Re: [ccp4bb] Recommendations for crystallization screens

2024-12-17 Thread Debanu
also the effort of screening, imaging, monitoring, following up on hits for optimization, etc. Best regards, Debanu -- Debanu Das, Ph.D. bio.site/debanu_das On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 3:16 AM Saniya Dubey < f97235562ca7-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear All, > >

Re: [ccp4bb] 图片1

2024-12-05 Thread Debanu
g a micro focus beam) to get some initial characterization of diffraction, and if lucky even get a unit cell/space group to estimate/validate crystal components/composition, verify protein crystals, and if very lucky, may even get an initial data set and/or preliminary structure. Regards, Debanu — Deb

Re: [ccp4bb] The experiment is still very much needed (though AlphaFold helps a lot)

2023-12-01 Thread Debanu Das
ology arsenal, *instead of substituting workhorse solutions and approaches*, potentially *most useful in cases only when experimental structures are not available or not immediately possible to kick off the start of projects*. Best regards, Debanu -- Debanu Das, https://bio.site/debanu_das On Fri, Dec

Re: [ccp4bb] Dry shipper in limbo

2023-07-28 Thread Debanu Das
y/shipping process. Best, Debanu On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 6:30 PM Jan Abendroth wrote: > Hi all, > > In addition to the statements above, our experience has shown that using > the Customs broker as described on the CLS webpage has been helpful. Our > weekly shipments from Seatt

Re: [ccp4bb] Ligand superposition!

2023-07-15 Thread Debanu Das
Coot's lsq ligand; CCP4MG Superpose equivalent ligand (might take some time to do manually or few/many at a time but easy to execute and visualize); try with LSQKAB; or CSD Ligand Overlay (used for ligand-based design when protein structures are unknown). Best, Debanu On Sat, Jul 15, 2023

Re: [ccp4bb] To Trim or Not to To Trim

2023-03-10 Thread Debanu Das
Yes, zero occupancy would reflect that. But not the coordinates in any proper way. Then what would be the point of associating occupancy and B-factors with totally incorrect coordinates? Debanu On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 8:58 AM Jurgen Bosch wrote: > Going back to RIP phasing methods :-) &

Re: [ccp4bb] Structural alignment and classification

2023-03-09 Thread Debanu Das
, Debanu On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 3:57 PM Jon Cooper < 488a26d62010-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > Coot's ssm superposition does give the C-alpha rmsd, though, most easily > seen if you run it from a terminal window? I guess it can't be miles > different

Re: [ccp4bb] To Trim or Not to To Trim

2023-03-09 Thread Debanu Das
-factors, which could lead to fairly incorrect biological interpretations. Best, Debanu On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 7:55 PM Debanu Das wrote: > We dealt with this in-depth during structural genomics days when we > deposited over 1500 novel, high-quality, experimentally-phased structures > int

Re: [ccp4bb] To Trim or Not to To Trim

2023-03-09 Thread Debanu Das
crystallographer/structural biologist can easily add in side chain information if needed for modeling/computational chemistry reasons. Best regards, Debanu On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 6:50 PM Jurgen Bosch wrote: > I’d say no trimming to side chains for the following reason: There are > non-structural biol

Re: [ccp4bb] Future Diffraction Methods

2022-12-24 Thread Debanu Das
Consider merging with the Annual ACA meeting. The ACA meeting can also benefit from more X-ray diffraction methods rigor and training and it will help to elevate the continuity and history of the ACA and its previous and current member participation and contributions in the field. Best, Debanu On

Re: [ccp4bb] Another folding AI

2022-11-03 Thread Debanu Das
Amen. On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 5:19 AM Frank von Delft wrote: > Great, now we have two random number generators. > > > On 03/11/2022 12:10, David J. Schuller wrote: > > https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.20.500902v2 > > Evolutionary-scale prediction of atomic level protein structure w

Re: [ccp4bb] open review?

2022-06-28 Thread Debanu Das
ers and so on. It does not bypass, and is not related to the other aspects of the larger quote I had or the entire set of rules in that link...:) Cheers, Debanu On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 2:26 AM Tim Gruene wrote: > Hi Debanu, > > the section of your quote of the NIH rules is introduc

Re: [ccp4bb] open review?

2022-06-27 Thread Debanu Das
rom a violation of those rules. Participants and stakeholders include but are not limited to" Best regards, Debanu On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 1:13 PM James Holton wrote: > Hey Debanu, > > Hmm. Last time I did it I didn't have to go through any IP lawyers to > upload a pre-pr

Re: [ccp4bb] open review?

2022-06-27 Thread Debanu Das
would actually be no need for a new system to share proposals. All funding agencies just have to open up a portal to access submitted grants (and I'm quite sure the agencies already have massive security around hacking attempts to access all this material). Cheers, Debanu On Mon, Jun 27, 2022

Re: [ccp4bb] open review?

2022-06-27 Thread Debanu Das
or us as a community to always have an eye on a larger and nobler purpose while working within current practicalities and frameworks. Thank you. Best regards, Debanu On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 11:18 AM John R Helliwell wrote: > Dear Debanu, > There is indeed much at stake here. > Would I

Re: [ccp4bb] open review?

2022-06-27 Thread Debanu Das
initiatives. Transparency and openness in publishing research is a different ball game, even though there too there are lopsided effects at the end in many cases, but overall good for world progress, hopefully. Best, Debanu On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 6:09 PM James Holton wrote: > Greetings all, >

Re: [ccp4bb] JCSG structure validation server

2021-12-01 Thread Debanu Das
Hi Mike, As an ex-JCSG team member, I can verify that the JCSG QC structure validation server (as well as other ones we had), are unfortunately not operational anymore. We are trying to rebuild (and reinvent along the way) some more of the JCSG legacy stuff in our current efforts. Best, Debanu On

Re: [ccp4bb] looking for proteins with no homologues in pdb

2021-06-08 Thread Debanu Das
the experimental structure. Best, Debanu -- Debanu Das On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 1:11 PM Scott Horowitz wrote: > For testing purposes, we want to solve structures of proteins that are not > in the PDB and have no significant sequence homologues in the PDB (i.e. a > blast of the pdb will get no sign

Re: [ccp4bb] writing coordinates of full biomol into one (PDB) file

2021-05-25 Thread Debanu Das
And to run it as a single command line option: http://legacy.ccp4.ac.uk/html/pisa.html On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 1:07 PM Debanu Das wrote: > Easy way to do it online: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/pisa/ > or here: http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/pisa/ > > Best, > Debanu > > On Tue, Ma

Re: [ccp4bb] writing coordinates of full biomol into one (PDB) file

2021-05-25 Thread Debanu Das
Easy way to do it online: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/pisa/ or here: http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/pisa/ Best, Debanu On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 1:04 PM Frank Von Delft wrote: > Yes I thought so too, but discovered I am too stupid to decode the highly > parsimonious manual on the ccp4 pages. >

Re: [ccp4bb] writing coordinates of full biomol into one (PDB) file

2021-05-25 Thread Debanu Das
Hi Frank, PISA is your friend here. Thanks, Debanu On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 12:44 PM Frank von Delft < frank.vonde...@cmd.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > Hello all - this presumably has a really simple solution: > > For a PDB file with a (correct) biomolecular assembly record (REMARK > 350),

Re: [ccp4bb] unknown density

2021-04-04 Thread Debanu Das
k at water polygon structures): https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdbwaterpolygon/ Thanks, Debanu On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 10:27 AM Debanu wrote: > Hi, > > This may be of interest in this discussion (the abstract is enlightening > in itself): > > "Water polygons in high‐reso

Re: [ccp4bb] unknown density

2021-04-04 Thread Debanu
k at water polygon structures): https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdbwaterpolygon/ Thanks, Debanu On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 2:15 AM Barone, Matthias wrote: > can confirm jon´s comment. I find these in virtually every high-res > structure. some of them wobble a bit given the AA close by, such

Re: [ccp4bb] Downloading older CCP4 version

2020-10-08 Thread Debanu Das
Hi All, No more responses required, thank you. Best, Debanu On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 8:54 AM Debanu Das wrote: > Hello CCP4BB-ers, > Posting this here as I have been unable to get a response yet from the > CCP4 help desk: > Can anyone point to how (specific download link for this ve

[ccp4bb] Downloading older CCP4 version

2020-10-08 Thread Debanu Das
Hello CCP4BB-ers, Posting this here as I have been unable to get a response yet from the CCP4 help desk: Can anyone point to how (specific download link for this version) I can download ccp4 7.0.72? It appears challenging now to access legacy CCP4 versions. Thanks, Debanu

Re: [ccp4bb] Sad News

2020-07-20 Thread Debanu Das
very well lived with many important contributions to remember. Best regards, Debanu -- Debanu Das, Accelero Biostructures On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 4:55 PM James Holton wrote: > Ward was the Program Official for all my grants! My life will not be > the same without him. He was always so sup

Re: [ccp4bb] Flexible C terminus

2020-03-12 Thread Debanu Das
veals the N-terminal region with conserved amino acids Debanu Das,* Qian Steven Xu,* Jonas Y. Lee, Irina Ankoudinova, Candice Huang, Yun Lou, Andy DeGiovanni, Rosalind Kim, and Sung-Hou Kim" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2023878/ I think there should also be examples of C-term

Re: [ccp4bb] Searching similar local structural conformations

2020-01-09 Thread Debanu Das
Hi, Yes, SPASM works very nicely for doing a comparison like this. See Fig 3 in this publication of ours where we performed a similar analysis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4116655/ Best, Debanu -- Debanu Das On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 3:28 PM Rigden, Dan wrote: > Dear Lei > &

Re: [ccp4bb] Please share your experience about "ugly" crystals showing good diffraction

2018-06-28 Thread Debanu Das
are crystals that appear nice but do not diffract well and there are crystals that do not appear nice but lead to good/usable structures. So it's all about inner beauty. Never give up on crystals/crystal optimization without testing them by X-rays. Best, Debanu On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 5:07 PM,

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic question

2018-03-05 Thread Debanu Das
Hi, I was going to suggest the same but since it has already been said, here’s a cheeky suggestion: you could try determining the crystal structure of the complex and get a direct sequence readout for the nuclei acid. Best, Debanu > On Mar 5, 2018, at 9:34 PM, Philippe BE

Re: [ccp4bb] does 12 A diffraction worth optimization

2018-03-02 Thread Debanu Das
above, you can then consider trying different DNA lengths and blunt-end vs overhangs or different protein constructs. Happy to discuss more about the specific case. Best, Debanu Accelero Biostructures > On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Natalia O wrote: > Hello, > > > > I

Re: [ccp4bb] Hydrophobic hotspots

2017-07-27 Thread Debanu Das
Hi, You can try the following using protein structures: 1) https://sbgrid.org/software/titles/quilt 2) Swiss PDBViewer, detect hydrophobic patches under Tool Surface 3) EBI PISA and look for negative delta G 4) look at protein-protein interaction and interface dbases Best, Debanu > On Jul

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein rapidly precipitates when off ice

2017-07-13 Thread Debanu Das
e? g) Lastly, more esoteric stuff like construct and vector optimization, mutations, etc. I am sure there may be a few other things you can try and there may be more suggestions here. Best, Debanu -- Debanu Das On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10:46 PM, Briggs, David C wrote: > Hi Chris, > &g

Re: [ccp4bb] crystallization optimization

2017-07-12 Thread Debanu Das
Yes, we have done this (addition of water to dilute screen reagents in the well) and also try it now in some cases and in fact, this is also the rationale behind Hampton's Crystal Screen Lite. Best, Debanu -- Debanu Das > On Jul 12, 2017, at 9:01 AM, Alun R Coker wrote: > > So

Re: [ccp4bb] Accidental crystallization of E. coli protein

2017-04-05 Thread Debanu
of work that may be useful for others now or in the future should be reported since publications are also record keeping for the future. Everything does not have to have high scientific impact today. Best, Debanu -- Debanu Das On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 4:46 AM, Stefan Arold wrote: > Hi Mohamed,

Re: [ccp4bb] protein precipitation reg

2017-03-30 Thread Debanu
solubility woes over other factors, you can look into Hampton's (or other vendors) Solubility and Stability Kit: https://hamptonresearch.com/documents/product/hr008095_binder1.pdf Or the pH Slice Kit: https://hamptonresearch.com/product_detail.aspx?cid=30&sid=200&pid=616 Best, Debanu

Re: [ccp4bb] protein precipitation reg

2017-03-29 Thread Debanu Das
Structural Genomics resource to see if there is anything on this target or related targets: http://www.webtb.org/ Best, Debanu On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 6:38 AM, Akilandeswari Gopalan wrote: > Dear all, > I am a PhD student doing structural studies on a few proteins from > Myco

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 > serv

Re: [ccp4bb] comparison of different protein states

2017-01-31 Thread Debanu Das
same metal and overall architecture was similar despite other structure/dimer differences. Referee insisted we mutate our active site residues and compare, which we did. Hope this helps. Best, Debanu -- Debanu Das, Accelero Biostructures On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:40 PM, Guillermo Montoya wrote

Re: [ccp4bb] For stabilizing protein-protein complex

2017-01-31 Thread Debanu
beginning. 3) try reductive methylation on the incubated complex prior to setting up screens if you have numerous exposed lysines. Thanks, Debanu Accelero Biostructures > On Jan 31, 2017, at 8:05 AM, sanjeev kumar wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am trying to stabilize a protein-prote

Re: [ccp4bb] Abraham Szöke

2017-01-30 Thread Debanu Das
density for the missing portion in addition to experimental phasing. "Holographic methods in X-ray crystallography. IV. A fast algorithm and its application to macromolecular crystallography" http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0108767395002315 Best, Debanu --- LinkedIn: www.linke

Re: [ccp4bb] Bad density for chains

2017-01-24 Thread Debanu
superimposing A/B on C/D and refinement with tight NCS then adjust NCS restraints during model adjustments based on local differences or also see if phenix autobuild helps. Best, Debanu -- Debanu Das Accelero Biostructures > On Jan 24, 2017, at 8:42 PM, Pooja Kesari wrote: > >

Re: [ccp4bb] To delete main chain or not

2017-01-10 Thread Debanu
, Debanu Das. > On Jan 10, 2017, at 3:30 AM, V F wrote: > > Dear all, > I have a model with 4 molecules in asu. One of the domains is poorly > ordered, weak density. Please see the screenshot with 2 panel (2 > chains side-by-side). My question: In the right panel: > 1. Should

Re: [ccp4bb] MR solution for a helical protein

2017-01-02 Thread Debanu
/nature/journal/v473/n7348/abs/nature09964.html CNS DEN: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3322598/ Best, Debanu Das > On Jan 2, 2017, at 12:32 PM, Eleanor Dodson wrote: > > I would try harder to get an MR solution from your best homologue. > > Things I would do..

Re: [ccp4bb] Dna model

2016-12-27 Thread Debanu
Hi, You can use 3DNA or NAB (Nucleic Acid Builder) or even try Coot and then use a file converter to mrc. Best, Debanu > On Dec 21, 2016, at 12:05 PM, Anindito Sen wrote: > > Dear All, > > I want to built a 3d model of DNA to be used to show the path of genome > transfer

Re: [ccp4bb] Need suggestion for protein solubility

2016-12-25 Thread Debanu
t low conc under which you may reduce precipitation or even with partial precipitation. Best, Debanu > On Dec 25, 2016, at 6:43 PM, mesters wrote: > > Hi, > > although most widely used, Tris-NaCl buffers may be acceptable for many but > unfortunately by far not all proteins.

Re: [ccp4bb] Need suggestion for protein solubility

2016-12-24 Thread Debanu
storage/freezing. Can try adding a little detergent/non-ionic detergent. Consider different tag (N- vs C-term), construct optimization, engineer mutations (happy to elaborate if desired). Best, Debanu > On Dec 24, 2016, at 4:22 PM, Praveen Tripathi > wrote: > > Dear all, >

Re: [ccp4bb] About crystallization diffraction problem

2014-04-10 Thread Das, Debanu
cryoprotection soak. 5) You should probably try some diffraction (maybe just 1-2 images) without any additional cryo and/or capillary mount in mother liquor to see what your resolution really is and see what is the impact from the cryoprotection step. Best, Debanu. -Original Message

Re: [ccp4bb] Refmac bond restraints across special positions?

2014-03-12 Thread Das, Debanu
555 3555 1.61 LINK PDG C 209 O3' DT D 108 1555 3555 1.61 LINK O3' DT D 108 PDG C 209 1555 2555 1.61 Best, Debanu. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Beh

Re: [ccp4bb] high purity imidazole

2014-02-11 Thread Das, Debanu
Hi Vaheh, I believe this is the list of products you are looking for from 08/21/13? https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ccp4bb;aea5d439.1308 It has the Abs 280 nm of IMD from few different vendors. Regards, Debanu. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board

Re: [ccp4bb] few questions about resolving new structure through MR

2013-11-07 Thread Das, Debanu
you have domainB placed correctly (and can also obtain a reliable solution for domainA), your MR phases can be used later on to locate heavy atom sites by difference Fourier methods and you can also combine with experimental phases in non-optimal cases Best, Deb

Re: [ccp4bb] 3-way obligatory associating proteins

2013-08-09 Thread Das, Debanu
dimer (protein dimer unit C) binds to another already associated dimer (units A and B). Also in DNA replication, transcription and mRNA splicing and translation complexes where recruitment of third or more protein occurs only after initial partners are already in complex. Thanks, Debanu

Re: [ccp4bb] Substrate/Ligand Induced Oligomerization of enzymes

2013-08-09 Thread Das, Debanu
receptor tyrosine kinase, etc. 4) metallopeptidases with dimerization domain Thanks, Debanu. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Shiva Bhowmik Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 10:19 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb

Re: [ccp4bb] list/library of most commonly co-crystallized ligands/solvents and/or their electron density shapes

2013-05-21 Thread Das, Debanu
2010 Jul 6. Ligands in PSI structures. Kumar A, Chiu HJ, Axelrod HL, Morse A, Elsliger MA, Wilson IA, Deacon A. Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA. PMID: 20944227 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20944227 Best, Debanu

Re: [ccp4bb] unique structures

2012-10-15 Thread Das, Debanu
ege of London, London WC1E6BT, UK. ben...@biochem.ucl.ac.uk Hope this helps. Thanks, Debanu. From: CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Sandra Quarantini [sandraquarant...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 3:53 AM To: CCP4BB@

Re: [ccp4bb] solubility estimates for domains/structures?

2012-10-12 Thread Das, Debanu
http://www.biotech.ou.edu/ Thanks, Debanu -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Tommi Kajander Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 10:23 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] solubility estimates for domains/structures? Hi all, Does

Re: [ccp4bb] off-topic: detergents for the stabilisation of water-soluble proteins

2012-10-12 Thread Das, Debanu
be best to check out and screen several detergents, either by mini column purification or by DLS. Thanks, Debanu. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Vitali Stanevich Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 9:42 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.

Re: [ccp4bb] the lysozyme of membrane proteins?

2012-09-11 Thread Das, Debanu
complicated. And it is impressive in architecture too, forming a trimer with 12 TM in each monomer, with 70A span in the periplasm and 50A in the inner membrane and very little in the cytoplasm. Thanks, Debanu. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf

Re: [ccp4bb] structural homology

2012-08-24 Thread Das, Debanu
Adding to the popular suggestions.. Check out the PSI Protein Model Portal (http://www.proteinmodelportal.org/), which allows submission to several servers including I-Tasser and Modeller as well as some informative tutorials on modeling workflow, etc. Also check out some other standalone serve

Re: [ccp4bb] Purify non-stable protein

2012-08-21 Thread Das, Debanu
your target of interest is from a thermostable organism and expressed in E. coli, you can try heating the sample to denature contaminating proteins/proteases. Best, Debanu. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Theresa Hsu Sent: Tuesday

Re: [ccp4bb] DDM

2012-03-26 Thread Das, Debanu
be worthwhile to screen a panel of different detergents for extraction and purification for your particular target. In 2005, we set up a fast protocol for screening a panel of 18 detergents in 48-72 hours, http://smb.slac.stanford.edu/~debanu/posters/012605_PPCW2005_DDAS.pdf, which includes

Re: [ccp4bb] 96-well block storage

2011-06-14 Thread Das, Debanu
biocide sodium azide (~0.01%) might be tried. The robot can be used to dispense in each crystallization drop or manually into the stock solution. Regards, -Debanu. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of aaleshin Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2

Re: [ccp4bb] Ken Olsen, Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, Died Sunday

2011-02-09 Thread Das, Debanu
ir innovations. I hope he and his company will be remembered for all their achievements. Regards, -Debanu. From: Dale Tronrud mailto:det...@uoxray.uoregon.edu>> Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:47 PM Subject: [ccp4bb] Ken Olsen, Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, Died Sunday To: C

Re: [ccp4bb] heavy atom soak

2010-08-12 Thread Das, Debanu
092-1098 Generating isomorphous heavy-atom derivatives by a quick-soak method. Part I: test cases P. D. Sun, S. Radaev and M. Kattah In you r case, brominated DNA would also be a good option without doing soaking. I think there is a paper also on phasing of the P in the DNA backbone. Best, -Deban

Re: [ccp4bb] Suggestions for Reducing Protein Precipitation

2010-08-12 Thread Das, Debanu
glycerol should help to improve solubility You can also check out Hampton's PCT Pre-Crystallization Test. Thanks, -Debanu. From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Matthew Bratkowski Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 11:57 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [c

Re: [ccp4bb] Poor diffraction of eukaryotic membrane protein crystals

2009-02-04 Thread Das, Debanu
large enough and you have many of them that you can pick up and wash well, it would be best to try to get a mass spec on them or run them on a gel to verify. You may try the Rigaku FMS system if you have access to a synchrotron beamline with such a setup. Regards, Debanu. ___ D

Re: [ccp4bb] putting in methionines for SeMet crystals

2009-02-03 Thread Das, Debanu
Aukhil, I., Joshi, P. & Hendrickson, W. A. (1994). Proteins, 19, 48-54 Jones, D. T., Taylor, W. R. & Thornton, J. M. (1992). Comput. Appl. Biosci. 8, 275-282. Good luck! Debanu. --- Debanu Das, JCSG Structure Determination Core, SSRL, SLAC National Accelerator Laborato

Re: [ccp4bb] Cryoprotectant for protein-DNA complex crystal

2008-10-31 Thread Das, Debanu
ay be able to tolerate better the exposure to cryoprotectant or x-rays. Although none of these answer your original question, it may help. Best, Debanu. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Artem Evdokimov Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 3:58

Re: [ccp4bb] question about getting rid of model bias in refinement

2008-07-26 Thread Das, Debanu
omit_box_pdb=target.pdb composite_omit_type=sa_omit For more details: http://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/autobuild.htm#anch159 Regards, Debanu. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William G. Scott Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 11

Re: [ccp4bb] high pI protein

2008-07-09 Thread Das, Debanu
up crystallization screens...while also trying to explore binding partners or construct modifications and other things. Hope this is helpful. Regards, Debanu. From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Colaneri S

Re: [ccp4bb] Parameter MAXSAVE exceeded

2008-07-03 Thread Das, Debanu
If you have phenix installed, you may also try: phenix.cns_as_mtz cns_file.cv http://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/reflection_file_tools.htm Regards, Debanu. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miller, Mitchell D. Sent: Thursday

Re: [ccp4bb] Model ensemble for x-ray crystallography

2008-03-28 Thread Das, Debanu
even the lowest occupany ones ending up with something like 0.1-0.2 occ. In that case, what extra knowledge is gained by modeling 5 or more ensembles other that possibly some lowering of R/Rf (which in itself may be justifiable since lower R/Rf ==> higher model accuracy). -Debanu. -Origi

Re: [ccp4bb] MolRep of coiled coils

2008-03-28 Thread Das, Debanu
reveal the basis for structural polymorphism. Nat Struct Biol. 1996 Dec;3(12):1002-9. Also check tropomysin structure MR attempts from Carolyn Cohen's group. Regards, Debanu. -- Debanu Das, Structure Determination Core, Joint Center for Structural Genomics. Stanford Synchrotron Radi

Re: [ccp4bb] Model ensemble for x-ray crystallography

2008-03-28 Thread Das, Debanu
. Regards, Debanu. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Lucas Bleicher Sent: Fri 3/28/2008 8:13 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Model ensemble for x-ray crystallography Some time ago I've heard about the idea of proposing an ensemble of models (as i

Re: [ccp4bb] Off-topic structural genomics related question.

2008-03-18 Thread Das, Debanu
-SG labs to ~$100K or below for SG structures (taking all costs into account). Regards, Debanu. -- Debanu Das, JCSG, SSRL. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramaswamy Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:03 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Su

Re: [ccp4bb] Side chain chemical modifiers

2008-02-21 Thread Das, Debanu
Hi, You can use dimethylamine borane (DMAB) for reductive methylation of the surface exposed K's. You may also try NaBH4 or sodium cyanoborohydride but the first may be best. Don't know about D's and E's. Best, Debanu. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin

Re: [ccp4bb] Thermofluor experiment

2008-02-13 Thread Das, Debanu
, and competing with sypro orange binding) during the wide range of the temperature cycling. Regards, Debanu. -- Debanu Das, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA. -- -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: [ccp4bb] detergent concentration used for membrane protein purification

2007-12-21 Thread Das, Debanu
contains a flowchart which can get you going. It can help to screen a variety of detergents in about 72 hours. Let me know if you want a copy, I'll have to look for it, but can send it to you. Regards, Debanu. -- Debanu Das, SSRL. From: CCP4 bulletin

Re: [ccp4bb] elusive DNA density

2007-11-06 Thread Das, Debanu
bp into it. And also consider introducing Cys mutations into the protein to get a thiol cross-linked protein-DNA complex. Regards, Debanu. -- Debanu Das, SSRL. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Melody Lin Sent: Tue 11/6/2007 7:36 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK S

Re: [ccp4bb] Modelling loop conformations

2007-10-18 Thread Das, Debanu
/ H. van den Bedem, I. Lotan, J.-C Latombe and A.M. Deacon. (2005). Real-Space Protein-Model Completion: an Inverse-Kinematics Approach. Acta Cryst. D61:2-13 Regards, Debanu. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of seglynn Sent: Thursday

Re: [ccp4bb] SFALL grid

2007-10-11 Thread Das, Debanu
n P3/R3 '' '' '' P3121/p3221 '' '' '' P61/P65 6n 6n 12n Ref: CCP4 manual Check both programs that you used. Hope this helps. Thanks, Debanu. -Orig

Re: [ccp4bb] His tag does not bind.

2007-10-10 Thread Das, Debanu
tag f) You could also try doing a denaturing prep and unfolding the protein. this should probably make it bind but refolding may be a problem for your protein size. however, if you have any assay set up and don't want to re-clone then you could give this a shot. Regar

Re: [ccp4bb] "Quick soak" method

2007-09-25 Thread Das, Debanu
rystals (without any measurement) of a heavy atom compound into the drop with crystals, let is soak for a bit and collected a successful MAD data set on it. Regards, Debanu. From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Logan Sent: Tuesday, Septemb

Re: [ccp4bb] Solvent content of membrane protein crystals

2007-09-24 Thread Das, Debanu
methods. The above techniques are quite well documented in literature. The first 3 can be done in-house and so can FTIR. We were lucky enough to have access to an FTIR setup at ALS. Regards, Debanu. -- Debanu Das, JCSG @ SSRL. Forwarded message -- From: Savvas Savvides <[EM

Re: [ccp4bb] Depositing raw data

2007-08-17 Thread Das, Debanu
be well worth spending say $1000-$2000/structure to get it validated instead of just spending that on printing fancy pictures. With the potential cost savings that labs are getting with the advent on high-throughput methods for expression, purification, crystallization, data collection, and struc

Re: [ccp4bb] Structure help

2007-08-15 Thread Das, Debanu
hould be around 22%)? Check several different placements of the third molecule. Try simulated annealing refinement. What about twinning possibility? You can also use Phaser to try mr in both P43212 and P43 groups just to make sure that the other space group just to make sure your sg choice

Re: [ccp4bb] follow up on model DNA-binding crystals?

2007-08-15 Thread Das, Debanu
protein-DNA complex system almost equivalent to the lysozyme model. Thanks, Debanu. -- Debanu Das, JCSG, SSRL. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Das, Debanu Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:31 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb

Re: [ccp4bb] model DNA-binding crystals?

2007-08-15 Thread Das, Debanu
mple using netropsin, Nucleic Acids Res. 33, 4106-4116. Regards, Debanu. -- Debanu Das, JCSG, SSRL. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank von Delft Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:14 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb]

Re: [ccp4bb] highly soluble proteins

2007-08-08 Thread Das, Debanu
modeling. Regards, Debanu. -- Debanu Das, JCSG, SSRL. - -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Graham Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 11:42 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] highly soluble proteins

Re: [ccp4bb] how to bring back the missing density for half of the structure

2007-07-31 Thread Das, Debanu
to find heavy atoms sites using the partial MR phases and then combine MR+experimental phases. Regards, Debanu. From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Liu Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 2:24 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subj

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein-DNA complex for crystallization

2007-07-16 Thread Das, Debanu
er to: Tan, S. , et. al JMB 2000,297(4), 947-59. Thanks, Debanu. From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of bputcha Sent: Mon 7/16/2007 9:01 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Protein-DNA complex for crystallization Hi, I am trying to crystallize a protei

Re: [ccp4bb] Help with reducing crystal mosaicity

2007-07-11 Thread Das, Debanu
tus to do this (look for Corie Ralston). You can get more information from them or contact Robert Thorne directly. BTW, ALS beamline 12.3.1 has the FMS system if you want to try that out. Regards, Debanu. --- Debanu Das, Stanford Synchrotron Research Laboratory, SLAC, Menlo Pa

Re: [ccp4bb] how to convert matrix to angle

2007-07-07 Thread Das, Debanu
I believe you can use lsqkab and DynDom. Get the direction cosines of the rotation axis w.r.t. the centroid, etc. and also get a graphical representation + some more numbers for angular rotation, etc. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of U Sam Sent: Sat 7/7/2007 9:23

Re: [ccp4bb] how to convert matrix to angle

2007-07-07 Thread Das, Debanu
gers, Palm, Thumb, Connection and RnaseH), the fingers and palm domains align quite nicely, but there is a swing angle of approx. 70 degrees or so, between the connection domains from the two proteins. Thanks, Debanu. -Original Message- From: Bernhard Rupp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sa

Re: [ccp4bb] how to convert matrix to angle

2007-07-07 Thread Das, Debanu
Hi, You can also use LSQKAB in CCP4 to get the angle between two similar domains. -Debanu. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Kay Diederichs Sent: Sat 7/7/2007 7:30 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] how to convert matrix to angle Jiamu Du

Re: [ccp4bb] L-alanosine

2007-07-05 Thread Das, Debanu
ll be, but I think you can try the above ratio or else try to get the pH between 8-9. Thanks, Debanu. From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Jacqueline Vitali Sent: Thu 7/5/2007 6:12 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] L-alanosine Dear colleagues,

Re: [ccp4bb] Low resolution chain tracing

2007-06-15 Thread Das, Debanu
atoms by difference Fourier methods using your partial model phases in case you have not found all possible sites. Getting additional sites may help your starting experimental phases together with combination of partial model phases with exisiting phases. Hope this help. -Debanu. -- Deba

Re: [ccp4bb] Program for colouring DNA

2007-06-13 Thread Das, Debanu
ogram that can make a color-coded picture automatically. Regards, Debanu. -- Debanu Das, Scientist, JCSG, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lab, California. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Aaron Oakley Sent: Wed 6/13/2007 10:02 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [c

Re: [ccp4bb] Program to evaluate RNA torsion angles?

2007-05-08 Thread Das, Debanu
ubmed&cmd=Search&itool=pubmed_AbstractPlus&term=%22Moravek+Z%22%5BAuthor%5D> , Berman HM <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Search&itool=pubmed_AbstractPlus&term=%22Berman+HM%22%5BAuthor%5D> . -Debanu.

Re: [ccp4bb] Alternate space groups for MR in Beast

2007-05-07 Thread Das, Debanu
Hi Ed, I believe BEAST has been replaced by PHASER (which would allow you the option of testing both space groups with only a single input reflection file). I don't think there is any keyword in Beast which would allow you to do the same. Thanks, D

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