Re: [ccp4bb] To cryo or not to cryo...

2012-12-01 Thread Patrick Shaw Stewart
Yuri Whatever happens, keep the remains of the crystal to make a seed-stock after data collection. You can also try making a seed stock from the rest of the drop, even if you can't see crystals, and even if it has dried up. Use part of your seed-stock to seed into one or more *random screens* Y

Re: [ccp4bb] wrong space group or wrong refinement strategy

2012-12-01 Thread Randy Read
If that solution applies to the original model you used (and not to re-solving the structure with the molecular replacement solution before or after refinement), then your tetramer model is just being rotated by 90 degrees around the 4-fold and placed on a different origin, i.e. the solution is

Re: [ccp4bb] Izit dye stained crystal

2012-12-01 Thread Kay Diederichs
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:27:41 -0500, Sarathy Karunan Partha wrote: >Dear all, > >Here is the XSCALE.LP output after scaling for the izit dye stained >crystak. Sorry for attaching the .INP file. > >Sarathy > >On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Sarathy Karunan Partha < >sarathyus...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] Izit dye stained crystal

2012-12-01 Thread Gerard Bricogne
Dear Sarathy, I was going to reply along the same lines as Kay Diederichs just did. At the Cr K-alpha wavelength, you would have strong absorption effects which, given the low symmetry of your crystal, would be very hard to get rid of. We have seen numerous cases where a high anomalous correl

Re: [ccp4bb] protein crystals?

2012-12-01 Thread Roger Rowlett
These look like spherulites. They are often optimizable into crystals by varying the pH, precipitant/protein concentration, additives,crystallization temperature, etc. ___ Roger S. Rowlett Gordon & Dorothy Kline Professor Department of Chemistry Colgate Unive

Re: [ccp4bb] protein crystals?

2012-12-01 Thread Nian Huang
Definitely magnesium salt. I've seen it many times. But try to repeat it anyway just to be safe. Nian On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Yibin Lin wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I got some crystals at the conditions of 0.1M Lithium sulfate or 0.1 M > MgCl2, 0.1M Sodium citrate 3.5 or Sodium acetic ph5.5