Re: [ccp4bb] Protein concentration for crystallization

2013-06-11 Thread Bernhard Rupp
H..the real message from figure 3. The protein concentration. seems to be that >70% of proteins do NOT crystallize in the 10-12.5 mg bin, i.e. the 'right' concentration is an individual protein-in-that-buffer property - and all one can say is that the concentration needs to be high enough s

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] pdbset

2013-06-11 Thread Swastik Phulera
-- Forwarded message -- From: Swastik Phulera Date: Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:51 PM Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] pdbset To: Tim Gruene Dear Tim, Miguel Thanks for your suggestions, the program does work now, but it seems that it cant handle AnsioU s . It gives an error: PDBSET: *** Anis

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] pdbset

2013-06-11 Thread vellieux
What about getting rid of the ANISOU records before processing the pdb file, with grep -v ANISOU input.pdb > output.pdb ? If a program complains about ANISOU records then you use the isotropic approximation... That's what I would do as a quick and dirty fix. Fred. On 11/06/13 10:22, Swast

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] pdbset

2013-06-11 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Swastik Phulera, unless you need the ANISOU cards, you can first remove them with e.g. grep -v "^ANISOU" youfile.pdb > yournewfile.pdb before running pdbset. (I hope you don't work on a Windows machine, then you would probably first find a way

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] pdbset

2013-06-11 Thread Robbie Joosten
In Windows: findstr /b /v ANISOU input.pdb > output.pdb Cheers, Robbie > -Original Message- > From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of > Tim Gruene > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:40 > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] pdbset

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] pdbset

2013-06-11 Thread Swastik Phulera
Dear Tim,Fred Negative B factors and occupancies higher than one came in from shelxl, Also getting rid of Ansiou at first would lead me to an additional step of placing them in their right place later on (is there a short cut that I may take). On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Tim Gruene wrote:

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2013-06-11 Thread Ivan Ahel
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[ccp4bb] Two postdoctoral opportunities in X-ray crystallography at Umeå University, Sweden

2013-06-11 Thread Karina Persson
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Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] pdbset

2013-06-11 Thread Eleanor Dodson
If you are resetting B factors you must recalculate the AniosUs later But if you are getting negative B values something in your procedure is less than optimal! Are you refining aniso Us with too limited data? You need high resolution data to attempt this. Are you trying to refine B factors and

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] pdbset

2013-06-11 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Swastik Phulera, if your res-file sports negative U-values, your model has room for improvement. You really should go back to the ins-file and make the appropriate modifications in order to get rid of negative U-values (the do not make chemical s

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein concentration for crystallization

2013-06-11 Thread Patrick Shaw Stewart
Bernhard, I'm often amazed at how forgiving protein crystallization is, or to put it another way, how efficient screens are at picking up crystallization hits even when you do everything wrong. However if you do go down to 20 + 20 nl drops you have to remember that probably 3/4 of your protein wi

[ccp4bb] PISA and ligands with non-natural amino acids

2013-06-11 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Bulletin board, I am looking at protein complexes with ligands containing non-natural amino acids. When I run PISA, I get the total area of the ligand, as well as the area of the ligand-protein interface, but hydrogen bonds and salt links are not recognized. I therefore do not think the ca

Re: [ccp4bb] PISA and ligands with non-natural amino acids

2013-06-11 Thread Eugene Krissinel
Dear Herman, I am looking at protein complexes with ligands containing non-natural amino acids. When I run PISA, I get the total area of the ligand, as well as the area of the ligand-protein interface, but hydrogen bonds and salt links are not recognized. I therefore do not think the calculated

[ccp4bb] Cryo-Xe-Siter looking for new home

2013-06-11 Thread Chris Richardson
We have an MSC Cryo-Xe-Siter that won't fit in our refurbished X-ray laboratory. If it can't find a new home it will be disposed of. We're offering it free of charge to any interested UK organisations on the condition that the recipient pays for its transport. It's currently in central London

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: NMR and crystallography

2013-06-11 Thread El Arnaout, Toufic
Hi Theresa, Here is a comparison between both methods (Table under "6-Summary"): http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/pps97/assignments/projects/ambrus/html.htm If you would like to have an idea about structures of membrane proteins (why was NMR used and what answers they got etc) solved by NMR to d

[ccp4bb] Rigaku Crystallization Webinar announcement

2013-06-11 Thread Jian Xu
Dear Colleagues, On behalf of Rigaku, I'm very pleased to introduce a new Rigaku Crystallization Webinar series. As crystallization of biological molecules continues to remain the bottleneck in structural biology, we would like to provide the community educational materials and a discussion for

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position available at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

2013-06-11 Thread Diana Tomchick
This message is posted for Eric Olson, Ph.D. (Chair of Molecular Biology), who is looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join his lab to work on a novel membrane protein (first described in Nature, in press). See project description below and if interested please contact him at: Email: eric.ol...