[ccp4bb] Commercial source of His-tagged protein

2020-07-02 Thread Mark J van Raaij
/expertise of a molecular biology lab (except us :-). We can and will make the His-tagged proteins of interest for them, but if there is an economical and reliable commercial source, it might be worth using that for initial tests. Best wishes, Mark Mark J van Raaij Dpto de Estructura de Macr

Re: [ccp4bb] Commercial source of His-tagged protein

2020-07-08 Thread Mark J van Raaij
ey are happy to be named) Best wishes, Mark Mark J van Raaij Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC calle Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 Section Editor Acta Crystallographica F https://journals.iucr.org/f/ > On 2 Jul 2020, a

Re: [ccp4bb] Quote source inquiry

2020-07-16 Thread Mark J van Raaij
I think most of us are such "excellent" cryo-coolers that for every beamline shift we have multiple crystals with ice ring diffraction :-) Mark J van Raaij Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC calle Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 9

Re: [ccp4bb] protein oligomer

2020-07-20 Thread Mark J van Raaij
), so the difference can be quite large. You can determine the real pI by iso-electric focussing. Best wishes, Mark Mark J van Raaij Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC calle Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 Section Editor Acta

Re: [ccp4bb] External: Re: [ccp4bb] AlphaFold: more thinking and less pipetting (?)

2020-12-09 Thread Mark J van Raaij
a monomer. It will be interesting to see how well future iterations of the method can assemble the complete protein chain and the complete protein chains into the correct heteromer. Mark J van Raaij Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC calle Darwin 3 E-28

Re: [ccp4bb] peptide crystallization question

2011-09-06 Thread Mark J van Raaij
tallising peptides. Greetings, Mark Mark J van Raaij On 6 Sep 2011, at 18:51, Chaudhary, Ritcha wrote: > Dear all > > I am interested in crystallizing a 5 residue peptide. I have no prior > experience in this field although I have crystallized larger proteins (5--60 >

Re: [ccp4bb] Precipitating Crystallization Condition

2011-09-27 Thread Mark J van Raaij
Mark Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/content/research/macromolecular/mvraaij On 27 Sep 2011, at 17:55, Browning Christopher wrote: >

Re: [ccp4bb] Precipitating Crystallization Condition

2011-09-27 Thread Mark J van Raaij
PS I would also try substituting imidazole for HEPES and zinc sulphate for zinc chloride and sodium sulphate. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http

Re: [ccp4bb] Akta Prime / FPLC Options / Off Topic

2011-10-13 Thread Mark J van Raaij
having experience with both, I find Akta and Biorad both do the job, with the Akta equipment giving a sturdier impression. Neither of them is cheap, and given similar price I would go for an Akta when buying new - however, if a significant price advantage exists, I would have no problem choosing

Re: [ccp4bb] IUCr committees, depositing images

2011-10-18 Thread Mark J van Raaij
one could be myself, and the images being stored safely and centrally would make it easier also for me to recover them. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585

Re: [ccp4bb] cryo protection

2011-10-26 Thread Mark J van Raaij
works, you can just harvest from the equilibrated drop and directly flash-cool Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/content/research/macromolecular

[ccp4bb] Iphone microscope

2011-11-06 Thread Mark J van Raaij
. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/content/research/macromolecular/mvraaij

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal orientation during data collection

2011-11-18 Thread Mark J van Raaij
can not always count on the crystal orienting randomly in a loop, i.e. many crystals have preferred orientations when mounted...and one tends to mount the loop on the goniometer the same way each time. So one would have to use "random" starting phis. Mark J van Raaij Laborato

[ccp4bb] La Caixa fellowships

2011-11-18 Thread Mark J van Raaij
selected. greetings, Mark Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/content/research/macromolecular/mvraaij

Re: [ccp4bb] Mystery density

2011-12-01 Thread Mark J van Raaij
e normally just put a water in it if it can make reasonable hydrogen bonds. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/content/research/macromolecul

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral applications JAEdoc-CSIC in Structural biology of viral fibres

2011-12-02 Thread Mark J van Raaij
be available before summer 2012. There are no nationality restrictions. Interested individuals should submit their CVs and a specific motivation letter by January 2nd, 2012 to the e-mail address indicated. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de

Re: [ccp4bb] better way to post your density snapshots

2011-12-08 Thread Mark J van Raaij
problem to send (sorry, link) even large files. The only disadvantage I can think of is that they expire after some time. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http

Re: [ccp4bb] PHENIX vs REFMAC refinement had me fooled

2011-12-08 Thread Mark J van Raaij
B-factor refinement (if you are using it), works better in REFMAC than PHENIX? Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/content/research

Re: [ccp4bb] His Purification

2012-01-19 Thread Mark J van Raaij
avoid pRSET would be my recommendation - my impression from a couple of examples is pRSET gives badly folded protein. Can you easily subclone it in a better expression vector? (personally, even if it were not so easy, I would reclone it in another expression vector). Mark J van Raaij

Re: [ccp4bb] MAD

2012-01-19 Thread Mark J van Raaij
So, with the combined votes of Hendrickson, Blundell, Tickle and Google, can we safely call it "Multi-wavelength Anomalous Diffraction" from now on and call all other names wrong? Mark On 19 Jan 2012, at 18:50, Ian Tickle wrote: > Perhaps I could chime in with a bit of history as I understand

Re: [ccp4bb] Freezing crystal

2012-02-05 Thread Mark J van Raaij
if your crystals are from 2 M AmSO4 without buffer, try to measure the pH in the drop, if possible. Or if you have plenty of crystals, transfer to 2 M AmSO4 buffered at a wide range of different pHs to see where the crystals are stable, before adding cryoprotectant. In the end, you may need to g

Re: [ccp4bb] Freezing crystal

2012-02-07 Thread Mark J van Raaij
Rationalising it completely may only be possible once you know the nature of the crystal contacts, i.e. when you have solved the structure. Until then it is mainly a matter of experimenting. > > -Original Message- > From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of >

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] protein degradation

2012-02-15 Thread Mark J van Raaij
are just proteolysing some surface loops and can still purify and crystallise the protein. This was done on purpose for the cap-binding complex, see: Crystal structure of the human nuclear cap binding complex. Mazza C, Ohno M, Segref A, Mattaj IW, Cusack S. Mol Cell. 2001 Aug;8(2):383-96. Mark J

Re: [ccp4bb] offtopic : Signed binaries in the next OS X

2012-02-16 Thread Mark J van Raaij
ution is to ask the CCP4bb administrators to unsubscribe the email address for her... Mark Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij On 16

Re: [ccp4bb] How to reduce no. of overlaps

2012-03-07 Thread Mark J van Raaij
a minikappa or the bendable loop mounts are very useful. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij On 7 Mar 2012, at 08:44, Frank v

Re: [ccp4bb] Defining beamstop and error during indexing- moslfm

2012-03-22 Thread Mark J van Raaij
still be a good idea to collect ice- or wax-rings on purpose before or after data collections for determining accurate beam centres. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585

[ccp4bb]

2012-04-02 Thread Mark J van Raaij
or you can just give the TER card an arbitrary number higher than your highest ATOM number - the PDB coordinate submission server will take care of renumbering. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid

Re: [ccp4bb] very informative - Trends in Data Fabrication

2012-04-03 Thread Mark J van Raaij
committing these violations. I have witnessed authors being hesitant to complain about possible violations and journals not always taking complaints seriously enough. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid

Re: [ccp4bb] very informative - Trends in Data Fabrication

2012-04-03 Thread Mark J van Raaij
I don't agree, if we know a referee is dishonest we should try and ruin his whole career, not just prevent him from scooping us in this one case. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spai

Re: [ccp4bb] very informative - Trends in Data Fabrication

2012-04-03 Thread Mark J van Raaij
In fact, I would put it even stronger, if we know a referee is being dishonest, it is our duty to make sure he is removed from science, blacklisted from the journal etc. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E

[ccp4bb] RESEARCH DIRECTOR IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY/BIOPHYSICS & TENURE-TRACK GROUP LEADERS, Helsinki

2012-04-12 Thread Mark J van Raaij
- please do not reply to me but to the email address mentioned. www.biocenter.helsinki.fi/bi RESEARCH DIRECTOR IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY/BIOPHYSICS The lnstitute of Biotechnology is a leading European research institute with a mission to increase knowledge in cross- disciplinary biology and biotec

Re: [ccp4bb] SeMet protein behaves much different with native protein..

2012-04-17 Thread Mark J van Raaij
just out of curiosity, was one Se enough in this case to solve the structure of your 0.2 kD protein by MAD? Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es

Re: [ccp4bb] "resolution" on PDB web page

2012-04-25 Thread Mark J van Raaij
Phoebe, Jan, PDB, is this something particular to the US portal of the PDB, or general? We always use the European portal pdbe and have not had such "problems". Mark Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin

Re: [ccp4bb] Publication ethics Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: Supplying PDB file to reviewers

2012-04-27 Thread Mark J van Raaij
have a look at this case, no danger of your coordinates going to anyone but yourself if you do it this way: http://publicationethics.org/case/author-creates-bogus-email-accounts-proposed-reviewers On 26 Apr 2012, at 12:02, Jrh wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > I have followed this thread with great i

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB deposition of multiple structure factor files

2012-04-27 Thread Mark J van Raaij
use the pdbe deposition tool AUTODEP - or the Japanese one, if you like. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij On 27 Apr 2012, at 20

Re: [ccp4bb] P321 space group reindex problem

2012-05-29 Thread Mark J van Raaij
In different datasets of P321 crystals, when you index them separately, the hand may be different and you may need to invert it for some. They "prohibition" in reindex is really a warning, and can be overridden. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromolecu

Re: [ccp4bb] Strange density on Serine oxygen.

2010-11-24 Thread Mark J van Raaij
look like tyrosines to me! Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-3678-2009 On 24 Nov 2010, at 13:10, Vinson LIANG wrote

Re: [ccp4bb] unusual diffraction spots

2010-11-25 Thread Mark J van Raaij
Dear Hubing, please don't discard a structure just because the Rfree > 30%, or approve a structure just because the Rfree < 30%. Other quality parameters like relative absence of clashes and Ramachandran outliers are much more important. Perhaps even more important is whether the structure gives

Re: [ccp4bb] FW: Juanma: The Mystery of the Giant Crystals available in Hampton Research

2010-12-08 Thread Mark J van Raaij
is this DVD ok or available in Europe, i.e. with the correct regional DVD digital rights format etc.? Mark van Raaij On 3 Dec 2010, at 19:25, Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.) wrote: > FYI, crystal fans. Really worth watching, and with X-mas approaching perfect > gifts for the crystals in y

Re: [ccp4bb] FW: Juanma: The Mystery of the Giant Crystals available in Hampton Research

2010-12-08 Thread Mark J van Raaij
In Europe: http://www.trianatech.com/ Mark van Raaij On 3 Dec 2010, at 19:25, Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.) wrote: > FYI, crystal fans. Really worth watching, and with X-mas approaching perfect > gifts for the crystals in your life. BR > > From: JuanMa GarciaRuiz [mailto:juanma.garciar..

Re: [ccp4bb] So many clashes

2011-01-18 Thread Mark J van Raaij
clashes Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-3678-2009 On 18 Jan 2011, at 10:34, Careina Edgooms wrote: > D

Re: [ccp4bb] A tool for MR that renumbers and replaces amino acids of your search model

2011-02-03 Thread Mark J van Raaij
CHAINSAW retains conserved amino acids but prunes nonconserved residues to the C-beta or C-gamma atom. PDBSET can renumber I think Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco E-28049 Madrid, Spain

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem with refinement and positive electron density

2011-03-01 Thread Mark J van Raaij
the old map in coot instead of the new map but I guess you checked all this... Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/content

Re: [ccp4bb] determining the domain for overexpression and crystallization

2011-03-07 Thread Mark J van Raaij
4. Review. PMID: 20206698 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/content/research

[ccp4bb] La Caixa PhD fellowships at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Madrid

2011-03-10 Thread Mark J van Raaij
J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/content/research/macromolecular/mvraaij/index.php?l=1

Re: [ccp4bb] (i)mosflm indexing / cell refinement

2011-03-17 Thread Mark J van Raaij
exing from two images at 90 degrees from each other is simply an easy "good practice" rule that often, but not absolutely always, works. Many times a single image is more than enough, sometimes many images and a lot of trying is necessary to get the right indexing matrix. Mark J van Ra

Re: [ccp4bb] protein aggregation

2011-03-23 Thread Mark J van Raaij
- try limited proteolysis to see if you can chop off a disordered region - consider the fact that, although it purifies nicely, your protein may not be well-folded do you have a biochemical activity test? Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de

Re: [ccp4bb] metal binds?

2011-03-25 Thread Mark J van Raaij
a quick google search turned up: http://people.mbi.ucla.edu/sawaya/tutorials/Phasing/gel.pdf Acta Cryst. (2000). D56, 161-168[ doi:10.1107/S0907444999015188 ] Mass-spectrometry assisted heavy-atom derivative screening of human Fc<>RIII crystals P. D. Sun and C. H. Hammer Mark J van

Re: [ccp4bb] what to do with disordered side chains

2011-03-30 Thread Mark J van Raaij
perhaps the IUCr and/or PDB (Gerard K?) should issue some guidelines along these lines? And oblige us all to follow them? Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34

Re: [ccp4bb] what to do with disordered side chains

2011-03-30 Thread Mark J van Raaij
27;t think we are talking about students or research novices here, but about "savvy" end-users to quote Phoebe Rice. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+

Re: [ccp4bb] what to do with disordered side chains

2011-03-30 Thread Mark J van Raaij
I completely agree, although if the IUCr or PDB decides otherwise, I'd be happy to oblige. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallographic Breakthrough - DarkMatter Version 1.0

2011-04-01 Thread Mark J van Raaij
The program appears a bit black-box to me, could you provide more details (today of course). Mark Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: "Robbie Joosten" Date: Fri, Apr 1, 2011 11:04 Subject: [ccp4bb] Crystallographic Breakthrough - DarkMatter Version 1.0 To: Hi Ethan, Awsome p

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

2011-04-05 Thread Mark J van Raaij
Greetings, Mark Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/content/research/macromolecular/mvraaij/index.php?l=1 On 5 Apr 2011

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

2011-04-05 Thread Mark J van Raaij
From the two images, it appears there are two short cell axes and one long axis - it also looks like trigonal or hexagonal, then the long axis should be c. Of course lower symmetry with a nearly hexagonal-shaped cell can not be ruled out. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de

Re: [ccp4bb] Anomalous substructure solution at data with 37% completeness

2011-05-04 Thread Mark J van Raaij
[switch not too serious mode on]: well, it is lysozyme, which, according to diffraction properties, should perhaps be classified as a salt (LyCl7), not a protein... :-) Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal bent once open cover slip

2011-05-24 Thread Mark J van Raaij
never know. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/content/research/macromolecular/mvraaij On 24 May 2011, at 19:19, weikai wrote

Re: [ccp4bb] Problems in refinement

2011-05-26 Thread Mark J van Raaij
using that and the original processed dataset (i.e. before it has "seen" refmac), do the peaks also show up? (I guess you have checked the pdb-file output from refmac carefully in a text editor?) Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Bio

Re: [ccp4bb] How can I calculate the numbers of molecules in the AU?

2011-06-06 Thread Mark J van Raaij
s / spacegroup already occur in the pdb and if that protein could come from your expression host). Greetings, Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585

Re: [ccp4bb] regarding refinement and structure determination by MR

2011-06-09 Thread Mark J van Raaij
translation along b. is not determined. Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/content/research/macromolecular/mvraaij On 9 Jun

Re: [ccp4bb] Ghostview in CCP4 configure interface

2011-06-20 Thread Mark J van Raaij
k, because I can convert them correctly to .ps with "pltdev" and view them correctly. I am using MacOSX 10.6.7, CCP4 6.1.3 (didn't try updating yet, because it is a relatively small problem). Greetings, Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacion

Re: [ccp4bb] MR question

2011-06-22 Thread Mark J van Raaij
script Jan Pieter Abrahams wrote, I don't know if refmac has this possibility). greetings, Mark Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3, Campus Cantoblanco E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616

Re: [ccp4bb] where I have been going wrong in crystallization?

2009-12-21 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
- I think the original poster was only calling attention to the fact that some proteins want to be treated respectfully in order to crystallise (and the fact that Rigaku Japan realises this). I find that indeed the case. Other proteins, however, prefer the attitude "I don't know why I am se

Re: [ccp4bb] Lots of noise in structure

2010-01-06 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
Rajan, Likely you have the habit, like me and I suspect most people, to contour difference maps at +/- 3 sigma. In the beginning of refinement, these difference map will have significant peaks at 3 sigma, i.e. positive peaks were there is nothing and there should be atoms and negative pea

Re: [ccp4bb] Rfree and thin shells

2010-01-27 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
Dear Al, Refmac by default divides reflexions in 20 shells ("bins") - this can mean a few of them do not contain a thin Rfree shell. When this happens I add "bins 10" to the refmac com-file, or, in CCP4i, instead of "run", do "run and view com file" and add "bins 10" to the file before conti

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal rescue

2010-01-27 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
in my opinion one should always first check RT diffraction and we use the Mitegen plastic cap over the loop. We find the solutions slowly dry out (6-18 hours), which can be enough to get a useful RT dataset on the rotating anode. If you like, the crystal can also be recovered after RT diffrac

Re: [ccp4bb] unknown density

2010-02-03 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
as it appears to bear near the guanidine group of an arginine, I would suggest it is a partially occupied and disordered sulphate and/or phosphate. whether this is practically modellable is another matter, a sulphate at occ. 0.5 is an option, or putting a water with a remark in the pdb that

[ccp4bb] Search pdb for specific cell metrics

2010-03-13 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
this - to check the possibility something else crystallised than the target protein. Greetings, Mark -- Mark J van Raaij http://webspersoais.usc.es/mark.vanraaij http://www.ibmb.csic.es

[ccp4bb] Cell metric search in pdb

2010-03-13 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
Dear All, is there a convenient way to look in the pdb database for specific cell parameters and space group combinations? There is a "space group" button in the advanced search function, but no cell parameter selection as far as I can see. I guess you can guess why I would want to do this - to

Re: [ccp4bb] Cell metric search in pdb

2010-03-13 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
apologies for that question - it IS there, two positions about space group search ("X-ray cell dimensions"). Can't figure out why I did not see this...looking with my ears I guess... Mark

Re: [ccp4bb] R-free ratio, effect of ncs restraints?

2010-04-09 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
ree set with the working set. Given an expression to > > predict the effect of reducing number of parameters, seeing > > how much of the actual drop in Rfree/R it accounts for > > would let us see how severe the linkage problem is. > > > > Ed > > > -- Mark J van Raaij http://webspersoais.usc.es/mark.vanraaij http://www.ibmb.csic.es

Re: [ccp4bb] Cryo Vs crystal size

2010-04-15 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
8 > Baltimore, MD 21205 > Phone: +1-410-614-4742 > Lab: +1-410-614-4894 > Fax: +1-410-955-3655 > http://web.mac.com/bosch_lab/ <http://web.me.com/bosch_lab/> > > > > *P** **please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to* > Anastassis (Tassos) Perrakis, Principal Investigator / Staff Member > Department of Biochemistry (B8) > Netherlands Cancer Institute, > Dept. B8, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands > Tel: +31 20 512 1951 Fax: +31 20 512 1954 Mobile / SMS: +31 6 28 597791 > > > > > -- Mark J van Raaij http://webspersoais.usc.es/mark.vanraaij http://www.ibmb.csic.es

Re: [ccp4bb] Advice on Over-expressing and Purifying Metalloproteins

2010-05-05 Thread Mark J van Raaij
try JM109(DE3) instead of BL21(DE3), combined with low temperature induction - for several proteins this has yielded us soluble protein instead of inclusion bodies. I think this is because JM109(DE3) grows a bit slower. Mark J van Raaij mvr...@ibmb.csic.es http://webspersoais.usc.es

[ccp4bb] LIGPLOT or similar

2010-08-25 Thread Mark J van Raaij
Dear All, Having just installed LIGPLOT under Windows, I find it rather convoluted to run. It has to be run via de command line window, and I try to avoid Windows as much as I can anyway. I also tried to install the Unix version on MacOSX, but was not able to get it running properly, probably a

Re: [ccp4bb] LIGPLOT or similar (quick summary)

2010-08-26 Thread Mark J van Raaij
. Mark On 25 Aug 2010, at 19:51, Mark J van Raaij wrote: > Dear All, > > Having just installed LIGPLOT under Windows, I find it rather convoluted to > run. It has to be run via de command line window, and I try to avoid Windows > as much as I can anyway. > I also tried t

Re: [ccp4bb] Why appear the grid on the low resolution areas

2010-09-14 Thread Mark J van Raaij
Interesting! it appears to be some kind of "secondary order"...I hope someone wise/experienced can shed more light on this. the diffraction spots appear to fall consistently in the middle of the hexagonal(ish) grid lines, so it must be some partial order effect related to the unit cell. do yo

Re: [ccp4bb] difficult P1 crystal

2010-09-30 Thread Mark J van Raaij
we had a P1 case with 12 mols/au, about 30% sequence id, 2.4A resolution, which was solved after a lot of trials with phaser. Other problems of these crystals were that they took months to grow and invariable presented multiple lattices (we did not try microbeam). See: Crystallization of t

[ccp4bb] Looking for postdoctoral (Juan de la Cierva programme) and/or predoctoral researcher

2007-02-22 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
significantly in the coming years. Best regards, Mark J. van Raaij Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia and Unidad de Rayos X, Edificio CACTUS Universidad de Santiago 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain http://web.usc.es/~vanraaij/

Re: [ccp4bb] process SeMet labelled data

2007-02-28 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
1865 - 287547 Mark J. van Raaij Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia and Unidad de Rayos X, Edificio CACTUS Universidad de Santiago 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain http://web.usc.es/~vanraaij/

Re: [ccp4bb] The importance of USING our validation tools

2007-08-16 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
of mentoring and checking them. I hope the authors provide the raw diffraction images to dispel any doubts and would be curious to learn about the other structures of the same group - anyone has a comprehensive, annotated list of them? Greetings, Mark J. van Raaij Unidad de Bioquímica

Re: [ccp4bb] The importance of USING our validation tools

2007-08-16 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
mages, both to prevent misconduct and to help program developers. Mark Mark J. van Raaij Unidad de Bioquímica Estructural Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia and Unidad de Rayos X, Edificio CACTUS Universidad de Santiago 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain http://web.usc.es/~vanraaij/ On 1

Re: [ccp4bb] The importance of USING our validation tools

2007-08-18 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
it is still very bad, but at least it would mean there was some experimental evidence for the model and it was not completely made up. Mark Mark J. van Raaij Unidad de Bioquímica Estructural Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia and Unidad de Rayos X, Edificio CACTUS Universidad de Santiago

Re: [ccp4bb] The importance of USING our validation tools

2007-08-27 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
mprovement in the density for the tail. Mark J. van Raaij Unidad de Bioquímica Estructural Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia and Unidad de Rayos X, Edificio CACTUS Universidad de Santiago 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain http://web.usc.es/~vanraaij/ On 24 Aug 2007, at 03:01, Petr Leim

[ccp4bb] R-sleep

2007-10-01 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
"vault" be implemented to be effective? If left to the experimenter, it would be very tempting to check R-sleep once in a while (or often) during refinement, rendering it useless as an unbiased validator. or am I being paranoid and too pessimistic? Mark J. van Raaij Unidad de Bioquím

[ccp4bb] Summary solvent-resistant crystallisation plates

2008-01-24 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
pe is not resistant. - no replies about solvent-resistant Terazaki plates, we are still looking for suitable micro-batch plates. Greetings, Mark Mark J. van Raaij Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia Universidad de Santiago 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain http://web.usc.es/~vanraaij/

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Summary solvent-resistant Micro-Bridges

2008-01-25 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
Terazaki plates we are still interested. Mark J. van Raaij Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia Universidad de Santiago 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain http://web.usc.es/~vanraaij/

[ccp4bb] Influenza M2 proton channel structures

2008-02-05 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
Dear All, In the latest Nature (which for once arrived in a few days to our office...) there are interesting structures of the influenza M2 proton channel. One is by NMR, which resulted in a model of a closed state with four inhibitor molecules bound to the outside. Another is by X-ray cry

[ccp4bb] binding of Au or Pt by serine

2008-02-22 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
Mark Mark J. van Raaij Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia Universidad de Santiago 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain http://web.usc.es/~vanraaij/

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: General rule for maximum flow rate for affinity column?

2008-02-29 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
. Another common "mistake" is to take too much resin - the minimal amount to bind the protein should be used, any more will usually lead to more impurities upon elution. Mark J. van Raaij Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia Universidad de Santiago 15782 Santiago de Compostela

[ccp4bb] Co-expression plasmids

2008-04-02 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
Dear All, Anyone have experience with the NovaGen Duet co-expression vectors? Or can recommend others? http://www.emdbiosciences.com/html/NVG/Duet_Spot.html Greetings, Mark Mark J. van Raaij Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia Universidad de Santiago 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain

[ccp4bb] anti-Validation conspiracy

2008-04-10 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
the validation program who first fix their problems will most likely earn the citation in the paper we are writing... Mark J. van Raaij Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia Universidad de Santiago 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain http://web.usc.es/~vanraaij/

Re: [ccp4bb] anti-Validation conspiracy

2008-04-10 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
when the next version is released). But I guess you've found one of the downsides of using websites to do data processing. Pete -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Mark J. van Raaij Sent: Thu 4/10/2008 9:17 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] anti-V

Re: [ccp4bb] Procheck fails to run on Mac OS X 10.5

2008-04-15 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
part of the standard ccp4 package. Mark Mark J. van Raaij Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia Universidad de Santiago 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain http://web.usc.es/~vanraaij/ On 15 Apr 2008, at 11:49, Eva Kirchner wrote: Dear ccp4bb readers, when I'm trying to run Proch

[ccp4bb] Procheck

2008-04-15 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
part of the standard ccp4 package. Mark Mark J. van Raaij Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia Universidad de Santiago 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain http://web.usc.es/~vanraaij/

Re: [ccp4bb] gfp problem

2008-06-03 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
with Rfree of 0.4 which have been carefully refined and for which the new information content warrants a good publication. Mark Mark J. van Raaij Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia Universidad de Santiago 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain http://web.usc.es/~vanraaij/ On 2 Jun 2008,

Re: [ccp4bb] B factor calculation

2008-06-05 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
in ccp4, "baverage" does the job. Mark Mark J. van Raaij Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia Universidad de Santiago 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain http://web.usc.es/~vanraaij/ On 4 Jun 2008, at 21:40, xu zhen wrote: Hi, everyone, I am preparing the table of data coll

[ccp4bb] How many reflections for Rfree?

2008-06-16 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
opinion (more) generally accepted? On a related note, how to refine a structure with only 5000 reflections, which could happen when you have a small a.u. and modest resolution? Could, exceptionally, a lower absolute amount of reflections be used for Rfree, say 500? Greetings, Mark Mark J

Re: [ccp4bb] How many reflections for Rfree?

2008-06-17 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
acceptable. Fig. 1 of the paper cited below nicely illustrates how putting more refs in Rfree makes de rms of the refined structure larger, i.e. leads to a more inaccurate structure. Greetings, Mark Mark J. van Raaij Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia Universidad de Santiago 15782 Santiago de

[ccp4bb] Calculation of sedimentation coefficient from pdb-file

2008-06-20 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
, what correlation can be expected with measured values? Of course, a web server or inclusion into ccp4 would be ideal :-) Greetings, Mark Mark J. van Raaij Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia Universidad de Santiago 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain http://web.usc.es/~vanraaij/

[ccp4bb] Summary sedimentation coefficient calculation programs

2008-06-24 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
thors of both programs, how about a MacOSX version? another paper: Müller JJ. Prediction of the rotational diffusion behavior of biopolymers on the basis of their solution or crystal structure. Biopolymers. 1991 Feb 5;31(2):149–160. Greetings, Mark Mark J. van Raaij Dpto de Bioquímica, Fac

[ccp4bb] Expression vector with NdeI-ClaI sites

2008-07-20 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
Dear Bulletin Boarders, We have a protein cloned NdeI-ClaI in pT7.7, which expresses insoluble. Ideally, we would like to do a simple sub-cloning using NdeI and ClaI into another vector with an N-terminal His-tag, to produce large amounts of insoluble protein which can then be easily puri

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