Re: [ccp4bb] Ligand present in only one monomer in NCS

2010-06-01 Thread Zsolt Bocskei
Hi, It occurs quite frequently with renin for example, with two molecules in the asu. Depending on the affinity and shape of the inhibitors both, only one or neither of the sites may be occupied. The slight, but significant conformational difference between the two crystallographically independent

Re: [ccp4bb] Ligand present in only one monomer in NCS

2010-06-01 Thread Soisson, Stephen M
VERY, very common in the Pharma setting where we do hundreds of ligand-bound structures on a given target. Other permutations of this scenario, such as only one monomer's ligand displacing a ligand used for co-crystallization when trying to exchange by soaking, etc. Zsolt and I could share renin s

Re: [ccp4bb] Far to good r-factors

2010-06-01 Thread Ian Tickle
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Dale Tronrud wrote: >   One of the great mysteries of refinement is that a model created using > high resolution data will fit a low resolution data set much better than > a model created only using the low resolution data.  It appears that there > are many types o

[ccp4bb] Converting cif-files into pdb-files / reading cif -files into coot

2010-06-01 Thread Christian Engel
Dear All, I am looking for a ccp4 program that reads in cif-files and converts them into pdb-files, including the CRYST1 card. Can anybody suggest a solution? I didn't find any in ccp4i, e.g. the coordinate utilities. I also tried COOT to read in cif-files (downloaded from the pdb server). Fo

Re: [ccp4bb] Ligand present in only one monomer in NCS

2010-06-01 Thread Eleanor Dodson
The rnase structure used as the $CEXAM for CCP4 is another example - a typical coordinate set is 2sar.pdb There one monomer binds the substrate very clearly, whilst the other is blocked by crystal contacts. Eleanor ANDY DODDS wrote: Hello, I am solving a structure of an enzyme, which cryst

Re: [ccp4bb] Converting cif-files into pdb-files / reading cif -files into coot

2010-06-01 Thread Ed Pozharski
http://sw-tools.pdb.org/apps/CIFTr/ On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 15:21 +0200, Christian Engel wrote: > Dear All, > > I am looking for a ccp4 program that reads in cif-files and converts > them into pdb-files, including the CRYST1 card. Can anybody suggest a > solution? I didn't find any in ccp4i, e.g.

Re: [ccp4bb] Converting cif-files into pdb-files / reading cif -files into coot

2010-06-01 Thread Vellieux Frederic
Hi Christian, Had exactly the same problem (converting an mmCIF file into a PDB). I located and installed CIFTr . The version I have running here is ciftr-v2.053 . I am afraid I can't remember exactly where I downloaded it from. I think it one of the PDB associated files. Fred. Christian E

[ccp4bb] coot: rotate zone about arbitray point

2010-06-01 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear all, I would like to use "Rotate/Translate Zone" in coot for a single residue and set the centre of rotation at the nitrogen of the subsequent residue. Is there a why to achieve this with Coot Version 0.6.1? Cheers, Tim P.S.: The "Torsion General" would be a good start, but it does not see

Re: [ccp4bb] Far to good r-factors

2010-06-01 Thread Dale Tronrud
This would be a possible explanation, and certainly is a problem with low resolution refinements, but the free R indicates that overfitting is not the problem here. (I'm assuming that the proper choice of test set has been made in this case.) In my experience, for very isomorphous pairs of str

Re: [ccp4bb] coot: rotate zone about arbitray point

2010-06-01 Thread Paul Emsley
Tim Gruene wrote: I would like to use "Rotate/Translate Zone" in coot for a single residue and set the centre of rotation at the nitrogen of the subsequent residue. Is there a way to achieve this with Coot Version 0.6.1? No [1]. Paul. [1] Practically no, but actually, it might be. However

Re: [ccp4bb] Converting cif-files into pdb-files / reading cif -files into coot

2010-06-01 Thread Paul Emsley
Christian Engel wrote: Dear All, I am looking for a ccp4 program that reads in cif-files and converts them into pdb-files, including the CRYST1 card. Can anybody suggest a solution? I didn't find any in ccp4i, e.g. the coordinate utilities. I also tried COOT to read in cif-files (downloaded

[ccp4bb] Linux on SGI O2 Unix Workstation

2010-06-01 Thread Brennan Bonnet
Hi All, I just obtained a Silicon Graphics O2 Unix workstation from 1996. I want to use it for 3D modelling of protein crystals using "Crystal Eyes Stereographics" and I'm wondering if anybody knows of any versions of Linux which I could install on it. Thanks, ~Brennan~

Re: [ccp4bb] Linux on SGI O2 Unix Workstation

2010-06-01 Thread S. Shunmugasundararaj
Hi Brennan, http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/index.php/SGI_O2 There is official Linux support for the O2 in Debian 4.0 "Etch" as well as in Gentoo but only for R5000/R7000 O2s. Linux is not stable on R1/R12000 CPUs due to a known issue with the way they handle speculative loads and stores, detail

Re: [ccp4bb] Linux on SGI O2 Unix Workstation

2010-06-01 Thread Ed Pozharski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Octane#Available_Operating_Systems just googled "linux sgi o2" On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:18 -0600, Brennan Bonnet wrote: > Hi All, > > > > I just obtained a Silicon Graphics O2 Unix workstation from 1996. I > want to use it for 3D modelling of protein crystals

Re: [ccp4bb] How to align a sequence to a know profile

2010-06-01 Thread Thomas Juettemann
Does chainsaw not the opposite? Pruning a coordinate file based on non-conserved residues identified in a MSA? Yuan has a MSA of known structures and a sequence he wants to add to it. I am always keen to learn about alignment programs, it would be great to know how to use chainsaw for this problem.

Re: [ccp4bb] How to align a sequence to a know profile

2010-06-01 Thread Eric Larson
3-d coffee and expresso will align sequences without structures with sequences that do have structures in a structure-based sequence alignment: http://www.tcoffee.org/Projects_home_page/expresso_home_page.html perhaps this is along the lines of what Yuan is looking for? ___

Re: [ccp4bb] please recommend a crystallization incubator

2010-06-01 Thread Nathaniel Clark
Here is an incubator about the size of the Ecotherms but much cheaper: http://www.tritechresearch.com/DT2-MP-38.html We have one for insect cell culture that has worked great for several years, and there is no vibration. However for crystallization we have BOD incubators from Fisher. Nat On Mon

Re: [ccp4bb] How to align a sequence to a know profile

2010-06-01 Thread Eric Pettersen
I've a protein sequence of known domain. Based on structure alignment, I've got a alignment of those with known structures. Then how to add my sequence to the alignment?Any suggestions? Hi Yuan, You can use UCSF Chimera's Multalign Viewer tool to do this. Just open your alignment with

Re: [ccp4bb] Converting cif-files into pdb-files / reading cif -files into coot

2010-06-01 Thread Felix Frolow
Hi Fred Well, it is ironic that after acquiring ability to determine a protein structure some times in a few minutes we are still failed my format conversions like 30 years ago :-( Dr Felix Frolow Professor of Structural Biology and Biotechnology Department of Molecular Microbiology and Bio

[ccp4bb] Postdoc position at the Membrane Protein Lab

2010-06-01 Thread Konstantinos Beis
Dear All, A position has become available for a Research Associate in the Membrane Protein Laboratory (MPL) for crystallisation, crystallographic and biochemical studies on bacterial antibiotic transporters. The successful candidate will work on improving the crystals and solving the stru

Re: [ccp4bb] The "Total" CC in the output of CCP4 OVERLAPMAP

2010-06-01 Thread Eleanor Dodson
You are in luck - it is the total CC over all grid points used for that Table Eleanor Hailiang Zhang wrote: Hi all: Thanks for all kindly helps with real space CC. Now I have a new question again. In the output of OVERLAPMAP in CCP4, there is a almost last line saying "Total...": #

Re: [ccp4bb] How to align a sequence to a know profile

2010-06-01 Thread Eleanor Dodson
chainsaw does just that eleanor 商元 wrote: Hello, everyone, I've a protein sequence of known domain. Based on structure alignment, I've got a alignment of those with known structures. Then how to add my sequence to the alignment?Any suggestions? Regards, Yuan SHANG

[ccp4bb] beamline technician position at the EMBL in Hamburg, Germany

2010-06-01 Thread Victor Lamzin
BEAMLINE TECHNICIAN European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hamburg, Germany A position is available at the Structural Biology Unit of the EMBL in Hamburg. The Unit utilises synchrotron radiation at the German Synchrotron Research Centre (DESY) for research in structural biology. EMBL operates

[ccp4bb] Ligand present in only one monomer in NCS

2010-06-01 Thread ANDY DODDS
Hello, I am solving a structure of an enzyme, which crystallises as a dimer. We have pretty good evidence that this operates as a dimer in vitro, also. We have an inhibitor of this enzyme, which we are keen to visualise by X-ray methods. We seem to have very strong density in which we can model o

[ccp4bb] Post Doc position in Newcastle

2010-06-01 Thread Richard Lewis
Dear BBers There is an ~18 month vacancy in my lab for a postdoc to work on our favourite macromolecular complex, the 'stressosome'. The ideal candidate will know their way around an Akta and be able to solve crystal structures by isomorphous replacement and/or anomalous scattering. Experience of

Re: [ccp4bb] Ligand present in only one monomer in NCS

2010-06-01 Thread Vellieux Frederic
Hi Andy, I'd say fairly common, and there can be several reasons. One is that the entrance of the active site (in case of crystal soaks) is blocked in some subunits. Also, different affinities in the different active sites, plus allosteric effects, are possibilities to consider. The latest e