Re: [ccp4bb] off-topic detergent hydrolysis?

2009-02-25 Thread Artem Evdokimov
If it smells of octanol (vaguely fruity, cloying odor) and possibly has a little phase separation (octanol poorly mixes with water) then you have significant hydrolysis. Beyond the smell test, you can run a small sample out on a TLC with n-Octanol as control lane. Pretty easy. As to whether

[ccp4bb] off-topic detergent hydrolysis?

2009-02-25 Thread deliang
Hi there, I am using a stock solution of Octyl-Glucoside to crystallize my membrane protein, which was made ~1 year before and kept at 4c . I wonder whether OG can be hydrolysed under this condition and whether there is a way to test. Many thanks, Deliang

Re: [ccp4bb] protein folds

2009-02-25 Thread Matthew . Franklin
CCP4 bulletin board wrote on 02/25/2009 03:08:10 PM: > On Wednesday 25 February 2009 08:20:14 Jayashankar wrote: > > Dear Folks, > > > > The last novel proteins fold were from the yr 2007(pdb statistics), > > From 2007 to till date no novel fold has been identified, > > If you reached this conclu

Re: [ccp4bb] protein folds

2009-02-25 Thread Bart Hazes
Must be even smaller than Daresbury then. They don't even have a synchrotron! Bart James Holton wrote: Paul Emsley wrote: Here's an experiment: Find a blindfold and put it on. Oh, but before you do that, take a map of England and place it on a dartboard. Now take 56066 darts and throw them

Re: [ccp4bb] protein folds

2009-02-25 Thread James Holton
Paul Emsley wrote: Here's an experiment: Find a blindfold and put it on. Oh, but before you do that, take a map of England and place it on a dartboard. Now take 56066 darts and throw them at the map on the board. Take off the blindfold and investigate where the darts hit. Did you hit all the

Re: [ccp4bb] protein folds

2009-02-25 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Unfortunately the database contains huge bias towards: a) proteins that are easy to make and crystallize b) biologically interesting protein families Artem --- When the Weasel comes to give New Year's greetings to the Chickens no good intentions are in his mind. -Original Message- From:

Re: [ccp4bb] protein folds

2009-02-25 Thread Artem Evdokimov
The protein wolves get it - and it's never heard from or seen again. Artem --- When the Weasel comes to give New Year's greetings to the Chickens no good intentions are in his mind. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jacob Keller Sen

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Mammalian gene expression in E. coli

2009-02-25 Thread Ho-Leung Ng
Some useful tips to try can be found at http://www.embl-hamburg.de/services/protein/production/expression/optimising_exprlevels.html I've had a recent case where an untagged protein (part of a complex) was not expressed at all but expressed well when tagged at the N-terminal with His6 or MBP. Also

Re: [ccp4bb] protein folds

2009-02-25 Thread Jacob Keller
What happens when a single protein strays from the fold? Jacob - Original Message - From: "Edward A. Berry" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] protein folds As an outsider to this field, it would seem another way to approach it would be to ask, o

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Mammalian gene expression in E. coli

2009-02-25 Thread Jacob Keller
I agree with the accolades given by Raji to the CCPBB, but suggest a difference: it is not given by "Nature," or any other polytheistic entity but rather by the patience and sustained efforts of all the souls who resist the urge to excoriate, which I would guess scales linearly to the number of

Re: [ccp4bb] protein folds

2009-02-25 Thread Edward A. Berry
As an outsider to this field, it would seem another way to approach it would be to ask, of the currently known folds, how many have only one member (excluding evolutionarily related protein families)? If a large number of folds have only been sampled once, it is likely that there are others that

Re: [ccp4bb] protein folds

2009-02-25 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 25 February 2009 08:20:14 Jayashankar wrote: > Dear Folks, > > The last novel proteins fold were from the yr 2007(pdb statistics), > From 2007 to till date no novel fold has been identified, If you reached this conclusion by looking at the PDB web site, you should note that the site

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Mammalian gene expression in E. coli

2009-02-25 Thread Raji Edayathumangalam
Did you not know that the CCP4BB-- even when all else appears to be melting down-- is Nature's sustained gift to humankind? Did you also not know that astronauts, astronomers, astrologers, artists, musicians, sportsmen, scientists, politicians, writers and everyone else subscribes to the bo

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Mammalian gene expression in E. coli

2009-02-25 Thread Mo Wong
Thanks to all who responded. Actually, this bulletin board is better for help with molecular biology than the molecular biology bulletin board I am subscribed to! On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Stephen Weeks wrote: > Mo, > Just to add my 50 cents, I didn't see any mention of the use of fusion

Re: [ccp4bb] protein folds

2009-02-25 Thread Jayashankar
But provided if i colud follow a pattern even blindfolded could come up with some probable things. Is it not ok to have principle of mathematical induction. S.Jayashankar Research Student Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Hannover Medical School Germany. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Pau

Re: [ccp4bb] protein folds

2009-02-25 Thread Paul Emsley
Jayashankar wrote: Dear Folks, Dear gmail-user, The last novel proteins fold were from the yr 2007(pdb statistics), From 2007 to till date no novel fold has been identified, this mean the present 1283 fold are the final or should I wait, if so , with what criteria do I expect for a new fol

Re: [ccp4bb] SCALA failed message

2009-02-25 Thread James Foadi
Thank you Graeme. I have installed ccp4 6.1.1 and ran the same job on SCALA succesfully. J Dr James Foadi PhD Membrane Protein Laboratory Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond House Harwell Science and Innovation Campus Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0DE United Kingdom office email: james.fo...@diamond.a

[ccp4bb] protein folds

2009-02-25 Thread Jayashankar
Dear Folks, The last novel proteins fold were from the yr 2007(pdb statistics), >From 2007 to till date no novel fold has been identified, this mean the present 1283 fold are the final or should I wait, if so , with what criteria do I expect for a new fold..or what are the expectations ... If we

[ccp4bb] PhD studentship in Edinburgh

2009-02-25 Thread Laura Spagnolo
I am currently looking for a PhD student to work on structure/function studies of high-pressure adaptation by X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy coupled to single particle analysis. The research work will be carried out at the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) and at the Centre