Re: [ccp4bb] Oxford Xcalibur Vs Rigaku micromax

2007-02-28 Thread Sankar Narayanan Manicka
Dear Dr. Ross, Thanks very much for your suggestion. I was thinking that there must be people who have used both the systems. But, i see that its nearly impossible to find. Oxford system people have agreed to take our crystals by cryo-shipper and try them out in their machine. sincerely s

Re: [ccp4bb] Filament lifetime on Rigaku Micromax007

2007-02-28 Thread Peng Zhang
Dear Pat and friends, Our lab has a ultraX18 5.4kw x-ray generator, and the lifetime of the filament is more than 1000 hours before rigaku recalled and changed the vacuum pump. I noticed that the lifetime is really related with the the vacuum. Ideally it is below 0.1mpa and the lifetime can be lon

Re: [ccp4bb] homology modeling----good bond lengths, bad angles

2007-02-28 Thread Leo Chavas
Dear Anagha, just a guess... I'm not sure I understood you properly, but you are only trying to make a model of a solved protein which will lack 3-4 amino acids in a loop... therefore, why not using a modeling soft, such as Coot, remove the amino acids, and do one run of "Regularize Zone"?

Re: [ccp4bb] improve crystal size and quality -- membrane protein

2007-02-28 Thread Debanu Das
Hello Balaji, You may try the following: 1) Try different detergents 2) Use a 100 kDa concentrator after protein purification if possible, to eliminate as much of empty detergent micelles as possible. You probably have a lot of these since the CMC value of LDAO is ~0.023% and mol. wt. of

Re: [ccp4bb] Cannot running NTA to purify the protein having His-tag?

2007-02-28 Thread artem
Dear TriNgo, Firstly, the fact that you can see your His-tag via Western blot does not mean that it's attached to the majority of the protein molecules in solution - strong Western signals may be observed for as little as 1% of the protein that is *supposed* to be His-tagged. So one of the causes

[ccp4bb] improve crystal size and quality -- membrane protein

2007-02-28 Thread Bhyravbhatla, Balaji
Hello All, We are trying to crystallize a membrane protein but cannot get the xtals to grow bigger. Presently we have only thin needles (diffracting to about 8A). Thus far we have tried to change protein concentration, LDAO concentration, PEG screen as well as temperature. Have tried macro and m

Re: [ccp4bb] homology modeling----good bond lengths, bad angles

2007-02-28 Thread Sudharsan Sridharan
Have you tried Modeller ? -Sid. On 2/28/07, anagha gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi CCP4 community! I have constructed a homology model of a deletion variant of a protein whose structure has already been solved. These deletions are 3-4 amino acid in length and are in a loop that connects tw

Re: [ccp4bb] Cannot running NTA to purify the protein having His-tag?

2007-02-28 Thread Joao Dias
Before loading the Ni-NTA column you should exchange the medium buffer (some media have histidine which will compete with your protein) to a more suitable buffer, like your loading buffer (Buffer A is 50mM phosphate buffer pH 7.5 and 300mM NaCl is OK). If your His-tag is not accessible, then

[ccp4bb] monomer library in refmac5

2007-02-28 Thread Jianghai Zhu
Dear all, I have some N-acetyl-glucosamine (NAG) in my structure. When I searched the monomer library in CCP4 6.0.1, I found out that NAG is actually N-acetyl-glucose, which is much less common, I believe. I downloaded the high-resolution structure of N-acetyl-glucosamine from HIC-UP an

Re: [ccp4bb] Cannot running NTA to purify the protein having His-tag?

2007-02-28 Thread sabrina . biarrotte-sorin
Hi, I would try to include up to 1 to 2 M NaCl in your lysis buffer and during purification you can then decrease your salt concentration in your elution buffer ... Good Luck Sabrina Biarrotte-Sorin Quoting Ngo Duc Tri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Dear CCP4 users, I'm purifying a kind of pro

Re: [ccp4bb] video zueras do tooby

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Re: [ccp4bb] R-free error in highest resolution bin

2007-02-28 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 11:39, you wrote: > Not sure what R-free error is either, I am trying to deposit a pdb and there > is a blank to fill in "R-free error" located in the highest res refinement > section. > It filled in all the other values automatically from my mmfic except that >

[ccp4bb] ActiveSight Fragment Screening Library I

2007-02-28 Thread Robin Rosenfeld
Hi Everyone, For anyone that is interested in structure based fragment screening- ActiveSight has created a fragment library kit optimized for crystallography. The library consists of 384 small molecules and shape diverse mixtures, dissolved and ready to use for fragment screening agai

Re: [ccp4bb] Cannot running NTA to purify the protein having His-tag?

2007-02-28 Thread Alex Berndt
sometimes the insect cell medium intereferes (for whatever reasons) with nta purifications when they ar employed as a first step in the purification scheme. i experienced that occasionally. this can easily be circumvented by doing an ion exchange step beforehand! alternatively you might want

Re: [ccp4bb] Cannot running NTA to purify the protein having His-tag?

2007-02-28 Thread Nikos Pinotsis
- Original Message - From: "Juergen Bosch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, 28 February, 2007 8:18 PM Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Cannot running NTA to purify the protein having His-tag? Ngo Duc Tri wrote: Dear CCP4 users, I'm purifying a kind of protease having His-tag. The pro

[ccp4bb] homology modeling----good bond lengths, bad angles

2007-02-28 Thread anagha gupta
Hi CCP4 community! I have constructed a homology model of a deletion variant of a protein whose structure has already been solved. These deletions are 3-4 amino acid in length and are in a loop that connects two helices. The model structures look good with respect to bond lengths in the aforeme

Re: [ccp4bb] crytstallographic software

2007-02-28 Thread Lucas Bleicher
--- Marius Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Dear colleagues, > I was wondering whether someone of you has > reported/published > new or improved crystallographic software somewhere > else than Acta Cryst. It would be nice if you could > share your experience with me. Topics might be: > - qu

Re: [ccp4bb] R-free error in highest resolution bin

2007-02-28 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 11:08, John Bruning wrote: > When using Refmac how does one find/calculate R-free error in the highest > resolution bin? R and Rfree by shell are in the data-harvesting output file What is "R-free error"? -- Ethan A MerrittCourier Deliveries: 1959 NE

[ccp4bb] R-free error in highest resolution bin

2007-02-28 Thread John Bruning
When using Refmac how does one find/calculate R-free error in the highest resolution bin?

Re: [ccp4bb] Cannot running NTA to purify the protein having His-tag?

2007-02-28 Thread Juergen Bosch
Ngo Duc Tri wrote: Dear CCP4 users, I'm purifying a kind of protease having His-tag. The protein is expressed in insect cells and broken by sonication. I used NTA resin to purify this protein. Buffer A is 50mM phosphate buffer pH 7.5 and 300mM NaCl. Buffer B is 50mM phosphate buffer pH 7.5,

Re: [ccp4bb] Oxford Xcalibur Vs Rigaku micromax

2007-02-28 Thread Byram, Susan
Well since Jim answered I must do also!! Bruker, together with Incoatec, has on the market a new Incoatec Microfocus Source with novel QUAZAR multilayer optics which in my understanding is significantly brighter than the other systems referred to. This source is very interesting as it is air cooled

Re: [ccp4bb] Oxford Xcalibur Vs Rigaku micromax

2007-02-28 Thread Ross Angel
Sankar We had an Oxford Diffraction PX system, with the same goniometer and detector as the Nova, for 3 years until last Fall when we upgraded to the Nova. We also have 3 other Xcalibur instruments with the same goniometer and control systems. All four diffractometers have performed reliably

[ccp4bb] Cannot running NTA to purify the protein having His-tag?

2007-02-28 Thread Ngo Duc Tri
Dear CCP4 users, I'm purifying a kind of protease having His-tag. The protein is expressed in insect cells and broken by sonication. I used NTA resin to purify this protein. Buffer A is 50mM phosphate buffer pH 7.5 and 300mM NaCl. Buffer B is 50mM phosphate buffer pH 7.5, 300 mM NaCl and 300 mM I

[ccp4bb] questions on SF likelihood

2007-02-28 Thread Peter Adrian Meyer
Hi, I've managed to do a pretty good job of confusing myself in my latest attempt to understand the likelihood stuff, and was hoping that I could get some pointers as to what I'm misunderstanding. 1. How does one determine the amplitude and phase to use from a given likelihood surface? Some of t

Re: [ccp4bb] Oxford Xcalibur Vs Rigaku micromax

2007-02-28 Thread Jim Pflugrath
Of course, the Rigaku system would be the best. Jim On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Sankar Narayanan Manicka wrote: Hi, Our lab is planning to buy an X-ray machine for protein crystallography. Which system would be best for home source, Oxford diffraction system Xcalibur Nova or a MSC/Rigaku MicroMax-

Re: [ccp4bb] Solubility of ligands

2007-02-28 Thread Ibrahim M. Moustafa
Hi all, Thanks for those who replied so far. I can see that the solubility issue is not that problematic for the crystallization work (as Kendall mentioned). I recall that some people on the board reported in a different thread that they tried the solid powder in the crystallization dro

Re: [ccp4bb] video zueras do tooby

2007-02-28 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
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Re: [ccp4bb] process SeMet labelled data

2007-02-28 Thread Mark J. van Raaij
why don't you just send all your images to the ccp4bb, then we'll process them, solve the structure and publish it for you. And we might put you in the acknowledgements, if you are lucky. Mark On 28 Feb 2007, at 16:35, Jonathan Grimes wrote: Anastassis Perrakis wrote: On Feb 28, 2007, at 14:3

Re: [ccp4bb] Solubility of ligands

2007-02-28 Thread Kendall Nettles
Hi Ibrahim, I think solubility is overrated. We routinely obtain structures from protein solutions with a big pellet of ligand in the bottom of the tube. For co-crystallizations we add 1mM compound to a 0.3mM solution of the protein and incubate overnight. Many of the compounds are only soluble t

[ccp4bb] Solubility of ligands

2007-02-28 Thread Ibrahim M. Moustafa
Dear all, I have a small library of In-silico screened compounds to test for activity and for crystallization trials with our protein of interest. We only have about 10 mg/ml of each compound. As there is no available experimental information about solubility of these compounds, I have n

Re: [ccp4bb] process SeMet labelled data

2007-02-28 Thread Clemens Vonrhein
>On Feb 28, 2007, at 14:37, shivesh kumar wrote: > >Dear all, >I have a data set at 2.2A, of the selenomethionene labelled >protein.How should I process the data. Some hopefully useful remarks (fairly random and not complete and exhaustive): 1. make sure to mask out the backstop and beamstop hol

[ccp4bb] video zueras do tooby

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Re: [ccp4bb] process SeMet labelled data

2007-02-28 Thread Jonathan Grimes
Anastassis Perrakis wrote: On Feb 28, 2007, at 14:37, shivesh kumar wrote: Dear all, I have a data set at 2.2A, of the selenomethionene labelled protein.How should I process the data. Carefully ! Thanx for the help. Shivesh Tassos i am sure what tassos really meant was "Very Careful

Re: [ccp4bb] process SeMet labelled data

2007-02-28 Thread Petrus H Zwart
> Dear all, > I have a data set at 2.2A, of the selenomethionene labelled > protein.How should I process the > data. Properly

Re: [ccp4bb] process SeMet labelled data

2007-02-28 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
On Feb 28, 2007, at 14:37, shivesh kumar wrote: Dear all, I have a data set at 2.2A, of the selenomethionene labelled protein.How should I process the data. Carefully ! Thanx for the help. Shivesh Tassos

Re: [ccp4bb] Filament lifetime on Rigaku Micromax007

2007-02-28 Thread Mark Agacan
Dear Pat, I too am shocked by the extra-long lifetimes the current batch of MM filaments have. I've had filaments in both our instruments (a M007 and an M007 hf) since August and they are still going strong. Not long ago I would replace a filament before it blew if I knew there was an importan

[ccp4bb] process SeMet labelled data

2007-02-28 Thread shivesh kumar
Dear all, I have a data set at 2.2A, of the selenomethionene labelled protein.Howshould I process the data.Thanx for the help. Shivesh

Re: [ccp4bb] software to calculate VDW interactions between small molecule and protein

2007-02-28 Thread tadeusz . j . skarzynski
CONTACT from the CCP4 suite can do this - have a look at the documentation and examples. Tadeusz "mathias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "CCP4 bulletin board" 27-Feb-2007 18:43 Please respond to "mathias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK cc Subject [ccp4bb] software to calcul

[ccp4bb] Filament lifetime on Rigaku Micromax007

2007-02-28 Thread Patrick Bryant
Dear Colleagues, During more than three years of operation, I have recorded considerable difference in filament lifetimes on my Micromax007: roughly in the range 500-2000hrs. Some of this may be accounted for by poor manufacture and Rigaku have, in the past, noticed this problem and replaced so

Re: [ccp4bb] software to calculate VDW interactions between small molecule and protein

2007-02-28 Thread Liz Potterton
Hi Mattias, CCP4mg will list contact areas in the form of the attached file. This is evaluating the buried area (ie difference is solvent accessible area with and without the ligand bound). It ought to be possible to run a script if you have a significant number of structures - contact me for

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral positions in membrane protein crystallography

2007-02-28 Thread Martin Högbom
Two postdoctoral positions in membrane protein crystallography at the Stockholm Center for Biomembrane Research The Center for Biomembrane Research (CBR), located at Stockholm University, is a newly formed strategic research center funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research and head

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2007-02-28 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Well, cp solve.com test.inp would be your starting point. You should now be able to run it. Next you might want to use your favourite editor (say gedit on Linux, which is a bit like notepad on Windows) to make some changes to it, if it doesn't do exactly what you want. To do that, you will hav

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2007-02-28 Thread yang li
Hi, All, If I have a solve script named solve.com and I can use command ./solve.com to run it, now I want to write a script named test.inp and use command ./test.inp to run it, how should I write it? Thanks Li Yang