Re: [ccp4bb] polarizer

2020-08-16 Thread Alexander Aleshin
Ethan, Thank you for describing existence of two types of polarizers. I use two crystal imagers/incubators, a smaller machine is easy to adjust to compensate for birefringence of plastic plates/covers, another is more capricious and the compensation is uneven over a plate. Company engineers

Re: [ccp4bb] Regarding difference in ITC and structure data

2020-08-02 Thread Alexander Aleshin
Hi Monika, Philippe is right, ITC can detect only binding with -dH > ~0.3 kcal/mole (depends on instrument). If the binding is Entropy driven, i.e. TdS >> -dH, than Kd might be quite low, like 20 uM, but ITC would still not detect it (this often happens in mutants). You can try to optimize

Re: [ccp4bb] Hydrogens in PDB File

2020-03-02 Thread Alexander Aleshin
AfbrxxY%3Dreserved=0 Thomas > On Mar 2, 2020, at 7:12 PM, Alexander Aleshin wrote: > > Dear Dale, > You raised a very important issue that has been overly ignored by the crystallographic community. The riding hydrogens are just a tip of an iceberg. It is absolutel

Re: [ccp4bb] Hydrogens in PDB File

2020-03-02 Thread Alexander Aleshin
Dear Dale, You raised a very important issue that has been overly ignored by the crystallographic community. The riding hydrogens are just a tip of an iceberg. It is absolutely unclear even to an experienced crystallographer how to treat poorly ordered side chains or even whole residues. As a

Re: [ccp4bb] Hydrogens in PDB File

2020-02-28 Thread Alexander Aleshin
because the Depositor refinement statistics would differ from that calculated from the submitted structure missing the hydrogens. Regards, Alex From: Diana Tomchick Date: Friday, February 28, 2020 at 12:34 PM To: Alexander Aleshin Cc: CCP4 Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Hydrogens in PDB File [EXTERNAL

Re: [ccp4bb] Cleaved peptide density!

2015-04-20 Thread Alexander Aleshin
Dipankar, It is possible that the peptide was cleaved by other proteases present in the soaking solution as impurities. The crystallized protein simply selected that fragment that binds the best. You can try soaking with a lower amount of the peptide (use a smaller drop and concentration).

[ccp4bb] Calculating anomalous Fourier maps

2014-08-29 Thread Alexander Aleshin
Could anyone remind me how to calculate anomalous difference Fourier maps using model-calculated phases? I was doing it by (1) calculating PHcalc from a pdb file using Sfall, then (2) merging PHcalc with Dano of experimental SFs, then (3) calculating a map with Dano and PHcalc using FFT

Re: [ccp4bb] Removing PEG3350

2014-08-20 Thread Alexander Aleshin
with large hard to express proteins. Best of luck, Remie On Aug 19, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Alexander Aleshin aales...@sanfordburnham.orgmailto:aales...@sanfordburnham.org wrote: Remie, Actually, concentrating of a protein solution is not the best approach to removing low MW impurities, gel filtration

Re: [ccp4bb] Removing PEG3350

2014-08-20 Thread Alexander Aleshin
I meant application of GF as an ion exchange column. Oh, my goodness! Ion exchange is something else! It should read buffer-exchange = desalting column. On Aug 20, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Alexander Aleshin wrote: Dear Remie, I meant application of GF as an ion exchange column. You can use special ion

Re: [ccp4bb] Removing PEG3350

2014-08-20 Thread Alexander Aleshin
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Re: [ccp4bb] Removing PEG3350

2014-08-20 Thread Alexander Aleshin
, efficiency of molecules separation by a concentrator is hard to describe quantitatively. On Aug 20, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Lieh Yoon Low wrote: I agree with Alex and Roger. Just a matter of choosing the right SEC column. Ray Lieh Yoon Low On Aug 20, 2014, at 4:56 PM, Alexander Aleshin aales

Re: [ccp4bb] Removing PEG3350

2014-08-20 Thread Alexander Aleshin
that can handle a few ml volume. Ray Lieh Yoon Low On Aug 20, 2014, at 6:38 PM, Alexander Aleshin aales...@sanfordburnham.org wrote: I agree with Alex and Roger. But my mentioning of plates number for a concentrator was an act of stupidity! I bet it is possible to introduce

Re: [ccp4bb] Removing PEG3350

2014-08-19 Thread Alexander Aleshin
Remie, Actually, concentrating of a protein solution is not the best approach to removing low MW impurities, gel filtration chromatography is more reliable and ... faster. Regards, Alex On Aug 19, 2014, at 7:03 AM, Remie Fawaz-Touma wrote: Hi Reza, I had to do this before. This protocol

Re: [ccp4bb] largest protein crystal ever grown?

2013-10-25 Thread Alexander Aleshin
crystal which weighted between 0.5 - 1.0 kg. It grew suspend on a mountain boots shoelace of the read colour. Sounds like a crystallographic legend, beautiful but never achievable… Happy Halloween! Alexander Aleshin Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute La Jolla, California On Oct 25

[ccp4bb] Why nobody comments about the Nobel committee decision?

2013-10-09 Thread Alexander Aleshin
Sorry for a provocative question, but I am surprised why nobody comments/congratulations laureates with regard to recently awarded Nobel prizes? However, one of laureates in chemistry contributed to a popular method in computational crystallography. CHARMM - XPLOR - CNS - PHENIX-… Alex

Re: [ccp4bb] SOLVED a problem when using NOMACHINE Player from OSX 10.7.4

2013-09-19 Thread Alexander Aleshin
Thanks to everyone responded! I tried the advices of Pierre Aller (command xrandr -s 18 in the remote machine terminal) and Scott Classen (control+option+0 in the remote machine window). Both approaches worked. Regards, Alexander Aleshin Staff scientist Sanford-Burnham Medical Research

[ccp4bb] a problem when using NOMACHINE Player from OSX 10.7.4

2013-09-18 Thread Alexander Aleshin
. As a result I can see only a half of it. Does anybody know how to fix this problem? Alexander Aleshin

Re: [ccp4bb] refinement protein structure

2013-03-27 Thread Alexander Aleshin
But the amount of time spent on turning a protein into a publishable structural data is pretty much same, if not larger. There are no low hanging fruits any more. On Mar 27, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Frank von Delft wrote: Is it too much to dream that Tom has set a trail-blazing precedent and

Re: [ccp4bb] statistical or systematic? bias or noise?

2013-03-13 Thread Alexander Aleshin
On Mar 13, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Ed Pozharski wrote: But what if I only have one measurement worth of sample? Is it proper to use statistical analysis for a single measurement? I thought statistics, by definition, means multiple measurements. Alex

Re: [ccp4bb] statistical or systematic? bias or noise?

2013-03-13 Thread Alexander Aleshin
of observation is too small to say for sure, with n=1 being the ultimate too small. (Maybe not ultimate, n=0 is really too small.) Mark -Original Message- From: Alexander Aleshin aales...@sanfordburnham.orgmailto:aales...@sanfordburnham.org To: CCP4BB CCP4BB

[ccp4bb] Crystal imaging system

2008-01-09 Thread Alexander Aleshin
crystallization robots out in the market that are good? Thanks in advance, Regards, Madhavi Alexander Aleshin, PhD The Burnham Institute San Diego, CA

Re: [ccp4bb] The importance of USING our validation tools

2007-08-19 Thread Alexander Aleshin
I do not think the small molecule approach proposed by George Sheldrick is sufficient for validation of protein structures, as misrepresentation of experimental statistics/resolution is hard to detect with it, and these factors appear to play crucial role in defining the fate of many hot