Re: [ccp4bb] Eleven plausible phasing elements remain unused

2009-04-02 Thread Jacob Corn
I only deposited the high-res apo coordinates, but pdb code 2AU3 was solved from a thulium soaked crystal. In fact, I also used dysprosium to phase primase from a different bacterium. Go team lanthanide! On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:21:16 +0100, Thomas Womack wrote: >A perusal of the PDB reveals that t

Re: [ccp4bb] Eleven plausible phasing elements remain unused

2009-04-02 Thread Thomas Womack
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 14:33 -0700, Ethan Merritt wrote: > On Wednesday 01 April 2009 07:21:16 Thomas Womack wrote: > > A perusal of the PDB reveals that the game of Periodic Table bingo still > > has eleven rounds to run: > > > > scandium, titanium, germanium, zirconium, niobium, neodymium, > > dy

Re: [ccp4bb] Eleven plausible phasing elements remain unused

2009-04-01 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 07:21:16 Thomas Womack wrote: > A perusal of the PDB reveals that the game of Periodic Table bingo still > has eleven rounds to run: > > scandium, titanium, germanium, zirconium, niobium, neodymium, > dysprosium, thulium, hafnium, bismuth and thorium remain absent from P

Re: [ccp4bb] Eleven plausible phasing elements remain unused

2009-04-01 Thread James Holton
Just because it is not in the PDB does not mean that noone has ever tried it. I think I can attest to seeing pretty much all the Lanthanides tried at my beamline. Indeed, Hampton sells a Lanthanide kit, and I recommend using it as every Lanthanide has a slightly different ionic radius. For e

Re: [ccp4bb] Eleven plausible phasing elements remain unused

2009-04-01 Thread Mischa Machius
Huber's empire in Martinsried had a cabinet with ~500 compounds, many of them synthesized by himself (occasionally blowing up a lab in the process...) that in fact contained thorium, hafnium, etc. compounds. Radioactive compounds were kept in a little lead box. I am not aware of any success

[ccp4bb] Eleven plausible phasing elements remain unused

2009-04-01 Thread Thomas Womack
A perusal of the PDB reveals that the game of Periodic Table bingo still has eleven rounds to run: scandium, titanium, germanium, zirconium, niobium, neodymium, dysprosium, thulium, hafnium, bismuth and thorium remain absent from PDB entries. OK, many of these are elements that would rather be re