Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about

2009-11-16 Thread mesters
Kjeldgaard Morten wrote: On 14/11/2009, at 20.17, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote: Le 14 nov. 09 à 19:15, Kjeldgaard Morten a écrit : On 14/11/2009, at 18.55, Ronald E Stenkamp wrote: The rumblings here at the Univ. of Washington among the computational modelers is that some of their current m

Re: [ccp4bb] Oxidation, again!

2009-11-16 Thread Frank von Delft
Hi Jeremiah -- the short answer is Yes You Must! Don't whether you need that high concentration generally, but if it's not too osmotically active, the crystals should be fine; test it. But when mounting SeMet crystals, it's always a good idea to add fresh DTT or TCEP or whatever, it seems to

[ccp4bb] The use of TFE and analogs in protein crystallization

2009-11-16 Thread Orly Dym
We are trying to crystallize a small fragment (approximately 120aa) of a membrane protein. We encounter many problems in solubilizing the protein and would like to know if any one has experience in crystallizing proteins in the presence of TFE (Tetrafluoroethylene) (I understand that high concentra

Re: [ccp4bb] edit mtz cell in header?

2009-11-16 Thread Ed Pozharski
All true - but knowing that unit cell is stored as text, direct edit seems to require fewer keystrokes. Obviously, this is so that I can happily use the keystrokes I saved to write this :) On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 23:01 +, martyn.w...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: > Well, yes, that's how I would do it (but

Re: [ccp4bb] IMAC and Low Ionic Strength

2009-11-16 Thread Jurgen Bosch
Hi Jacob, an alternative explenation might be your protein does not bind via the tag to the resin but unspecifically. What happens if you add the recommended NaCl concentration? Does it fall off too? Just a thought, Jürgen .. Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of

Re: [ccp4bb] IMAC and Low Ionic Strength

2009-11-16 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Hello Jacob, I am not entirely sure why this has happened to you... A couple of suggestions that may help: 1. dial down the TRIS to 20 mM - you can also use TRIS-HCl (unless the second buffer is there for some other reason). 2. try a 'stronger' resin. I know in the past I've always strongly advo

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral Positions UCSF/Stroud Lab

2009-11-16 Thread John K. Lee
The Stroud Lab at UCSF (http://www.msg.ucsf.edu/stroud/index.htm) is looking to fill multiple post-doctoral positions in 1. membrane protein crystallography and 2. structure and function of RNA-modifying enzymes. Applicants should have background in biochemistry, molecular biology, and/or cryst

[ccp4bb] updating refmac

2009-11-16 Thread Thomas J Magliery PhD
I wanted to update refmac5 to the latest version in CCP4. I downloaded v5.5.0105 and unpacked the tarball. The three files are named refmacgfortran, libcheckgfortran and makecifgfortran. So, I moved the corresponding files refmac5, libcheck and makecif in ccp4-6.1.2/bin/ to another folder an

[ccp4bb] IMAC and Low Ionic Strength

2009-11-16 Thread Jacob Keller
Dear Crystallographers, Recently I incubated a small amount of His-select resin with bacterial lysate in (50 mM TRIS-HEPES pH 8.0, 10 mM CaCl2), and washed the resin, for certain experimental reasons, with (50 mM TRIS-HEPES pH 8.0, 0.2 mM CaCl2), at which point a significant amount of my pr

[ccp4bb] CCP4 Study Weekend Januay 6th-8th 2010

2009-11-16 Thread ronan . keegan
Dear All, A quick reminder to you all about this coming January's CCP4 Study Weekend entitled "From Crystal to Structure with CCP4" (January 6th-8th 2010). The deadline for the first round of registrations will be the 21st of November after which the registration price will increase from £210 t

[ccp4bb] Beta OG cif definition and PDB deposition

2009-11-16 Thread Waight, Andrew
Hello everyone, Perhaps this is a newbie question, so I apologize. After much work and a lot of thanks to the ccp4 bulletin board I just tried to submit my first structure to the pdb database. It is a membrane protein and therefore has some detergent molecules bound to

Re: [ccp4bb] video that explains, very simply, what Structural Molecular Biology is about

2009-11-16 Thread Pete Meyer
The rumblings here at the Univ. of Washington among the computational modelers is that some of their current models might be more representative of protein structures in solution than are the crystal structure models. It may take less than a "couple of decades" for a reduced emphasis on crysta

Re: [ccp4bb] Twinning

2009-11-16 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Refmac refines against the original twinned data. Eleanor Bernhard Rupp wrote: Dear All, following the twinning threads as well as the refmac manual it is not quite clear to me yet whether refmac finds the twin operator and fraction, detwins the data, and refines against those detwinned data,

Re: [ccp4bb] edit mtz cell in header?

2009-11-16 Thread Eleanor Dodson
There are many and various programs that do this. As Martin says - cad will do it - you can use the GUI to change each data set in the file.. if there is only one data set the easiest is this: mtzutils hklin old.mtz hklout new.mtz CELL 168.981 168.981 168.981 90 90 90 end eleanor martyn.

[ccp4bb] X-ray equipment available

2009-11-16 Thread Rudolf Ladenstein
To all colleagues at CCP4BB: We have the following X-ray diffraction equipment to give away: I. Siemens X-1000 Multiwire Area Detector. It has been manufactured by Siemens Analytical X-ray Instruments Inc. in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Equipment available includes multiwire area detector X-10