nucleic acid helices

2007-01-22 Thread Florian Brückner
Dear all, I am looking for a program or webtool that can create canonical nucleic acid helices (like B-form, A-form...) as well as a program that can calculate helical parameters from a given helix. Thanks in advance, Florian. -- -

Re: nucleic acid helices

2007-01-22 Thread Miguel Ortiz Lombardia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Florian, You can use coot to create an ideal DNA! Simply: Calculate -> Other Modelling tools -> Ideal DNA/RNA Another possibility is 3DNA: (http://rutchem.rutgers.edu/~xiangjun/3DNA/) For analysis you could use 3DNA or Curves (http://www.ibpc.fr

Re: nucleic acid helices

2007-01-22 Thread james whisstock
Quanta (accelrys) had a feature for this. J Dear all, I am looking for a program or webtool that can create canonical nucleic acid helices (like B-form, A-form...) as well as a program that can calculate helical parameters from a given helix. Thanks in advance, Florian. -- Professor Ja

Re: nucleic acid helices

2007-01-22 Thread Michal Jakob
For the analysis of DNA molecules I would also recomend X3DNA Another possibility is 3DNA: (http://rutchem.rutgers.edu/~xiangjun/3DNA/) however if you would like to obtain a ideal model quicly try DNA tools http://hydra.icgeb.trieste.it/~kristian/dna/model_it.html Michal -- Michal Jak

Re: ccp4bb on new site

2007-01-22 Thread Kolstoe S.E.
In which case is this new server the best place to host the list? Simon -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kjeldgaard Morten Sent: 22 January 2007 07:30 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: ccp4bb on new site Unfortunately, It appears

Re: nucleic acid helices

2007-01-22 Thread James Stroud
For a quick dna or rna: http://structure.usc.edu/make-na Its super easy. James On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:11 AM, Florian Brückner wrote: Dear all, I am looking for a program or webtool that can create canonical nucleic acid helices (like B-form, A-form...) as well as a program that can calcu

Christopher Reyes is out of the office.

2007-01-22 Thread Christopher Reyes
I will be out of the office starting 01/22/2007 and will not return until 01/26/2007. I will respond to your message when I return.

response to: very acidic protein crystallization

2007-01-22 Thread Kornelius Zeth
Dear all, I'm sending a summary of useful advices which I received on my email concerning the crystallization of a very acidic protein. I would like to thank all the people who responded! Have a nice day! Kornelius There are an number (WT & mutants) of X-ray structures published on xylose isom

Re: ccp4bb on new site

2007-01-22 Thread Andy Purkiss-Trew
Well, having got around to getting a password and exploring the www.jiscmail.ac.uk website, I see that I can get a list title back, using the subscription settings for the list. The option is Mail Header Style, option 2: LISTSERV-style, with list name in subject gives me a [CCP4BB] added to t

Re: Meeting "Biophysics of l igand binding to drug targets ” . 1st February deadline for financial help for s tudents

2007-01-22 Thread francesco fersini
Hi, what is intended as a student? Phd student? thanks Francesco 2007/1/22, alberto podjarny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ***Announcement* The meeting "Biophysics of ligand binding to drug targets" will take place at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Illkirch/Strasbourg, France, from May

Re: ccp4bb on new site

2007-01-22 Thread Tim Fenn
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:26:38PM -0800, Jan Abendroth wrote: > Hi all, > just realised that in the new ccp4bb setup (using various mail programs > such as thunderbird, mail, webpine), the actual sender does not appear > in the list of addressees, not even using "reply to all". This is an issue

Meeting "Biophysics of ligand binding to drug targets” . 1st February deadline for financial help for s tudents

2007-01-22 Thread alberto podjarny
***Announcement* The meeting "Biophysics of ligand binding to drug targets” will take place at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Illkirch/Strasbourg, France, from May 14 till May 16, 2007. There are still fellowships for students available. The deadline is 1st February. Detectio

soak movie

2007-01-22 Thread Bernhard Rupp
I have a little movie of soaking dye (methylene blue aka izit) into lysozyme. can be useful for lectures. http://www.ruppweb.org/level1/movies_list.htm best, br Bernhard Rupp www.ruppweb.org

advice

2007-01-22 Thread Eaton Lattman
Will someone knowledgeable tell me what the present state of full 6 dimensional searches in molecular replacement? With thanks, Ed Eaton E. Lattman, Ph.D. Dean of Research and Graduate Education Professor of Biophysics Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences 410.516.8215 (voice); 410.51

Re: ccp4bb on new site

2007-01-22 Thread Phil Jeffrey
As far as the subject header line is concerned, ye olde ListServ command: SET CCP4BB SUBJECTHDR would probably work if one emailed it to the server (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] *not* CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK) or you can do it via the web interface. It appears that the mail/web command interface will n

crystal friendly solvents that are useful for dissolving hydrophobic small molecules?

2007-01-22 Thread Green, Todd
Hello All, I am trying to soak some crystals with a small molecule that is quite hydrophobic. I am having trouble with solubilty of the small molecule. It will dissolve up to about 1 mM in 100 % DMSO, but precipitates at concentrations of less than 15 micromolar when the DMSO concentration is b

Re: crystal friendly solvents that are useful for dissolving hydrophobic small molecules?

2007-01-22 Thread Parthasarathy, Gopalakrishnan
Hi Todd, DMF (Dimethyl Fluoride) is a good alternative to DMSO. Sarathy From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Green, Todd Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:40 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: crystal friendly solvents that are

Re: crystal friendly solvents that are useful for dissolving hydrophobic small molecules?

2007-01-22 Thread Craig Bingman
Do you mean N,N-dimethylformamide, aka dimethylformamide, aka DMF, or do I need a chemistry lesson? On Monday 22 January 2007 02:49 pm, Parthasarathy, Gopalakrishnan wrote: > Hi Todd, > DMF (Dimethyl Fluoride) is a good alternative to DMSO. > > Sarathy -- Craig A. Bingman, Ph.D. Center for

Re: crystal friendly solvents that are useful for dissolving hydrophobic small molecules?

2007-01-22 Thread Jens T Kaiser
Sarathy (and Todd) DMF is usually used for dimethyl formamide. From the name I have no idea what "dimethyl fluoride" may be (methylene difluoride, though wrong, is used for difluor methane,but that's not mixable with water, and only a liquid at low temperature ;-) ) Todd, If your protein has

Re: crystal friendly solvents that are useful for dissolving hydrophobic small molecules?

2007-01-22 Thread Ohren, Jeffrey
Hi Todd, You could try dissolving your compound directly into your PEG4000 precipitant. Alternatively, you could try other low molecular weight PEGs. Good luck, Jeff From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Green, Todd Sent: Mon

Re: nucleic acid helices

2007-01-22 Thread James Stroud
On Monday 22 January 2007 00:35, james whisstock wrote: > Quanta (accelrys) had a feature for this. Its so expensive, they don't even tell you the price. -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com

Re: advice

2007-01-22 Thread Randy J. Read
On Jan 22 2007, Eaton Lattman wrote: Will someone knowledgeable tell me what the present state of full 6 dimensional searches in molecular replacement? Presumably you're referring to systematic 6D searches, not stochastic ones like in EPMR or QoS. Do you mean "can it be done on current hardw

Re: crystal friendly solvents that are useful for dissolving hydrophobic small molecules?

2007-01-22 Thread Maneesh Yadav
So I've never actually tried this proposed extension to the idea, but: I (and many others) have gotten small hydrophobics (toluene, iodobenzene etc.) into proteins, and these things typically have very small partition coefficients, and they aren't horribly volatile (that's why I am a little pa

Re: crystal friendly solvents that are useful for dissolving hydrophobic small molecules?

2007-01-22 Thread mjvdwoerd
Toluenes and derivatized benzenes may absorp into your plastic tray? Or into the tape covering your tray? Just few other destinations. It would make sense that if the binding of the 'drug' to the protein is tight, then you do not need much in immediate contact, it will get there. The method

Re: crystal friendly solvents that are useful for dissolving hydrophobic small molecules?

2007-01-22 Thread Craig Bingman
On Monday 22 January 2007 04:57 pm, Maneesh Yadav wrote: > I've noticed that the iodobenzene does largely disappear overnight (in > hanging drop), I don't know if this is because of evaporation or the > iodobenzene just "falls" into the reservoir. Maybe stick to sitting drop. Or it partitions thro

: misbound ligand examples?

2007-01-22 Thread price
A biochemist friend asked for examples of cases were a protein was co-crystallized with or soaked in a ligand that bound in the wrong place - say, because the ligand used wasn't quite the right one or because other important ligands were absent. I'm sure such examples are out there, especially w

lyso dye add-on

2007-01-22 Thread Bernhard Rupp
Some felt that there was not enough going on in the dye movie (well, soaking is not exactly big action). I added a few frames before/after to the end of the movie. This should make the point nicely. http://www.ruppweb.org/level1/movies_list.htm br Be

Re: : misbound ligand examples?

2007-01-22 Thread Maneesh Yadav
Hi Pheobe, I remember an interesting paper that described how a structure revealed a surprising role the buffer was playing in inhibition: The 1.20 A resolution crystal structure of the aminopeptidase from Aeromonas proteolytica complexed with tris: a tale of buffer inhibition. * Desmarais

Re: crystal friendly solvents that are useful for dissolving hydrophobic small molecules?

2007-01-22 Thread Parthasarathy, Gopalakrishnan
Sorry Guys, I did mean Dimethyl Formamide and not flouride. I apologize, I was thinking of the ATP anologs thread as I was typing the response. Sarathy -- Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, con

Re: : misbound ligand examples?

2007-01-22 Thread Mathews, Irimpan
Hi Phoebe, We had a case were one ligand was bound in the active site (covalently bound) and another in a pocket in the same crystal (PNAS, 102, 3599 (2005)). Regards, Mathews -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: : misbound ligand examples?

2007-01-22 Thread Charlie Bond
Hi Phoebe, Some of the info on Brian Shoichet's site might be of use. Worth a look at least. http://shoichetlab.compbio.ucsf.edu/ Anecdotally, I believe that gleevec was rationally designed from a scaffold which bound one way, but after gleevec had been shown to be effective, the X-ray struc

Re: advice

2007-01-22 Thread Bart Hazes
I'd like to add that the value of a molecular replacement solution tends to be inversely correlated with the effort needed to find the solution. In other words, the harder you have to work to find the MR solution the less informative the phase information you tend to get. When you have very hig

Re: advice

2007-01-22 Thread Ohren, Jeffrey
A follow up to this (for what it's worth) is that it's sometimes easier to solve a structure by MR from a homologous structure determined by experimental phases than it is to solve the initial structure by SeMet, MIR, etc. An example is the case of the structure determination of the second isoform

Re: advice

2007-01-22 Thread Filip Van Petegem
But that isn't necessarily the case if the search is hard because your search models individually constitute only a small part of the asymmetric unit. Say that 80% of the AU consists of multiple different proteins with known structure; the phase information would be very high if you find the solu

Re: : misbound ligand examples?

2007-01-22 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Perhaps this will be of some use: We've recently published a phosphatase paper showing two structures - one was a soak, the other - a co-crystal. Same ligand and same protein in both, and virtually the same crystallization conditions. The difference in ligand binding was like night and day. http:

Re: advice

2007-01-22 Thread Bart Hazes
Hi Filip, You're right and the same applies if the MR is difficult because of differing relative domain orientations in otherwise closely related to proteins. As mentioned, my remark was aimed at distantly related search models. Bart Filip Van Petegem wrote: But that isn't necessarily the