[ccp4bb] crystal size

2008-09-10 Thread Vincenzo Carbone
Dear all, I was wondering if anyone had some practical advice in regards to increasing the size of a crystal. Currently my enzyme forms these rather nice cubic and very sharp 0.1mm (in 25% peg 5000, 0.1M ammonium sulphate, 0.1M Tris ph 7.0) crystals following optimisation of the pH and

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal size

2008-09-10 Thread William G. Scott
Anything that slows growth potentially could help. In one case, I found by re-dissolving drops with showers of small crystals I could get one or two huge ones. I just added 2 microliters of water to the handing drop and allowed it to re-equilibrate. Changing temperature or any physical

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal size

2008-09-10 Thread Vellieux Frederic
We've had lots of success with the additive screens (3 boxes of 24 additives) sold by Hampton Research Vincenzo Carbone wrote: Dear all, I was wondering if anyone had some practical advice in regards to increasing the size of a crystal. Currently my enzyme forms these rather nice cubic

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal size

2008-09-10 Thread Frank von Delft
I feel compelled to add: rather nice cubic 0.1mm presumably means they're 90x90x90um? At any state-of-the-art synchrotron beamline with a half-way decently-sized beam, that's an absolute stonker, we rarely optimize more if they're that large. phx. Vincenzo Carbone wrote: Dear all, I

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal size

2008-09-10 Thread William G. Scott
Oh, another thing you can try is simply increasing the drop volume, especially large sitting drops. This will slow down equilibration, and there will be proportionately more material On Sep 9, 2008, at 11:23 PM, Vincenzo Carbone wrote: Dear all, I was wondering if anyone had some

Re: [ccp4bb] truncate and anisotropy

2008-09-10 Thread Ian Tickle
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eleanor Dodson Sent: 09 September 2008 17:11 To: William G. Scott Cc: CCP4BB@jiscmail.ac.uk Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] truncate and anisotropy I dont think you need to worry much about the strong

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal size

2008-09-10 Thread Walter Novak
Hi Vince, There is a very nice paper by Monika Budayova-Spano in Acta Cryst 63D 2007 339-347. A methodology and an instrument for the temperature- controlled optimization of crystal growth. Best, Wally On Sep 10, 2008, at 2:23 AM, Vincenzo Carbone wrote: Dear all, I was wondering if

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal size

2008-09-10 Thread Roger Rowlett
My usual first approach to increasing crystal size is to decrease precipitant and increase protein concentration, keeping the mixture in the proper nucleation zone, but providing more protein for crystal growth. Minimizing dust or particulates by filtration and centrifugation of reagents and

Re: [ccp4bb] crystal size

2008-09-10 Thread Nurit Mirkin
Hi! I would suggest to try another temperature or seeding. It worked for me before. Good luck! Nurit. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein Nurit Mirkin Bril Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:02:53 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ccp4bb]

[ccp4bb] program to rotate atoms with anisotropic B factors

2008-09-10 Thread Pavel Plevka
Dear all, I am looking for a program that can rotate atoms with anisotropic B factors - not only change coordinates of the atom, but to modify the Anisou coefficients too. If you are confident that there is none let me know too ;-) Pavel

Re: [ccp4bb] program to rotate atoms with anisotropic B factors

2008-09-10 Thread George M. Sheldrick
Pavel There is a program from the computer stone-age called XP (nothing to do with Microsoft who though of the name many years later) that does exactly what you need (with the SGEN instruction). It is part of the Bruker SHELXTL software, maybe you can find a nearby small-molecule

[ccp4bb] Lab-techician position

2008-09-10 Thread Nicola Abrescia
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[ccp4bb] Art Robbins Phoenix User Group

2008-09-10 Thread Critton, David
To the CCP4bb members who are/have been users of Art Robbins' Phoenix robot: Would anyone be interested in joining a Phoenix robot user group/bulletin board? Someplace where users would be able to discuss their experiences, as well as to learn from the experiences of others. I will be

Re: [ccp4bb] xds and Saturn troubles

2008-09-10 Thread Jan Abendroth
Hi all, thanks a lot for all the replies! Using the very current version of XDS fixed all the problems, really nice data, structure solved, yet another one for SSGCID. re input file: attached the XDS.INP file that worked for the Saturn 944+ detector. Thanks again! Jan 2008/9/4 Jan Abendroth

Re: [ccp4bb] truncate ignorance

2008-09-10 Thread Marc SCHILTZ
Well, I was pointing to the Sivia David (1994) paper because I thought it might be helpful in the discussion about how to convert intensities to amplitudes. The paper is probably not so well known in the PX community, so I decided that I would advertise it on this BB. However, since I am not one

[ccp4bb] (Off topic) lN2 generator for sale

2008-09-10 Thread Frank von Delft
Hi all (sorry, don't know where else to post, suggestions welcome) We have for sale a 3 year-old Rigaku LN40 liquid nitrogen generator, which we no longer need thanks to new house lN2 supply. For a picture, see here: http://www.rigaku.com/cryo/nitrogen.html It was working

Re: [ccp4bb] Art Robbins Phoenix User Group

2008-09-10 Thread Derek Logan
Hi, Whatever happened to the Yahoo group pxrbtx (PX robotics), that was started by Ingo Koendorfer in 2006? There haven't been any postings since Feb. 2007. Maybe time to revive it? Derek On Sep 10, 2008, at 15:19, Critton, David wrote: To the CCP4bb members who are/have been users of

[ccp4bb] postdoctoral position at the Salk Institute

2008-09-10 Thread Witek Kwiatkowski
We would like to invite applications for postdoctoral position in Prof. Senyon Choe's Structural Biology Laboratory at The Salk Institute (http://sbl.salk.edu/~choe) to study structures of membrane proteins. Strong background in membrane protein biochemistry is required. Those interested should

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