Re: [ccp4bb] reproducibility of protein crystals

2011-05-03 Thread Shilong Fan
sometimes, a little bit change of concentration of your precipitate or pH buffer can affect your crystal. My suggestion is setup a appropriate gradient of your precipitate and additive.

Re: [ccp4bb] reproducibility of protein crystals

2011-05-02 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 15:48 +0800, anita p wrote: What are the reasons behind nonreproducibility of protein crystals? There are many possible reasons. You could start by checking you protein stock for signs of degradation and preparing it afresh. -- Hurry up before we all come back to our

Re: [ccp4bb] reproducibility of protein crystals

2011-05-02 Thread Pascal Egea
Anita, Proteolysis and oxydation are the most common alteration affecting proteins during the course of crystallization. If you have drops of the trays that yielded crystals I would run a gel on those drops and look at the aspect of protein still around in the drop. That would give you some