Re: [ccp4bb] Sighting of Protein Crystals in Vivo?!

2013-02-17 Thread Elena Seiradake
Hello, I've seen similar crystals in HEK cells when expressing certain (but not most) mVenus-fusion proteins. mVenus is similar to mYFP. I now wonder if this effect depends on my protein being cleaved, releasing mVenus. Will look into this. Elena Original message Date: Sat, 16

Re: [ccp4bb] Sighting of Protein Crystals in Vivo?!

2013-02-17 Thread Jrh
Jacob, I recall Dorothy Hodgkin or Guy Dodson showing a slide (mid to late 1970s) with insulin crystals having grown in the Islets of Langerhans. As you say, quite remarkable. John Prof John R Helliwell DSc On 15 Feb 2013, at 19:44, Jacob Keller j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] Sighting of Protein Crystals in Vivo?!

2013-02-17 Thread David Schuller
On 02/16/13 00:46, Zhijie Li wrote: Hi Jacob, Interesting topic. This reminds me the posters I saw on ACA 2010, on the femto-second infrared laser based instrument . That instrument utilizes the nonlinear optical properties of crystals of chiral molecules to detect very small crystalline