[ccp4bb] BEAMTIME AT SLS X06SA and X06DA

2008-02-08 Thread Clemens Schulze-Briese
= SYNCHROTRON BEAM TIME FOR MACROMOLECULAR CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AT THE UNDULATOR BEAMLINE X06SA AND THE SUPERBENDING MAGNET BEAMLINE X06DA AT SLS FROM MAY - AUGUST 2008 =

Re: [ccp4bb] an over refined structure

2008-02-08 Thread Dale Tronrud
Bart Hazes wrote: Dale Tronrud wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rotational near-crystallographic ncs is easy to handle this way, but > what about translational pseudo-symmetry (or should that be > pseudo-translational symmetry)? In such cases one whole set of spots is > systematically wea

Re: [ccp4bb] Engineering disulfide bonds

2008-02-08 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Hi Kendall, As to (1) - it's a hard task. Redox potentials of Cys residues vary with their environment, so it is very difficult to predict what might happen in any specific case. Mixtures of reduced and oxidized GSH are commonly used to maintain a specific redox environment, however if you're real

Re: [ccp4bb] Tag, you're in! Flag, V5, etc

2008-02-08 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Hi, I would like to point out, for the sake of fairness, that thrombin (high quality bovine thrombin such as sold by HTI for example) is still much cheaper *to use* than commercial TEV. One milligram of TEV, TVMV, AcTEV, and so forth can be used to cleave anywhere in between 10 to 100 mg of 're

Re: [ccp4bb] an over refined structure

2008-02-08 Thread Bart Hazes
Dale Tronrud wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rotational near-crystallographic ncs is easy to handle this way, but > what about translational pseudo-symmetry (or should that be > pseudo-translational symmetry)? In such cases one whole set of spots is > systematically weaker than the other se

[ccp4bb] protein crystallography position at Nottingham University

2008-02-08 Thread Emsley Jonas
Title: [ccp4bb] protein crystallography position at Nottingham University Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Protein Crystallography Applications are invited for a postdoctoral scientist to join a team investigating the structure of coagulation factors and platelet receptors. The project is

[ccp4bb] Does NCS bias a randomly-chosen test set (even if not enforced)?

2008-02-08 Thread Edward A. Berry
Clarification- Someone wrote: Ah- that's going way to fast for the beginners, at least one of them! Can someone explain why the R-free will be very close to the R-work, preferably in simple concrete terms like Fo, Fc, at sym-related reflections, and the change in the Fc resulting from a step of

Re: [ccp4bb] an over refined structure

2008-02-08 Thread Dale Tronrud
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rotational near-crystallographic ncs is easy to handle this way, but > what about translational pseudo-symmetry (or should that be > pseudo-translational symmetry)? In such cases one whole set of spots is > systematically weaker than the other set. Then what is the > "t

Re: [ccp4bb] an over refined structure

2008-02-08 Thread price
Rotational near-crystallographic ncs is easy to handle this way, but what about translational pseudo-symmetry (or should that be pseudo-translational symmetry)? In such cases one whole set of spots is systematically weaker than the other set. Then what is the "theoretically correct" way to cal

[ccp4bb] FW: [ccp4bb] Different chains in the dimer

2008-02-08 Thread Skrzypczak-Jankun, Ewa
Have you done both experiments at the same temperature? If cryo - have you used the same cryoprotectant? same ionic strength? Did mutations cause changes in the surface charge distribution/hydrophobic/hydrophilic/ pi...pi interactions - if yes how it can effect quaternary structure of native. Do

Re: [ccp4bb] an over refined structure

2008-02-08 Thread Axel Brunger
In such cases, we always define the test set first in the high-symmetry space group choice. Then, if it is warranted to lower the crystallographic symmetry and replace with NCS symmetry, we expand the test set to the lower symmetry space group. In other words, the test set itself will be inva

Re: [ccp4bb] an over refined structure

2008-02-08 Thread Ronald E Stenkamp
I've looked at about 10 cases where structures have been refined in lower symmetry space groups. When you make the NCS operators into crystallographic operators, you don't change the refinement much, at least in terms of structural changes. That's the case whether NCS restraints have been appl

Re: [ccp4bb] Different chains in the dimer

2008-02-08 Thread Chavas Leo
Dear Yang, Thanks for the reply. Both are P21. Point mutant. MR solved the mutant using native as a model. What about the crystal contacts of the region that changed then? Is it different in "native" and "mutant" forms? Both space groups are the same, but what about the cell dimensions?

Re: [ccp4bb] an over refined structure

2008-02-08 Thread Sue Roberts
Back in the old days, when I worked on crystal structures with 15 or 20 atoms or so, the symptoms of missed crystallographic symmetry included instability of the refinement, high correlations between parameters, and (relatively) large deviations between equivalent bond distances and bond an

Re: [ccp4bb] an over refined structure

2008-02-08 Thread Edward Berry
Dirk Kostrewa wrote: Dear Dean and others, Peter Zwart gave me a similar reply. This is very interesting discussion, and I would like to have a somewhat closer look to this to maybe make things a little bit clearer (please, excuse the general explanations - this might be interesting for begin

[ccp4bb] Uppsala University Practical Protein Crystallization Course (U2P2C2)

2008-02-08 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Terese Bergfors will be organising her famous Uppsala University Practical Protein Crystallization Course again, from 15-19 September, 2008. For more information, see the course website at: http://xray.bmc.uu.se/terese/course/course.htm --dvd *

Re: [ccp4bb] Tag, you're in! Flag, V5, etc

2008-02-08 Thread Chun Luo
Yongfu, Small peptide tags usually don't interfere with protein folding and linker is not required. With removable tags, the protease site also serves as a linker. In most cases, putting a protease cleavage site such as TEV or PreScission site is good enough. The proteases (HRV3C and TurboTEV)

Re: [ccp4bb] Engineering disulfide bonds

2008-02-08 Thread Kornelius Zeth
I would export the protein to the oxidative periplasm or alternatively oxidize the cys-cys-bond with Cu. Best wishes Kornelius On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:44:21 -0500 Kendall Nettles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to engineer a disulfide bond into a protein that has several > other cysteine

Re: [ccp4bb] Engineering disulfide bonds

2008-02-08 Thread Cynthia Kinsland
There are strains designed to provide a less-reducing (more oxidizing) environment (Origami or any of it is "gami" derivatives from Novagen). They are deficient in the thioredoxin and glutathione reductases (I think I recall...I didn't look it back up). We've used them with good success f

Re: [ccp4bb] Engineering disulfide bonds

2008-02-08 Thread David J. Schuller
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 10:44 -0500, Kendall Nettles wrote: > Also, can I expect 100% disulfide formation from standard bacterial > expression (assuming good geometry of the cysteines)? No, E. coli cells are a reducing environment. - =

[ccp4bb] Engineering disulfide bonds

2008-02-08 Thread Kendall Nettles
I'm trying to engineer a disulfide bond into a protein that has several other cysteines. My question is whether there is a crystallization friendly reducing agent that can be used to prevent oxidation of the free cysteines without breaking the disulfide? Also, can I expect 100% disulfide format

Re: [ccp4bb] an over refined structure

2008-02-08 Thread Ian Tickle
When you say that "NCS is only a local, not global, crystal symmetry" what you actually mean is that "NCS is only a local not global *group* symmetry", i.e. NCS symmetry obviously *is* global if symmetry is defined (as in physics) as *any* operator which superposes (more or less) 2 copies of the mo

Re: [ccp4bb] Tag, you're in! Flag, V5, etc

2008-02-08 Thread Vangelis Christodoulou
Hi Yongfu, An interesting approach is to add a c-term biotin tag as a bio-sensor. If the c-term of the target protein is accessible the biotin tag will get biotinylated by BirA (co-expression may be necessary depending on the expression system). You can then easily detect the target protein

Re: [ccp4bb] an over refined structure

2008-02-08 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear Dale, Am 08.02.2008 um 10:27 schrieb Dale Tronrud: I'm afraid I have to disagree with summary point (i): that crystallographic and noncrystallographic symmetry are incomparable. Crystallographic symmetry is a special case of ncs where the symmetry happens to synchronize with the lattice

Re: [ccp4bb] Different chains in the dimer

2008-02-08 Thread Eleanor Dodson
It is hard to say exactly - do you mean the mutant "dimer" is not exact ie - one chain different to native, and one the same? Eleanor yang li wrote: Dear All, I have a protein which has the function unit as a dimer. I got two structures of it. One is the native structure, one is the muta

Re: [ccp4bb] an over refined structure

2008-02-08 Thread Dale Tronrud
I'm afraid I have to disagree with summary point (i): that crystallographic and noncrystallographic symmetry are incomparable. Crystallographic symmetry is a special case of ncs where the symmetry happens to synchronize with the lattice symmetry. There are plenty of cases where this synchroniz

Re: [ccp4bb] Announcement: two crystallographic wikis

2008-02-08 Thread Kevin Cowtan
To add to Kay's announcement... There is also going to be another, "official", ccp4 wiki, distinct from Kay's wiki, and fulfilling a different purpose. We're in the early stages of developing it at the moment. The precise roles will probably evolve over time, but currently we see them as follows:

Re: [ccp4bb] an over refined structure

2008-02-08 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear Dean and others, Peter Zwart gave me a similar reply. This is very interesting discussion, and I would like to have a somewhat closer look to this to maybe make things a little bit clearer (please, excuse the general explanations - this might be interesting for beginners as well): 1)