Re: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn

2012-11-01 Thread Armin Wagner
@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Jrh Sent: 31 October 2012 08:20 To: ccp4bb Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn Dear Ethan, Yes indeed. An exciting development underway at Diamond Light Source led by Armin Wagner will greatly improve the ease of measurement at eg the calcium edge but also extending that

Re: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn

2012-10-31 Thread Jrh
wrote: >>>> >>>>> Veerendra, >>>>> >>>>> You can rule out if zinc has replaced calcium ions (although I agree with >>>>> Nat and others that looking at the coordination sphere should give a big >>>>> clue) by

Re: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn

2012-10-30 Thread Ethan Merritt
ue. > >>> You can learn how many zinc, if any, have bound per one protein molecule > >>> in the dissolved crystal. > >>> > >>> Best > >>> Chitta > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> - Original

Re: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn

2012-10-30 Thread Jrh
ve bound per one protein molecule in >>> the dissolved crystal. >>> >>> Best >>> Chitta >>> >>> >>> >>> - Original Message - >>> From: "Veerendra Kumar" >>> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.

Re: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn

2012-10-30 Thread Ethan Merritt
nd per one protein molecule in > > the dissolved crystal. > > > > Best > > Chitta > > > > > > > > - Original Message ----- > > From: "Veerendra Kumar" > > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > > Sent: Tuesday, October 30

Re: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn

2012-10-30 Thread Adrian Goldman
iginal Message - > From: "Veerendra Kumar" > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 2:55:33 PM > Subject: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn > > Dear CCP4bb users, > > I am working on a Ca2+ binding protein. it has 4-5 ca2+ binding sites. I > purified t

Re: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn

2012-10-30 Thread Chittaranjan Das
technique. You can learn how many zinc, if any, have bound per one protein molecule in the dissolved crystal. Best Chitta - Original Message - From: "Veerendra Kumar" To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 2:55:33 PM Subject: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn Dear CCP4bb us

Re: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn

2012-10-30 Thread James Holton
Do occupancy refinement. Especially if you use the new "anomalous refinement" option available in refmac, phenix.refine and other packages as well, you should be able to get a pretty reliable number for how many "real electrons" as well as "anomalous electrons" are at each site. At almost any

Re: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn

2012-10-30 Thread Bosch, Juergen
same > locations? > > > From: CCP4 bulletin board [CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] on behalf of Kumar, > Veerendra [veerendra.ku...@uconn.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 1:55 PM > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn > &g

Re: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn

2012-10-30 Thread David Schuller
On 10/30/12 15:02, Bosch, Juergen wrote: calculate an anomalous map, you should see the Zn signal even if you collected at the SeMet peak. Jürgen .. Ca can have a noticeable anomalous signal of its own, if your data are good. If the possibility to collect new data exists,

Re: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn

2012-10-30 Thread Robbie Joosten
board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of > Kumar, Veerendra > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 19:56 > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn > > Dear CCP4bb users, > > I am working on a Ca2+ binding protein. it has 4-5 ca2+ binding sites. I > pur

Re: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn

2012-10-30 Thread Nat Echols
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Jim Pflugrath wrote: > How would you distinguish between a mixture of Ca and Zn in the same > locations? How often would they be likely to bind in the same place? Some of the other transition metals are difficult to tell apart, but Ca and Zn have very different

Re: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn

2012-10-30 Thread Jim Pflugrath
Subject: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn Dear CCP4bb users, I am working on a Ca2+ binding protein. it has 4-5 ca2+ binding sites. I purified the protein in presence of Ca2+ and crystallized the Ca2+ bound protein. I got crystal and solved the structure by SAD phasing at 2.1A resolution. I can see the clear

Re: [ccp4bb] Ca or Zn

2012-10-30 Thread Bosch, Juergen
calculate an anomalous map, you should see the Zn signal even if you collected at the SeMet peak. Jürgen .. Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North

[ccp4bb] Ca or Zn

2012-10-30 Thread Kumar, Veerendra
Dear CCP4bb users, I am working on a Ca2+ binding protein. it has 4-5 ca2+ binding sites. I purified the protein in presence of Ca2+ and crystallized the Ca2+ bound protein. I got crystal and solved the structure by SAD phasing at 2.1A resolution. I can see the clear density in the difference