Re: [ccp4bb] XDS Viewer

2009-03-05 Thread Derek Logan
Hi Andrzej, Thanks for the tip. It just seemed to me that since the package installed as a typical Mac OS X clickable program, then it was meant to run that way. Thanks also for info about adxv. I wasn't aware that there was a Mac executable for this program. Kay, the image I was trying t

Re: [ccp4bb] XDS Viewer

2009-03-05 Thread Andrzej Lyskowski
Hi, Once you have a 2cbf in /usr/local/bin and start XDS Viewer from a terminal (/Applications/XDS-Viewer.app/Contents/MacOS/XDS-Viewer) it seems to work fine. However for the diffraction image viewing I would suggest adxv. You can find it at: http://www.scripps.edu/~arvai/adxv.html. And

[ccp4bb] ccp4i / refmac issue

2009-03-05 Thread Jan Abendroth
Hi all, I keep on getting the following error message when I try to start a refmac job through ccp4i with ccp4 version 6.1.1. This initially only happened in a linux installation, now all of a sudden appeared in a osx installation as well. The interface hangs when starting the job. It also

Re: [ccp4bb] Problem with setting up ccp4 gui

2009-03-05 Thread Ed Pozharski
I had the same problem. In my case I think it was related to the part of ccp4 configuration that redefines python path. For some reasons (it breaks wxPython, at least in Hardy), I had it commented out and then after starting ccp4i I got these dbccp4i warnings. When I turned python part of ccp4 c

Re: [ccp4bb] express large proteins in E. coli?

2009-03-05 Thread Klaus Scheffzek
David Garboczi wrote: Have large proteins (300+ kD) been successfully produced in E. coli? Which ones? have a look at Suo et al., 2000, PNAS, 14188-14193; (350 kDa); or Pan et al., 1999, NAR, 1094-1103; ('only' 190 kDa). klaus Dave --

Re: [ccp4bb] Eukaryotic Membrane Proteins

2009-03-05 Thread Brad Bennett
Hi Raji- A number of GPCRs have been overexpressed in E. coli. Examples are Reinhard Grishammer's work with neurotensin receptor and Christopher Tate's work with B2-adrenergic and adenosine 2a receptors. The problem was not necessarily expression but proper outer membrane targeting of *active* rece

Re: [ccp4bb] .phs file conversion

2009-03-05 Thread Paul Emsley
Paul Emsley wrote: And for those who like the command line to convert .res to .pdb (and have Coot): [see attached] Oh curses - sorry. Not everyone develops coot. s?\./coot-real?coot? Paul.

Re: [ccp4bb] Eukaryotic Membrane Proteins

2009-03-05 Thread Karen McLuskey
Hi there, The human protein FLAP from the MAPEG family was expressed in E. coli and also the K-channel, KirBac1.3 (although this is a chimera of mouse and B. xenovorans). The pubmed id codes for related papers are: 17703190 and 17600184 and the pdb codes for the structures are: 2QKS and 2Q

[ccp4bb] XDS Viewer

2009-03-05 Thread Derek Logan
Hi, I very recently downloaded and installed the Mac OS X executable of the new XDS Viewer program to inspect diffraction images. I have moved the program to /Applications. It starts up fine, but when I try to load an image it complains: "Cannot open file! For image formats other than ".c

Re: [ccp4bb] .phs file conversion

2009-03-05 Thread George M. Sheldrick
Bram, If you use the beta-test autotracing SHELXE, the .pdb file containing the poly-Ala trace also contains the space group. You presumably meant that the space group is missing from the SHELXL and SHELXD .pdb files, but of course you can read the .res files into Coot. George Prof. George M. S

[ccp4bb] Eukaryotic Membrane Proteins

2009-03-05 Thread Raji Edayathumangalam
Hello Folks, My enquiry pertains to membrane proteins. If you have been able to successfully express a eukaryotic integral MEMBRANE protein in E. coli or know of such a case, would you please provide some details. Thanks. Raji

[ccp4bb] Post-doc position available at Umeå University, Sweden

2009-03-05 Thread Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson
A postdoctoral position is available for an experienced molecular biologist/macromolecular crystallographer in the laboratory of Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson at Umeå University. The project involves structure-function studies of proteins and protein complexes involved in bacteria host cell interact

[ccp4bb] update to ccp4-6.1.1 tar.gz files for osx and linux

2009-03-05 Thread Charles Ballard
Dear All for those of you who have ccp4 6.1.1 there is refmac 5.5.0088 on the prerelease page http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/prerelease/ plus on ftp://ftp.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4/6.1.1/updates various bug fixes and tag.gz files of bug fixes and the refmac updates for linux and os x binary distributions

Re: [ccp4bb] .phs file conversion

2009-03-05 Thread Bram Schierbeek
Dear all, Graeme Winter wrote: I find this very helpful for inspecting and using maps from shelxe. There is no need to convert the phs to mtz if you just want to inspect the map from Shelxe. You can read in the .phs file into Coot. Since the .phs file does not have unit cell dimensions, you

Re: [ccp4bb] .phs file conversion

2009-03-05 Thread Graeme Winter
Hi Folks, There is also convert2mtz which can be found in more recent CCP4 distributions. If you type convert2mtz it will give you details on what is needed. A couple of caveats with this: - you need to quite the cell constants i.e. 'a b c alpha beta gamma' - the spacegroup has to be written c