Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: fungus contamination of SF9 cells

2008-04-04 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Hi, Beautiful picture! It's too bad that the situation is nasty. You've got an apparently young culture (the hyphae are small) however there's a large quantity of free-floating individual cells, which strongly suggests that the fungus may be dimorphic (or that the agitative motion of your culture

Re: [ccp4bb] off topic - C-ter cleavable his tag

2008-04-04 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Hi, Generally speaking, these days you don't need a special vector to introduce a C-His (or an N-His, BAP, STREP, STREPII, or any short tag for that matter), since the sequence of the tag + cleavage site is short enough to be engineered directly into your PCR amplicon. There are numerous ways t

[ccp4bb] Off-topic: fungus contamination of SF9 cells

2008-04-04 Thread William Scott
I had to marry into this knowledge, but ... Begin forwarded message: From: "Sara O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: April 4, 2008 3:20:08 PM PDT To: William Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: fungus contamination of SF9 cells [I] didn't send the picture but it sounds li

Re: [ccp4bb] DM - NCS averaging after phaser molecular replacement run-confused about coefficients

2008-04-04 Thread Pietro Roversi
Dear Hari, you also might want to specify, on the dm input LABOUT card, the FCDM=FCDM and PHICDM=PHICDM coefficients, that output Fourier coefficients avoiding the recombination with the initial phases, and will allow you to inspect the truly-solvent-flattened, truly-averaged dm

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic: fungus contamination of SF9 cells

2008-04-04 Thread Chun Luo
Hi Filipp, Start a new culture from your frozen cell bank using disposable plasticwares. If it still happens and assuming the working environment is clean and operators follow the SOP, you may have to get a new cell stock from somewhere else. We had a contamination once and traced back to its or

[ccp4bb] Off-topic: fungus contamination of SF9 cells

2008-04-04 Thread Filipp Frank
Dear all, sorry for this off topic question. I am using baculovirus/insect cell expression and I have had persisting problems with contamination that seems to be some kind of fungus. I have a picture attached showing the filamentous structure of it. This contamination has persisted for a

Re: [ccp4bb] DM - NCS averaging after phaser molecular replacement run-confused about coefficients

2008-04-04 Thread Randy J. Read
On Apr 4 2008, hari jayaram wrote: Hi everyone, I have a phaser molecular replacement solution for my membrane protein which crystallized in spacegroup P3. The diffraction data is good to about 3.3 A. The model I used had 39% homology to the given protein. A solvent content analysis suggests t

Re: [ccp4bb] Error in configuration of hydroxyproline in HYP.cif

2008-04-04 Thread Brick, Peter
>In collagen a hydroxyl group is bonded to the CD atom of the prolyl ring to >give an R configuration. >[IUPAC: (2S,4R)-4-hydroxypyrrolidine-2-carboxylic acid] >The monomer dictionary file HYP.cif incorrectly specifies the S >configuration about the CD atom. I've written CD where I should say CG

[ccp4bb] Error in configuration of hydroxyproline in HYP.cif

2008-04-04 Thread Peter Brick
Dear All, My colleague Erhard Hohenester has noticed that there is an error in the cif definition file for hydroxyproline distributed with CCP4 version 6.02 and used by Refmac, Coot (and Phenix). In collagen a hydroxyl group is bonded to the CD atom of the prolyl ring to give an R configuration.

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Real funny until someone loses a Happy Meal

2008-04-04 Thread William Scott
As opposed to putting McDonald's "food" into their stomachs? On Apr 4, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Ezra Peisach wrote: I saw that toy - Personally, I do not like the idea of encouraging children to aim a light (low powered led) directly at one's eye... Ezra P Hubbard wrote: I took my 5 year old niec

[ccp4bb] DM - NCS averaging after phaser molecular replacement run-confused about coefficients

2008-04-04 Thread hari jayaram
Hi everyone, I have a phaser molecular replacement solution for my membrane protein which crystallized in spacegroup P3. The diffraction data is good to about 3.3 A. The model I used had 39% homology to the given protein. A solvent content analysis suggests that there probably are three dimers in t

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: McDonalds Happy Meal and Crystallography

2008-04-04 Thread Ezra Peisach
I saw that toy - Personally, I do not like the idea of encouraging children to aim a light (low powered led) directly at one's eye... Ezra P Hubbard wrote: I took my 5 year old niece to a McDonald's (in England) for a happy meal today - Spiderwick Chronicles promotion. The toy's light effect

Re: [ccp4bb] off topic - C-ter cleavable his tag

2008-04-04 Thread Chun Luo
Hi Vijay, You may consider having a protease site in your 3' PCR primer, since you probably have to remove the stop codon at the same time. It's probably easier to do than finding a vector with C-terminal cleavable tag and C-His will be in-frame without any extra sequence. Many pET vectors with

[ccp4bb] off topic - C-ter cleavable his tag

2008-04-04 Thread Vijay Kumar
Hi, I am looking for a vector with a cleavable C-terminal his tag for prokaryotic protein expression. I found pET-52b but it has also got a N-terminal cleavable strep-tag which I cannot avoid. Thanks Vijay

[ccp4bb] Off topic: McDonalds Happy Meal and Crystallography

2008-04-04 Thread P Hubbard
I took my 5 year old niece to a McDonald's (in England) for a happy meal today - Spiderwick Chronicles promotion. The toy's light effect reminded me of a visual aid I saw to help introduce X-ray diffraction and the crystal lattice to students. My niece was more interested in using the visual ef

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position in Paris

2008-04-04 Thread Daniel Picot
Posted on behalf of Jean-Luc Popot; please send enquiries/applications to him directly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) : Position offer Physico-Chimie Moléculaire des Membranes Biologiques, CNRS/Université Paris 7 UMR 7099, IBPC, 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75005 Paris – France Post-doctoral position

[ccp4bb] Post doctoral postion in computational methods development, Leiden, NL

2008-04-04 Thread Navraj S. Pannu
A two year post doctoral position is available at Leiden University, The Netherlands (http://www.bfsc.leidenuniv.nl/) in computational methods development. The position will be for the derivation and implementation of new algorithms for exploiting all the available information in macromolecular cr

Re: [ccp4bb] OMIT map from Sfcheck

2008-04-04 Thread Alexei Vagin
Please try to use sfcheck binaries or source code from my home page: http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~alexei/sfcheck.html Regards Alexei On 4 Apr 2008, at 09:58, Jovine Luca wrote: On 4 Apr 2008, at 01:36, Michael Giffin wrote: i get the same error on OS X 10.5.2 and 10.4.11: sfcheck -f refm

[ccp4bb] Opening for a X-ray facility/computing manager

2008-04-04 Thread Remy Loris
The VIB Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is looking for a highly motivated X-ray facility/computing manager. The successful candidate will provide expert support to our in house structural biology community and will conduct research in the area

Re: [ccp4bb] OMIT map from Sfcheck

2008-04-04 Thread Jovine Luca
On 4 Apr 2008, at 01:36, Michael Giffin wrote: i get the same error on OS X 10.5.2 and 10.4.11: sfcheck -f refmac2.mtz -m refmac2.pdb -out y -nomit 2 -map the error: Open failed: Unit: 11, File: sfcheck_scr.dat (logical: sfcheck_scr.da

Re: [ccp4bb] fixing position in the refinement: Shelx, refmac5

2008-04-04 Thread Garib Murshudov
No. Better way is restraining internal degrees of freedom. Something like elastic network model: Tirion MM (1996) Phys Rev Letters 77 pp 1905-1908 But care should be taken with weights and which distances should be restrained. Fiixing position is not good way of using prior information (In

Re: [ccp4bb] fixing position in the refinement: Shelx, refmac5

2008-04-04 Thread George M. Sheldrick
For SHELX there are two ways to fix selected atoms: either put AFIX 1 in front of the fixed atoms and AFIX 0 after them, or use the BLOC instruction. e.g. BLOC 1 N_1 > C_53 N_57 > C61 N_62 CA_62 C_62 O_62 N_63 > LAST BLOC -1 N_1 > C_53 N_57 > C61 N_62 CA_62 C_62 O_62 N_63 > LAST would fix resid