Re: [ccp4bb] Advice on Over-expressing and Purifying Metalloproteins

2010-05-05 Thread Jose Antonio Cuesta Seijo
Nothing out of the ordinary there. You can try to induce overnight (for 20 hours or so) at 15C. And you can try to reduce the concentration of IPTG if excess protein is going to inclusion bodies anyways. Collect whatever protein is soluble and ignore your inclusion bodies. The His tags allow you

Re: [ccp4bb] Fo-Fo Difference Map

2010-05-05 Thread Jon Wright
Ian Tickle replied: (freezing soaking can easily induce 1% and sometimes 5% change), is surely the reason that Fo-Fo maps never caught on! I've been curious about this unit cell constant mis-matching for a while. If I understood well, Perutz tried to exploit the effect

[ccp4bb] How to predict the secondary structure from a protein sequence..??

2010-05-05 Thread Hussain Bhukyagps
Dear all, i have protein sequence and how can i predict the secondary structure from the sequence..??? Thank u hsn.

Re: [ccp4bb] How to predict the secondary structure from a protein sequence..??

2010-05-05 Thread David Briggs
Hi Hussain, Psipred is a good a place as any to start: http://bioinf.cs.ucl.ac.uk/psipred/ Cheers, Dave David C. Briggs PhD Father, Structural Biologist and Sceptic University of Manchester E-mail: david.c.bri...@manchester.ac.uk

Re: [ccp4bb] How to predict the secondary structure from a protein sequence..??

2010-05-05 Thread Tim Gruene
Exapsy (http://www.expasy.ch/tools/#proteome) also has a whole section about secondary structure prediction. Tim On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 04:20:13PM +0530, Hussain Bhukyagps wrote: Dear all, i have protein sequence and how can i predict the secondary structure from the sequence..???

[ccp4bb] low resolution secondary structural restraints

2010-05-05 Thread Gregory Bowman
Hi - I am refining a low (3.7Å) structure with refmac(5.5.0091), and am having trouble maintaining some secondary structure elements. I would like to restrain the H-bonding in clear secondary structural elements, which should help prevent carbonyls in helices from flipping out, etc, but

Re: [ccp4bb] Advice on Over-expressing and Purifying Metalloproteins

2010-05-05 Thread Roger Rowlett
Several suggestions: Try tagging with a solubility-enhancing tag like GST or NusA. If using a pET vector system, try "leaky" _expression_. The T7 promoter is not well-repressed (except in pLysS systems) and you can get low but very significant levels of _expression_ without induction.

Re: [ccp4bb] Advice on Over-expressing and Purifying Metalloproteins

2010-05-05 Thread Mark J van Raaij
try JM109(DE3) instead of BL21(DE3), combined with low temperature induction - for several proteins this has yielded us soluble protein instead of inclusion bodies. I think this is because JM109(DE3) grows a bit slower. Mark J van Raaij mvr...@ibmb.csic.es

Re: [ccp4bb] low resolution secondary structural restraints

2010-05-05 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Greg, you can generate secondary structure restraints definitions for Refmac using this command: phenix.secondary_structure_restraints model.pdb format=refmac Pavel. On 5/5/10 4:33 AM, Gregory Bowman wrote: Hi - I am refining a low (3.7Å) structure with refmac(5.5.0091), and am

[ccp4bb] software to represent raw reflections in hkl zones

2010-05-05 Thread Tillmann Heinisch
Hi, I have problems solving the structure of a protein crystal which seems to be disordered. In order to investigate the disorder it would be useful to have a precision photograph that shows reflections only in the [0kl] plane. Does anyone know software that can transform raw data to give

Re: [ccp4bb] software to represent raw reflections in hkl zones

2010-05-05 Thread Ashley Buckle
hklview will generate pseudo precession images Sent from my iPhone On 05/05/2010, at 11:03 PM, Tillmann Heinisch tillmann.heini...@unibas.ch wrote: Hi, I have problems solving the structure of a protein crystal which seems to be disordered. In order to investigate the disorder it would

Re: [ccp4bb] software to represent raw reflections in hkl zones

2010-05-05 Thread Tillmann Heinisch
to my knowledge hklview just works with integrated data whereas I need to plot raw intensities along h, k and l to investigate reflection streakings. I heard such software is routinely used in small molecule crystallography. Tillmann On May 5, 2010, at 3:18 PM, David Briggs wrote: Hi

Re: [ccp4bb] Advice on Over-expressing and Purifying Metalloproteins

2010-05-05 Thread xaravich ivan
I have found that if you give a cold shock ( 4 degrees for 30 mins-1 hr) before low temperature induction it helps to keep proteins soluble. Ivan

Re: [ccp4bb] software to represent raw reflections in hkl zones

2010-05-05 Thread Tim Gruene
Hi Tillmann, what do you mean by 'raw intensities' as opposed to integrated data? Would xprep be an option for you? It reads XDS_ASCII.HKL, but that's of course after integration. But it should be easy to convert any (non-binary) file containing raw intensities into an hkl-file that you can read

Re: [ccp4bb] software to represent raw reflections in hkl zones

2010-05-05 Thread Phil Evans
I think he's looking for a program which will extract a plane from the raw 3D reciprocal space, as sampled by the raw images (ie before integration, but with the plane defined by the indexed lattice). That's a much harder job Phil On 5 May 2010, at 16:50, Tim Gruene wrote: Hi Tillmann, what

Re: [ccp4bb] software to represent raw reflections in hkl zones

2010-05-05 Thread George M. Sheldrick
As Phil says, constructing an undistorted slice through reciprocal space is much harder than displaying integrated intensities. The Bruker APEX2 software does this nicely and I understand that they can also convert MAR CCD and possibly some other frame formats to Bruker format, which presumably

Re: [ccp4bb] software to represent raw reflections in hkl zones

2010-05-05 Thread Harry
Hi this is what I thought. I would imagine that you'd want to combine the 2D information in the X-ray images in a dataset into a 3D solid figure, then look at slices through this for the RL projection you were interested in. If you indexed the dataset first you should be able to get the

[ccp4bb] software to represent raw reflections in hkl zones

2010-05-05 Thread Marcus Winter
This 'much harder job' is accomplished, too, in the comprehensive CrysAlisPro data-analysis suite from Oxford Diffraction. Again: not just from images in the OD format, but from a wide variety of others, also. So, if we could assist in this case, Tillmann, then we would be pleased

Re: [ccp4bb] software to represent raw reflections in hkl zones

2010-05-05 Thread Phil Evans
Storing a complete 3D image set in memory is moderately challenging even for today's computers (probably several to several 10s of gigabytes, though you could perhaps cheat a bit), so programs would probably have to use old-fashioned double sort techniques to extract a zone. I wonder how the

Re: [ccp4bb] software to represent raw reflections in hkl zones

2010-05-05 Thread James Holton
I wrote a little jiffy for doing this some years ago: http://bl831.als.lbl.gov/~jamesh/pickup/adsc2pdb.com However, I should note that this program relies on the DPS program: dps_peaksearch to pick spots on each image in your data set. These spots are then transformed into reciprocal space

Re: [ccp4bb] Fo-Fo Difference Map

2010-05-05 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 05 May 2010 12:49:34 am Jon Wright wrote: I've been curious about this unit cell constant mis-matching for a while. If I understood well, Perutz tried to exploit the effect for phasing prior to heavy atom methods. As the unit cell changes, the diffraction peaks move,

Re: [ccp4bb] Advice on Over-expressing and Purifying Metalloproteins

2010-05-05 Thread Joel Guenther
English et al. Recombinant and in vitro expression systems for hydrogenases: new frontiers in basic and applied studies for biological and synthetic H2 production. Dalton Trans. (2009) (45) pp. 9970-8 I've never tried to express a hydrogenase, but I've read that it's very hard. Do you have all

Re: [ccp4bb] software to represent raw reflections in hkl zones

2010-05-05 Thread Nicholas K. Sauter
Tillmann, I wrote a little jiffy some months ago, to go from raw images to a pseudo-precession photo, in the context of labelit.index. I'll dig it out and post a link to the program... Nick Tillmann Heinisch wrote: Hi, I have problems solving the structure of a protein crystal which