Re: [ccp4bb] fixing position in the refinement: Shelx, refmac5

2008-04-03 Thread Frank von Delft
Is that also how you would restrain refinement at low resolution when using a high-resolution model? (e.g. a 1.8A model into 4A data) phx. Garib Murshudov wrote: In newer version of refmac you can use harmonic restraints. Take the new stable version of refmac from www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/YSBLP

Re: [ccp4bb] fixing position in the refinement: Shelx, refmac5

2008-04-03 Thread Garib Murshudov
In newer version of refmac you can use harmonic restraints. Take the new stable version of refmac from www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/YSBLPrograms/index.jsp and use harmonic restraints as described in: http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~garib/refmac/data/refmac_news.html Keyword is: external harmonic residues f

Re: [ccp4bb] OMIT map from Sfcheck

2008-04-03 Thread Michael Giffin
i get the same error on OS X 10.5.2 and 10.4.11: >sfcheck -f refmac2.mtz -m refmac2.pdb -out y -nomit 2 -map the error: Open failed: Unit: 11, File: sfcheck_scr.dat (logical: sfcheck_scr.dat) Last system error message: Bad file descriptor C

[ccp4bb] fixing position in the refinement: Shelx, refmac5

2008-04-03 Thread U Sam
How one can fix position of few residues when refining in SHELX or Refmac5. Thanks. Sam. _ Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAG

Re: [ccp4bb] Your opinion about the attached diffraction pattern

2008-04-03 Thread Ibrahim Moustafa
Hi All, Many thanks for those who shared their inputs. And sorry for not giving more information about how the crystal was tested in the first instance. The posted diffraction was obtained using the local resource (new installed x-ray generator and new CCD Saturn 944+). The Crystal to dete

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: PDI overexpression in HEK293 cells

2008-04-03 Thread Dima Klenchin
With regard to low levels of expression: Is there a particular reason to use 293 cells? Transient expression in Cos-1/Cos-7 cells gives ~ 10 fold higher levels of expression because of the plasmid amplification in these cells. (The only requirement is that the plasmid should have SV40 ori; most ma

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: PDI overexpression in HEK293 cells

2008-04-03 Thread Kenneth Verstraete
Dear Dima, thank you for your reply Since this is ectodomain, I presume it contains native sorting sequence. The ectodomain contains a secretion signal: either its native or another secretion signal. I have tested a few other, strong secretion signals to boost the expression levels with m

Re: [ccp4bb] twinned?

2008-04-03 Thread Lijun Liu
If the space group is correct, it sounds to me this is strange statistics away from both an ideal untwined and a perfect twinned structure. I do suggested the data should be checked if the I-->F was completed. If used I as F, these two values sound reasonable. <|I|^2>/(<|I|>)^2 = 3.2236 (2

Re: [ccp4bb] twinned?

2008-04-03 Thread Bart Hazes
Good point, if you mis-assign a P2(1) space group as C222(1) because of the twinning-generated apparent extra 2-fold symmetry then you could get into such a situation. If the P2(1) space group only has space for a monomer in the asymmetric unit then Vm will point out the problem, but if the mo

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: PDI overexpression in HEK293 cells

2008-04-03 Thread VADIM A KLENCHIN
Kenneth, > sorry for this off topic question. I am producing the ectodomain of a > > human receptor in HEK293T cells by transient expression. The > expression > levels are quite low. The protein contains a high number of disulfide > bridges. It has been reported that overexpression of protei

[ccp4bb] Off topic: PDI overexpression in HEK293 cells

2008-04-03 Thread Kenneth Verstraete
Dear all, sorry for this off topic question. I am producing the ectodomain of a human receptor in HEK293T cells by transient expression. The expression levels are quite low. The protein contains a high number of disulfide bridges. It has been reported that overexpression of protein disulfide

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2008-04-03 Thread Mueller, Juergen-Joachim
Dear developers, is there any chance that during the refinement with refmac the warning "Problems in MAKE_U_POSITIVE" disappears again during the ongoing refinement procedure? If that is not the case, could refmac give a hint in which atom/TLS-group the problem occours? So, a TLSANAL-step would be

Re: [ccp4bb] twinned?

2008-04-03 Thread Poul Nissen
Check this paper below - a C222(1) space group (a=212, b= 300, c=575) frequently appearing as a merohedral twin P2(1) with apparent C222(1) symmetry was exactly a major problem in the H. marismortui 50S structure determination. PoulBan N, Nissen P, Hansen J, Capel M, Moore PB, Steitz TA.Placement o

Re: [ccp4bb] twinned?

2008-04-03 Thread Peter Zwart
Hi Bart, important are the dimensions of the reduced cell. in this case his uc params are 99 167 125 90 90 90. parameters of the niggli cell are 97, 97, 125, 90.0, 90.0, 118 which is pseudo hexagonal. [running xtriage would give this info, including an L-test and other various tests] HTH P

Re: [ccp4bb] projecting 3d stereo

2008-04-03 Thread P Hubbard
Hi, Below is what I've thought would make a good, but inexpensive, 3D system (not had the opportunity to try all the parts out though): Edimensional glasses (not compatible with the old Stereographics goggles and emitters - dunno the exact wavelengths, but from visual appearance of the LEDs

Re: [ccp4bb] twinned?

2008-04-03 Thread Bart Hazes
I just realized that this is an orthorhombic C222(1) space group. I didn't check it up but unless two of the cell-dimensions are nearly identical I think merohedral twinning is not possible for this space group, because the symmetry of the unit cell shape is not higher than the symmetry of the

[ccp4bb] projecting 3d stereo

2008-04-03 Thread David Roberts
Hey there, I know this was recently rehashed, but of course I wasn't thinking too much about it at the time (and now somebody has made me interested). In any event, a colleague (go figure) of mine saw an article on projecting stereo for a classroom. The way it works uses a dlp projector conn

Re: [ccp4bb] twinned?

2008-04-03 Thread Eleanor Dodson
It is not really possible to detect twinning by the simple moment and cumulative distribution tests for data from a crystal with pseudo translation. As Bart says, twinning decreases the value of the moments, whilst pseudo-translation increases them, so the two effects tend to cancel out. The