[ccp4bb] fourier difference maps

2008-08-22 Thread Eugenio De la Mora
Hello, What is the best way to calculate and represent Fourier Difference Maps? Eugenio De la Mora Lugo Instituto de Biotecnologia Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Re: [ccp4bb] protein degradation

2008-08-22 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Hi, If you are plagued by 'generic' proteolysis, it is not likely that changing buffers from TRIS to phosphate will help reduce the breakdown. You may want to ask yourself several key questions regarding the breakdown: 1. is it proteolysis or abortive translation? 2. is it happeni

[ccp4bb] protein degradation

2008-08-22 Thread Debajyoti Dutta
Hi, This is going to be an off topic question concerning this community. I have a protein 6XHis tagged. When retrieved from the Ni-NTA column with imidazole found to be degraded, appears like a deep band with other bands (touching each other below the main band) in SDS PAGE. The protein is a

Re: [ccp4bb] How best to scale together absolute and Fo-Fc density maps?

2008-08-22 Thread Borhani, David
Ah, there's the rub. No, my simple-minded approach was to calc. the MD density, averaged over, e.g. 100,000 MD snapshots (~1 us of time), by placing (5) Gaussians at each instantaneous atomic position, then adding them all up. Each atom got it's correct Gaussian, along with a b-factor of 1 A^2, but

Re: [ccp4bb] Wilson plot from truncated.mtz

2008-08-22 Thread George M. Sheldrick
Dear Ian, I agree entirely about the k-curve approach. SHELX/S/C/D/E have always used it to derive E-values. Best wishes, George Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS Dept. Structural Chemistry, University of Goettingen, Tammannstr. 4, D37077 Goettingen, Germany Tel. +49-551-39-3021 or -3068 Fax. +49-55

Re: [ccp4bb] Wilson plot from truncated.mtz

2008-08-22 Thread Ian Tickle
This indeed raises the question of whether the assumed Wilson distribution is valid, and it's another point I was in fact going to bring up. As presently constructed, Truncate fits a straight line to the Wilson plot (based on Imeas) in order to determine the overall scale & B, but to avoid the pro

Re: [ccp4bb] How best to scale together absolute and Fo-Fc density maps?

2008-08-22 Thread Ian Tickle
Dave It's hard to say without actually doing the calculations, it may well be that I'm being too pessimistic about your prospects! One thing I'm not clear about is how you actually calculated your map from the MD atomic positions: did you take into account the resolution limits, data completeness

Re: [ccp4bb] Wilson plot from truncated.mtz

2008-08-22 Thread George M. Sheldrick
In addition to Ian's circular argument, there is the problem that the assumed distribution is only approximately valid, indeed in the presence of (translational) NCS it could well be a poor approximation. Refinement against suitably weighted measured intensities (which may of course be slightly n

Re: [ccp4bb] Wilson plot from truncated.mtz

2008-08-22 Thread Ian Tickle
This goes back to the issue I was raising, namely that ^2 (from the Truncate output mtz F column) is not the same as Imeas (in the IMEAN column) so you won't get exactly the same results from the Wilson plot, particularly at high res where the average I/sigma is low. Since the plot actually demand

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Re: [ccp4bb] Software for Drawing Protein Secondary Structure

2008-08-22 Thread Paul Mcewan
try espript or its online equivalent. I've always found it very good. http://espript.ibcp.fr/ESPript/ESPript/   best regards, Paul..   ### Dr. Paul A. McEwan Protein Crystallography Group Office C58 Centre for Biomolecular Science University of Nottingham Notting

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral and PhD studentship positions

2008-08-22 Thread Ed Pozharski
Positions are available for a postdoctoral fellow and graduate student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. These positions involve the study of structural mechanisms of molecular recognition by proteins. Projects in the lab include: (i) structura

[ccp4bb] data process

2008-08-22 Thread W.M. B.
Dear All: I have a quesiton regarding the data set of the mutant protein. The mutant protein crystalizes in the same condition as natave protein. The native protein's unit cell is a=31.92, b=65.96,c=83.37, P212121. When I tried to process the data set of the mutant protein, I have the tricilic c

Re: [ccp4bb] Software for Drawing Protein Secondary Structure

2008-08-22 Thread hugh morgan
Try stride.. http://webclu.bio.wzw.tum.de/cgi-bin/stride/stridecgi.py --- On Fri, 22/8/08, Buz Barstow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Buz Barstow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ccp4bb] Software for Drawing Protein Secondary Structure To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Date: Friday, 22 August, 2008, 2:57

Re: [ccp4bb] How best to scale together absolute and Fo-Fc density maps?

2008-08-22 Thread Borhani, David
Thanks, Ian, this is very helpful. Data are 50 - 2.4 A, 90% complete, 70% in 2.5 - 2.4 A shell. Rf/R = 0.235/0.194 (with the few key atoms omitted; they lie on the 4-fold axis, by the way). = 60 A^2. P4212, ~12,000 atoms in the model. Do these stats impact your recommendations at all, or raise new

[ccp4bb] Perfect twins.

2008-08-22 Thread Francis E Reyes
Hello all, I believe I have a P41 perfectly twinned as a P41 21 2. I'm using the detwin_perfect.inp in CNS in every round of refinement to detwin the original P41 data as I update the single molecule in my asymmetric unit (so far). [1] Should I be able to find the second molecule (from re

[ccp4bb] Software for Drawing Protein Secondary Structure

2008-08-22 Thread Buz Barstow
Dear All, Does anyone know of a program that is capable of drawing the secondary structure of a protein molecule? I'd really like to be able to take a protein molecule, and draw the secondary structure out along a line, indicating the positions of secondary structural elements like sheets

Re: [ccp4bb] Wilson plot from truncated.mtz

2008-08-22 Thread Eleanor Dodson
rerun truncate with input amplitudes.. eleanor James Pauff wrote: If I've lost my SCALA MTZ, and have only the truncated.mtz for my dataset, which program is the quickest means of obtaining a Wilson plot? Thank you again, Jim --- On Wed, 8/20/08, Eleanor Dodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [ccp4bb] Lower completeness, decent R factors, but low B factor...

2008-08-22 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Rerun truncate on your data ans look at the graphs - they often give clues if the distribution is distorted.. Eleanor PS - maybe we are a nervous lot, but we always re=process synchroton data again at home with time to think about it.. James Pauff wrote: Hello all, thank you for the respons

Re: [ccp4bb] CCP4 windows installation error: 1603: Error installing Microsoft(R).NET Framework.

2008-08-22 Thread Remacle, F (Francois)
Dear Hongmin, The only way to get round the problem is to answer no when being asked if you want to install Microsoft .NET Framework. It is normally installed with windows. Best Regards Francois Remacle CCP4 -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beh

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2008-08-22 Thread George M. Sheldrick
Those who are using my teaching material might like to know that I have recently updated it, but I have left the password unchanged. However the biggest changes were in the environmental chemistry course (in German) because the environment (or at least our perception of it) is changing so fast. The