Re: [ccp4bb] Protein-Ligand Crystallization

2015-02-05 Thread Jurgen Bosch
Hi Monica, A different option is they both bind but destabilize your protein (as you suggested). This will likely not help much if you are trying to co-crystallize them. But there are couple of examples out there in the literature that show the contrary, despite destabilizing Tm they got struct

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein-Ligand Crystallization

2015-02-05 Thread John Newitt
Hi Monica, Your Tm results don't suggest any binding of your ligand to the protein. Your ligand concentrations are quite high so I am not convinced of even weak binding. The destabilization that you are seeing at the highest concentration may be due to ligand precipitation causing protein denat

Re: [ccp4bb] Superposition of select residues

2015-02-05 Thread Zhijie Li
Hi Oarabile, Coot allows you to align structures by selected atoms: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/Personal/pemsley/coot/docs/coot-faq.html#How-do-I-do-a-superposition-on-just-a-part-of-my-structure_003f I guess what you are trying to do can be accomplished by the “multi-range LSQ superposition”

Re: [ccp4bb] Superposition of select residues

2015-02-05 Thread Kgosisejo, Oarabile
Dear Andrew, Thank you very much for the detailed instructions. I am downloading it Best Regards, Oarabile M. Kgosisejo o.kgosis...@usask.ca From: Andrew Orry [a...@molsoft.com] Sent: February 5, 2015 4:57 PM To: Kgosisejo, Oarabile; CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject

Re: [ccp4bb] Superposition of select residues

2015-02-05 Thread Andrew Orry
The free ICM-Browser from MolSoft can do this - http://www.molsoft.com/icm_browser.html It will calculate the Ca-atom, backbone and heavy atom differences between multiple structures and superimpose. To do this: 1. Download and install ICM-Browser here (Win, Mac or Linux) http://www.molsoft.c

Re: [ccp4bb] Superposition of select residues

2015-02-05 Thread holdenj
The program chimera will align homologous structures from which you can generate a sequence alignment (based on the structural alignment) http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/matchalign/matchalign.html ~JH On 05.02.2015 14:41, Kgosisejo, Oarabile wrote: Hi all, Does anyo

[ccp4bb] Superposition of select residues

2015-02-05 Thread Kgosisejo, Oarabile
Hi all, Does anyone know of a program to use to superpose only selected protein residues, e.g. enzyme active site residues. I solved my structure using molecular replacement now I want to compare its active site to those of homologous structures. I have used the DALI server before but I had to

[ccp4bb] 2nd Announcement and etc - the 5th Winter School on Soft X-rays in MX

2015-02-05 Thread Bi-Cheng Wang
Posted on behalf of the Organizing Committee: John Rose and Bi-Cheng Wang (University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.) Manfred Weiss (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Berlin, Germany) Christoph Mueller-Dieckmann (ESRF, Grenoble, France)2nd Announcement and New Additions to

Re: [ccp4bb] proton scattering by X-rays

2015-02-05 Thread Alexandre OURJOUMTSEV
Dear Jacob, there was a nice small computation project by Anne Bochow published in the CCP4 Newsletters (2005), http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/newsletters/newsletter42/content.html, communication 9, illustrating how strong and how confusing the ripples may be indeed; if you want I may send it yo

Re: [ccp4bb] proton scattering by X-rays

2015-02-05 Thread Pavel Afonine
> What about the bogey of Fourier truncation ripples--I have heard many have > been fooled by the into thinking they were seeing orbitals. How does one > tell the difference? Indeed, there are such dangers. Hints are here: On the possibility of observation of valence electron density for individ

Re: [ccp4bb] proton scattering by X-rays

2015-02-05 Thread Keller, Jacob
What about the bogey of Fourier truncation ripples--I have heard many have been fooled by the into thinking they were seeing orbitals. How does one tell the difference? JPK -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Phil Jeffrey Sent: Thurs

Re: [ccp4bb] proton scattering by X-rays

2015-02-05 Thread Phil Jeffrey
Mark, In the small-molecule crystal structures I work with it's relatively common to see localized difference electron density along covalent bonds or in the places you'd expect to see lone pairs during refinement after you've fit and modeled the atoms reasonably well and the phases are prett

Re: [ccp4bb] proton scattering by X-rays

2015-02-05 Thread Bernhard Rupp
This may be useful reading on charge density crystallography: http://journals.iucr.org/a/issues/1998/05/00/by0157/by0157.pdf I like the phrase ‘gourmet crystallographers’ Best, BR From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Mark van der Woerd Sent: Thursday, Februa

Re: [ccp4bb] proton scattering by X-rays

2015-02-05 Thread Mark van der Woerd
Not very well. When you look in the originally quoted article, there is really not much difference in the ED for H+ and H- (which are conveniently both shown in Fig 2). You build a model that is consistent with 'book knowledge' (i.e. normal hydrogen has only one bond) and take it from there. Y

Re: [ccp4bb] proton scattering by X-rays

2015-02-05 Thread Mark van der Woerd
Hi Peter, Try to think of it as a quantum chemist: What you call H+ is not "H+ floating in space". They are hydrogens bound to the rest of the structure by means of electrons. These electrons can be described by wave functions, which relate to probabilities where they (electrons) might be. If

Re: [ccp4bb] off topic pymol

2015-02-05 Thread Horrell, Sam
Hi Almudena, Have a look in your PDB file in the second to last colum, if it looks something like the example below then delete the As from the fine and it should connect up. I've had this before, not sure where it came from but removing it fixed the problem. ATOM371 CA PRO A 48 -11

Re: [ccp4bb] Resolve Domain Sequence Ambiguities

2015-02-05 Thread Dom Bellini
Did you try ShelxE autotrace? At that resolution it should work nicely, or at least be able to distinguish between the two sequences. D -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Keller, Jacob Sent: 05 February 2015 15:49 To: ccp4bb Subject:

Re: [ccp4bb] Resolve Domain Sequence Ambiguities

2015-02-05 Thread Keller, Jacob
Sorry--should have included a bit more info: A huge caveat: data is tetartohedrally twinned, which makes everything an issue. But, I have managed to get Rfree down to ~32% in refmac with intensity-based twin refinement. I know--R's with de-twinning are illusory, but I still think it's solved, s

Re: [ccp4bb] Resolve Domain Sequence Ambiguities

2015-02-05 Thread Gabor Bunkoczi
Hi Jacob, I would superpose domain B onto each domain A in turn, and run refinement in Phaser. If the LLG goes up, exchange that domain A for a domain B, otherwise keep. This requires 14 refinement calculations. This procedure may not give you what you are hoping for if your models are dista

Re: [ccp4bb] Resolve Domain Sequence Ambiguities

2015-02-05 Thread Dom Bellini
Dear Jacob, Are you sure your MR solution is correct? What is your resolution? Best, D -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Keller, Jacob Sent: 05 February 2015 15:21 To: ccp4bb Subject: [ccp4bb] Resolve Domain Sequence Ambiguities H

[ccp4bb] Resolve Domain Sequence Ambiguities

2015-02-05 Thread Keller, Jacob
Hi All, I have 14 identical domains placed in my ASU with reasonable MR scores, but the problem is that there should really be 7+7 or 8+8 of domains A and B (which are structurally similar). Can anyone think of a great and easy way of resolving the ambiguity? I was thinking potentially: -chan

[ccp4bb] Protein-Ligand Crystallization

2015-02-05 Thread Monica Mittal
Hi all, I am working to crystallize a protein-ligand complex. I did a preliminary melting curve analysis for the protein in the absence and presence of 2 ligands (dissolved in protein buffer). I kept the other controls as buffer an a known standard to confirm instrument performance. All expts done

Re: [ccp4bb] Bulk solvent correction in Phaser MR LF

2015-02-05 Thread Alexandre OURJOUMTSEV
Hi, Bernhard, ok, sure, you are right ! Nevertheless, I would not be so desperate and categorical: you are right , at my knowledge also, there is currently NO known algorithm to take into account the "flat mask bulk solvent contribution" at the rotation step (maybe I am wrong?), however this do

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[ccp4bb] absolute-scale and noise maps

2015-02-05 Thread Isabel Garcia-Saez
Dear all, I do apologize for the slightly off-topic subject but, how could you calculate ccp4 absolute-scale and noise maps in ccp4?. Basically I need e/A3 and noise maps to discard that some maps contoured at certain sigmas are not just noise. I do know END/RAPID, but I have some proble