Dear Linda, If your molecule is not very big, your cell is not very big, you 
have an approach to modern in-house X-ray facility, your crystal diffract
reasonably well ( :-\  ) you can try S phasing. If you will be able to measure 
accurate data, S anomalous phasing at 1.5417 Angstrom of Cu radiation 
may work like charm (it is usually a case in my hands). In addition, if it 
happened that you have also couple of Cl etc. it will support phasing even more.
I prefer to test S-SAD cases with shelxC/D/E pipeline under HKL2MAP GUI.
Happy holidays
FF
Dr Felix Frolow   
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Microbiology and Biotechnology
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On Dec 26, 2012, at 20:33 , Linda Olson <lol...@mcw.edu> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> I have read a recent paper by Salgado et al about using non-auxotrophic 
> E.coli to incorporate SeCys into recombinant protein for phasing purposes.  
> Does anyone have a source for Selenocysteine?  I have also seen a paper by 
> Schaefer et al which uses nitric acid treated elemental Se for a sulfur 
> surrogate to generate Se-labeled protein.  Has anyone else tried this?  My 
> proteins are rich in Cys and tend to lack Met so the prospect of labeling cys 
> is very attractive.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Linda
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