Have you mass-speced the protein before crystallization to make sure it wasn’t derivatized during expression and/or purification, or compared the mass spec of the crystals verses purified protein? Any fancy reagents or other reductants used during purification? What about S-Acetyl-cysteine (3-letter code: SCY).
Best, Dan Daniel A Bonsor PhD. Sundberg Lab Institute of Human Virology University of Maryland, Baltimore 725 W Lombard Street N370 Baltimore Maryland MD 21201 Tel: (410) 706-7457 From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Lumbini Yadav Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2019 5:22 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Fo-Fc density close to cysteine residue Dear all, We have found a huge Fo-Fc density close to cysteine residue (see attached image) in the structure with resolution of 1.2A. In the crystallization condition, we have PEG 3350, Potassium phosphate monobasic, glycerol and protein was in Tris and NaCl. Before freezing the crystals were soaked in mother liquor containing sodium dithionite. I have tried different modified cysteine (CSX, CSO, OCS, CME, CSS, SNC, CSD, CXM, SCH, CSU) from the library and also SO3, SO2 and peroxide. But in all the screenings we do see some part of Fo-Fc density unaddressed at 3 sigma. Does anyone have an idea about what this density could be? Covalent modification? Thanks. Kind regards, Lumbini ________________________________ 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
