Re: [ccp4bb] off topic: Another protein forming gel

2011-09-21 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Obayed, it is not clear to me whether with 'nothing is working' you mean to concentrate the solution even further or whether you mean that you do not get crystals from 7mg/ml. If you refer to the former, I would proceed with crystallisation

[ccp4bb] Program announcement: Nautilus

2011-09-21 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Here's an alpha release of my nucleic acid model building program for the early adopters among you to try out. There's no GUI, there's only a Linux binary for now, the features are rather limited, and it's only been tested on synthetic data. On the other hand, it seems to work for me.

[ccp4bb] Neutron data collection

2011-09-21 Thread REX PALMER
Re Neutron Data Collection: 1. What are the limits to data set completeness imposed by a Laue experiment versus those of monochromatic data collection? 2. What problems are caused by flash freezing the larger protein crystals used for neutron data collection which do not occur for X-ray data

Re: [ccp4bb] Setup pymol in Mac OS X 10.7

2011-09-21 Thread Xiaoguang Xue
As I know, you have 3 choices: 1, You can apply a free educational-use-only MacPymol from the company, Schrodinger, LLC. This is the easiest way, just move the MacPymol program into your Program Folder. 2, I think you still can try to install Pymol by Fink. Just follow the wiki page of

Re: [ccp4bb] Setup pymol in Mac OS X 10.7

2011-09-21 Thread Luca Jovine
On Sep 21, 2011, at 14:57 , Xiaoguang Xue wrote: And It is impossible to install MacPorts and Fink at the same time. ...not at all! We have both Fink and MacPorts installed on our machines (in /sw and /opt/local, respectively), and they happily coexist. HTH, Luca

Re: [ccp4bb] Setup pymol in Mac OS X 10.7

2011-09-21 Thread X.Xue
Luca, Thanks for your correction! Best wishes! Xiaoguang On Sep 21, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Luca Jovine luca.jov...@ki.se wrote: On Sep 21, 2011, at 14:57 , Xiaoguang Xue wrote: And It is impossible to install MacPorts and Fink at the same time. ...not at all! We have both Fink and MacPorts

Re: [ccp4bb] Setup pymol in Mac OS X 10.7

2011-09-21 Thread Pete Meyer
For a fourth choice, you can do a stand-alone build of PyMOL and its dependencies with relatively little problem (at least on 10.6; haven't upgraded yet). Pete Xiaoguang Xue wrote: As I know, you have 3 choices: 1, You can apply a free educational-use-only MacPymol from the company,

[ccp4bb] pdf search

2011-09-21 Thread anna delprato
Hello All, I apologize in advance for the off topic subject but does anyone out there have access to a journal called Anticancer Agents Med Chem ? I am having difficulty obtaining this article: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21707505 and I would really like to have a look at it. Thanks for

Re: [ccp4bb] Setup pymol in Mac OS X 10.7

2011-09-21 Thread Petri Kursula
Choice #5: you can purchase a licensed version? Petri On Sep 21, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Pete Meyer wrote: For a fourth choice, you can do a stand-alone build of PyMOL and its dependencies with relatively little problem (at least on 10.6; haven't upgraded yet). Pete Xiaoguang Xue wrote:

[ccp4bb] Complex seeding

2011-09-21 Thread Peter Hsu
Hi all, I've been trying to crystallize a 3 protein complex recently with little success. However, crystals of each subunit have previously been crystallized. I was wondering if any one knows of any literature/experiences where people have used seeds from an individual subunit to seed for a

Re: [ccp4bb] Complex seeding

2011-09-21 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 18:04 +0100, Peter Hsu wrote: Or is this just a crazy/bad idea? If there is one thing that I learned about crystallization, is that very few ideas are so crazy that they are bad (i.e. not worth trying). Well, if dried seaweed and ground horse hair are good for seeding, I

Re: [ccp4bb] Complex seeding

2011-09-21 Thread Peter Hsu
I forgot to mention, I can reconstitute the complex (co-expression/mixing proteins) and the complex comes off both ion exchange and an SD200 as one peak. Just haven't had luck with getting crystals.

Re: [ccp4bb] Neutron data collection

2011-09-21 Thread mjvdwoerd
Rex, There are people more qualified to answer your question 1 than I am, so I am going to politely defer that answer. The answer depends on the unit cell dimensions, detector distance etc, and yes, there are more observations rejected due to overlap than would be the case in monochromatic

Re: [ccp4bb] Complex seeding

2011-09-21 Thread Enrico Stura
The idea is not at all crazy. In a sense it is quite similar to Stoichiometric variation screening* if you consider that the lattice of the crystallized subunit may contain planes that might be conserved in the crystal of your hope for 3 protein complex. *Stura, E.A., Graille, M., Taussig,

Re: [ccp4bb] Neutron data collection

2011-09-21 Thread Brad Bennett
Hello Dr. Palmer- There may be other representatives in the literature by now but the one study I know of that examines the usefulness and limitations of determining cryo-neutron structures is The 15-K neutron structure of saccharide-free concanavalin A, Blakeley et al. (2004), PNAS,

[ccp4bb] Experimental Postdoctoral Position in High Throughput Small Molecule Ligand Screening

2011-09-21 Thread Forness, Jessica D
Experimental Postdoctoral Position in High Throughput Small Molecule Ligand Screening Outstanding postdoctoral applicants to work jointly with Drs. Julia Kubakek, Mark Hay and Jeffrey Skolnick at the Georgia Institute of Technology are sought with the following qualifications: * Extensive

Re: [ccp4bb] Neutron data collection

2011-09-21 Thread Sean Seaver
Dear Rex, 1. What are the limits to data set completeness imposed by a Laue experiment versus those of monochromatic data collection? Laue allows for a greater number of Bragg reflections to be measured compared to monochromatic data collection over a give time period. The limiting factor in

Re: [ccp4bb] Complex seeding

2011-09-21 Thread VAN RAAIJ , MARK JOHAN
agree, any crystallisation idea is worth pursuing, given you have or can make enough sample to try it with. having said that, wouldn't you tend to select for the same crystals as the seed, i.e. crystals of the component on its own? have you tried limited proteolysis of your sample, incl. a

Re: [ccp4bb] off topic: Another protein forming gel

2011-09-21 Thread Obayed Ullah
Hi Tim Thanks for your mail. Both are true. I have not got crystals yet. I have tired different truncated constructs as well as concentration for crystallization. Even i set up the tray at 2 mg/ml but still proteins are not mixing well with the drop solutions rather sitting on the middle of

[ccp4bb] Anomalous map average by NCS

2011-09-21 Thread Hui Wang
Dear all, I am wondering if anybody did NCS average for Anomalous map. Based on my knowledge, there are two days to do it. 1, Use Map average in CCP4 program (input from map which cover unit cell, create averaged density for whole unite cell ) 2, Use NCS map in coot program. However, I got

Re: [ccp4bb] pdf search

2011-09-21 Thread Jacob Keller
Why not ask the authors for a reprint? JPK On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:49 AM, anna delprato del_...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello All, I apologize in advance for the off topic subject but does anyone out there have access to a journal called Anticancer Agents Med Chem ? I am having difficulty

Re: [ccp4bb] Anomalous map average by NCS

2011-09-21 Thread Jens Kaiser
Hui/Phoenix, It is pretty hard to say from what you describe which method is right. The NCS maps in coot will give you a correct - but not as good of an estimate of your density - if, and only if, you have enough of a model and you have defined your NCS master and slave chains correctly. If you