Re: [ccp4bb] Solubilization buffer

2009-12-02 Thread Joerg Standfuss
Dear Meg, There is a database of refolding conditions from which you could get some inspiration. http://refold.med.monash.edu.au/search.php The Urea conditions I have seen there mostly use 37C. for solubilization/refolding and nearly all contain a reducing agent. Have a look. There are also a gr

Re: [ccp4bb] methews coefficient and validation of 60mer

2009-12-02 Thread Pankaj Chauhan
Hi, Thanks to all for kind replies I got my output using PHENIX phenix.xtriage filename.sca residues=no.of residues and again thanks Peter Zwart On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Pankaj Chauhan wrote: > Hi , > In one of my 60mer structure at 3.5 A, , when I run methews in ccp4i, it > does

Re: [ccp4bb] Solubilization buffer

2009-12-02 Thread John A. Newitt
At 10:35 PM -0600 12/2/09, Dima Klenchin wrote: 2. Chances are good that you can use as high temperature as you need to dissolve. I've come across protocols using >=65C in the presence of 100 mM bME to ensure complete unfolding of the polypeptide and reduction of disulfides (seems essential fo

Re: [ccp4bb] Solubilization buffer

2009-12-02 Thread Dima Klenchin
We use 8M urea solubilization buffer for our protein in inclusion bodies and recommended temperature is 10-15C. but in 8M conc the urea does not dissolve and is in crystalline form only, will it have any effect on solubilzation efficiency. Our solubilization time is 1 Hr and after that we centr

[ccp4bb] Solubilization buffer

2009-12-02 Thread megha goyal
Hi all, We use 8M urea solubilization buffer for our protein in inclusion bodies and recommended temperature is 10-15ยบ C. but in 8M conc the urea does not dissolve and is in crystalline form only, will it have any effect on solubilzation efficiency. Our solubilization time is 1 Hr and after that w

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining residues as rigid bodies

2009-12-02 Thread Pavel Afonine
Hi, you can do similar thing (that is resulting in similar outcome) in phenix.refine by increasing the weight on ADP restraints term. Example: increase "wu" or decrease "wxu_scale". Although I believe a regular refinement of individual isotropic ADPs should normally work just fine at 3A resol

Re: [ccp4bb] decrease of background with distance?

2009-12-02 Thread Ian Tickle
James, > nearBragg2D does not contain a random number generator. I made the atom > constellations for my DS calculations using an awk script. My point was that your 'constellation of points' has to be some kind of random sampling since it has to be a sampling both over the lattice and over tim

Re: [ccp4bb] decrease of background with distance?

2009-12-02 Thread James Holton
Ian, nearBragg2D does not contain a random number generator. I made the atom constellations for my DS calculations using an awk script. I would appreciate it if you could create a constellation of atoms that has the "correlated displacements" you are talking about, so that I (and others) ca

Re: [ccp4bb] decrease of background with distance?

2009-12-02 Thread Ian Tickle
> "important". The > answer to the last question appears to be "never". The > "background"-subtracted spot intensities really are the square of the > Fourier transform of the AVERAGE electron density in a unit > cell. Yes, > the arithmetic average. Does not matter where the background come

Re: [ccp4bb] decrease of background with distance?

2009-12-02 Thread James Holton
I recently wrote a little jiffy program for calculating "general scattering" images that could perhaps be useful for answering some of the questions raised on this thread: http://bl831.als.lbl.gov/~jamesh/nearBragg/nearBragg2D.c Instructions for compiling and running are in this text file: http

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2009-12-02 Thread Patrick Loll
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Re: [ccp4bb] Arp/wArp error

2009-12-02 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
Dear all, First, I am happy that there is am easy solution. Second, let me clarify that ARP/wARP CCP4i GUI uses standard CCP4i library functions to read in files etc etc. I am sorry to get technical, but what I do is simply: CreateInputFileLine line \ [...lines deleted...] -setfile

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining residues as rigid bodies

2009-12-02 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
IMHO this is a bad idea as the restraints can give undue weight to poorly ordered residues in order to favour the tighter distribution that you are specifying. I have found bindividual.inp to perform at low resolution reasonably well, and I think it is more realistic than group B-factors. The

Re: [ccp4bb] decrease of background with distance?

2009-12-02 Thread John R Helliwell
Dear Colleagues, Further discussions of this most interesting topic have continued between Colin and myself off-line. Not least we have basically ended up assembling a references list for further reading! One such I need to check and my copy of the relevant book has required me to get a replacement

Re: [ccp4bb] methews coefficient and validation of 60mer

2009-12-02 Thread Martyn Winn
Yes, matthews_coef has a limit of 48. You need to change: PARAMETER (MAXMOL=48) in $CPROG/matthews_coef.f and recompile. Ask if you need help with this. So looks like its time to increase the parameter in line with the capabilities of computers and crystallographers BTW matthews won't t

Re: [ccp4bb] Refining residues as rigid bodies

2009-12-02 Thread Frederic VELLIEUX
Dear Bulletin Board, I received this information from Axel Bruenger, who rightly corrected me on the modification to be made to the bindividual.inp file: >As an fyi, the sigmas should be made smaller to get a narrower B-factor >differences. My previous post: > You modify the file bindividual.