[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] move ligand to fit the density in coot

2013-10-08 Thread Danilo Belviso
Dear Wei, It seems that coot detects some discrepancies between cif file and your ligand. It is not uncommon that the program used to generate your ligand pdb produces atom definitions that are not correctly read by programs used to generate restrains, such as PRODRG. In order to overcome the

Re: [ccp4bb] Staining Crystals with comassie

2013-10-16 Thread Danilo Belviso
Dear All, izit dye is a solution containing methylene blue that you could prepare in your lab. I usually prepare a solution of 0.05%w/v of dye in water and then I add a volume of dye solution equals to 10% of the volume of the drop containing the crystal to test. I prefer to add the dye solut

Re: [ccp4bb] Staining Crystals with comassie

2013-10-16 Thread Danilo Belviso
Dear Swastik, izit dye is a solution containing methylene blue that you could prepare in your lab. I usually prepare a solution of 0.05%w/v of dye in water and then I add a volume of dye solution equals to 10% of the volume of the drop containing the crystal to test. I prefer to add the dye s

[ccp4bb] R-factor for radiation damage (R_d)

2013-10-17 Thread Danilo Belviso
Dear all, I am using xds (with graphical interface xdsgui) to process several diffraction data of a membrane protein that I have crystallized. At the end, I run XDSSTAT in order to check the statistic parameters of the process and my attention is captured by the R_d plot: R_d drops during the

Re: [ccp4bb] changes in small sections of secondary structure

2013-10-21 Thread Danilo Belviso
Dear Mahesh, In addition to RMSD plots, you could try to quantitatively analyse the protein residue flexibility in order to detect backbone conformational transitions by means of the method proposed in: Local Fluctuations and Conformational Transitions in Proteins Rocco Caliandro, Giulia Ross

Re: [ccp4bb] crystals with large solvent content -dehydratation

2013-10-29 Thread Danilo Belviso
Dear Andre, you could try with the protocol described in the following paper Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2013 69,920-3. Using high-throughput in situ plate screening to evaluate the effect of dehydration on protein crystals. Douangamath A, Aller P, Lukacik P, Sanchez-Weatherby J, Morae

[ccp4bb] Ligandfit - problem with ligand_start

2013-11-25 Thread Danilo Belviso
Dear all, I am working on a membrane protein covalently bound to a molecular antanna: it is known that this molecule binds to lysine residue but I do not know how many and which lysine residues it binds. 20 diffraction datasets of this protein-ligand complex have been obtained and now, I wo

Re: [ccp4bb] Unidentified blob

2013-12-12 Thread Danilo Belviso
Dear Afshan, Maybe what I suggest you have already tried: have you tried to fit a citrate molecule? The blob seems to be branched, thus compatible with such organic molecule. Danilo On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 03:34:07 -0800, Afshan Begum wrote: Dear Experts, I collected a data set (1.12A) of on

Re: [ccp4bb] program for protein - RNA docking

2014-01-08 Thread Danilo Belviso
Dear Rongjin, I think that HADDOCK (http://www.nmr.chem.uu.nl/haddock/) is the best solution for your requests. Danilo On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 16:36:43 -0500, rjguan wrote: Dear All, We have a RNA binding protein with structure known. We want to dock a RNA molecule to the protein structure, and

Re: [ccp4bb] density near Histidine

2014-03-08 Thread Danilo Belviso
Hello, it is not the first time that I see such electron densities near to His residue. However, in my structures (3N30, 3N32), I was sure that Zn, Pt or other metals were present in the crystallization condition. You have tried to refine with Zn rather than Mg that seems to be present in the

Re: [ccp4bb] Refinement with new ligands to PDB

2014-04-01 Thread Danilo Belviso
Dear Meisam, In the past I had similar problems, because of jligand and other cif generators can make errors when generate cif files, as it has been written before. I have solved these problems by using sketcher (ccp4) and PRODRG server (http://davapc1.bioch.dundee.ac.uk/cgi-bin/prodrg). I u

Re: [ccp4bb] error xds

2014-04-01 Thread Danilo Belviso
Dear Almudena, You can try to run XDS with 300 frames. At the end, you have to open the file called INTEGRATE.LP and copy the refined value of REFLECTING_RANGE= REFLECTING_RANGE_E.S.D.= BEAM_DIVERGENCE=BEAM_DIVERGENCE_E.S.D.= at the end of your XDS.INP. Now, you can re-run XDS with all

Re: [ccp4bb] ligand mismathces in pdb deposit

2014-09-14 Thread Danilo Belviso
Dear Bing Wang, To solve your problem, you may try to take a eme ligand directly from a PDB that contains it, e.g. 1HRC. You should download the PDB file and to copy and paste the ligand coordinates in a new file and then use this new pdb file to refine your structure. It could be a good s

[ccp4bb] calculation of cavities within crystal protein

2012-08-09 Thread Danilo Belviso
Dear all, I am Dr. Danilo Belviso and I am working on a platinum-based inhibitor for matrix-metallo proteasis. I have obtained the crystal structure of the adduct Pt/protein and, for me, would be very interesting to know the cavities of the protein within the crystal, namely by considering

[ccp4bb] restrain range for ligand

2012-10-15 Thread Danilo Belviso
Hi! Does anybody know which is the range is used by REFMAC to vary bond distances, angles, and torsions of a ligand molecule during a refinement process? Is it possible to control and choose this range? In which way? Where are these information in cif dictionary obtained by sketcher in CCP4? t

[ccp4bb] CC calculation by OVERLAPMAP and PHENIX.GET_CC_MTZ_PDB

2013-04-09 Thread Danilo Belviso
Hello everybody, I am working with a protein that should be covalently bound to an organic ligand and I would calculate the correlation coefficient of this ligand both against 2Fo-Fc and Fo-Fc map arising from refining (map calculated in the presence of ligand). To do this, I am using OVERLA

[ccp4bb] "From Gene to Protein Crystal Structure" School - 21-24th January and 3-6th March 2020

2019-11-21 Thread Danilo Belviso
As Organizing Committee, we are proud to invite you to the school entitled "From Gene to Protein Crystal Structure" (GeCrySchool2020) that will be held at ELETTRA synchrotron (Basovizza, TS) next year. Below, you will find some information about the school: - Aim of the School: providing the t