4bb] Tangential Flow Filtration device

2011-03-25 Thread Nathaniel Clark
We use the Millipore Spiral-wound TFF1 and TFF2 cartridges for concentrating 10-20L of insect cell media. They work great, don't cost all that much money, and you don't need the expensive holder they sell. You can use a ring stand and clamp the tubing directly to the cartridge. Our cartridges

Re: [ccp4bb] titering baculovirus ?

2011-03-30 Thread Nathaniel Clark
We don't have a problem getting them to stick to the plates in serum-free media, or in 5% FBS media. The more challenging part is getting the plating density just right, too low and the plaques are too big, to high and they are too small. Or if the cells dry out, or if your agarose overlay is

Re: [ccp4bb] titering baculovirus ?

2011-03-31 Thread Nathaniel Clark
. Jay -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Nathaniel Clark Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:38 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] titering baculovirus ? We don't have a problem getting them to stick to the plates

Re: [ccp4bb] titering baculovirus ?

2011-03-31 Thread Nathaniel Clark
chitra.shin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We have observed this virus going off within 2 months as well. ...any idea why this happens? Chitra On 31 March 2011 18:07, Nathaniel Clark nathanielcl...@gmail.com wrote: We do adherent if we have a small volume of low titer virus, but as soon as we have

Re: [ccp4bb] titering baculovirus ?

2011-03-31 Thread Nathaniel Clark
be no need to do any viral amplification. Cheers, Chun Accelagen -Original Message- From:         Nathaniel Clark nathanielcl...@gmail.com Sender:       CCP4 bulletin board CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Date:         Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:20:14 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Reply-To:     Nathaniel Clark

Re: [ccp4bb] off topic: Is deglycosylation necessary for crystallization?

2011-04-08 Thread Nathaniel Clark
First, I don't think glycosylation occurs on lysine residues. You should try to crystallize it as is, if that doesn't work, try to remove the glycosylation with some or all of the following: EndoH, PNGaseF, EndoF1, EndoF3. We have used them all to various degrees of efficiency to remove glycans

Re: [ccp4bb] methods to capture proteins from cell culture medium

2011-04-13 Thread Nathaniel Clark
Bei, How do you concentrate your media? We use tangential flow filtration. If you get a good filter (Millipore Spiral wound TFF is one example) it goes pretty quick, in ~2 hours you should be able to process 4L(concentrate+ dilute several time in buffer). We secrete proteins from insect cells,

Re: [ccp4bb] Soaking at pH 4.0 ?

2010-03-12 Thread Nathaniel Clark
Hi, I have soaked various crystals at that pH with various sugars and never had a problem with oxidation of the sugar. I wouldn't worry about it. What group do you think will be oxidized? Nat On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Paul Lindblom lindblom.p...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying

Re: [ccp4bb] freezing crystals grown in isopropanol condition

2010-04-09 Thread Nathaniel Clark
I have wondered if placing a layer of oil over the drop would help solve the problem of the crystals moving around. Haven't tried it, but don't people harvest from a microbatch tray by dragging the loop and crystal through oil? Nat On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:21 AM, James Holton jmhol...@lbl.gov

Re: [ccp4bb] Need isolated crystals

2010-04-13 Thread Nathaniel Clark
MiTeGen has a set of soft plastic microtools that are inteded for this kind of stuff, and I have had suscess using them to break out single crystals from clumps or fused crystals. You can either load in a pencil or mount in a base.Also nylon loops. You might need to have one tool in each

Re: [ccp4bb] Lysine methylation for proteins containing disulfide bonds?

2010-04-30 Thread Nathaniel Clark
I just tried that protocol, and had essentially all of my protein crashed out. Any tips on optimizing the methylation reaction to reduce precipitation? Perhaps reducing the formaldehyde or dimethylaminoborane, shortening the incubation times, etc.? Thanks, Nat On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:00 PM,