Dear Careina, Please make sure that your crystals are protein or salt, possibly using Izit dye.Note: there is no correlation so far hypothesized on the diffraction of ugly / beautiful / needle / plate type crystals....I believe!
With best regardsS.M.Jaimohan PhD On Tuesday, 14 August, 2018, 7:21:09 PM IST, ferrer <jean-luc.fer...@ibs.fr> wrote: On 14/08/2018 12:27, Careina Edgooms wrote: Cryoprotectant was 50% PEG just added to the buffer that it crystallised in. It crystallised under batch. which kind of batch plate ? Some are not suitable to in situ. JL On Tuesday, August 14, 2018, 12:11:17 PM GMT+2, Hughes, Jon <jon.hug...@bot3.bio.uni-giessen.de> wrote: maybe it's the cryobuffer that's the problem (you didn't mention it). you could try to fish the crystals with minimal liquid attached by mounting them in oil rather than a cryobuffer. or you could test the native diffraction "in situ" (at room temperature in the drop): quite a few beamlines offer this possibility these days. best jon Von: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] Im Auftrag von Careina Edgooms Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. August 2018 11:59 An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Betreff: [ccp4bb] crystals that dont diffract :( :( I got the most beautiful crystals I have ever seen and they don't diffract at all. Not poor diffraction, NO diffraction. Anyone know why this could be and how I can go about fixing it? I had three beautiful crystals and not one diffracted. I did leave them in the drop for about 3 weeks before harvesting and in liquid nitrogen for about a month before diffracting. Could that be a factor? If I regrew more beautiful crystals and diffracted straight away could that help? Careina To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 -- -------------------------------- Jean-Luc Ferrer Institut de Biologie Structurale 71 Avenue des Martyrs CS 10090 38044 Grenoble Cedex 9 - FRANCE Ph.: +33 (0)4 57 42 85 22 Cell: +33 (0)6 89 45 13 57 email: jean-luc.fer...@ibs.fr -------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1