Re: [ccp4bb] Protein expression

2015-03-19 Thread John Fisher
Hi Reza. Clearly nobody needs to know anything about what protein you are specifically working on; that being said, in order to avoid a potentially endless email string of expert advices, please include everything detail-wise regarding your expression system, culture conditions, induction, and lysi

[ccp4bb] on Baton build

2015-03-19 Thread Smith Liu
Dear All, In coot when I try to build a peptide by baton method, I find the starting point of the baton starts from somewhere in the sidechain rather than from the Calpha position. In addition, when I try to changing the starting residue by Baton-build params, the starting point of the Baton d

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein expression

2015-03-19 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Question: you're taking a 3-ml equivalent out of 500 ml culture, and processing it as if it was a 3ml culture? Or are you basing the result on processing the entire 500ml? Reason I ask this is simply to make sure your extraction/purification timing is the same in both cases. It matters! Assuming

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein expression

2015-03-19 Thread Tiit Lukk
Dear Reza, It sounds to me like an aeration issue. I don't of course know how the 3 ml culture is grown, but if say the small culture is less perfectly aerated and slightly anaerobic, slower growth would mean slower metabolism and slower protein production as well so things do not build up so easi

[ccp4bb] Protein expression

2015-03-19 Thread Reza Khayat
Hi, We can express quite a bit of soluble protein when growing 3ml cultures. However, the protein becomes insoluble (inclusion bodies) when we scale up to 500ml cultures. Has anyone experienced such a problem, and found a solution to it? Thanks. Best wishes, Reza Reza Khayat, PhD Assistant Pr

Re: [ccp4bb] invalid dataset in BLEND

2015-03-19 Thread James Foadi
Dear Charles,BLEND assumes data to be continuous sweeps, i.e. they should not include gaps. A valid data set,for example, could go from image 1 to image 100; an invalid one from 1 to 20 and, say, 22 to 100 - forsome reason image 21 has gone missing. This can be annoying, I know, and, indeed, a f

[ccp4bb] blend recognized dataset as invalid

2015-03-19 Thread CPMAS Chen
when I use BLEND to analyze multiple mtz files, some are reported as invalid datasets. I processed these datasets in the same way, XDS and then POINTLESS. I am looking at the detail of the processing. Meanwhile, I would like to know what others could make these datasets invalid as judged by BLEND

Re: [ccp4bb] Offtopic: Software to closely visualize interacting partnets in protein complex

2015-03-19 Thread mrabet
Hi all, I should mention 2D-GraLab which is a nice program (you must register to download it) to display in 2D and analyze (a little bit as LigPlot) interactions between two chains within a structure. I have verified the data outputs for several interacting partners using a different program.

[ccp4bb] Image Plate Detector Interfaced to Bruker Instrument

2015-03-19 Thread Kennedy, Michael
Has anyone interfaced an image plate detector to a Bruker Microstar micro focus with 3-axis goniometer? We have a Bruker AXS Proteum/R 6000 with a smart 6000 CCD detector, but the CCD detector has died. I am wondering if it is possible to replace the CCD detector with an image plate detector? The

[ccp4bb] Technic assistant PSI / schertler

2015-03-19 Thread Schertler Gebhard (PSI)
Website: http://www.psi.ch/lbr/ Technical Assistant Membrane Protein Production, Purification and Crystallisation Laboratory of Biomolecular Research – Schertler Lab Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland Description The Paul Scherrer Institute PSI is the largest research centre for natural an

[ccp4bb] Access to research infrastructure

2015-03-19 Thread Claudia Alen Amaro
Dear All Instruct and BioStruct-X need your help to learn from your experience of accessing structural biology research infrastructure in the last few years using Instruct or any other access route. The information you provide will help us to improve the access we provide and plan for future ch

[ccp4bb] invalid dataset in BLEND

2015-03-19 Thread CPMAS Chen
Dear All, when I use BLEND to analyze XDS-POINTLESS processed mtz files, some are reported as invalid datasets. Do you guys have some suggestions on what could be wrong with the datasets? I processed these datasets in the same way, XDS and then POINTLESS. I am looking the detail of the processing

Re: [ccp4bb] on openning the PDB file and the mtz file by Coot

2015-03-19 Thread Steven Chou
Hi Smith, Both PDB and MTZ have records on their headers to specify the cell dimensions and space group. And for an MTZ, once the cell dimension and space group are fixed, its coordinate origins can also be fixed. For a PDB, its "CRYST1" record specifies its unit cell dimensions and space group.

Re: [ccp4bb] on openning the PDB file and the mtz file by Coot

2015-03-19 Thread luzuok
Dear Smith, Coot calculates electronic map from data columns in the mtz file. If a correct model (atomic coordinates) in a PDB file is generated from the mtz file (Model building). This mode (PDB file) will " fit " the mtz file. Yours Sincerely! Lu Zuokun -- 卢作焜 南开大学新生物站A202 在 2015-0

Re: [ccp4bb] Antw: Re: [ccp4bb] Offtopic: Software to closely visualize interacting partnets in protein complex

2015-03-19 Thread MARTYN SYMMONS
As this is a ccp4 bb we should mention the jsPISA server which is at http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/pisa/ This is a very nice implementation of the PISA approach. Another approach is to use the Chimera clash finding approach http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/findclash/findclash.html

[ccp4bb] Postdoc position available - PPI drug discovery

2015-03-19 Thread Beavil, Andrew
A 1-year crystallography postdoctoral position is available at King’s College London (Sutton, McDonnell & Beavil) to work on small-molecule inhibitors of a protein-protein interaction, as part of an ongoing collaboration with an industrial partner. Please see: https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/106

Re: [ccp4bb] on openning the PDB file and the mtz file by Coot

2015-03-19 Thread Carlos CONTRERAS-MARTEL
On 03/19/2015 07:20 AM, Smith Liu wrote: Suppose I have a PDB file and a mtz file (PDB file from protein A, mtz file from protein B, which is a homology protein of protein A) which are not from the same refinment (thus not fit automatically in Coot), will you please tell me what modification I