Re: [ccp4bb] Can not optimize

2013-08-23 Thread jens Preben Morth
Hi Omi Did you test them for diffraction? you might want to keep screening broad for better crystals. You could try to add K/NaSCN, KI or KNO3 as an additive (50 mM) to you protein mix and go from there best Preben On 8/23/13 4:56 AM, zhuqing ouyang wrote: Dear all, I am trying to crystallize

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Dependency of theta on n/d in Bragg's law

2013-08-23 Thread Petr Leiman
Dear Dom, No attachment here in either of your messages... Maybe you can put it up on Dropbox or Google drive and send us the URL? Thanks, Petr On 08/23/2013 04:33 AM, Dom Bellini wrote: Hi Some people emailed me saying that the attachment did not get through. I hope this will work.

[ccp4bb] Post-doc position for SAXS at the MAX IV Laboratory

2013-08-23 Thread Marjolein Thunnissen
The MAX IV laboratory in Lund has opened a position for a Postdoctoral fellow to strengthen the biological SAXS environment at the current SAXS beam line at the MAX-II ring. The position will be for two years and is embedded in the BIOSTRUCT-X EU program. Full information of the position is

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Dependency of theta on n/d in Bragg's law

2013-08-23 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Edward, Now I am getting a little confused: If you look at a higher order 2n reflection, you will also get diffraction from the intermediate 1n layers, so the structure factor you are looking at is in fact the 1n structure factor. I think your original post was correct. To summarize how

[ccp4bb] wwPDB Workshop on mmCIF/PDBx for Programmers

2013-08-23 Thread Gary Battle
There are only a few places remaining for the wwPDB Workshop on mmCIF/PDBx for Programmers. What, why and how? -- The world of the PDB will be changing rapidly and profoundly over the next few years. A major change will involve the transition from PDB to mmCIF/PDBx as the

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Dependency of theta on n/d in Bragg's law

2013-08-23 Thread Dom Bellini
Hi, Despite the not so large size of the pdf (256 kbs), the file does not want to get through. Since a reasonable amount of people seem to have liked a copy for their students, following some smart suggestions I have put the booklet on Dropbox. Here's the link:

[ccp4bb] sin(theta_hkl)=n*lambda/(2*d_hkl)

2013-08-23 Thread Robert Blessing
A point to bear in mind is that only planes with co-prime h k l indices are lattice planes that pass through lattice points. Planes with indices that are composite numbers nh nk nl are virtual lattice planes that do not pass through lattice points. Bob Robert H. Blessing, Ph.D.

[ccp4bb] in summary

2013-08-23 Thread Pietro Roversi
Yes, thank you Bob! and therefore, as first pointed out in this thread by Loes Kroon-Batenburg, and as explainedin (among other places) the Ladd and Palmer book that Dom Bellini pointed me to, the indices 001, 010 etc. for example, will index first order diffraction maxima, while 002, 020 etc.

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Dependency of theta on n/d in Bragg's law

2013-08-23 Thread Edward A. Berry
I think we are just discussing different ways of saying the same thing now. But that can be interesting, too. If not, read no farther. herman.schreu...@sanofi.com wrote: Dear Edward, Now I am getting a little confused: If you look at a higher order 2n reflection, you will also get

[ccp4bb] Refinement of crystals containing a mixture in the asymmetric unit

2013-08-23 Thread Paul Paukstelis
Greetings, We have been working on a few DNA crystals in which the asymmetric unit contains a stoichiometric (or nearly so) mixture of two similar but distinct oligonucleotides. The resolution is medium to low (2.7-2.8) but for a few of these there are some hints from the density for two

Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement of crystals containing a mixture in the asymmetric unit

2013-08-23 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Paul, have you actually tried using the 'alternate location indicator' with two different residues? I would not be surprised if that would work with refmac. Best, Tim On 08/23/2013 05:39 PM, Paul Paukstelis wrote: Greetings, We have been

Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement of crystals containing a mixture in the asymmetric unit

2013-08-23 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi Paul, I would have them both in PDB file with different non-blanc altLocs and arbitrary starting occupancies and that will work in refinement (in phenix.refine for sure, can't tell for other programs). Pavel On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Paul Paukstelis shocksofmig...@gmail.comwrote:

[ccp4bb] Suitability of RaptorX models for molecular replacement

2013-08-23 Thread Dimitris Ladakis
Dear members of CCP4bb I've used RaptorX to generate a structural model for molecular replacement, since there isn't any structure on PDB similar enough that i could use instead. I am trying to find out if this is a common practice within the community and if people have managed to get

[ccp4bb] cryoprotection

2013-08-23 Thread Uday Kumar
Hello Can anyone suggest a cryoprotectant for the following crystallization condition 0.2-0.4M sodium formate ~20% PEG 3350 0-25 mM Nickel 0-100 mM Malonate Thank you with regards uday

Re: [ccp4bb] cryoprotection

2013-08-23 Thread Bosch, Juergen
increase your PEG3350 27% and keep the other components at their current concentration. You can also add glycerol or ethylene glycol into the mix. If you have multiple crystals then try various variants. Jürgen On Aug 23, 2013, at 1:52 PM, Uday Kumar wrote: Hello Can anyone suggest a

Re: [ccp4bb] cryoprotection

2013-08-23 Thread Alexander D. Scouras
I've had good success transferring crystals grown in 200 mM NaOAc pH 5.5 / 10% PEG Into a solution for room temperature diffraction (in ~6 steps, peg first, then buffers) : 100 mM NaOAc / 100 mM Malonate / 30% PEG And from there into a cryo solution in 4-5 steps) that was: 100 mM NaOAc /

[ccp4bb] 3D printing structures?

2013-08-23 Thread Ronnie
An off-topic question-now that 3D printing is becoming more common, has anyone tried to print protein structures other than just the surface representation like in this tutorial? http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-Print-a-Protein-Modeling-a-Molecular-Machine/ Is it possible to print a ribbon

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing structures?

2013-08-23 Thread Miller, Mitchell D.
Hi Ronnie, I have not tried it, but a quick google search for protein ribbon 3d printer turns up the following in the results list-- http://ironchefsynbio.wordpress.com/tag/3d-printer/ http://www.lib.ua.edu/sites/default/files/rodgers/Rodgers%203D%20Printing%20Molecular%20X-ray%20Data_V1.pdf

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing structures?

2013-08-23 Thread Edward A. Berry
Along the same lines, does anyone have a program for converting Raster-3D format such as Molscript puts out, into one of the formats readable by a 3D printer? eab Ronnie wrote: An off-topic question-now that 3D printing is becoming more common, has anyone tried to print protein structures

[ccp4bb] Twinabs-cell_now

2013-08-23 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
hello everyone Can anyone point to me where i could obtain the programs twinabs, cell_now ? i cannot seem to locate them by simple googling. Thanks mahesh

Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] Dependency of theta on n/d in Bragg's law

2013-08-23 Thread Jrh
Dear Edward, Re your em colleagues:- We are indeed happy to understand their diffraction to 5th order, by which we mean the d/5 reflection (1st order) because the two are simply different viewpoints. Just one loose end:- The remarkable thing is that the diffraction from a crystal is largely

[ccp4bb] In situ data collection

2013-08-23 Thread Theresa Hsu
Dear all Could I get some personal reviews on the CrystalHarp plates? Has anyone used it for actual data collection and structure solution in situ? How does it compare with X-ray 'transparent' plates? Thank you. Theresa

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing structures?

2013-08-23 Thread Joel Sussman
Output should be in VRML formal RasMol, PyMol Jmol all have options to write out VRML format files. Sometimes you need add additional 'struts' to give additional structural support, Jmol has option of adding these struts. best regards, Joel On 23 Aug 2013, at 21:33, Edward A. Berry

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing structures?

2013-08-23 Thread Edward A. Berry
Thanks, yes, i should have checked out the link on the original post before asking. Free programs blender or meshlab convert vmrl to .stl files which 3d-printers including makerbot read. eab Joel Sussman wrote: Output should be in *VRML* formal RasMol, PyMol Jmol all have options to write

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing structures?

2013-08-23 Thread Artem Evdokimov
As a proud owner of the fdm 3d printer I would like to mention that if you go from vrml to stl and then into slic3r you have to drastically refuce polygon count or else slic3r chokes trying to process the file. Cjeets, Artem On Aug 23, 2013 5:54 PM, Edward A. Berry ber...@upstate.edu wrote:

[ccp4bb] Purification of a protein

2013-08-23 Thread Jahan Alikhajeh
Dear Friends, I have been trying to purify a protein (27 kDa) which has a sumo plus 6 His-tag at N-ter giving totaly a 45 kDa protein. This protein does not express without sumo tag and has a poly basic tail (Arg and Lys) at its N-ter. It does polymerize at acidic pHs. When I tried to purify it

Re: [ccp4bb] Purification of a protein

2013-08-23 Thread Roger Rowlett
Why not adopt a classical purification strategy? IEX-HIC-GEC. His-tag not required. With your protein strongly basic, anion exchange seems like a likely first step. After IEX, hydrophobic interaction or salt precipitation followed by gel exclusion is normally enough for well-expressed proteins.

Re: [ccp4bb] Purification of a protein

2013-08-23 Thread Mahesh Lingaraju
i am not sure this would work as his protein seems to be degraded by the n end degradation pathway. i feel like it almost needs to be expressed as a fusion protein with some stabilizing sequence On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Roger Rowlett rrowl...@colgate.eduwrote: Why not adopt a

Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement of crystals containing a mixture in the asymmetric unit

2013-08-23 Thread Paul Paukstelis
As an update, this approach did not work in Refmac, but as Pavel suggested it worked fine with phenix.refine. --paul On 08/23/2013 11:51 AM, Tim Gruene wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Paul, have you actually tried using the 'alternate location indicator' with two

Re: [ccp4bb] 3D printing structures?

2013-08-23 Thread Edward A. Berry
Great! we can all send our .stl and slic3r files to Artem for rendering! I want to make individual subunits of a multisubunit protein, or domains of a protein like Src, and be able to fit them together to make the complex or multidomain protein. Topology constraints may require slicing some

Re: [ccp4bb] Why MAD didn't work but SAD works well

2013-08-23 Thread James Holton
My default MAD strategy is to do single-image inverse beam with round robin wavelength changes. That is: energy phi peak 0 peak 180 remote 0 remote 180 peak1 peak 181 remote1 etc with one image taken for each line above. I do this until a full sphere is