[ccp4bb] AKTA Prime dead/delay volume...and a transmembrane protein...

2010-12-21 Thread James Pauff
Hello all, Does anyone have a rough estimate (or has anyone actually determined) an average dead/delay volume between buffers run on an AKTA Prime FPLC? We are attempting to overexpress/isolate a smaller His-tagged transmembrane protein, and require running several detergent buffers in success

[ccp4bb] Last issue - Lower completeness, decent R factors, but low B factor...

2008-08-20 Thread James Pauff
(this seems not the case) > c) too many overlaps during collection, mosaicity > Guess 1) is your case, if I can. > > Also, good R factors from low-completeness (either reason > above) is > less reliable. > > Good luck. > > Lijun > > > On Aug 20

[ccp4bb] Wilson plot from truncated.mtz

2008-08-20 Thread James Pauff
t; Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Lower completeness, decent R factors, but low B > factor... > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 4:30 AM > James Pauff wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have a refined structure at 2.6 angstroms that at > about 73% comp

[ccp4bb] Lower completeness, decent R factors, but low B factor...

2008-08-20 Thread James Pauff
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: CCP4BB@jiscmail.ac.uk > Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 4:30 AM > James Pauff wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have a refined structure at 2.6 angstroms that at > about 73% completeness at this resolution. The I/sigma is > about 2.0 at 2.6 ang

[ccp4bb] Lower completeness, decent R factors, but low B factor...

2008-08-19 Thread James Pauff
Hello all, I have a refined structure at 2.6 angstroms that at about 73% completeness at this resolution. The I/sigma is about 2.0 at 2.6 angstroms, and the omit density for my ligands is great contoured at 3.0sigma. My Rcryst is 19 or so and the Rfree is 24.5 or so. HOWEVER, my mean B value

[ccp4bb] convenient means to find I/sigma for publications?

2008-04-01 Thread James Pauff
Hello all, Silly question, but what is the most convenient means to find the overall I/sigma and the I/sigma for the highest resolution shell in CCP4? At the end of refinement and validation, and after running PROCHECK, I am still using a very convoluted route to obtaining these numbers. Thanks!

[ccp4bb] CCP4 in Linux Fedora 7

2007-10-24 Thread James Pauff
Perhaps a silly question, but I've asked at least a couple of those before... We have been running CCP4 6.0.2 on Windows and Macintosh systems, but have recently purchased two supercomputers that are set up with Linux Fedora 7 for computational work. We are trying to put CCP4 onto these computers

[ccp4bb] HETATM records changed to ATOM records by REFMAC

2007-09-14 Thread James Pauff
Good morning/afternoon, evening again all, As sort of a "last question" on this current project, I have noticed that my final input PDB gets altered by REFMAC when it constructs the output PDB. In the output _refmac1.pdb file, all of my HETATM records are changed back to ATOM records, and my TER

[ccp4bb] HETATM to ATOM change, and atom identifier change in REFMAC...

2007-09-12 Thread James Pauff
Good morning/day/evening all, I have a structure that is refined, with the exception of the molybdenum (MoOOS) cofactors (there are two of them), which are square pyramidal and coordinated to 2 sulfurs in an enedithiolate of a pterin ring. I have brought up my issues with refining this before in

Re: [ccp4bb] needles vs crystals

2007-08-07 Thread James Pauff
Shivesh, Having gone down the "needles vs. crystals" route recently, my two suggestions would be: 1) Lower the protein concentration to 10 mg/ml 2) Slightly lower your precipitant percentage, say to 26%. My situation involved PEG4000, and I noticed that modifying the protocol to PEG8000 at a sl

[ccp4bb] Metal-ligand(s) positioning following refinement...

2007-07-11 Thread James Pauff
Good day all, I have a metal center in my enzyme active site, in a roughly square pyramidal coordination. I know from EXAFS and other work how this coordination sphere should look, but following REFMAC the cofactor here does not end up realistically coordinated/oriented. Although it is in the de

[ccp4bb] Establishing connecitivity Part II...

2007-06-12 Thread James Pauff
Hello again all, sorry to clutter your inboxes... With regards to my problem of connecting a Molybdopterin correctly, does anyone have suggestions as to the use of LINK statements in my coordinate file? Or the use of LINK statements at all? This was an idea when we first started refining the str

[ccp4bb] Establishing connecitivity...

2007-06-11 Thread James Pauff
Hello again all, We have a molybdopterin active site cofactor. It is a single molybdenum atom, with 2 oxygens and 1 sulfur as ligands, and coordinated to a pterin ring via 2 more sulfur atoms. The geometry of the molybdenum is very roughly square pyramidal. The issue that we are having involves

[ccp4bb] Rfree into an existing mtz...

2007-05-31 Thread James Pauff
Good day all, What is the best means of getting a freeR column into an existing mtz file? I've noticed the "Edit MTZ" command bar in CCP4, but there are other options (such as conversion to XPLOR and then back to MTZ) that seem to be able to accomplish the same thing, although there appear to be

[ccp4bb] another quick question...

2007-05-24 Thread James Pauff
ing" amino acid that has the occassional visible R group. Just wondering what this means, that I am seeing stellate points that seem to be acting as place holders for my residues in a couple locations in my structure. The structure was obtained using molrep. Th

[ccp4bb] quick question... thanks

2007-05-11 Thread James Pauff
Thank you all, that was much easier than I expected. Best, Jim Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/

[ccp4bb] quick question...

2007-05-11 Thread James Pauff
Good day all, First off, thank you all so much for your help a couple days ago! I just have a quick question regarding the use of CCP4 to generate density maps. Is there a way to generate a map(s) that can be read into PyMol? I understand that PyMol can only read CNS or XPLOR maps, is this corr

Re: [ccp4bb] Ligand insertion and orientation...

2007-05-09 Thread James Pauff
> using the difference > > density map at this point. Then go to > Calculate/Merge Molecules and > > select which one you want to merge, save the new > coordinates including > > your found ligand. > > > > Good luck, > > > > Juergen &

[ccp4bb] Ligand insertion and orientation...

2007-05-09 Thread James Pauff
Good day all, I have what may be a very simple question. I am trying to insert a substrate/ligand into the active site of my enzyme using COOT, into electron density that I have already utilized in "O" for this purpose. I've created the substrate library file (*.cif) using a pdb file from PRODRG