Re: [ccp4bb] How to make GDP.BeF3 solution ?

2024-01-05 Thread Pius Padayatti
s item but they used to sell this as well When you get an answer can everyone know here as well best *Pius Padayatti* On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 9:54 AM Firdous Tarique wrote: > Hi > > I would appreciate it if someone could share with me a step by step > protocol for making a stable

Re: [ccp4bb] ILLUSTRATE in PYMOL

2023-08-15 Thread Pius Padayatti
https://pymolwiki.org/index.php/APBS *Pius Padayatti* On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 5:20 PM khaja faisal tarique < khajafaisaltari...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone > > Is there any way to make surface representation of a protein structure > similar to the 'Illustrate:

Re: [ccp4bb] Sad demise of Prof. M. Vijayan, MBU, IISc, India

2022-04-24 Thread Pius Padayatti
a passion and never had a second thought about looking at this abstract art science. With respect to a scientist who want to contribute to India's science and inspired a generation of structural biologists in India RIP. respectfully Padayatti PS. *Pius Padayatti* On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 1:08 AM ASHI

[ccp4bb] Fwd: asking opinion to all friends here

2021-08-17 Thread Pius Padayatti
Hi Bulletin members My question is relatively general regarding some protein engineering The aim is to design a peptide of approx length 25 nm mostly helical in nature that can conduct current. The ends of the peptide have to have some properties that it can bind to metal electrodes

Re: [ccp4bb] Michael Rossmann (1930-2019)

2019-05-14 Thread Pius Padayatti
Heart felt condolences to the loss of a legend padayatti On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 6:12 PM Hasan, Syed Saif wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > > It is with profound sadness that I must announce the passing away of Prof. > Michael Rossmann earlier today on May 14th 2019 in West Lafayette IN. > Michael

[ccp4bb] Fwd: Head of Membrane Protein Science opportunity available at fast-growing biotech company

2019-02-14 Thread Pius Padayatti
Forwarding a job advertisement Please contact the person here copied Lorin -- Forwarded message - From: Lorin Raats Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 6:53 AM Subject: Head of Membrane Protein Science opportunity available at fast-growing biotech company It would be great to get in

Re: [ccp4bb] Co-crystal structure of a USP with small molecule inhibitor

2017-04-20 Thread Pius Padayatti
googled it and there is many more of them in Pubmed by the way if you googles it as UPS and inhibitor you will not find any also who knows what is USP? i hope this is what you looking for Cancer Cell. 2012 Sep 11;22(3):345-58. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2012.08.007. A small molecule inhibitor of

Re: [ccp4bb] R/Rfree values

2016-12-15 Thread Pius Padayatti
26 and 33 tells me you are over fitting your structure the spread is more than 5% If there is a ligand added and it really doesn't look like a good fit i would try work on it (remove it and look at alternatives) When you refine you may use NCS if you have (NCS in your structure) If there is a

[ccp4bb] suggestions for bio-fermentor

2016-11-02 Thread Pius Padayatti
Hi forum Please send suggestions on your favorite fermentor We are looking at New Brunswick BioFlow 415 I know there are many, and that is why wanted to hear the communities picks Thanks in advance Padayatti -- P

Re: [ccp4bb] Interesting DNA contamination

2015-06-25 Thread Pius Padayatti
pramod Do a spin after bacterial cell breaking at 8K to get rid of a nuclear pellet Also there is a nuclease preparation available called benzonase it is most effective when you also add magnesium in your buffer so in your homogenization buffer add magnesium and should avoid any EDTA Pius On Thu,

Re: [ccp4bb] Tev cleavage

2015-05-02 Thread Pius Padayatti
These are the usual culprits My buffers for cleavage and an on-column digestion worked good. (see below) Also most likely your TEV source (do not go cheap) enzyme is inactive (gone bad). Get a clone for TEV and make your own TEV in the lab. It save you a ton of money . 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0)

Re: [ccp4bb] protein quantification with carbohydrates

2015-03-10 Thread Pius Padayatti
The SDS PAGE estimation can be done plus there are some nice glycoportein stains (periodic acid schiffs staining) could be used (if Coomasie staining is a problem) I do not know if the PAS staining is linear to standard staining. but regular staining should work like a charm use bovine rhodopsin

Re: [ccp4bb] Can nucleoprotein complex inhibit EtBr binding?

2015-02-13 Thread Pius Padayatti
Sudipta, the link for the cyanin dyes are at the following link http://www.lifetechnologies.com/us/en/home/references/molecular-probes-the-handbook/nucleic-acid-detection-and-genomics-technology/nucleic-acid-stains.html Sorry for the wrong link P On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Sudipta

Re: [ccp4bb] phosphoprotein crystallization

2015-01-19 Thread Pius Padayatti
an effective modification to your protein preparations would be to add phosphatase inhibitor tablets during all stages of purification. Pierce sell a combination protease and PI tablet that is effective and economical to be added during protein preps. Also you invitro buffers should have

Re: [ccp4bb] capillary counterdiffusion agarose plug

2015-01-05 Thread Pius Padayatti
https://hamptonresearch.com/product_detail.aspx?cid=10sid=65pid=109 Granada box will work for you Thaumatin can be grown to large single crystals suitable size On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Georg Mlynek georg.mly...@univie.ac.at wrote: Dear Colleagues, After reading a few papers about

Re: [ccp4bb] Sokalan CP5 and CP7

2014-12-29 Thread Pius Padayatti
you may buy them from BASF Even sometime back they gave some free samples for experimentation Call them directly Padayatti On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Srinivasan Rengachari 02062d79acb8-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk wrote: Dear all, I recently had a few initial hits for my

[ccp4bb] Monodihydrosterculin

2014-11-25 Thread Pius Padayatti
Hi friends Does anybody have Monodihydrosterculin that can be shared? or anybody can direct to a source to buy Thanks Pius -- P

Re: [ccp4bb] L-Dopa Stabilization?

2014-07-03 Thread Pius Padayatti
levodopa solutions are stable in refrigerator conditions for a day. You make as much you want and prepare fresh everyday. there is no easy ways On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Keller, Jacob kell...@janelia.hhmi.org wrote: Dear Crystallographers, Does anyone have experience with

Re: [ccp4bb] HisTrap Trap

2014-05-19 Thread Pius Padayatti
I worked for several years on mammalian cell expression of extra-cellular domains of single spanning membrane proteins and other membrane proteins. Just like you did when we switched stable lines from serum containing to serum free medium the expression drastically reduced. So after switching to

Re: [ccp4bb] unexplained density

2014-02-03 Thread Pius Padayatti
It looks like a Hepes? Padayatti On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Annemarie Weber annemarie.we...@uni-konstanz.de wrote: Dear all, I am refining a 1.4 A resolution structure and found some well-defined but unfortunately unexplained density. The protein was purified in HEPES buffer with PMSF

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2014-01-22 Thread Pius Padayatti
Hi Venkat, For any protease digestion my best liked method is to try digest while the protein is bound to the column. make sure you know your resin dead volume and incubate in the protease buffer overnight. Just after adding enough volume try to rotate (gently, ideally on a roller bottle) for an

Re: [ccp4bb] A question on crystal optimization

2013-12-26 Thread Pius Padayatti
Hi Brett, Like everyone said best way is to find the crystal is worth pursuing is to find its diffraction. On regular basis observing things in the crystallization drops and wondering what it might mean is a regular exercise during crystallization. And such observations are very valuable to go

Re: [ccp4bb] Purification of a protein

2013-08-26 Thread Pius Padayatti
The polybasic head indicative of your protein to have some possible membrane association? Try a detergent in your buffers might help. Also some of the polybasic head for protein need lipid association to be happy (PI and PCh)? Padayatti On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Jahan Alikhajeh

Re: [ccp4bb] showing electron density on an ipad

2013-05-01 Thread Pius Padayatti
Imolview and ndkmol are excellent apps on android to show structures. Padayatti On May 1, 2013 3:56 PM, David Roberts drobe...@depauw.edu wrote: Hello all, So, I find an ipad is a wonderful device for teaching (any tablet really - but I'm partial to the ipad). I can project it in a

Re: [ccp4bb] Faculty positions at Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bangalore

2012-10-29 Thread Pius Padayatti
This is not a reply to the post by some one called Sham or the original post calling for a faculty position. Everyone here who ever had an experience to be an IIScian and especially any one who been fortunate to experience Molecualr Biophysics Unit will disagree with what was writen about the

Re: [ccp4bb] offtopic: packing gel filtration columns

2012-07-12 Thread Pius Padayatti
ad do not forget to recalibrate On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Zhijie Li zhijie...@utoronto.ca wrote: Hi, Yes, it can be done by yourself. I repacked our 26/60 column a few years ago with homemade apparatus. The column has been working for us since then. Basically the loading apparatus

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic about application of detergent on non-membrane protein crystallization

2012-06-15 Thread Pius Padayatti
beta lactamase cymal 6 and see this reference Guan, R.-J., Wang, M., Liu, X.-Q, Wang, D.-C. Optimization of soluble protein crystallization with

Re: [ccp4bb] zinc with HEPES

2012-05-11 Thread Pius Padayatti
pH is the culprit here Like some already mentioned change your pH to 6.4 and use a different buffer like cacodylate or you can use Zinc acetate in water pH still would be 6.4 from your last mail why would you add Zn to your initial hit condition is there any rationale? Padayatti On Fri, May 11,

Re: [ccp4bb] Off Topic: Sucrose / Glycerol Gradient Maker Fractionator

2012-05-03 Thread Pius Padayatti
In US Fisher Scientific sells CBS scientific , California different ranges of gradient maker. I especially found them useful for my use for density gradient centrifugation. the material used in the manufacture is clear and easy to clean each time. It is kind of not very controlled automatically

Re: [ccp4bb] zinc fingre

2012-04-03 Thread Pius Padayatti
Hi Rajesh, First of all you did the right thing to ask people here about our doubts. There is nothing wrong in asking questions. The board is for asking questions realted to crystallography (all aspects). Padayatti On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Rajesh kumar ccp4...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear

Re: [ccp4bb] OFFTOPIC: Plasmid for fast Baculovirus preparation.

2012-03-22 Thread Pius Padayatti
http://www.lablife.org/p?a=vdb_viewid=g2.XyCli.11qhPxFTK4WFNANgFD.Xc- Is this that you were looking for?(all thanks to google) lablife gives you the whole sequence. make it if you really need it. All the best. Padayatti PS On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Nian Huang huangn...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] FW: endotoxin removal

2012-03-08 Thread Pius Padayatti
This is in response to a comment to this thread Kevin, Could you explain how that worked? How do you know your method worked? Did you estimate the lipopolysaccharide before and after the method? The method already mentioned here to wash using TritonX100 makes sense. by washing bound protein

Re: [ccp4bb] FW: endotoxin removal

2012-03-08 Thread Pius Padayatti
this will work for protein in all of case, but you try in an eppendorf tube like amini-prep. I guess this method may have been  patented. On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Pius Padayatti ppadaya...@gmail.com wrote: This is in response to a comment to this thread Kevin

Re: [ccp4bb] B average lower than Wilson

2012-03-05 Thread Pius Padayatti
Hi, Please see a similar thread at ccp4bb earlier at the following link http://www.proteincrystallography.org/ccp4bb/message16011.html Padayatti 2012/3/5 anna anna marmottalb...@gmail.com: Dear all, I hope you can help me! I solved a structure at 3.0 A res and everything is quite

Re: [ccp4bb] precipitation.

2012-03-01 Thread Pius Padayatti
Rashmi, Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour? Yes, have seen differentially Glycosylated protein samples elute off affinity resins as separate peaks. but not that they behave different on gelfiltration like you described in your case. possible the samples interact with resin Will there be

Re: [ccp4bb] Membrane Protein Crystallization Plates

2012-02-27 Thread Pius Padayatti
Hi i do not want to get into trouble by going against any products The plates what you are talking about as soon it came out we tested. I did not look back to see if there was a monoolein:cholestrol coated plate. The ones i used were for sure monoolein coated ones. That tells it all.The rest of

Re: [ccp4bb] Membrane Protein Crystallization Plates

2012-02-27 Thread Pius Padayatti
QuoteParticulalrly the monoolein and monoolein/cholesterol coated plates ( I am not sure I can mention the vendor here but it should not matter) Since the person who asked this question here forget about it alltogether to write something back here is what he was asking about (i think) Anybody

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Membrane Protein Crystallization Plates

2012-02-26 Thread Pius Padayatti
as well as glass or plastic bases and glass, plastic or film covers. If you have not tested Laminex I would be pleased to send you a sample trial pack. Tony Savill Molecular Dimensions Inc. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Pius

Re: [ccp4bb] Membrane Protein Crystallization Plates

2012-02-25 Thread Pius Padayatti
Hi Yuri, i strongly suggest these plates sold through Hampton research Paul Marienfeld GmbH plates for your use. here is a link , best plates in the market. link: http://hamptonresearch.com/product_detail.aspx?cid=10sid=182pid=611 Plates comes with extra cover slips in addition to single glass

Re: [ccp4bb] Aggregated protein for crystallization

2012-02-22 Thread Pius Padayatti
some more thoughts, Do a cryo-EM imaging, it will be ideal than DLS. if the particle sizes are uniform i would think your protein in that state might be useful. cheers Padayatti On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Raji Edayathumangalam r...@brandeis.edu wrote: Hi Folks, As crazy as it sounds, if

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Aggregated protein for crystallization

2012-02-22 Thread Pius Padayatti
This was meant to Raji, So here it goes to all. -- Forwarded message -- From: Zhang, Zhen zhen_zh...@dfci.harvard.edu Date: Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:15 PM Subject: RE: [ccp4bb] Aggregated protein for crystallization To: Pius Padayatti ppadaya...@gmail.com Hi Pius, I have done

Re: [ccp4bb] Bicelle Crystallization in a Gryphon Robot

2012-02-16 Thread Pius Padayatti
there is one nice JOVE video and article from Jeff Abramson lab which was neat showing using mosquito to set up bicelle. No offense to Art people J Vis Exp. 2012 Jan 9;(59). pii: 3383. doi: 10.3791/3383. High-throughput Crystallization of Membrane Proteins Using the Lipidic Bicelle Method.

Re: [ccp4bb] Why don't small crystals dissolve

2012-02-08 Thread Pius Padayatti
Hi Enricho, The scenario of streak seeding follows Ostwald ripening but will this happen in other situations as follows But in a special case where you have some crystals that appear as large rods which dissolved when taken out of the incubator (or) during the observation( these were

Re: [ccp4bb] Kinase crystallization

2012-01-31 Thread Pius Padayatti
a comment to add about phosphatase (PP2A, C class serine theronine) buying phosphatase for crystallization trials was kind of not practical( very high prices ) so we tried expressing and purify it from overexpressed in bacterium with yields very low. Also the purified phosphtase co-purify some

Re: [ccp4bb] His Purification

2012-01-19 Thread Pius Padayatti
my comment on expression of protein being low and nonspecific binding. Amount of protein of expressed protein less = less resin = less nonspecific binding? (one have to do experiments to find right amount of resin to get least non-specific binding still pull out most of your protein of interest

Re: [ccp4bb] adxv-SOLVED

2011-11-22 Thread Pius Padayatti
Rajesh, The fonts error please follow the guidelines from following link http://www.scripps.edu/~arvai/adxv.html see relevant parts under the heading questions it did solve issues for me cheers psp On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Rajesh kumar ccp4...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear All, All the

Re: [ccp4bb] Seeded rescreening with robot?

2011-10-29 Thread Pius Padayatti
I have few personal remarks about revere matrix seeding protocol suggested here just an addition to Artems suggested protocol harvesting the whole drop of interest invite guaranteed salt crystals in the second round especially if one is using the same screen back. If one found crystals all over

Re: [ccp4bb] how to distinguish between phase separation, spherulite, and microcrystalline?

2011-07-07 Thread Pius Padayatti
jobey, the last two are kind of phase separation. In some cases the oil like droplets are more in number througout the drop. First two are microcrystalline but the second one is more looks like made from protein precipitate. hope this helps if needed please refer to Terese Bergfors website at

Re: [ccp4bb] salt or protein...

2011-05-30 Thread Pius Padayatti
Sorry Jay, They are for sure phosphate crystals. They always looked like that. psp On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Jayashankar s.jayashan...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Friends , I need to know whether phosphate can form hexagon shaped crystals. In one particular condition i have 4 different

Re: [ccp4bb] Jelly-body refinement

2011-04-25 Thread Pius Padayatti
by adding new external keywords as described as in the PDF described by Garib N Murshudov www.ccp4.ac.uk/schools/China-2011/talks/refmac_Shanghai.pdf Padayatti PS On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Zhipu Luo zhipu...@yahoo.com wrote: I know that refmac5 can run Jelly-body refinement for low

Re: [ccp4bb] Processing Laue data

2011-03-01 Thread Pius Padayatti
To all Laue experts up here How does a Laue data is collected? Thanks in advance to all PSP On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:43 AM, REX PALMER rex.pal...@btinternet.comwrote: What programs are available for processing Laue data to produce an intensity data set? Are explanatory notes or

Re: [ccp4bb] Regarding quality of protein for crystallization

2010-09-27 Thread Pius Padayatti
ealrier on this forum Artem have posted about PTM in bacteria. this answer your question on PTM in bacteria. QUOTE Yes, this does happen. Spontaneous α-N-6-Phosphogluconoylation of a His Tag inEscherichia coli:The Cause of Extra Mass of 258 or 178 Da in Fusion Proteins

Re: [ccp4bb] Precipitation of protein-protein complex under most of the crystallization condition

2010-04-29 Thread Pius Padayatti
a most approapriate paper for the method that i described earlier is in the following paper. Follow the link Optimum solubility (OS) screening: an efficient method to optimize buffer conditions for homogeneity and crystallization of proteins

Re: [ccp4bb] how to make cholesterol solution

2010-04-20 Thread Pius Padayatti
if you are crystallizing membrane protein here is a useful protocol from JCIPMT website follow the link http://jcimpt.scripps.edu/protocols/JCIMPT_PreparationofCHSStock.pdf in my experience even after extensive sonication i filter the buffers otherwise we found that cholestrol comes out of

Re: [ccp4bb] Mysterious Crystals?

2010-04-20 Thread Pius Padayatti
could try reverse matrix seed On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:46 PM, tat cheung cheng theif...@yahoo.com.hk wrote: Hi all, I have got some crystals, the purified protein was in Tris buffer with 300mM NaCl for crystallization. they grew in light weight PEG, PEG400 or monomethyl ethyl PEG500,

Re: [ccp4bb] Devices Suitable to Concentrate Protein Solutions in Liter Scale

2009-09-06 Thread Pius Padayatti
may be diafiltration devices might work for you. the membranes are kind of expensive but we had used this effectively to reduce the volume of cell culture media where we had secreted proteins in large volumes of culture media. here is a link http://www.spectrapor.com/lit/hfdial.pdf padayatti On

Re: [ccp4bb] Devices Suitable to Concentrate Protein Solutions in Liter Scale

2009-09-06 Thread Pius Padayatti
may be diafiltration devices might work for you. the membranes are kind of expensive but we had used this effectively to reduce the volume of cell culture media where we had secreted proteins in large volumes of culture media. here is a link http://www.spectrapor.com/lit/hfdial.pdf padayatti On

Re: [ccp4bb] deglycosylation of proteins expressed in mammalian cells at room temperature or lower

2009-06-02 Thread Pius Padayatti
will work fine but leave overnight. psp On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Jerry McCully for-crystallizai...@hotmail.com wrote: Dear All:    Recent we expressed one protein using mammalian cells but this protein was highly glycosylated (30% of the total molecular weight).    We want to

Re: [ccp4bb] Request recommendation for the peptide synthesis company

2009-06-01 Thread Pius Padayatti
ping, we had great success as far as price and level of synthesis with a company called Synbiosci, Livermore, CA. I am no way connected to this company but just a suggestion. hope it helps psp On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:31 AM, ping sun ccp4@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I would appreciate if

[ccp4bb] bacculovirus pellet service

2009-05-01 Thread Pius Padayatti
Hello fellow members of the forum, Protein expression related question. We need some recomendations for a reliable and quality service for production of bacculovirus pellet in bulk. people can send private email me. Thanks for the attention. Padayatti PS -- Pius S Padayatti Phone: 216-658-4528

Re: [ccp4bb] Van der Waals Interaction Distances

2009-02-20 Thread Pius Padayatti
Here is the original article. Distinction between the weak hydrogen bond and the van der Waals interaction Thomas Steiner*a and Gautam R. Desiraju* Chem. Commun., 1998 891-892 On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Pius Padayatti ppadaya...@gmail.com wrote: Table 1 Numerical data for X–H···Y contacts

Re: [ccp4bb] Van der Waals Interaction Distances

2009-02-19 Thread Pius Padayatti
Table 1 Numerical data for X–H···Y contacts with H···Y 3.0 Å (2.7 Å for H···H contacts). Data for normalised H-atom positions MeanMeanMean Contact typeNumber H···Y (Å) X···Y (Å) X–H···Y (°) C(sp3)–O–H···ONC33301.974(6)

Re: [ccp4bb] suggestions for UV spectrometer

2008-12-08 Thread Pius Padayatti
nanodrop system is wonderful. it helps very much in solutions with high interference from detergents etc etc. i highly receommend nanodrop specs PSP On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Tim Gruene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, we would like to purchase a UV spectrometer for measuring

Re: [ccp4bb] insect expression system

2008-05-28 Thread Pius Padayatti
Hi, It is called Bacmam. Please see the following reference, it is not the land mark reference, if you dig pubmed you should be able to find the first description of the system. BacMam recombinant baculovirus in transporter expression: a study of BCRP and OATP1B1. Protein Expr Purif. 2006

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: General rule for maximum flow rate for affinity column?

2008-03-05 Thread Pius Padayatti
dollins, I do have an excellent reference for you to read J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2002 Mar 25;769(1):133-44. Strategies for the purification and on-column cleavage of glutathione-S-transferase fusion target proteins.Dian C, Eshaghi S, Urbig T, McSweeney S, Heijbel A, Salbert