Re: [ccp4bb] Problem with peakmax

2021-06-08 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
echo “keyword1 arguments\nkeyword2 arguments\n etc. \nEND” | peakmax MAPIN myfile.ccp4 XYZOUT myfiles_omit_atom.pdb should work as well Thierry From: CCP4 bulletin board On Behalf Of Philip D. Jeffrey Sent: Tuesday, June 8, 2021 2:16 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Problem

Re: [ccp4bb] Unmodeled density

2021-05-26 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Public If the large “blob” sits on a 2-fold crystallographic axis then its occupancy is ½. So one possible interpretation is: * A cation present on the 2-fold axis, occupancy 0.5 * Waters next to the cation position, also with occupancy 0.5, even if they are not on the 2-fold: the

Re: [ccp4bb] Fluka-branded PEG 3000

2021-03-22 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Proprietary Commenting on Patrick’s message: (snip) might also consider that PEGs are notorious for impurities of various types; perhaps the Fluka reagent has less of an impurity that is particularly vexing for your specific protein. Of course, I suppose it might have more of a particular

Re: [ccp4bb] Tiny rocks on my CX100 shipping dewar

2020-12-04 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
We’ve had issues with the adsorbent material inside a dewar peeling out as small particles but they were white in color. Not sure it’s the same. If the dewar is defective the stuff will ultimately find its way to and gum up the goniohead motors, so it’s important to address this. Thierry

Re: [ccp4bb] real real-space-refinement

2020-07-31 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Jim wrote: "technically, not in Phenix either. The real-space refinement in Phenix simply picks peaks in the density and then pulls nearby atoms toward them. . Like a black hole gobbling up nearby planets (snip)" Do you have a reference to support this assertion? "It took me a while to realize

Re: [ccp4bb] Sad News

2020-07-19 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
It’s with much sadness that I learn of Ward’s passing. To add to Bob’s message: Ward was elected as Chair of the IMCA’s supervisory Board. He lead us through some difficult decisions, and always with a great sense of humor Thierry > On Jul 18, 2020, at 7:36 AM, Sweet, Robert >

Re: [ccp4bb] Molecular replacement problem

2020-06-18 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
It may be worth trying rigid body-refinement of the solution, using two rigid bodies, one per monomer, if you haven’t tried already. Then perform positional refinement. When refining with the original sequence, first remember that R/Rfree are bound to be and stay high with at most 25%

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 source code

2020-05-06 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Thank you for making the 7.1 source available ! For those interested, http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/download/index.php#os=src Thierry From: CCP4 bulletin board On Behalf Of Fischmann, Thierry Sent: Monday, May 4, 2020 3:26 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] CCP4 source code EXTERNAL

[ccp4bb] CCP4 source code

2020-05-04 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Hello, This question is addressed to the CCP4 staff, but the answer may be of general interest: Do you have a projection for when the 7.1 source code will be available? Is there a way to access the source code for 7.0 in the mean time? Of course it is understood that the source code

Re: [ccp4bb] Change map handedness

2020-04-01 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Also if you have Chimera installed: http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/pipermail/chimera-users/2011-December/006999.html Thierry From: CCP4 bulletin board On Behalf Of Eleanor Dodson Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 9:00 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Change map handedness EXTERNAL

Re: [ccp4bb] What resolution - X-ray diffraction round this time

2020-02-28 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
We should demand that the wwpdb discards all entries that do not satisfy the “the criteria of I/SigI > 5 and Rmerge <50%” good practical reference”  . That’s probably a majority of them. And of course all associated pubs should be retracted, to be consistent with the referee’s attitude of

[ccp4bb] Tom Steitz

2018-10-10 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
It is with a heavy heart that I pass along these news. Tom Steitz passed away yesterday afternoon. Thierry Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck & Co., Inc. (2000 Galloping Hill Road, Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA 07033), and/or its affiliates

Re: [ccp4bb] crystals that don’t diffract :( :(

2018-08-14 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
It does happen that “beautiful” crystals have no diffraction. Here is an example : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022283691906078 In my experience, crystals are fairly stable. But not always: crystals of human endothelial nitric oxide synthase or inducible nitric oxide

[ccp4bb] Senior Scientist position available at MSD

2017-11-07 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
A position for a X-ray macromolecular crystallographer at the Senior Scientist level has been advertised by Merck, Sharp & Dohme (MSD). We are seeking a scientist with extensive experience in all steps of protein crystallization and structure determination. The candidate must be able to work

Re: [ccp4bb] Validity of Modeling of Highly flexible region at low sigma levels

2015-05-27 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Here is another observation regarding the subject of which rms value is more sensible to review a structure. The purpose of the calculation described below was to determine the optimum e- density value for rejecting waters. The principle of the test was very simple : waters were added using

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein precipitation

2015-05-19 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
The information about of the cleavage site can be used in two ways : possibly identify the protease - as it has already been suggested - or introduce a mutation at the cleavage site which would prevent clipping from occurring. The caveat of introducing a mutation is that there is always the

Re: [ccp4bb] 3BDN, 16.5% Ramachandran Outliers!!!!!

2015-04-23 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Elaborating on Phoebe's answer, the question to ask is : is the structure good enough to support the conclusions reached in the paper ? That is, quoting the abstract : an unusual overall architecture that allows it to adopt a conformation that appears to facilitate pairwise cooperative binding

Re: [ccp4bb] XDS Processing with Translated Detector and Radiation Sensitive Crystals

2015-04-16 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
- Regarding very low or very large unit cell after indexing in HKL2000 : This behavior can be triggered by having either too many reflections (too many increases the chance that some are artefacts which are going to misled the indexing), or too few, respectively. Editing the peak search

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallization of a minority fraction monomers

2015-04-08 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1319 Office: (517) 355-9724 Lab: (517) 353-9125 FAX: (517) 353-9334Email: rmgarav...@gmail.commailto:garav...@gmail.com On Apr 8, 2015, at 10:52 AM, Fischmann, Thierry

Re: [ccp4bb] Crystallization of a minority fraction monomers

2015-04-08 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Some counter-arguments to Michael : There is an outside force doing the work: macromolecule crystallization except rare exceptions is driven by competition for water molecules between the macromolecule and the precipitant. The exceptions are crystallization against low salt buffer, in which

Re: [ccp4bb] how to dump diffraction image header info?

2014-12-01 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
One can use the strings command to show the header: strings myimage.cbf Thierry -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of herman.schreu...@sanofi.com Sent: Monday, December 01, 2014 7:40 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] AW:

Re: [ccp4bb] Intergrown crystals

2014-01-22 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
There is no magic bullet, but the following may help: - Crystal growth at various temperatures - Additive screen (such as Hampton Research screen) - Detergent screen - Micro-seeding - Looking for another crystal form, with the option of using a

Re: [ccp4bb] Poor electron density in some of the chains in an asymmetric unit

2013-04-29 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
You may also get some insights from TLS refinement. Regards Thierry From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Roger Rowlett Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 12:27 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Poor electron density in some of the chains in an

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: PDB statistics

2013-04-15 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Structures of a protein-ligand complex are often determined without the need of running a molecular replacement program: a difference Fourier is generated to locate the ligand, usually after a few rounds of rigid bodies and / or atom positional refinement.. They may account for many of the

Re: [ccp4bb] compiling refmac5 on Ubuntu 12.04

2013-03-04 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Ed, Are the numerical results the same ? Not likely that there is a problem. But if you haven't done it already it is worth checking by running the tests provided with the suite. Aggressive optimization can be a source of bugs. Best regards Thierry -Original Message- From: CCP4

Re: [ccp4bb] S-nitrosylation protein

2013-02-14 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Collect small slices of data (instead of a complete data set) on several crystals then merge the data together to get a full data set. The slices of must be small enough so that the damage to the S-NO group is still very limited on each slice. You may have to play with beam attenuation a bit,

Re: [ccp4bb] hkl2000 install

2012-11-13 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
It will also look in the directory where you start HKL2000. Thierry -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Dmitry Rodionov Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 11:13 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] hkl2000 install I

Re: [ccp4bb] poorly diffracting and twinned trigonal crystal

2012-09-07 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Just a comment - Your space group is almost certainly P31 2 1. Your scaling statistics results point to this - if your true space group was P31, then your statistics would be noticeably (even dramatically) worse in the higher symmetry space group. I've seen a dramatic counter-example to

Re: [ccp4bb] Somewhat OT: question of professional courtesy

2012-07-25 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
I concur with Mike - If the paper reproduces at least in part a result already published, then the precedent(s) should be referenced (even if the experimental approach is different) - If the paper discusses a previous experimental result or inference from the results of

Re: [ccp4bb] Mercury phenylglyoxal

2012-07-11 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
http://www.thermoscientific.com/ecomm/servlet/productsdetail_11152___13721198_-1 Is this what you're looking for? Thierry Hello all, Could someone please advise me on where to purchase Mercury Phenylglyoxal from? Many thanks, Vijay Vijay S.

Re: [ccp4bb] Ligand fitting into density

2012-04-11 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Dipankar, Herman's message describes the most common case, by far. In addition to his excellent post there are 4 other possibilities which I can think of of why, in general, the e- density may be missing for part of a ligand: - the compound solution are never 100% pure. One impurity may be the

Re: [ccp4bb] On pKa of Aspartic acid

2012-02-07 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Check this review, for instance: Pace, C. et al. Protein Ionizable Groups: pK values and Their Contribution to Protein Stability and Solubility. J. Biol Chem. 284, 13285-13289 (May 15, 2009) Thierry From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK]

Re: [ccp4bb] On pKa of Aspartic acid

2012-02-07 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Oops, you meant catalytic residue. Check the following: Harris TK Turner GJ Structural basis of pertubed pKa values of catalytic groups in enzyme active sites IUBMB life, 53 85-98 (Feb 2002) Thierry From: Fischmann, Thierry Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 10

Re: [ccp4bb] Soaking Kinase Crystals with ATP analogues

2012-02-01 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Dianfan Some kinases have such conformation in non-activated apo form that the ATP binding site is partially obstructed. Soaking an ATP analog may then have 3 outcomes: 1) successfully open up the binding site without damage to the crystal, 2) fail to open up the active site and the compound

Re: [ccp4bb] The stupid/naive question

2011-12-08 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
That's a good question ! Here is my take on it: We are talking of say 5% PEG 2K weight per weight. So 5% PEG 2K and 5% PEG 20K contains ~ the same weight of polymer per liter of solution, and therefore the ~ same molarity of the ethylene oxide motif. Hence neglecting the effect of the ends of

Re: [ccp4bb] How to evaluate Fourier transform ripples

2011-07-06 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Dear Zbyszek Wouldn't ripples be the results of calculating maps with truncated Fourier summations (unavoidably), and, consequently, be more obvious around a sharp feature such as an heavy atom metal center? The mathematic basis can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_phenomenon

Re: [ccp4bb] non-symmetric tetramer ?

2010-07-29 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Here is another example of a tetramer with neither 222 or 4 fold symmetry: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7792597 Thierry -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Vellieux Frederic Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 03:35 AM To:

Re: [ccp4bb] Processing compressed diffraction images?

2010-05-06 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
The results from compressing a diffraction image must vary quite a bit on a case by case basis. I looked into it a long time ago using images from a few datasets from 2 different projects. Compress was quite faster than gzip or bzip2 in these tests. It also delivered the less compression. gzip

Re: [ccp4bb] structure (factor) amplitude

2009-01-12 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
I'll add my 2 calories then. Gerard's new naming carefully avoids the Factor and Amplitude. The following term should get everybody to agree: FA-free STRUDL. Example of politically correct use: It is good practice to deposit your FA-free STRUDL in the Protein Data Bank along with the atomic

[ccp4bb] O/T: can a protein which dimerizes in solution crystallize as a monomer?

2008-12-01 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Dear fellow crystallographers, This is a question which is not CCP4-related. Is anybody aware of a protein which is known to be a dimer in solution (say by SEC), and yet crystallizes as a monomer? Wouldn't the high concentration in the crystallization drop further favor dimerization?

Re: [ccp4bb] O/T: can a protein which dimerizes in solution crystallize as a monomer?

2008-12-01 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
, for the presence of PEG. Thierry From: Patrick Loll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 05:59 PM To: Fischmann, Thierry Cc: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] O/T: can a protein which dimerizes in solution crystallize as a monomer? depends on the crystallization

Re: [ccp4bb] losing zinc during crystallization

2008-09-26 Thread Fischmann, Thierry
Loss of a zinc at a dimer interface, triggered by formation of a disulfide bridge across the interface has already been observed for nitric oxide synthase. The 1st reported structure had the disulfide bridge: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/279/5359/2121 But 2 other groups