Re: [ccp4bb] how to Collecting Data from Long Unit Cell Axes ?

2011-04-06 Thread Kay Diederichs
Dear all, of course this may not always be possible, but let me suggest that in cases such as this, the original poster should consider to make her dataset (or at least 10 degrees at phi=0, and another 10 degrees at phi=90) available (by FTP or from a webserver, or even using a publicly

Re: [ccp4bb] diffraction of spherulites

2011-04-06 Thread David Briggs
Hi Stefan, It looks like a powder diffraction-type image. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_diffraction You can imagine that your spherulites are made up of many small crystals in random orientations, a bit like a powder - this means that rather than getting discrete diffraction spots as you

Re: [ccp4bb] diffraction of spherulites

2011-04-06 Thread Stefan Münnich
Hi Dave, thanks for your reply. Is there any chance of telling whether it is salt or protein from the diffraction image? Stefan On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:16 PM, David Briggs wrote: Hi Stefan, It looks like a powder diffraction-type image. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder_diffraction

Re: [ccp4bb] diffraction of spherulites

2011-04-06 Thread David Briggs
Hi Stefan, IIRC, a ring at 20Å means that one of the cell edges is at least 20Å long - which might be considered unusually long for a salt crystal - but it's also on the short side for a protein cell edge - how big is your protein? If there are rings at lower resolution, then maybe these longer

[ccp4bb] Twinning

2011-04-06 Thread kavya
Dear users, Is there a possibility that both non-merohedral twinning and partial hemihedral twinning occur in the same crystal? In one of the data in R3, sfcheck indicated twinning and thus upon using twinning option during refinement, refmac considered twinning operator of (k h -l). But the

Re: [ccp4bb] problem of conventions

2011-04-06 Thread Ian Tickle
Bernhard, Well, it *IS* broke. As they say it works for me, so either you're using a different set of programs from me, or you're using the same programs but in a different way. Perhaps you could be more specific as to which program(s) appear to be broken? If possible please post the

Re: [ccp4bb] FW: [ccp4bb] diffraction of spherulites

2011-04-06 Thread Jacob Keller
It seems hard to imagine what there is anything in his solutions other than protein that would make spherulites, no? PEG 8000 at 12% seems pretty benign, unless the trays or screens have been sitting around for quite a while... JPK On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Colin Nave

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2011-04-06 Thread Colin Nave
First few reflections seem characteristic of lamellar (rather than 3D crystals). Might be something other than PEG but see Magda El Nokaly, Stig E. Friberg, David W. Larsen, Lyotropic liquid crystals from lecithin, water, and polyethylene glycol, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science,

[ccp4bb] Advanced motif searches of the PDB (was: disulfide bond question)

2011-04-06 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Hi all, The following question was posed on the CCP4 bulletin board earlier this week: I have a question related to protein structure, but not crystallography per se. Has anyone see a disulfide forming between the two cys of CXC in the middle of a loop, and create a sharp turn, where X is not

[ccp4bb] diffraction of spherulites

2011-04-06 Thread Colin Nave
I should point out that the reference I gave is quite misleading as the samples studied contained lecithin Apologies Colin -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Colin Nave Sent: 06 April 2011 18:33 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

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