Yes, Rajesh, I completely agree with Pius. There is absolutely nothing wrong in asking a question on ccp4bb. The suggestion 'read a book and search on-line information sources' is a good one on any subject.
-----Original Message----- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Pius Padayatti Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 11:51 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] zinc fingre Hi Rajesh, First of all you did the right thing to ask people here about our doubts. There is nothing wrong in asking questions. The board is for asking questions realted to crystallography (all aspects). Padayatti On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Rajesh kumar <ccp4...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > I am trying to crystallize a protein, so far I got no diffraction though I > have large crystals. > It has few cystines and a histidine near by at N-terminal. I dont have much > literature on biochemistry of this protein available in pubmed (5 papers > only). > Is there a way if I could check using bioinformatic tools if my protein has > Zinc finger or zinc finger-like motif? If so, is it possible assume it > would bind some sort of DNA and could I check that as well? > I appreciate any suggestions to this BROAD question and some references > would be helpful. > > I thought its OK to ask for help here though its nothing to do with CCP4, > but eventually I want to get there. > I appreciate your time. > > Thanks, > Rajesh > > -- Pius S Padayatti,PhD, Phone: 216-658-4528
