Re: [ccp4bb] symmetry and pdb remark

2017-02-01 Thread Smith Lee
Dear All, I got the each of 6 mates coordination for each pdb by Coot or by Chimera. Then viewed the arrangement of the 6 mates for 2zan or 2zao by Pymol or by Chimera. You will find, for the 6 mates of 2zan, they were separated, but for 2zao they were connected. Then by pymol I align 2zan onto

[ccp4bb] symmetry and pdb remark

2017-02-01 Thread Smith Lee
Dear All, I have a symmetry problem, which I hope I can get your help. For both PDB 2zan and 2zam, they are for the same protein, they conformation were similar except that 2zam was apo and 2zam was ATP binding. 2zaz was got by soaking the 2zam crystal with ATP. Both were P65 space group Howeve

[ccp4bb] 10th CCP4/APS Crystallographic School in the USA

2017-02-01 Thread Sanishvili, Ruslan
Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the 10th annual CCP4 crystallographic school “>From data collection to structure refinement and beyond”, held at Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). All details can be found at http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/schools/APS-2017/index.

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac5 and Coot for refining cryo-EM structures

2017-02-01 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
The main issue is that carboxyls seem to be invisible and Coot tries to fit them as though the map had them there Well, if the atoms are part of the model, then Coot will try to fit them to the "data." I routinely chop off GLU and ASP side-chain when modelling into cryo-EM maps (that's what th

Re: [ccp4bb] intermolecular dissulphides

2017-02-01 Thread Tom Peat
Hello Eleanor, We found some intermolecular vicinal disulfides recently that we think are 'real'. This class of proteins forms tetramers and in one version we find these intermolecular disulfides across molecules. We did some tests and found that oxidation or reduction has an effect on the sta

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac5 and Coot for refining cryo-EM structures

2017-02-01 Thread Paul Emsley
On 01/02/2017 17:11, Trevor Sewell wrote: I have a 3.4 A (enzyme – protein only) map that I have fitted manually using Coot and automatically with Rapper. It all looks very nice – I can fit all but 13 of the 330 residues. I have the following questions: Is there a way of having Coot know tha

Re: [ccp4bb] intermolecular dissulphides

2017-02-01 Thread Edward A. Berry
Does this count as an example? grep SSBOND /a/pdb/pdb4e9m.ent SSBOND 1 CYS A 39CYS B 39 1555 1555 2.05 SSBOND 2 CYS C 39CYS D 39 1555 1555 2.04 SSBOND 3 CYS E 39CYS F 39 1555 1555 2.03

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac5 and Coot for refining cryo-EM structures

2017-02-01 Thread Fislage, Marcus
Dear Trevor, I do not know if you are aware of it but there is a different version of refmac which is just made for Cryo-EM refinements. (http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/murshudov/content/software.html) In there, Refmac reports an average FSC value which is way more useful than the R-facto

[ccp4bb] Refmac5 and Coot for refining cryo-EM structures

2017-02-01 Thread Trevor Sewell
I have a 3.4 A (enzyme – protein only) map that I have fitted manually using Coot and automatically with Rapper. It all looks very nice – I can fit all but 13 of the 330 residues. I have the following questions: Does refmac5 have a way of refining the scale of the map? – I did my best to calibr

Re: [ccp4bb] comparison of different protein states

2017-02-01 Thread Guillermo Montoya
Dear all, thanks for your input cheers!! G. On 1 Feb 2017, at 17:17, Debanu mailto:debanu@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear Xavier, Great point and reminder! Thanks, Debanu On Feb 1, 2017, at 6:44 AM, Boaz Shaanan mailto:bshaa...@bgu.ac.il>> wrote: Hi, One possible (formal, I should say) wa

Re: [ccp4bb] intermolecular dissulphides

2017-02-01 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Thank you for all this information, and especially Paul for having a good search query - I had got nothing useful from any I tried at PDBe or RSCB. No idea why it has been formed - the fold is identical to a high resolution example (1.3A) where the disulphide links the N & C termini within a sing

Re: [ccp4bb] comparison of different protein states

2017-02-01 Thread Debanu
Dear Xavier, Great point and reminder! Thanks, Debanu > On Feb 1, 2017, at 6:44 AM, Boaz Shaanan wrote: > > Hi, > One possible (formal, I should say) way around this would be to use one of > the homology modeling servers (my favourite recently is phyre2 but go for any > server you prefer) and

[ccp4bb] Symmetry problems..

2017-02-01 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Oh dear - more symmetry Qs. This has arisen from the SSBOND to a symmetry equivalent puzzle with links 1_555 (X,Y,Z) to 9_565 (X,1+X-y,1/6-Z) IF you are using the $CLIB/ symlib.info but links 1_555 to 12_565 if you are using the mmdb order of symmetry operators.. . Aaaah!!! Eleanor

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] intermolecular dissulphides

2017-02-01 Thread Herman . Schreuder
Dear Eleanor, I did not check the pdb file you mentioned, but I have had a case like that. The protein formed a complex of 8 large and 8 small subunits with internal 422 symmetry. There was a disulfide link across the internal twofolds and in one of the crystal forms we got, this internal twofo

Re: [ccp4bb] intermolecular dissulphides

2017-02-01 Thread Keller, Jacob
I solved a structure years ago (1L31 and a couple related entries) which had intermolecular oligomerizing disulfides in some of the crystals (reciprocal C23-C27’ and C23’-C27). I thought at the time that they seemed too “deliberate” to be just an artifact, but others thought that since the enzym

Re: [ccp4bb] Manual His-Tag Purification

2017-02-01 Thread David Blum
Hi Sundaram, The binding capacity of this column is 40 mg/mL of resin so a 5mL column will hold a maximum of 200 mg of protein. If you run your cleared lysate on a gel you may be able to estimate how much protein there is. Our facility purifies a range of different proteins for investigators and

[ccp4bb] intermolecular dissulphides

2017-02-01 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Does anyone know of examples of these? I have found one - 2WQW with these SSBOND records 2WQW SSBOND 1 CYS A 206CYS A 227 1555 6556 2.07 SSBOND 2 CYS B 206CYS B 227 1555 5556 2.15 We seem to have one but it would have to form af

Re: [ccp4bb] comparison of different protein states

2017-02-01 Thread Boaz Shaanan
Hi, One possible (formal, I should say) way around this would be to use one of the homology modeling servers (my favourite recently is phyre2 but go for any server you prefer) and feed it with the sequence of the protein in your structure as if you're trying to get its structure in the''apo''

Re: [ccp4bb] RMSD plot

2017-02-01 Thread Tanner, John J.
CNS, if sequences are identical. Sent from Jack's iPhone > On Feb 1, 2017, at 4:26 AM, Madhuranayaki Thulasingam > wrote: > > Dear all, > > I would like to plot RMSD vs amino acids for two superimposed crystal > structures. > > Can anyone suggest me a way to do it. > > Thanks in advance,

Re: [ccp4bb] RMSD plot

2017-02-01 Thread Graeme Winter
Dear Madhu I think LSQKAB does what you want http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/lsqkab.html (at least, from the description you gave) Best wishes Graeme From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Madhuranayaki Thulasingam Sent: 01 February 2017 10:25 To: ccp4bb Subject: [cc

[ccp4bb] RMSD plot

2017-02-01 Thread Madhuranayaki Thulasingam
Dear all, I would like to plot RMSD vs amino acids for two superimposed crystal structures. Can anyone suggest me a way to do it. Thanks in advance, Madhu.

Re: [ccp4bb] Manual His-Tag Purification

2017-02-01 Thread Tim Gruene
Dear Sundaram S, during my PhD I used 4-7.5ml resin per l of culture, but I also had a large yield of 60-100mg protein per litre. Try to use as little as possible - at first trial check both flow-through and retentate by SDS-PAGE. (see. p. 40 and 54 of my thesis). My constructs would also bind

Re: [ccp4bb] Manual His-Tag Purification

2017-02-01 Thread Horrell, Sam
This should give you everything you need to know about the column http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/technical-documents/protocols/biology/roche/complete-his-tag-purification-column.html I'd definitely say load all of your lysate, possibly run it through twice if you really want to. If you're worried

[ccp4bb] Manual His-Tag Purification

2017-02-01 Thread Sundaram
Hello , It's an off topic question. I'm planning to do manual purification a 6 his tagged protein of size around 20kDa from 1L E.coli culture using COHISC-RO Roche cOmplete™ His-Tag Purification Column. Can I get some advice regarding the lysate loading volume and retention time. This is the fi

[ccp4bb] Fwd: Re: [ccp4bb] comparison of different protein states

2017-02-01 Thread F.Xavier Gomis-Rüth
Dear all, just a side comment to Guillermo's and Debanu´s discussion, which deals with the term "apo". I got the text below from a reviewer, who—as an exception ;-)—was absolutely right: In enzymology, enzymes that require the aid of cofactors such as metal ions or prosthetic groups (e.g.

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot and pymol 3D for Centos 7?

2017-02-01 Thread mesters
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