[ccp4bb] Re: [ccp4bb] Fwd: Regarding Sel-Met containing proteing crystallisation

2011-06-13 Thread tat cheung cheng
Or maybe a problem of oxidation? I had a Se-met crystal that could be crystallized and diffracted just like the native one, but only in the presence of the reducing agent (TCEP), no crystal otherwise. Tc 寄件人﹕ Frederic VELLIEUX 收件人﹕ CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 傳送日

[ccp4bb] Psuedo translational symmetry in a nutshell?

2010-06-15 Thread tat cheung cheng
Hi all, Pseudo translational symmetry problem was detected in my crystal. I am going to summarize my work on this in presentation and thesis. While some of my examiners are not crystallographer, and I notice there are several good papers on this, but I wonder is there any way to present the pr

[ccp4bb] Re: [ccp4bb] Mysterious Crystals?

2010-04-18 Thread tat cheung cheng
roze these crystals- one should also try putting a crystal in the beam without cryo-cooling, as cryo-cooling can often be detrimental to diffraction. Cheers, tom From:CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of tat cheung cheng Sent: Monday, 19 Ap

[ccp4bb] Re: [ccp4bb] Mysterious Crystals?

2010-04-18 Thread tat cheung cheng
then run them on a SDS-gel, then you will know for sure if it's protein or not. J僡gen On Apr 18, 2010, at 10:46 PM, tat cheung cheng wrote: Hi all, > >I have got some crystals, the purified protein was in Tris buffer with 300mM >NaCl for crystallization. they grew in light we

[ccp4bb] Mysterious Crystals?

2010-04-18 Thread tat cheung cheng
Hi all, I have got some crystals, the purified protein was in Tris buffer with 300mM NaCl for crystallization. they grew in light weight PEG, PEG400 or monomethyl ethyl PEG500, they were needle shaped, could be long (~0.2mm) but very thin all the time and sometimes grew into sea-urchin like ne

[ccp4bb] About sel-met oxidation

2009-08-03 Thread tat cheung cheng
Hi all, I am now preparing to label my protein with selenium-methionine for phasing. As I have heard that selenium-methionine is prone to oxidation, so is it a must to add reducing agent all along the purification? if so, which reducing agent and what concentration is better ? and any alternati

[ccp4bb] Halide soaking

2009-03-31 Thread tat cheung cheng
Hi all I am now trying to do bromide soaking, but i am not really sure does the bromide atom enter my crystal. So is there any signs that indicate the entry of bromide atom? e.g. does the space group, cell dimension change? or just nothing change, and the bromide atom just get in? Thanks very