Re: [ccp4bb] Resolution discrepancy between MTZ file and Refinement

2024-04-11 Thread venkatareddy dadireddy
Hi

Thank you Pavel for your input.

Venkat

On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 1:44 AM Pavel Afonine  wrote:

> Hi,
> every time you run phenix.refine it may exclude some reflections from
> refinement per Read 1999 (Acta Cryst. (1999). D55, 1759-1764). Usually the
> number of reflections omitted ranges from none to just a few, however, this
> may be just enough to make the resolution statistics look slightly
> different.
> Also, if you use Iobs as input data, internally they are converted into
> Fobs using F method, and some reflections may not "survive" this
> conversion. This may be another reason for discrepancies.
> Pavel
>
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 9:45 PM venkatareddy dadireddy <
> venkatda...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Thank you very much Garib.
>>
>> Venkat
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 1:12 AM Garib Murshudov 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Unless you are confident that twin exists you should not use twin
>>> refinement (Occam’s razor)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5 Apr 2024, at 17:24, venkatareddy dadireddy 
>>> wrote:
>>>
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>>> Hi Kay and Garib,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your input.
>>> It is actually the twin refinement that gave rise to resolution
>>> discrepancy.
>>> For what reason I don't remember that I have turned the twin refinement
>>> ON
>>> and the same job was cloned again and again.
>>> With the twin refinement OFF, it gave rise to resolution present in the
>>> MTZ (2.0 A).
>>> From Xtriage: *the correlation between*
>>> *the intensities related by the twin law 1/2*h-3/2*k, -1/2*h-1/2*k,-l
>>> with an estimated twin*
>>> *fraction of 0.10 is most likely due to an NCS axis parallel to the twin
>>> axis*.
>>> The statistics independent of twin laws show no twinning (more close to
>>> untwinned than perfect twin).
>>> Please suggest to me on how I proceed with refinement (twin OFF or ON).
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Venkat
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 1:00 AM Garib Murshudov 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did you use twin refinement (is it really twin if you used that).
>>>> If twin refinement was used then twin related intensities might have
>>>> different resolution, in case when your crystal are pseudomerohedral
>>>> twinned.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Garib
>>>>
>>>> On 4 Apr 2024, at 18:40, venkatareddy dadireddy 
>>>> wrote:
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>>>> Hi Kay,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much for your insights.
>>>> Following are the cell parameters from mtz and pdb header.
>>>> *MTZ: 117.8560   66.1700   70.9040   90.   91.4240   90.000*
>>>>
>>>> *CRYST1  117.856   66.170   70.904  90.00  91.42  90.00 C 1 2 1*
>>>>
>>>> The only difference is in the 3rd decimal point.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Venkat
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 10:10 PM Kay Diederichs <
>>>> kay.diederi...@uni-konstanz.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Venkatareddy Dadireddy,
>>>>>
>>>>> do the unit cell parameters of your MTZ file and PDB file agree
>>>>> exactly ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Take for example a cell of (100,110,120,90,90,90) in the header of the
>>>>> MTZ file,
>>>>> and (97,110,120,90,90,90) in the CRYST1 line of the PDB file.
>>>>>
>>>>> In this example, the (50,0,0) reflection would be at 2.0A resolution
>>>>> if using the cell from the MTZ file,
>>>

Re: [ccp4bb] Resolution discrepancy between MTZ file and Refinement

2024-04-05 Thread venkatareddy dadireddy
Thank you very much Garib.

Venkat

On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 1:12 AM Garib Murshudov 
wrote:

> Unless you are confident that twin exists you should not use twin
> refinement (Occam’s razor)
>
>
>
> On 5 Apr 2024, at 17:24, venkatareddy dadireddy 
> wrote:
>
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> --
> Hi Kay and Garib,
>
> Thank you for your input.
> It is actually the twin refinement that gave rise to resolution
> discrepancy.
> For what reason I don't remember that I have turned the twin refinement ON
> and the same job was cloned again and again.
> With the twin refinement OFF, it gave rise to resolution present in the
> MTZ (2.0 A).
> From Xtriage: *the correlation between*
> *the intensities related by the twin law 1/2*h-3/2*k, -1/2*h-1/2*k,-l with
> an estimated twin*
> *fraction of 0.10 is most likely due to an NCS axis parallel to the twin
> axis*.
> The statistics independent of twin laws show no twinning (more close to
> untwinned than perfect twin).
> Please suggest to me on how I proceed with refinement (twin OFF or ON).
>
> Thank you,
> Venkat
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 1:00 AM Garib Murshudov 
> wrote:
>
>> Did you use twin refinement (is it really twin if you used that).
>> If twin refinement was used then twin related intensities might have
>> different resolution, in case when your crystal are pseudomerohedral
>> twinned.
>>
>> Regards
>> Garib
>>
>> On 4 Apr 2024, at 18:40, venkatareddy dadireddy 
>> wrote:
>>
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>> --
>> Hi Kay,
>>
>> Thank you very much for your insights.
>> Following are the cell parameters from mtz and pdb header.
>> *MTZ: 117.8560   66.1700   70.9040   90.0000   91.4240   90.000*
>>
>> *CRYST1  117.856   66.170   70.904  90.00  91.42  90.00 C 1 2 1*
>>
>> The only difference is in the 3rd decimal point.
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Venkat
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 10:10 PM Kay Diederichs <
>> kay.diederi...@uni-konstanz.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Venkatareddy Dadireddy,
>>>
>>> do the unit cell parameters of your MTZ file and PDB file agree exactly ?
>>>
>>> Take for example a cell of (100,110,120,90,90,90) in the header of the
>>> MTZ file,
>>> and (97,110,120,90,90,90) in the CRYST1 line of the PDB file.
>>>
>>> In this example, the (50,0,0) reflection would be at 2.0A resolution if
>>> using the cell from the MTZ file,
>>> but it would be at 1.94A resolution if calculating the resolution based
>>> on the cell from the PDB file.
>>>
>>> So perhaps REFMAC5 takes the cell from the PDB file, and phenix.refine
>>> takes the cell from the MTZ?
>>> I didn't check but it may be worth finding out.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Kay
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 21:16:57 +0530, venkatareddy dadireddy <
>>> venkatda...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >Hi,
>>> >
>>> >The resolution range in my MTZ file is 70.88 - 2.0 A. When I refined my
>>> >structure using REFMAC5, the resolution that it gives is 70.88 - 1.94 A,
>>> >the difference of 0.04 A. I also used Phenix.refine which gives the
>>> >resolution output as it is in the MTZ file. Again, EDS (validation
>>> report)
>>> >gives the right resolution. What could be the possible reason for this
>>> >discrepancy? I have the structure deposited in the Protein Data Bank
>>> and it
>>> >is on hold. Thank you in advance for your help.
>>> >
>>> >Thank you,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >*Venkatareddy Dadireddy,B1-10,Prof. S. Ramakumar's Lab,Dept. of
>>> >Physics,IISc, Banglore.Cell: 07259492227*
>>> >
>>> >####
>>> >
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Re: [ccp4bb] Resolution discrepancy between MTZ file and Refinement

2024-04-05 Thread venkatareddy dadireddy
Hi Kay and Garib,

Thank you for your input.
It is actually the twin refinement that gave rise to resolution discrepancy.
For what reason I don't remember that I have turned the twin refinement ON
and the same job was cloned again and again.
With the twin refinement OFF, it gave rise to resolution present in the MTZ
(2.0 A).
>From Xtriage: *the correlation between*
*the intensities related by the twin law 1/2*h-3/2*k, -1/2*h-1/2*k,-l with
an estimated twin*
*fraction of 0.10 is most likely due to an NCS axis parallel to the twin
axis*.
The statistics independent of twin laws show no twinning (more close to
untwinned than perfect twin).
Please suggest to me on how I proceed with refinement (twin OFF or ON).

Thank you,
Venkat







On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 1:00 AM Garib Murshudov 
wrote:

> Did you use twin refinement (is it really twin if you used that).
> If twin refinement was used then twin related intensities might have
> different resolution, in case when your crystal are pseudomerohedral
> twinned.
>
> Regards
> Garib
>
> On 4 Apr 2024, at 18:40, venkatareddy dadireddy 
> wrote:
>
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> --
> Hi Kay,
>
> Thank you very much for your insights.
> Following are the cell parameters from mtz and pdb header.
> *MTZ: 117.8560   66.1700   70.9040   90.   91.4240   90.000*
>
> *CRYST1  117.856   66.170   70.904  90.00  91.42  90.00 C 1 2 1*
>
> The only difference is in the 3rd decimal point.
>
>
> Thank you,
> Venkat
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 10:10 PM Kay Diederichs <
> kay.diederi...@uni-konstanz.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Venkatareddy Dadireddy,
>>
>> do the unit cell parameters of your MTZ file and PDB file agree exactly ?
>>
>> Take for example a cell of (100,110,120,90,90,90) in the header of the
>> MTZ file,
>> and (97,110,120,90,90,90) in the CRYST1 line of the PDB file.
>>
>> In this example, the (50,0,0) reflection would be at 2.0A resolution if
>> using the cell from the MTZ file,
>> but it would be at 1.94A resolution if calculating the resolution based
>> on the cell from the PDB file.
>>
>> So perhaps REFMAC5 takes the cell from the PDB file, and phenix.refine
>> takes the cell from the MTZ?
>> I didn't check but it may be worth finding out.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Kay
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 21:16:57 +0530, venkatareddy dadireddy <
>> venkatda...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >The resolution range in my MTZ file is 70.88 - 2.0 A. When I refined my
>> >structure using REFMAC5, the resolution that it gives is 70.88 - 1.94 A,
>> >the difference of 0.04 A. I also used Phenix.refine which gives the
>> >resolution output as it is in the MTZ file. Again, EDS (validation
>> report)
>> >gives the right resolution. What could be the possible reason for this
>> >discrepancy? I have the structure deposited in the Protein Data Bank and
>> it
>> >is on hold. Thank you in advance for your help.
>> >
>> >Thank you,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >*Venkatareddy Dadireddy,B1-10,Prof. S. Ramakumar's Lab,Dept. of
>> >Physics,IISc, Banglore.Cell: 07259492227*
>> >
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Re: [ccp4bb] Resolution discrepancy between MTZ file and Refinement

2024-04-04 Thread venkatareddy dadireddy
Hi Kay,

Thank you very much for your insights.
Following are the cell parameters from mtz and pdb header.
*MTZ: 117.8560   66.1700   70.9040   90.   91.4240   90.000*

*CRYST1  117.856   66.170   70.904  90.00  91.42  90.00 C 1 2 1*

The only difference is in the 3rd decimal point.


Thank you,
Venkat



On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 10:10 PM Kay Diederichs <
kay.diederi...@uni-konstanz.de> wrote:

> Hi Venkatareddy Dadireddy,
>
> do the unit cell parameters of your MTZ file and PDB file agree exactly ?
>
> Take for example a cell of (100,110,120,90,90,90) in the header of the MTZ
> file,
> and (97,110,120,90,90,90) in the CRYST1 line of the PDB file.
>
> In this example, the (50,0,0) reflection would be at 2.0A resolution if
> using the cell from the MTZ file,
> but it would be at 1.94A resolution if calculating the resolution based on
> the cell from the PDB file.
>
> So perhaps REFMAC5 takes the cell from the PDB file, and phenix.refine
> takes the cell from the MTZ?
> I didn't check but it may be worth finding out.
>
> HTH,
> Kay
>
>
> On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 21:16:57 +0530, venkatareddy dadireddy <
> venkatda...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >The resolution range in my MTZ file is 70.88 - 2.0 A. When I refined my
> >structure using REFMAC5, the resolution that it gives is 70.88 - 1.94 A,
> >the difference of 0.04 A. I also used Phenix.refine which gives the
> >resolution output as it is in the MTZ file. Again, EDS (validation report)
> >gives the right resolution. What could be the possible reason for this
> >discrepancy? I have the structure deposited in the Protein Data Bank and
> it
> >is on hold. Thank you in advance for your help.
> >
> >Thank you,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >*Venkatareddy Dadireddy,B1-10,Prof. S. Ramakumar's Lab,Dept. of
> >Physics,IISc, Banglore.Cell: 07259492227*
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[ccp4bb] Resolution discrepancy between MTZ file and Refinement

2024-04-02 Thread venkatareddy dadireddy
Hi,

The resolution range in my MTZ file is 70.88 - 2.0 A. When I refined my
structure using REFMAC5, the resolution that it gives is 70.88 - 1.94 A,
the difference of 0.04 A. I also used Phenix.refine which gives the
resolution output as it is in the MTZ file. Again, EDS (validation report)
gives the right resolution. What could be the possible reason for this
discrepancy? I have the structure deposited in the Protein Data Bank and it
is on hold. Thank you in advance for your help.

Thank you,






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Re: [ccp4bb] DNA RNA annealing problem

2015-07-04 Thread venkatareddy dadireddy
Hi Weifei,

We use SSC buffer for annealing oligos (we use DNA). That works pretty fine
with us. Give a try. Composition is in below URL

http://www.bioprotocols.info/reagent_and_buffer_recipes/20x-SSC.php

Good Luck,
Venkatareddy.

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 8:44 PM, ChenWeiFei weife...@outlook.com wrote:

 Dear all,
 I want to get a complex of DNA-RNA-protein. But I have a big problem of
 annealing DNA-RNA.
 The length of DNA is 19nt and RNA is 17nt.
 Annealing protocol:
 2uM DNA
 2uM RNA
 10mM Tris-Hcl
 100mMNaCl
 1mMEDTA

 Heated to 95 for 5min, cooling down slowly for nearly 2h to room
 temperature.

 I can just get a result of two single strand DNA/RNA. PAGE analysis.

 No double helix was founded.

 Does anyone have the same problem or know how to fix it.

 Thank you for your answering.

 Best regards,
 Weifei




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[ccp4bb]

2014-01-23 Thread venkatareddy dadireddy
Thank you all for your suggestions. I try various methods suggested and
hope they work.

Regards
Venkat


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Roger Rowlett rrowl...@colgate.eduwrote:

  Thrombin cleavage of His-tags seems to work pretty well in our hands,
 which includes mostly undergraduates for the hands-on work. I would
 encourage you to closely RTFM (read the friendly manual). Thrombin is not
 all that specific if used at the wrong (too high) concentration, so under
 the worst of conditions, it may chew up your protein pretty good. We have
 generally found that (following directions) a series of test cleavage
 reactions with the thrombin concentration serially diluted by say 10X is
 necessary to find the optimal thrombin concentration. Once the correct
 concentration is found, you can scale up. (We normally scale up to 2 mg
 protein, which we can do in 2 mL batches.) As the thrombin degrades, the
 appropriate dilution changes. Maybe 10,000-fold this week, maybe 1,000-fold
 next month. We have obtained really excellent results using thrombin, but
 don't do it often. So maybe we are just lucky.

 ___
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 Gordon  Dorothy Kline Professor
 Department of Chemistry
 Colgate University
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 On 1/22/2014 1:46 AM, venkatareddy dadireddy wrote:

  Dear All,

  My protein is cloned in pET-15b vector, contains His- tag, thrombin
 cleavage site and extra sequence of 20 amino acids from vector. I
 crystallized without cleaving extra sequence and never got any crystal
 hits/crystals. Once, I tried thrombin reaction and it didn't work. Here I
 would like to know how efficient the cleavage by thrombin and it is kind of
 you, can provide protocol and buffer system for reaction.

  Thank you
 Venkat.






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[ccp4bb] DNA Protein co- Crystallization

2014-01-03 Thread venkatareddy dadireddy
Hi,

I'm working on DNA binding protein, looking to co-crystallize protein- DNA
complex and have no previous experience. Your suggestion would be very
precious on the following queries.
1. My protein is 646 amino acid long and it exists as homodimer. It is also
having around 20 amino acid extra sequence from vector. Will vector
sequence affect   crystallization?
2. Its homologous protein shows good affinity for 31-mer. Shall I use same
length   of DNA for co- crystallization.
3. What is the length of DNA to be used?
4. What is purity of oligos to be used? Is it HPLC pure or normal desalted
ones. I have read on CCP4 mails for screening purpose normal oligos
are fine. Please   comment on that.
3. Any other suggestions on Protein DNA co- crystallization.

Thanks
venkat


Re: [ccp4bb] DNA Protein co- Crystallization

2014-01-03 Thread venkatareddy dadireddy
Dear All,

Thank you very much for your valuable suggestions.

Venkat


On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Acoot Brett acootbr...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Dear All,

 For the question, I think for a protein-DNA interaction, the protein may
 interact with any sequences of DNA, which will give a lot of combination of
 protein-DNA sequence for crystallization screening.  Or do anyone regard to
 just try the crystallization of the protein-one specific sequence DNA
 fragment for the trial (for example the DNA sequence with the highest
 binding affinity)? In another word, does the easiness of the
 crystallization has relation with how strong the protein interacts with the
 DNA sequence?

 Acoot


   On Saturday, 4 January 2014 11:02 AM, rajakumara eerappa 
 reera...@gmail.com wrote:
  My suggestions are
 1 try complementary and non-complementary overhangs which can form
 Watson-crick and/ or Hoogstein base pairing.
 2. If it binds self-complementary duplexes then try them also.
 3. Peg conditions with slight acidic pH are more suitable.
 4. Divalent cation salts (Ca, Mg, Mn) in crystallization.

 Wish you good luck
 Raj


 On Friday, January 3, 2014, venkatareddy dadireddy wrote:

 Hi,

 I'm working on DNA binding protein, looking to co-crystallize protein- DNA
 complex and have no previous experience. Your suggestion would be very
 precious on the following queries.
 1. My protein is 646 amino acid long and it exists as homodimer. It is
 also having around 20 amino acid extra sequence from vector. Will
 vector sequence affect   crystallization?
 2. Its homologous protein shows good affinity for 31-mer. Shall I use same
 length   of DNA for co- crystallization.
 3. What is the length of DNA to be used?
 4. What is purity of oligos to be used? Is it HPLC pure or normal desalted
 ones. I have read on CCP4 mails for screening purpose normal oligos
 are fine. Please   comment on that.
 3. Any other suggestions on Protein DNA co- crystallization.

 Thanks
 venkat






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