[ccp4bb] EMBO Course on combination of electron microscopy and x-ray crystallography

2009-07-07 Thread Laurence SERRE
The combination of electron microscopy and x-ray crystallography for the structure determination of large biological complexes 18 - 24 October | 2009 |Grenoble| France The course aims to train junior investigators in both fields (electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography) to carry out

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB Validation Server

2009-07-07 Thread Pete Meyer
1) By submitting my structure to the PDB Validation Server for precheck and validation, will my structure become publicly available in any way? It will not. But if you prefer, you can download the validation tools and run them on your home computer. However, most recent

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB Validation Server

2009-07-07 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
.. and ot be honest a structure that passes with flying colors from the MolProbity or WhatCheck scrutinee, is unlikely to get stack in PDB submission. A. On Jul 7, 2009, at 16:59, Pete Meyer wrote: 1) By submitting my structure to the PDB Validation Server for precheck and validation,

[ccp4bb] Lipid content/removal

2009-07-07 Thread Jacob Keller
Dear Crystallographers, does anybody know of a simple, fast way to determine whether a protein sample contains lipid, and roughly to determine the quantity? As corollary, does anybody know of a quick way to extract/remove the putative lipid? In my case, I am working with an extremely

Re: [ccp4bb] Lipid content/removal

2009-07-07 Thread Van Den Berg, Bert
Hi Jacob, there are ways, but simple and fast, I don't know. You can do extraction of some purified protein with organic solvents and doing TLC. Quantitation may be harder. In the case of phospholipids you can do a phosphorous determination (with molybdenum, the protocol should be easy to

Re: [ccp4bb] Lipid content/removal

2009-07-07 Thread Soisson, Stephen
Activated charcoal (see serum albumin structure references) can remove fatty acids. Good luck- Steve -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jacob Keller Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:01 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb]

Re: [ccp4bb] Lipid content/removal

2009-07-07 Thread Clayton, Gina Martyn
Also MALDI-TOF can be used to help identify the lipid (with standards). I vaguely remember one would extract the lipid, from the protein, using organic solvents then apply that to the MS. When I did it (about 10 years ago) I used non plastic vials and a Hamilton syringe so as not to contaminate

[ccp4bb] postdoc position available

2009-07-07 Thread Wei Zhang
A post-doctoral associate position is available in the Institute of Molecular Virology, University of Minnesota to study the cell entry mechanism of small envelope viruses (Zhang, W., et al 2002. J. Virol. 76:11645-11658; Kielian, M., and F.A. Rey. 2006, Nature Rev. Microbiol. 4:67-76.) using

[ccp4bb] MX Frontiers at the One Micron Scale Workshop - July 23-24, 2009 - Late registration date July 10

2009-07-07 Thread Allaire, Marc
Meeting Notice: We invite you to participate in the MX Frontiers at the One Micron Scale workshop, which will be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory on July 23 and 24, 2009. The workshop will include lectures and discussions about potential opportunities in macromolecular

[ccp4bb] Maximum # of input parameter files for use in CNS refinement?

2009-07-07 Thread Krystle .
Hi all, I'm trying to refine a structure but it needs six parameter files input in order to deal with al lthe atoms built in. minimize.inp keeps crashing with the error : %NBUPDA-ERR: missing nonbonded Lennard-Jones parameters %%% I realized after switching up the order of the

Re: [ccp4bb] unknown density

2009-07-07 Thread Savvas Savvides
Dear Bert, Your density reminded me a little bit of the paper by Pearson et al. Biochemistry 39:8575-8584(2000) which describes the water structure in the catalytic center of urease. I just went back to it and it looks like Figure 3 in that paper may hint some similarities to your case, in that

Re: [ccp4bb] low UV reading on AKTA prime

2009-07-07 Thread Leiman Petr
Apologies for coming late with this comment, but this A280 filter clouding problem appears to be a common feature of the AKTA machines. The UV unit on these AKTAs is the same as on the old FPLC machines and the filters are interchangeable. The filters from the 10-20 year old FPLC machines fit

Re: [ccp4bb] Lipid content/removal

2009-07-07 Thread John A. Newitt
At 12:01 PM -0500 7/7/09, Jacob Keller wrote: does anybody know of a simple, fast way to determine whether a protein sample contains lipid, and roughly to determine the quantity? As corollary, does anybody know of a quick way to extract/remove the putative lipid? In my case, I am working with