[ccp4bb] Ellen Zhong x Abhay Kotecha Webinar Weds, Nov 1

2023-10-31 Thread Lavery, Leah
Please join us live or register to view on-demand: Machine Learning Approach to Cellular Cryo-Tomography November 01, 2023 03:00 PM (London) 11:00 AM (New York) 08:00 AM (San Francisco) Speakers: Ellen Zhong, Princeton Abhay Kotecha, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Re: [ccp4bb] [OFF TOPIC] On Ni-NTA resin TEV cleavage

2023-10-31 Thread Thomas Edwards
Hi Rafael, Dom et al, Indeed nickel eluted with imidazole stays on all your proteins with a His tag, and addition of DTT will make almost all proteins go brown and crap out at this point. But, as Dom says, addition of EDTA before the DTT will solve the problem. Most of the time… If your

[ccp4bb] Intramural NIH Postdoc Positions in Protein Crystallography and Medicinal Chemistry

2023-10-31 Thread Monteiro, Diana (NIH/NCI) [E]
Dear CCP4 community, I have open positions in my group at the Center for Structural Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland, USA. Please can you share the following details with anyone you think may be interested. I’m currently looking for

Re: [ccp4bb] [OFF TOPIC] On Ni-NTA resin TEV cleavage

2023-10-31 Thread David Briggs
Hi Rafael, For completeness - there are alternatives to imidazole for eluting proteins from Ni-NTA resins: EDTA - (strips Ni2+, and therefore everything bound to the Ni2+) - 50mM should be sufficient, in your favourite buffer/salt system. Obviously not appropriate for metalloproteins. You'll

Re: [ccp4bb] [OFF TOPIC] On Ni-NTA resin TEV cleavage

2023-10-31 Thread Dom Bellini
Hi Rafael, Once I inherited a protocol with a problem similar to yours and they told me that the precipitation was caused by nickel leaking out during the elution with 250 mM imidazole. I am not sure whether this was true, however, their fix was to place something like 20 ul of 200 mM EDTA at

[ccp4bb] PostDoc position available

2023-10-31 Thread Wei Zhang
Dear all, A NIH-funded postdoctoral research associate position is available at Dr. Wei Zhang's laboratory at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA). The successful candidate will study enveloped virus assembly and entry using cryo-EM, single particle reconstruction, cryo-ET,

Re: [ccp4bb] [OFF TOPIC] On Ni-NTA resin TEV cleavage

2023-10-31 Thread Nikolay Dobrev
Hi Rafael, the simple answer is that the EDTA and DTT( or any other reducing agent) is not required for the TEV activity. You can have your TEV protease in 20 mM Tris pH 7.5 (RT) and 150 mM NaCl, plus either 10% Glycerol or 50% glycerol depending on storage conditions preference - 80 or -20C

[ccp4bb] [OFF TOPIC] On Ni-NTA resin TEV cleavage

2023-10-31 Thread Rafael Marques
Hi everyone, I have been looking on this bb and other websites as well but I could not find a veredict. We are suspecting that when I elute my sample from my Ni-NTA column, the imidazole concentration (250 mM) is making it to precipitate. Once my sample has a cleavable TEV site, I was planning

[ccp4bb] CCPBioSim Industry Talk - 29 November 2023

2023-10-31 Thread Sarah Fegan - STFC UKRI
Hi All, The next Industry Talk will be "Hydrogen bond donor-acceptor asymmetries in drug design" given by Peter Kenny (retired) on 29 November 2023 at 2 pm UK time. Details and free registration link can be found at https://www.ccpbiosim.ac.uk/hydrogenbond2023. Abstract: The presentation will

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: radiation damage and image discard

2023-10-31 Thread Clemens Vonrhein
Dear Jorge, as Harry mentioned, autoPROC [1] will automatically exclude image ranges that are significantly worse than the rest (i.e. add mostly noise). This could be due to radiation damage, badly centred crystals or anything else. The so-called "fitness parameter" it uses takes multiplicity and

Re: [ccp4bb] Photon III vs HPC

2023-10-31 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear Daniel, is this for a Bruker Diffractomete? If you have a choice, I would be surprise, because Bruker refused to offer a new D8 with an EIGER2R500 detector - they'd rather not sell their system, and we got a STOE Stadivari instead. We've had a PhotonIII for about 1/2 year on our D8. It is

[ccp4bb] Fwd: radiation damage and image discard

2023-10-31 Thread Jorge Iulek
Hi, Well, it seems there are already many good indications to study and to work on. Thanks, Oliver, Kay, Harry and Graeme! Now, brain and hands on! Jorge Forwarded Message ... Dear all, I have found many fundamental studies on image processing and

Re: [ccp4bb] radiation damage and image discard

2023-10-31 Thread Winter, Graeme (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI)
Along similar lines, if you happen to be working in the DIALS ecosystem there is the dials.damage_analysis program, which takes the scaled data (scaled.expt, scaled.refl) and computes a number of statistics including Rd as discussed below, and the cumulative-pairwise R factor Rcp, which

Re: [ccp4bb] radiation damage and image discard

2023-10-31 Thread Harry Powell
Hi I’ve never actually used it in anger (one should never be angry when processing data…), but doesn’t AutoProc, developed by the good folks at Global Phasing do a lot of these analyses? Clemens, Claus etc may have something pertinent to say. Harry > On 30 Oct 2023, at 13:23, Jorge Iulek