Re: [ccp4bb] Izit dye stained crystal

2012-12-01 Thread Gerard Bricogne
Dear Sarathy, I was going to reply along the same lines as Kay Diederichs just did. At the Cr K-alpha wavelength, you would have strong absorption effects which, given the low symmetry of your crystal, would be very hard to get rid of. We have seen numerous cases where a high anomalous correl

Re: [ccp4bb] Izit dye stained crystal

2012-12-01 Thread Kay Diederichs
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:27:41 -0500, Sarathy Karunan Partha wrote: >Dear all, > >Here is the XSCALE.LP output after scaling for the izit dye stained >crystak. Sorry for attaching the .INP file. > >Sarathy > >On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Sarathy Karunan Partha < >sarathyus...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] Izit dye stained crystal

2012-11-30 Thread Richard Gillilan
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Re: [ccp4bb] Izit dye stained crystal

2012-11-30 Thread Prince, D Bryan
@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Izit dye stained crystal We've found that high PEG concentration seems to compete with dye binding, so I'm not surprised your didn't see good uptake. I doubt the anomalous signal is from the dye ... if you calculate the molar dye concentration yo

Re: [ccp4bb] Izit dye stained crystal

2012-11-30 Thread Scott Thomas Walsh
Hi Sarathy, What does the density modified electron density map after phasing from either autoSHARP or Phenix? Can the auto building programs build protein chains into this map? Cheers, Scott On Nov 30, 2012, at 5:27 PM, Sarathy Karunan Partha mailto:sarathyus...@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear all

Re: [ccp4bb] Izit dye stained crystal

2012-11-30 Thread Sarathy Karunan Partha
Dear all, Here is the XSCALE.LP output after scaling for the izit dye stained crystak. Sorry for attaching the .INP file. Sarathy On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Sarathy Karunan Partha < sarathyus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > > > We did some Izit dye staining to test our crystal (salt

Re: [ccp4bb] Izit dye stained crystal

2012-11-30 Thread Richard Gillilan
We've found that high PEG concentration seems to compete with dye binding, so I'm not surprised your didn't see good uptake. I doubt the anomalous signal is from the dye ... if you calculate the molar dye concentration you would need to have significant occupancy in the lattice, you'll probably

Re: [ccp4bb] Izit dye stained crystal

2012-11-30 Thread David Briggs
Hi Sarathy, Are you sure your anomalous scatterers are not the Ca in the crystallisation buffer? These would also bind to the acidic residues in your protein, and Ca has a greater f'' (~2.5e compared to less than 1.5e for S) at the wavelength you used. Just another possibility - unless you alread

[ccp4bb] Izit dye stained crystal

2012-11-30 Thread Sarathy Karunan Partha
Dear all, We did some Izit dye staining to test our crystal (salt or protein) and we observed that the crystal didn’t take up the dye well. But, showed nice protein diffraction (home source KCr 2.2909 A) and we collected a dataset (360 frames, 1o osc, 5 min exposure) on this dye stained crystal.