Re: [ccp4bb] To set a crystal tray with protein and Trypsin protease.

2009-10-11 Thread Parthasarathy Sampathkumar
It should be "In situ" and not 'In site'. Sorry for the typo error. -Partha On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Parthasarathy Sampathkumar < spart...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jing, > > Methods to perform In site proteolysis are available in the following > publications: > > http://www.plosone.org/arti

Re: [ccp4bb] To set a crystal tray with protein and Trypsin protease.

2009-10-11 Thread Parthasarathy Sampathkumar
Hi Jing, Methods to perform In site proteolysis are available in the following publications: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0005094 http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v4/n12/abs/nmeth1118.html Good Luck, -Partha On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:13 PM, jwangliang

Re: [ccp4bb] To get the crystal faster...

2009-10-11 Thread Vellieux Frederic
Sometimes it is better that it takes time for crystals to appear. Remember that crystallisation is a purification procedure. A way to decrease the speed of crystallisation is to use Dunlop's and Haze's drop dilution method (K. V. Dunlop & B. Hazes (2003). When less is more: a more efficient vap

Re: [ccp4bb] leonard TVþ

2009-10-11 Thread Vellieux Frederic
Hi folks, Here's the reply I received from the LeonardTV team concerning: i) broadcasting in English; ii) Proteopedia. i) Hello, regrettably for your friend, at first we are going to have our broadcasts only in French. It could be that one day we will have an English version, if our technic

[ccp4bb] problems with molprobity in coot

2009-10-11 Thread Thomas Cleveland
Hi everyone, I am trying to use molprobity to check a structure in coot (platform is 64-bit vista). I followed the instructions found here to set up molprobity: http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~lohkamp/coot/wincoot-faq.html . From the logs, it seems like reduce runs OK (it says that it "Added 6076 hy

[ccp4bb] To set a crystal tray with protein and Trypsin protease.

2009-10-11 Thread jwangliang
Hello, I am sorry to put this question which didn¹t related to the CCP4 software. I couldn¹t get the crystals from the protein only. So I want to try the different way to work it out. I hear that it is possible to set a crystal tray of protein with Trypsin protease. I will be very appreciated abou

Re: [ccp4bb] To get the crystal faster...

2009-10-11 Thread Jürgen Bosch
Hi James, have you tried limited proteolysis on your protein and see if you can identify a stable fragment. Then re-clone and re-crystallize your protein. Or a very stupid suggestion, how does your size exclusion peak look like ? What you're not running your protein over a SEC to polish i

Re: [ccp4bb] To get the crystal faster...

2009-10-11 Thread William Scott
I've always found it is a much more effective and delightful use of my time to mope sullenly in my office, communicate with my family members and colleagues while restricting my working vocabulary to monosyllabic grunts, or pensively pace the halls, inflicting my abject misery upon hapless passers-

Re: [ccp4bb] To get the crystal faster...

2009-10-11 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
depending on the importance of the project, I would be tempted to just wait for the crystals to grow, and in the meantime: - work on another project - start a new project - write a grant application, a paper, a review... or a combination of the above. Mark Quoting William Scott : Dear James:

Re: [ccp4bb] To get the crystal faster...

2009-10-11 Thread William G. Scott
It will help more if we send it to James ;) On Oct 11, 2009, at 9:15 AM, gauri misra wrote: Dear James, As there are indications of protein degradation that have been suggested in previous postings, i think adding some protease inhibitors right at the stage of purification may provide so

Re: [ccp4bb] To get the crystal faster...

2009-10-11 Thread William Scott
Dear James: It is extremely hard to make generalizations, but if it takes months for crystals to appear, the following questions are worth asking: 1. Is the actual concentration of macromolecule, precipitating agent, etc required for crystallization higher than what you are using? A closed vapor

Re: [ccp4bb] To get the crystal faster...

2009-10-11 Thread Paula Salgado
Dear James What size are your drops? If it takes that long for crystals to grow, it is very likely that something happens to the protein that stopped nucleation previously... it generally means some form of protein degradation. I would start by investigating exactly what you have on the crystals. I

[ccp4bb] To get the crystal faster...

2009-10-11 Thread james09 pruza
Dear crystallographers, Sorry for the non-ccp4 query. I am new to this field and need some suggestions. My question is, why some protein takes longer time to crystallize, say 6-8 months, and it is the only condition to get the crystals.? What are the ways to get the crystals faster. The crystal a

Re: [ccp4bb] pdbcur failed with the error message 'child process exited abnormally'

2009-10-11 Thread martyn . winn
The big problem here is that it doesn't recognise the NOANISOU keyword. So I presume that you are picking up an old version of CCP4, or more likely a Coot version of pdbcur. Mmmm the fact that the banner doesn't report user or date or time suggests a dodgy version. I would have to defer to a Mac p

Re: [ccp4bb] scala maxbat compile problems

2009-10-11 Thread Kay Diederichs
jpd, I have seen this type of error message in situations where some memory limit was exceeded. Based on googling with 'common "relocation truncated to fit" ', the memory limit has something to do with a COMMON block exceeding its max size, see - http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Fortran/