Re: [ccp4bb] skin on crystal

2014-01-13 Thread Indrani
Do you use any Dnase while purifying your protein? if not try that and set up new drops to check again. Sent from my iPhone On 13.01.2014, at 21:02, Debasish Chattopadhyay wrote: > We crystallized a protein at 4 and 22 deg C in different conditions: > > from ammonium sulfate in acetate buf

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2014-01-13 Thread Kim, Jung Ja
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Re: [ccp4bb] skin on crystal

2014-01-13 Thread Mark van Raaij
Usually the skin is precipitated protein when it comes into contact with air. In this case, avoiding contact with air may be the only way to avoid the skin, i.e. crystallise using a technique that is not vapour diffusion, but for instance microbatch, microdialysis or free interface diffusion. O

[ccp4bb] skin on crystal

2014-01-13 Thread Debasish Chattopadhyay
We crystallized a protein at 4 and 22 deg C in different conditions: from ammonium sulfate in acetate buffer pH 5 and PEG4000 in Hepes buffer at pH 7.5 In both cases the drops have a slimy skin (almost feels like DNA). We therefore think that the skin is generated from the protein. I am sure s

[ccp4bb] Cryo-EM 3D Image Analysis Symposium 2014 - early registration ends Jan 31, 2014

2014-01-13 Thread Cathy Lawson
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[ccp4bb] Announcement: Standardization of Amino Acid Nomenclature

2014-01-13 Thread Christine Zardecki
Announcement: Standardization of Amino Acid Nomenclature The wwPDB is transitioning to use the nomenclature for pyrrolysine and selenocysteine as recommended by the joint nomenclature committee of IUPAC/IUBMB. Starting in January, PYL (for pyrrolysine) and SEC (for selenocysteine) will be used

Re: [ccp4bb] Assays for protein-ligand interaction?

2014-01-13 Thread George Kontopidis
Specifically for fluorescence does your ligand fluoresce? It is possible if it has indol group or some aromatic organic compound Does your protein has a tryptophan or tyrosines in the binding site? If yes may be a fluorescence titration experiment could be the solution. Also fluorescence

Re: [ccp4bb] Assays for protein-ligand interaction?

2014-01-13 Thread Acoot Brett
FRET, CD, Fluorescence, NMR chemical shift assay, isotope-labelled ligand interaction assay, protein melting temperature assay, gel filtration retention assay, gyration radius assay by Malls, native page gel analysis, etc. Acoot On Monday, 13 January 2014 8:51 PM, HJ Lee wrote: Sorry for

Re: [ccp4bb] Assays for protein-ligand interaction?

2014-01-13 Thread Lorenzo Finci
Ho Jun Lee, Have you thought about differential scanning fluorimetry (Thermofluor)? With this biophysical technique you can characterize protein-ligand interactions and screen a wide variety of ligands using minimal concentration of ligand and protein. All you need is a quantitative PCR machine

[ccp4bb] Assays for protein-ligand interaction?

2014-01-13 Thread HJ Lee
Sorry for the off topic. I'm looking for a way to monitor protein-(potential) ligand interaction. The ligand is small molecule (mw~250) and we're looking for its potential interaction with couple human proteins. (We do not know this small molecule interacts with these human protein or not.) Is the

Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: DNA sequence from amino acid

2014-01-13 Thread Opher Gileadi
"reverse translation" from protein to nucleotide does not yield a unique sequence. Your best bet is to use the BLAST feature that searches your protein sequence against the entire genbank DNA database translated into protein: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/Blast.cgi?PROGRAM=tblastn&PAGE_TYPE=

[ccp4bb] Fwd: DNA sequence from amino acid

2014-01-13 Thread Sumita Karan
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sumita Karan Date: Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:00 PM Subject: DNA sequence from amino acid To: CCP4BB@jiscmail.ac.uk Dear all, I am working on eukaryotic protein and have the amino acid sequence of the protein but do no know the sequence of cloned gene. D

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2014-01-13 Thread Dave Brown
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