Re: [ccp4bb] protein precipitated when they formed a complex

2007-12-12 Thread David Briggs
Hi Jerry, have you tried tinkering with the pH? I have had similar situation, where two normally soluble proteins precipitated upon mixing at pH 7.5, my "stock" buffer. Altering the pH showed that the complex that was only soluble at pHs lower than 6. Looking at your pIs, it strikes me that in b

Re: [ccp4bb] upgrading ccp4 broke my Coot stereo

2007-12-12 Thread Edward A. Berry
I just noticed there is a space between s and o in .so: Robert Grant wrote: Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libbluecurve.s o" Probably a mistake in pasting the error message, but if not it could be significant. Ed

[ccp4bb] upgrading ccp4 broke my Coot stereo

2007-12-12 Thread Robert Grant
Forgot to include that it is a Red Hat EL4 OS. -- Forwarded message -- From: Robert Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Dec 12, 2007 3:42 PM Subject: upgrading ccp4 broke my Coot stereo To: ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk I recently upgraded from ccp4 version 5.99.5 to 6.02. In doing so I have

Re: [ccp4bb] protein precipitated when they formed a complex

2007-12-12 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Dear Jerry, One way I can think of would be to try the magical polymer NV-10 sold by Novexin (UK). It does actually work very well for proteins with low solubility. You'd add a few mg/ml of polymer to each protein solution, mix the two and see what happens. This polymer has already saved severa

[ccp4bb] ccp4bb: ccp4i and ligand library

2007-12-12 Thread Catherine Regni
Hi, I've recently made a ligand using the Sketcher module in CCP4i and made the cif dictionary. I can run Refmac5 in "review restraints" mode with the dictionary in my working directory and it seems to work fine. However, now I am trying to refine my ligand in the protein structure and I get t

Re: [ccp4bb] upgrading ccp4 broke my Coot stereo

2007-12-12 Thread William Scott
What is the operating system? These things are system-dependent... On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:42:39 -0500 Robert Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It would appear that an environmental variable involving a library path is missing or wrong but I have not been able to figure out what it

[ccp4bb] upgrading ccp4 broke my Coot stereo

2007-12-12 Thread Robert Grant
I recently upgraded from ccp4 version 5.99.5 to 6.02. In doing so I have lost the ability to run Coot with hardware stereo. When I fire up Coot it reports: Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libbluecurve.s o" When I try to switch to hardware stereo it says: CATAST

[ccp4bb] protein precipitated when they formed a complex

2007-12-12 Thread Jerry McCully
Dear All, Recently I posted a question about protein induced protein precipitation. Firstly I'd like to thank many folks for their good ideas. Later on I did a titration experiment with one protein concentration fixed at 0.4mg/ml(about 10uM). Now it is clear that these two

Re: [ccp4bb] insoluble ligand

2007-12-12 Thread Kendall Nettles
Simon, 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 to 50micromolar, so we get a lot of pre

Re: [ccp4bb] insoluble ligand

2007-12-12 Thread marco . mazzorana
Dear Simon, DMSO concentrations lower than 5% usually do not alter crystallizability of a protein. In case you want to avoid this solvent may I suggest you trying out two methods that worked for me. 1. If you grow crystals in PEGs or similar molecules you might try to solubilize the compound in a

Re: [ccp4bb] insoluble ligand

2007-12-12 Thread Robert Hussey
One method that worked for me was to dissolve my ligand in 100% DMSO, as suggested in the previous response, then add a 3 molar excess of ligand to protein so that the final concentration of DMSO in the protein-ligand solution was no greater than 10% - of course the maximum concentration of DMSO th

[ccp4bb] Workshop: Directed Evolution Approaches in Structural Biology

2007-12-12 Thread Darren Hart
Directed Evolution Approaches in Structural Biology Wed 30th & Thu 31st January 2008 at EMBL Grenoble, France. Funded by: SPINE2COMPLEXES & TEACH-SG (EU FP6) Info & Register: www-db.embl.de/jss/EmblGroupsOrg/conf_91 See also: www.spine2.eu/SPINE2/meetings/index.jsp?m=28 A number of laboratories