Re: [ccp4bb] Extra electron density

2012-11-05 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
of an appropriate length. If it is truly spurious density as I suspect it is, you'll see negative density lighting up your screen despite using appropriately low occupancy. Good luck! Sangeetha. On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Sangeetha Vedula sangeetha...@gmail.comwrote: Could it be a fatty acid

Re: [ccp4bb] Extra electron density

2012-11-04 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Could it be a fatty acid? It looks like it has a (hydrophobic?) tail with a (charged?) head. Partially occupied perhaps, as they're so close together. On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 7:38 PM, yogesh khandokar yogesh.khando...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All I am working on an enzyme which involved in fatty

Re: [ccp4bb] protein cleavage

2012-11-04 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Do you see the same MBP band (or corresponding to the same MW, in case it isn't MBP) before cleavage, at the same total concentration of protein? If not, your protein could be crashing out. Even so, if you use SDS and heat up the sample, I am surprised that your protein just disappeared. TEV

[ccp4bb] determination of oligomerization state of protein

2012-08-13 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Hello all, I am working with a protein that is probably a hexamer based on homology with other proteins but when I ran it on an analytical size gel filtration column, I see multiple peaks. I would like to determine the exact oligomerization state of the mixture and have considered blue native gel

Re: [ccp4bb] Enhancing Crystal Quality

2012-08-13 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Lucas, if your crystals diffract worse at room temp than cryoprotected, it looks like there may be radiation damage at room temperature, so you may need to cryoprotect. The change in osmotic pressure may be too much for your crystals when you're cryoprotecting the crystals by a sudden dunk. Also,

[ccp4bb] Desalting columns

2012-02-27 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Dear bb users, I am trying to crystallize a ~320 kDa protein that crashes out if concentrated past about 3 mg/mL. I would like to try to exchange it into various buffer-salt-additive combinations to see which buffer works. For a starting point, I'd like to use desalting colums. Does anyone have

[ccp4bb] Very high B-factors of some atoms of ligand in Refmac

2010-01-28 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Dear all, I am refining a crystal structure with two enantiomers of the ligand lying on a two-fold crystallographic axis (making the density an average of 4 orientations/optical identity). The ligand fits pretty well over all in the density, but some atoms stick out of density. While B-factors

[ccp4bb] Biorad Profinia vs GE AKTAPrime Plus, for affinity tagged proteins

2010-01-28 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Dear all, My lab is looking into buying a protein purification system. The AKTA is more versatile, but does anyone know if the Profinia is in any way superior to the AKTA for purification of affinity-tagged proteins? If it is, I would really appreciate if you can tell me in what way it is

Re: [ccp4bb] Biorad Profinia vs GE AKTAPrime Plus, for affinity tagged proteins

2010-01-28 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Collins edward_coll...@med.unc.edu wrote: personally, I don't know why you would want to limit yourself to just using affinity tags to purify your proteins. For my money the flexibility of the AKTA is critical. good luck -ed On Jan 28, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Sangeetha Vedula wrote: Dear all

Re: [ccp4bb] Very high B-factors of some atoms of ligand in Refmac

2010-01-28 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Clemens On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:04:52AM -0500, Sangeetha Vedula wrote: Dear all, I am refining a crystal structure with two enantiomers of the ligand lying on a two-fold crystallographic axis (making the density an average of 4 orientations/optical identity). The ligand fits pretty

Re: [ccp4bb] hairpin formation in gene

2009-11-22 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
] *On Behalf Of *Sangeetha Vedula *Sent:* Friday, November 20, 2009 8:03 PM *To:* CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK *Subject:* [ccp4bb] hairpin formation in gene Dear bb-ers, I am trying to have a gene synthesized and found out that it forms an 11-bp hairpin. Does that complicate expression? Would

[ccp4bb] hairpin formation in gene

2009-11-20 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Dear bb-ers, I am trying to have a gene synthesized and found out that it forms an 11-bp hairpin. Does that complicate expression? Would it be better to try and disrupt it by altering codon usage to improve expression? Thank you in advance, Sangeetha.

Re: [ccp4bb] xds undefined data_range error

2009-06-11 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
number for finding spots and instead define the spot range only in one line e.g. SPOT_RANGE=1 50 That should fix your problem I think. Jürgen On 11 Jun 2009, at 11:27, Sangeetha Vedula wrote: I checked: 1. I did name it XDS.INP; no problem there. 2. The path along with file name

Re: [ccp4bb] xds undefined data_range error

2009-06-11 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Sangeetha Vedula wrote: I checked: 1. I did name it XDS.INP; no problem there. 2. The path along with file name template is only about 30 characters. 3. No. of files = 156 (DATA_RANGE=1 156

Re: [ccp4bb] XDS Viewer

2009-06-11 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
I moved the program to /Applications as well. When I start XDSviewer giving it the whole path, it errors out, saying: /Applications/XDS-Viewer.app/Contents/MacOS/XDS-Viewer: line 6: 818 Bus error $CURRENT_DIR/xds-viewer-bin If I double-click on XDS-Viewer.app icon, it begins to

[ccp4bb] libcheck merge monomer library

2009-06-03 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Hello all: I am trying to merge library files for 2 molecules using libcheck dialogue. But it only writes out the first library file that I read in. FILE_L 1.cif FILE_L2 2.cif It writes out a file called libcheck.lib which contains only lines from 1.cif. What am I doing wrong? Is there

Re: [ccp4bb] libcheck merge monomer library

2009-06-03 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Thank you, Sridhar. For some reason, that gives an error, saying that it couldn't execute libcheck. Instead, I tried using the keyworded input format. Do you know what could be wrong with that? I tried to install libcheck but apparently my computer can't figure out what the make function is

[ccp4bb] arp/warp ligand

2009-03-16 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Hi all, I am trying to fit a ligand into density using ARP/wARP 7.0.1 in CCP4 suite 6.0.2 on CCP4interface 1.4.4.2. I get an error message telling me to look for the error in a ##_warp_ligand_details.log. _ Running Refmac5 to refine

Re: [ccp4bb] VOIDOO average volume report

2008-08-20 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Hi Manish, But then volume is biased by the plot grid size one chooses and not the converged volume. In short, one isn't even using the results of volume refinement because one'd get the same answer from the same grid size for the same orientation (given the same probe radius). Using the final

Re: [ccp4bb] VOIDOO average volume report

2008-08-20 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Hi Manish and everyone, If one uses the volume on the plot grid size, volume is biased by the plot grid size one chooses and not the converged volume. In short, one isn't even using the results of volume refinement because one'd get the same answer from the same grid size for the same orientation

[ccp4bb] VOIDOO average volume report

2008-08-19 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Hello all I am comparing the probe-occupied volumes of a protein cavity with and without several ligands. Which cavity volume is used for the comparisons? I found an FAQ link: http://www.imsb.au.dk/~mok/o/ofaq/Q.507.htmlhttp://www.imsb.au.dk/%7Emok/o/ofaq/Q.507.html Q.507 - Which VOIDOO cavity

Re: [ccp4bb] Preventing close contact between protein and ligand

2008-07-30 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
, at 18:24, Sangeetha Vedula wrote: Dear bb users, I am refining a protein-ligand complex (at 1.68 A resolution) in which the ligand lies on a 2-fold crystallographic symmetry axis. The ligand occupancy is, therefore, 0.5 in each asymmetric unit. I am almost at the end of the refinement

Re: [ccp4bb] Preventing close contact between protein and ligand

2008-07-30 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
: You're probably better off trying to change the restraints in the ligand .cif file. It sounds like you have some torsion angle or chiral center set wrong. -bob On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Sangeetha Vedula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear bb users, I am refining a protein-ligand complex

[ccp4bb] Preventing close contact between protein and ligand

2008-07-29 Thread Sangeetha Vedula
Dear bb users, I am refining a protein-ligand complex (at 1.68 A resolution) in which the ligand lies on a 2-fold crystallographic symmetry axis. The ligand occupancy is, therefore, 0.5 in each asymmetric unit. I am almost at the end of the refinement but one problem has me stumped. Refmac keeps