Re: [ccp4bb] iMosflm can't read images

2010-09-23 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear Huiying, my first guess is that you copied the files onto an external hard drive which was formatted for Windows (with vfat). If you tried to read the images from the same drive can confuse Linux systems, because Linux is literate, whereas vfat does not distinguish between capital and lower

Re: [ccp4bb] Effect of NCS on estimate of data:parameter ratio

2010-09-23 Thread Ian Tickle
Hi Gerard Pavel Isn't this the proviso I was referring to, that one cannot in practice use an infinite weight because of rounding errors in the target function. The weight just has to be 'big enough' such that the restraint residual becomes sufficiently small that it's no longer significant.

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position in membrane protein crystallography

2010-09-23 Thread Iverson, Tina M
We are searching for outstanding postdoctoral candidates that wish to pursue structure-function studies on membrane proteins at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. We are focused on the determination of structures of membrane proteins in complex with soluble binding partners, and are also

[ccp4bb] Protein melting temperatures

2010-09-23 Thread Raji Edayathumangalam
Hi Folks, Sorry for the pre-xtallo question; pre-xtallo right now, but hoping to take my protein the xtallo way one of these days! I am currently performing Thermofluor assays with my protein and the results show that the Tm is ~45C. I am looking for some examples of proteins and their

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein melting temperatures

2010-09-23 Thread Daniel Bonsor
There is a nice paper Comput Biol Chem. 2009 Dec;33(6):445-50. Epub 2009 Oct 20. Predicting melting temperature directly from protein sequences. Ku T, Lu P, Chan C, Wang T, Lai S, Lyu P, Hsiao N. They have a list of 35 different proteins with their Tms with the references from where they

[ccp4bb] Positions Available in Membrane Protein Structural Biology

2010-09-23 Thread Michael C. Wiener
Postdoctoral Positions: Membrane Proteins @ University of Virginia Due to some recent changes in both funding and personnel, I have several positions available immediately in my lab. Postdoctoral level preferred, but more senior (or more junior) positions are possible. Relevant experience is

Re: [ccp4bb] Effect of NCS on estimate of data:parameter ratio

2010-09-23 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
Dear All one thing I remembered from what Gerard pointed out was the difference in the XPLOR/CNS formalism between strict and restrained which is not a continuum. Restrained was obviously when you had multiple copies and they were restrained with a weight (which was like a force

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein melting temperatures

2010-09-23 Thread Tim Gruene
Not sure whether this is the kind of information you are looking for: The protein with PDB-ID 1ofc had a melting temperature of 37deg (from CD), which was supported by the fact that it did not express in E.coli at that temperature. At 20deg it expressed to about 60mg / (liter LB), could be

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein melting temperatures

2010-09-23 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
Hello - The excellent paper of McCrary, uses differential scanning calorimetry, which will give an absolute measure of thermostability. Using Thermofluor I would be afraid you can only assess the relative thermostability of one protein in different conditions. As your fluorescence reporter

[ccp4bb] BMC errata updates

2010-09-23 Thread Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.)
Dear All, first I want to thank all of you who kindly have sent me corrections, suggestions, and updates to BMC. Very helpful and much appreciated. In preparation for the e-book version and for the next printing, these corrections will now be incorporated by about End of October. If anyone has

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein melting temperatures

2010-09-23 Thread Thomas J Magliery PhD
I agree that you can't take two unrelated proteins and expect their Thermofluor Tms will be correlated with CD/DSC values. We've done quite a bit with point mutants, and it works well for that (see an example in our paper below). Also note that the dye is a perturbant the reduces the

Re: [ccp4bb] Molecular replacement question

2010-09-23 Thread zhang yu
Maybe there is a domain shift of your protein compared to the model. If this is the case, try to do the MP with successive domains. 2010/9/13 Paul Holland pholl...@umd.edu Hello fellow crystallographers, I am trying molecular replacement for a protein crystal dataset that has very high

Re: [ccp4bb] Effect of NCS on estimate of data:parameter ratio

2010-09-23 Thread Ian Tickle
I think you could answer this by performing the following thought experiment: 1. Refine the structure to convergence using strict NCS constraints. 2. Switch to using the equivalent 'infinite-in-the-limit weight' restraints, keeping everything else as is continue refinement of the output from