[ccp4bb] anisotropic data F(+)_ISOB, F(-)_ISOB output

2015-04-24 Thread Jiangtao Guo
Hi all, I have an anisotropic native data sets with heavy atoms and I want to use the anomalous signal for the final refinement. Does anybody know how to run the anisotropic sharpening and output the F(+)_ISOB, F(-)_ISOB? It seems both the anisotropy server (UCLA) and phaser_anisotropy analysis can

Re: [ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position at Harvard Medical School

2015-04-24 Thread Sun Hur
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Re: [ccp4bb] PDBcur fails with error message

2015-04-24 Thread William G. Scott
Hi Jeorge: My Luddite approach to such things: grep -v ANISOU original.pdb > iso_only.pdb HTH, Bill William G. Scott http://scottlab.ucsc.edu/~wgscott > On Apr 24, 2015, at 8:54 AM, jeorgemarley thomas > wrote: > > Dear All, > > Here is the CCP4 version 6.5 installed, whe

[ccp4bb] PDBcur fails with error message

2015-04-24 Thread jeorgemarley thomas
Dear All, Here is the CCP4 version 6.5 installed, where I want to remove the ANISOU atoms from the pdb file, but its shows failed job with an error message : "has failed with error message child process exited abnormally" So I am not able to figure it out, how to rectify. Please suggest. Thank y

[ccp4bb] Post doctoral position in molecular membrane biology

2015-04-24 Thread Julia Preu
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Re: [ccp4bb] Lipid molecule

2015-04-24 Thread Keller, Jacob
You could try an LLG anomalous map from Phaser as well to clarify the matter: in my experience, even sulfurs are found, and your Rb should have f” ~0.75 even at 1 Ang xrays. Also, you could refine in Refmac including anomalous data, and refine occupancy of Rb. Having both modeled into the data

[ccp4bb] Lipid molecule

2015-04-24 Thread Jarrod Mousa
Hi all, Picture attached. I solved the structure of a membrane protein using LCP. When trying to identify the cation-binding site, I co-crystallized with Rb+. I see strong density corresponding to Rb+, and it was confirmed in an isomorphous difference map. One problem: in the native structure I

Re: [ccp4bb] Thin plate crystals

2015-04-24 Thread Tanner, John J.
Following up on Dave's suggestion, you could try using crystal screens as additives. This has worked well in my lab. The idea is to mix the condition that you currently have (the "base") with all the crystal screen reagents you have in stock (CS, Index, etc.). As a first trial, use reservoirs

[ccp4bb] Fwd: [ccp4bb] Structural classification

2015-04-24 Thread gert
Dear Deepa, When classifying structures you need to first ask "why?". For example, if you want to get an idea about evolutionary relations, you must try to find their DNA sequences and analyse those in the light of a multiple sequence alignment (MSA) that follows the protein alignment. In phar

[ccp4bb] Structural classification

2015-04-24 Thread Deepa Raju
Dear all, I am Deepa, MSc final year student. For my final year project, I am working on protein structure classification. I have a set of 300 methyltransferase protein structures. I wish to classify the proteins in to different groups based on their secondary structures and sequence. I have t

Re: [ccp4bb] Thin plate crystals

2015-04-24 Thread Jurgen Bosch
Along those lines suggested by David I would say these crystals are way too big. Try freezing some when they are smaller. It would also be worth trying to freeze in meshes to support the fragile plate instead of conventional loops. J?rgen .. J?rgen Bosch Johns Hopkins Universi

Re: [ccp4bb] Maximising anomalous signal in helical/line scan

2015-04-24 Thread Frank von Delft
There's some discussion of this in here: http://journals.iucr.org/d/issues/2013/07/00/ba5199/index.html section 6.5. But basically you figure out how much dose a volume can take, and then change collection parameters so that each volume gets that full dose. The "strategy" is just one way to qu

Re: [ccp4bb] Maximising anomalous signal in helical/line scan

2015-04-24 Thread Matthew BOWLER
Hi Mark, I think William was asking by how much he could increase the transmission by given a certain crystal size - the rough answer being he could increase to 100% as he has ~10 positions given the beam and crystal size... But a proper calculation is always better and of course one has

Re: [ccp4bb] Maximising anomalous signal in helical/line scan

2015-04-24 Thread Mark J van Raaij
Hi Matthew, William seems to want to increase the x-ray intensity gradually during the experiment by augmenting the transmission gradually. It that possible? If so, would it be advisable? Mark J van Raaij Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-

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2015-04-24 Thread Echalier, Aude M.P.C. (Dr.)
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Re: [ccp4bb] Maximising anomalous signal in helical/line scan

2015-04-24 Thread Matthew BOWLER
Dear William, at the ESRF we have a Helical characterisation workflow that will calculate a strategy based on the observed diffraction patterns and the distance between 2 points selected on a crystal, best wishes, Matt. On 2015-04-24 12:00, William Chao wrote: Dear all, Does anyone have ex

[ccp4bb] aimless error

2015-04-24 Thread Daniel Lietha
Hi, I try to run aimless (on OS10.6, CCP4v6.5.007) using as input a xds output. Aimless actually finishes (and scales fine), but then I get the error below and truncate does not start: --- /CCP4/S1_9_Kin_VSCFAKK7_6_correlplot.xmgr" ROGUEPLOT "/Users/CSAG/Structural/PROC/2015_04_19

[ccp4bb] Maximising anomalous signal in helical/line scan

2015-04-24 Thread William Chao
Dear all, Does anyone have experience in maximising anomalous signal during a helical/line scan? Most (all?) automated data collection strategies in synchrotrons seem to work on a single point of a crystal but don't give strategies for line scan. Would it be advisable to increase the recommende

Re: [ccp4bb] Cleaved peptide density!

2015-04-24 Thread Seijo, Jose A. Cuesta
Hi all, late to the discussion as usual... Related to the issue of "why does my single point mutant appear to have residual activity", what do people here make of this warning from 1989? http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ar00163a001 Some highlights: "Substitution of the Ser68 codon with a codo

[ccp4bb] structural biology postdoc position at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology

2015-04-24 Thread Julie Welburn
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Re: [ccp4bb] Thin plate crystals

2015-04-24 Thread Gang Dong
Lysine-methylation has proved to be helpful to change the molecular packing in protein crystals (i.e. you might obtain a completely different crystal form). _Gang From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Prerana G. Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 5:01 AM To: CCP4BB@J

Re: [ccp4bb] Thin plate crystals

2015-04-24 Thread Hargreaves, David
The crystals don't look that bad in my opinion. Maybe the cryo step is sub optimal? Try using large loops (reduces surface tension forces during transfer). Butane 2,3 diol is a good cryo to try. Maybe shoot them at room temp (in situ) to get an idea of how they diffract before you manipulate the

Re: [ccp4bb] Thin plate crystals

2015-04-24 Thread Andrew Leslie
There have been quite a few reports that the addition of a low concentration of alcohol (e.g. isopropanol, a few %) can help to increase the thickness of thin plate crystals like these. However, these are probably in the Hampton additive screen that David Briggs suggested. Good luck, Andrew O