[ccp4bb] Job opportunity at the Australian Synchrotron

2012-01-12 Thread Christine Gee
Dear CCP4 readers There is currently an opening on the MX beamlines at the Australian Synchrotron. For the full job information consult the link below. Regards Christine http://www.synchrotron.org.au/index.php/about-us/working-at-the-synchrotron/employment-opportunities/699-science-research-offi

Re: [ccp4bb] real dimer vs crystal packing

2012-01-12 Thread Artem Evdokimov
PDE2 full length versus domain only structures, I think. Artem On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Qiang Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on a multi-domain protein which uses three domains to form > homodimer, and the full-length structure is available. We have solved the > structure of one bindi

Re: [ccp4bb] Metal won't strip from IMAC

2012-01-12 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Hi, This is a fairly familiar issue. A hydrophobic protein with thiols often contaminates IMAC columns and this kind of contamination can be difficult to remove completely. In the past some of the methods that worked included trypsin or papain treatment, followed by massive amounts of chelating ag

Re: [ccp4bb] Metal won't strip from IMAC

2012-01-12 Thread Michael Thompson
Katherine, You are not alone. I have inadvertently destroyed a GE HisTrap column with high concentrations of proteins that contain many exposed cysteines. In my case the Co2+ resin turned a very dark purplish-brown and the protein appeared to have crashed out on the column. I didn't try to stri

[ccp4bb] Metal won't strip from IMAC

2012-01-12 Thread Katherine Sippel
Hi all, I've run into a bit of a protein purification conundrum and wondered if anyone had encountered a similar situation. I've exercised all of my google-fu and can't find anything. It's a fairly straightforward setup; His-tagged protein and Talon Co2+ resin, load lysate, wash with 5 mM imidazol

[ccp4bb] Web Seminar: Recent Advances in Automated Protein Drop Imaging

2012-01-12 Thread Stacy Nyberg
Dear Colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to an upcoming free, educational webinar to be presented by Max Petersen, Ph. D. titled "Recent Advances in Automated Protein Drop Imaging." Analyzing vast numbers of protein drops is a time consuming bottleneck that affects most protein cry

Re: [ccp4bb] Molprobity Clashscore

2012-01-12 Thread Tim Fenn
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Pavel Afonine wrote: > >>  Who needs hydrogens? > > > may be you need to read this (for example): > > http://www.phenix-online.org/papers/dz5209_reprint.pdf > While this reference is useful, it neglects the role of prior chemical forces (vdW and electrostatics, fo

[ccp4bb] Job Posting - Laboratory Specialist in NMR, São Paulo University, Brazil

2012-01-12 Thread Javier Gonzalez
This is a forwarded message. For inquires please contact chsfa...@iq.usp.bror robe...@iq.usp.br ___ The Central Analítica at the Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo has an opening for a Laboratory Specialist in NMR. The position is associated with the acquisition of an 800 MHz

[ccp4bb] Off-topic: Tip-truck for LD35 dewars

2012-01-12 Thread Kenneth Verstraete
Dear all, I am searching for a tip-truck for Taylor-Wharton LD35 dewars (see figure below). This tip-truck used to be offered by Jencons but they discontinued the product. Does somebody know where you can purchase such a tip-truck? Thank you for your help, Kenneth Verstraete Ghent Universit

[ccp4bb] Protein job posting

2012-01-12 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Hi, I am posting this on behalf of our partner group next door. They are really quite nice and we work together. Contact information is at the end o the email. Artem -- Forwarded message -- We are seeking a talented and self-motivated professional with expertise in the area of pr

Re: [ccp4bb] Lithium versus Sodium

2012-01-12 Thread Matthew Franklin
Hi Ed - There was a peak in the difference maps, as I recall. I believe it initially got built as a water, but that proved to be too many electrons, giving a negative peak. I removed the water, but it was clear that something needed to be there, at which point I started casting about for al

Re: [ccp4bb] Lithium versus Sodium

2012-01-12 Thread Ed Pozharski
Matt, thank you, this is an excellent summary. One question remains - the lithium peak should be, afaiu, much lower than the water/sodium. Was there a peak in difference map or was placement based on identifying something that looked like a coordination site? Cheers, Ed. On Thu, 2012-01-12 at

Re: [ccp4bb] Molprobity Clashscore

2012-01-12 Thread Antony Oliver
Pavel and CCP4ers. I did have my tongue firmly in my cheek when mentioning the hydrogens… I am well aware of their importance [winking smiley] T. --- Dr Antony W Oliver Senior Research Fellow CR-UK DNA Repair Enzymes Group Genome Damage and Stability Centre Science Park Road University of Susse

Re: [ccp4bb] Molprobity Clashscore

2012-01-12 Thread Pavel Afonine
Tony, Who needs hydrogens? > may be you need to read this (for example): http://www.phenix-online.org/papers/dz5209_reprint.pdf ? Pavel

[ccp4bb] real dimer vs crystal packing

2012-01-12 Thread Qiang Chen
Hi, I'm working on a multi-domain protein which uses three domains to form homodimer, and the full-length structure is available. We have solved the structure of one binding domain alone and found its homo-binding mode is totally different from that of the full-length protein. Do you know example

Re: [ccp4bb] NMR review

2012-01-12 Thread Sangwon Lee
>PS: I am grappling with the meaning of resolution in NMR. I can see that it >could be related to comparable data/parameter ratios, although I am even >less clear about the weights of NMR restraint weights than in the case of MX... >some cross-trained person out there who can explain? Dear Bernhar

[ccp4bb] Announcement: CSX2012 - 3rd Workshop on Combination of Spectroscopies with X-ray Methods

2012-01-12 Thread Martin Fuchs
3rd Workshop on the Simultaneous Combination of Spectroscopies with X-ray Absorption, Scattering and Diffraction Techniques - CSX2012 http://www.psi.ch/csx2012 Announcement and Call for Papers Abstract submission deadline: 1 May 2012 Dear Colleagues, Please find at the links below the first

Re: [ccp4bb] Lithium versus Sodium

2012-01-12 Thread Matthew Franklin
On 1/12/12 9:42 AM, Ed Pozharski wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 09:52 +, Patel, Joe wrote: Do you have ultra-high resolution? Something I did not…. Are there many examples in the pdb of proteins with Li+ refined? http://www.ebi.ac.uk/thornton-srv/databases/cgi-bin/pdbsum/GetPage.pl?pdbcode=n

Re: [ccp4bb] Lithium versus Sodium

2012-01-12 Thread Ed Pozharski
On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 09:52 +, Patel, Joe wrote: > Do you have ultra-high resolution? Something I did not…. Are there > many examples in the pdb of proteins with Li+ refined? http://www.ebi.ac.uk/thornton-srv/databases/cgi-bin/pdbsum/GetPage.pl?pdbcode=n/a&template=het2pdb.html¶m1=_LI 39 in

Re: [ccp4bb] NMR review

2012-01-12 Thread Ian Tickle
On 12 January 2012 13:02, Weiergräber, Oliver H. wrote: > I think the problem is related to the term "coherence" being used to describe > both the type of *radiation* and the mode of *scattering*. > When talking about (xray) radiation, it denotes the phase relationship > between photons, and the

Re: [ccp4bb] batchwise completeness in multirecord .mtz

2012-01-12 Thread Phil Evans
You can do this with Scala or Aimless. Scale everything first, write out the scaled unmerged file, then read it again "onlymerge" and a batch selection (Aimless also gives a cumulative completeness) Phil On 12 Jan 2012, at 14:00, Ingo P. Korndoerfer wrote: > hello, > > my poor dementia ridden

[ccp4bb] batchwise completeness in multirecord .mtz

2012-01-12 Thread Ingo P. Korndoerfer
hello, my poor dementia ridden brain has gone on screensaver ... i need to calculate the completeness and redundancy of reflections in batches or ranges of batches in a multi-record .mtz file. sftools can do this, but the numbers are pretty much meaningless, i.e., my feeling is, if i measure 10%

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] JLigand distorts molecules

2012-01-12 Thread Stefan Gerhardt
not on my machine (Suse11.3) Jligand (1.0.25) -> Load Ligand -> type "3GP" -> the ligand looks totally normal, incl the C6,O6 double bond. Cheers Stefan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] Im Auftrag von Boaz Shaanan Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1

Re: [ccp4bb] JLigand distorts molecules

2012-01-12 Thread Garib N Murshudov
In the current version there is a bug and we have fixed it (as far as i know). It is not JLigand bug, it is libcheck bug. If you take the version (5.7 version) then it may work better. http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/refmac/data/refmac_experimental/ You need refmac5.7_linux.tar.gz or refmac5.7_maci

Re: [ccp4bb] NMR review

2012-01-12 Thread Weiergräber , Oliver H .
I think the problem is related to the term "coherence" being used to describe both the type of *radiation* and the mode of *scattering*. When talking about (xray) radiation, it denotes the phase relationship between photons, and therefore even a monochromatic beam can be incoherent (whereas a po

Re: [ccp4bb] JLigand distorts molecules

2012-01-12 Thread Boaz Shaanan
Hi, You are right. I happen to have 1.0.7 lying around and there 3GP is fine. A bug must have been introduced somewhere on the way between versions. I wonder whether it's only 3GP. Cheers, Boaz Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D. Dept. of Life Sciences Ben-Gurion University of

Re: [ccp4bb] NMR review

2012-01-12 Thread Ian Tickle
On 12 January 2012 11:25, Dirk Kostrewa wrote: > I'm not a physicist - but isn't (in)coherence also used to describe the > property of sources of electromagnetic waves with constant wavelength? For > instance, an incoherent sodium vapour light source (only looking at one > emission band) compared

[ccp4bb] JLigand distorts molecules

2012-01-12 Thread Wolfgang Skala
Dear colleagues, has anyone of you experienced problems regarding regularization in JLigand? When I start the first tutorial and load 3'-GMP (3GP), the double bond to the O6 atom is about twice as long as the remainder of the molecule; the rings are also highly distorted. Similarly, if I modify

Re: [ccp4bb] NMR review

2012-01-12 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
I'm not a physicist - but isn't (in)coherence also used to describe the property of sources of electromagnetic waves with constant wavelength? For instance, an incoherent sodium vapour light source (only looking at one emission band) compared to a coherent Laser, or the incoherent emission from

Re: [ccp4bb] NMR review

2012-01-12 Thread Ian Tickle
On 12 January 2012 10:33, Dirk Kostrewa wrote: > My understanding of coherence is a constant phase relation between waves. Correct. For a perfect crystal all the unit cells are identical so they scatter in phase and this gives rise to the interference effect we see as Bragg spots, as you say ari

[ccp4bb] Can the CCP4 software mix PHE and Arg

2012-01-12 Thread Dialing Pretty
Dear All, Can the CCP4 software get mixed with the PHE and ARG? I use the Coot to build a peptide. 2 fragments of peptides are suitable for one specific part of electronic density map, and there is only one residue can distinguish which fragment of peptide is the real peptide fragment for that

Re: [ccp4bb] NMR review

2012-01-12 Thread Ian Tickle
> We don't see any change of frequency (or wavelength) in the majority > of the scattering from disordered regions so it's Rayleigh (coherent) > scattering.  There will be a small amount of Compton (incoherent) > scattering resulting from the ionisation events which are responsible > for radiation

Re: [ccp4bb] NMR review

2012-01-12 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
My understanding of coherence is a constant phase relation between waves. Of course, this breaks down for inelastic scattering, but (in)coherence can also be described without any change in wavelength. Best regards, Dirk. Am 12.01.12 11:27, schrieb Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.): Does o

Re: [ccp4bb] NMR review

2012-01-12 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Bernhard, without ever having looked at an NMR experiment, intuitively the resolution of an NMR experiment should be given as the magnitude of the minimal chemical shift that could be observed/distinguished. Beware that 'resolution' does not nece

Re: [ccp4bb] NMR review

2012-01-12 Thread Ian Tickle
On 12 January 2012 09:57, Dirk Kostrewa wrote: > That doesn't sound wrong to me: the flexible parts are at different relative > positions in the unit cells and thus their "partial-structure scattering > waves" do not have a constant phase relation to each other, i.e., they don't > give a coherent

Re: [ccp4bb] NMR review

2012-01-12 Thread Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.)
Does out of phase imply incoherent scattering? I though it means inelastic Compton scattering? -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Dirk Kostrewa Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:58 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] N

[ccp4bb] mask effects in solvent flattening / NCS

2012-01-12 Thread Tommi Kajander
Dear All, Could someone explain me why i would see density outside both solvent and NCS masked regions (which are input essentially the same in this case into DM) --- what i see is basicly "density" that is actually just noise - but outside both masks (and which certainly is not there in non-

Re: [ccp4bb] NMR review

2012-01-12 Thread Dirk Kostrewa
Dear Bernhard, Am 12.01.12 10:30, schrieb Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.): Dear All, I read an interesting statement in an NMR review: " regions of a protein or DNA ⁄ RNA molecule that are flexible in the crystal do not provide coherent X-ray scattering and hence do not contribute to th

Re: [ccp4bb] Lithium versus Sodium

2012-01-12 Thread Patel, Joe
Hi Scott I may be completely wrong but I worked on a lithium and sodium inhibited enzyme during my PhD. At the time, it was considered that your chances of actually seeing density for a Li+ ion were slim to nil. Only 2 electrons makes them as tough as hydrogens. My efforts went into trying to

[ccp4bb] NMR review

2012-01-12 Thread Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.)
Dear All, I read an interesting statement in an NMR review: " regions of a protein or DNA ⁄ RNA molecule that are flexible in the crystal do not provide coherent X-ray scattering and hence do not contribute to the final electron density map. Thus, for all intents and purposes, they can effectiv