Re: [ccp4bb] static linking of ccp4 libs

2009-02-26 Thread Clemens Vonrhein
Hi, these are still shared libraries - just that they don't want to load any other shared library. Have a look at % file libccp4c.so libccp4c.a % ldd libccp4c.so libccp4c.a to compare static library (*.a) and shared one (*.so). You'll see the difference. So everything is fine and as expected

[ccp4bb] ccp4 install script

2009-02-26 Thread o . h . weiergraeber
Hello, trying to compile CCP4 6.1.1 on a Solaris machine, I just came across two scripting errors in install.sh: 1. The syntax used in manifest.sh is valid for bash, not for the boune shell called in install.sh; should use SET and EXPORT commands sequentially. 2. After asking for path names, t

Re: [ccp4bb] off-topic detergent hydrolysis?

2009-02-26 Thread Van Den Berg, Bert
I wouldn't use any stock solution that has been sitting around for a year at 4C. Why take the risk that something has happened with it/grown in it? Use a freshly made solution and do not store it at 4C. Bert van den Berg University of Massachusetts Medical School Program in Molecular Medicine Bi

[ccp4bb] another truncate question

2009-02-26 Thread Matt Warkentin
hi folks i've almost got my B-factors questions sorted out. one thing i still don't understand is this: in truncate's wilson plot, what is plotted on the vertical axis is not ln I_mean, but ln (I_mean/ff_mean) and ff_mean (or Mn_ff, as truncate calls it) is the "average expected value of ff".

[ccp4bb] updated XDS binaries available

2009-02-26 Thread Kay Diederichs
Dear all, please note that the current XDS package binaries won't work after Mar 31, 2008. Binaries which expire Dec 31, 2009 are now available from the XDS website, http://www.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de/~kabsch/xds/ . For a list of changes please check out the Release Notes. best wishes, Ka

Re: [ccp4bb] protein folds

2009-02-26 Thread ANDY DODDS
The original poster may be interested in this paper from Phil Bourne's lab a few years ago which looked at the contribution of folds (among other things) by the Protein Structure Initiative, particularly Fig 5 and table 1. http://helix-web.stanford.edu/psb04/bourne.pdf "The Status of Structural G

Re: [ccp4bb] protein folds

2009-02-26 Thread David J. Schuller
Concerning the number of proteins folds in existence vs. the number of folds already identified: Ed Berry had some good points regarding sample statistics, and I assume the mathematics of that sort of thing is formalized somewhere. The number of examples per protein fold will be skewed by the comm

[ccp4bb] how to show double conformation in PyMol

2009-02-26 Thread Yamei Yu
Hi all, There is a 10 residues loop in my structure which has two conformations, how could I show the double conformations at the same time in ribbon or cartoon model in PyMol? Thanks! yamei

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Mammalian gene expression in E. coli

2009-02-26 Thread Phoebe Rice
We haven't tried SUMO, but had some frustrating results with GST fusions. They did improve expression and solubility - BUT in one case the target protein precipitated immediately when the tag was cleaved off, and resisted all attempts to bring it back to life. In another case, the fusion protein

[ccp4bb] Coot

2009-02-26 Thread Ariel Talavera
Hi everybody, I know this is not the coot discussion list but right now I have technical problems with the Internet connection and I could not subscribe it. Here comes my problem. I just installed in a new computer the last distribution package of CCP4 with Coot included. After installation th

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Mammalian gene expression in E. coli

2009-02-26 Thread Brad Bennett
Like most things (and scientists in general I suppose), SUMO tags have both a good and a naughty side. Like GST, in my hands, they enhanced expression and solubility of a couple of different target proteins. Their primary advantage is that when you clip off SUMO with the SUMO protease (aka Ulp1) th

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Mammalian gene expression in E. coli

2009-02-26 Thread Raji Edayathumangalam
Some thoughts about SUMO tags and fusion tags in general. Fusion tags also follow the "Garbage In, Garbage Out" philosophy. Yes, if for many of the reasons already hashed out extensively on CCP4BB, one is dealing with lack of expression or miniscule expression, often tagging the protein wit

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position ISMB Birkbeck

2009-02-26 Thread Gabriel Waksman
The School of Crystallography/Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology is seeking a Post-doctoral Research Assistant to carry out structural analysis (x-ray crystallography or cryo-electron microscopy) of complexes formed during pilus biogenesis. The group is led by Professor Gabriel W

[ccp4bb] Coot Problem! adding r-nucleotide in DNA

2009-02-26 Thread Yusuf Akhter
Hi everybody! I am using coot version 0.5. I am trying to build a DNA sequence in my model. At certain positions when i add residues and then used "simple mutate" to make it according to real sequence, it always add ribonucleotide (guanine ribonucleotide, Gr) in place of deoxyribonucleotide (guani

Re: [ccp4bb] another truncate question

2009-02-26 Thread Dale Tronrud
Matt Warkentin wrote: > hi folks > > i've almost got my B-factors questions sorted out. one thing i still > don't understand is this: > > in truncate's wilson plot, what is plotted on the vertical axis is not > ln I_mean, but ln (I_mean/ff_mean) > > and ff_mean (or Mn_ff, as truncate calls it)

Re: [ccp4bb] how to show double conformation in PyMol

2009-02-26 Thread Raji Edayathumangalam
Although there are more elegant ways to do the same, an easy way is to simply write out either just the loop region or the entire molecule containing the second conformation into a second PDB file and to simply read in the two PDB files as two separate molecules in PyMol. Raji On Feb 26

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Mammalian gene expression in E. coli

2009-02-26 Thread artem
Hi, I respectfully disagree with the doom&gloom feelings regarding fusion proteins. In my not very limited experience, fusion proteins *can* fix expression issues. Do they always work - of course not :) But there are very few things in this field that work most of the time. Is it better to try a f

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Mammalian gene expression in E. coli

2009-02-26 Thread Florian Sauer
Concerning the contamination of recombinantly expressed proteins with bacterial chaperones, one might wish to try a complete removal using ATP and denatured protein as a "bait" as described here: Protein Expr Purif. 2000 Oct;20(1):45-7. Separation of copurifying GroEL from glutathione-S-tran

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot

2009-02-26 Thread Tim Gruene
Hi, is it possible that you installed for the wrong architecture, i.e., that you have a 32bit machine/OS but picked a 64bit version? It's just a guess (the interface uses tcl/tk so you would not notice from just starting the GUI). Tim -- Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammanns

[ccp4bb] unit cell flags in mtz files and refmac

2009-02-26 Thread Jan Abendroth
Hi all, I am trying to follow good practices and keep my set of free reflections between data sets, eg. in this case between an in-house low resolution and a synchrotron high resolution data set. High resolution data from hkl2000 were imported through the ccp4i task, keeping the low resolution Free

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot Problem! adding r-nucleotide in DNA

2009-02-26 Thread Christian Biertuempfel
Hi Yusuf, I had a similar problem once when my pdb file did not have the right format. Check your input coordinate file if your DNA nomenclature is correct for coot. Maybe, the program does not recognize your molecule as DNA. Good luck, christian Yusuf Akhter wrote: > Hi everybody! > I am using

Re: [ccp4bb] Coot Problem! adding r-nucleotide in DNA

2009-02-26 Thread Yusuf Akhter
Thanks to Paul and Christian..for responding very quickly to my query. I tried all versions of coot and it worked in only ver 0.4. Now everything is fine. Cheers! Yusuf On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Yusuf Akhter wrote: > Hi everybody! > I am using coot version 0.5. > I am trying to build a

[ccp4bb] Questions regarding Peptidoglycan-binding protein

2009-02-26 Thread JOE CRYSTAL
Dear all, Thank you in advance for your expert opinions. I am working on a peptidoglycan (PG)-binding protein, which is composed of two functionally identical domains. Interestingly, when subjected to gel filtration chromatography (Superdex 200), both full-length protein and the single domains mi

[ccp4bb] Purification with ligand

2009-02-26 Thread protein.chemist protein.chemist
Hello, I wanted to know if there is a standard procedure for purification of protein with ligand. I have never done this before so it will be nice to get some help. Thanks, Mariah -- Mariah Jones Department of Biochemistry University of Florida

Re: [ccp4bb] unit cell flags in mtz files and refmac

2009-02-26 Thread Jan Abendroth
Thanks a lot, Garib, as always, there is a new version of refmac just out that fixes all the problems. Cheers Jan 2009/2/26 Garib Murshudov > I think we have fixed this problem just recently. The problem was related > with refmac not being able to pick correct dataset from mtz. IF there was > o

Re: [ccp4bb] unit cell flags in mtz files and refmac

2009-02-26 Thread Manfred S. Weiss
Dear Bart and Howard, let's assume that the paper is novel. Without asking too much, however, I think it would be fair to ask why they used a homology model for molecular replacement, when they claimed successful structure solution two years ago. Also, since they claim successful structure solut

Re: [ccp4bb] Purification with ligand

2009-02-26 Thread Pascal Egea
Hi Mariah, You may need to specify what type of ligand (is it a nucleotide, a small synthetic molecule, a peptide etc ?) and also what is the affinity between your ligand and your protein. I have purified several protein-ligand complexes, you can go several routes. If you have a high affinit

Re: [ccp4bb] Purification with ligand

2009-02-26 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Hi, I wouldn't call this a standard procedure - generally speaking the most important two parameters you have to consider are: the protein/ligand affinity and the supply of the ligand. For tightly bound ligands, you may be able to just add the ligand once (i.e. during cell growth and expression

Re: [ccp4bb] Questions regarding Peptidoglycan-binding protein

2009-02-26 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Look up a standard endotoxin assay (usually an immunoassay) because that's exactly what endotoxin is :-) Artem --- When the Weasel comes to give New Year's greetings to the Chickens no good intentions are in his mind. _ From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On

[ccp4bb] What can a learning student should post in our forum- are any restrictions for discussing science[what is science?] with intellectuals :)

2009-02-26 Thread Jayashankar
Dear scientists I have asked a question in previous discussions regarding cryo conditions for collecting data of a crystal. What is the cryo condition followed in a small molecule data collection in olden days. I got wonderfull answers.i am very happy for that. Is any one confused in this issue li

Re: [ccp4bb] protein folds

2009-02-26 Thread James Stroud
On Feb 25, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Jayashankar wrote: But provided if i colud follow a pattern even blindfolded could come up with some probable things. Is it not ok to have principle of mathematical induction. Or extrapolation. I would make a plot of new folds discovered by year and extrapola

[ccp4bb] Centramate

2009-02-26 Thread Daniel Jin
Hi,   Sorry for the off topic question. I am looking for helps from someone who is familiar with Centramate from Pall. We recently bought one and try to use it for concentrating insect media with secreted proteins. Here is some more information:   Pump: MasterFlex Console drive Pump head: quic

Re: [ccp4bb] Off topic: Mammalian gene expression in E. coli

2009-02-26 Thread Stephen Weeks
Hi all,     Once again I seem to have managed  to kick up a minor debate on the bulletin board (Note to self no more posts on SUMO or Apple  :-[ ). With quite a few years of experience working with SUMO I feel I can safely state that it is a good enhancer of fusion protein production in E. coli

Re: [ccp4bb] Questions regarding Peptidoglycan-binding protein

2009-02-26 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Apologies for the slightly frivolous language - technically peptidoglycan is *an* endotoxin, as there's a separate entity also commonly referred to as endotoxin which is the LPS/LOS component of the cell wall. Peptidoglycan is also an endotoxin (or at least quite a few researchers consider it to be

Re: [ccp4bb] screensaver

2009-02-26 Thread Jürgen Bosch
Just a quick reminder, those of you who forgot about the "deadline" for submitting some nice crystallography related pictures it will be extended until March 9th. I've received some really nice pictures and rendered images so far, keep sending more. 2 per person, just as a reminder. Jürgen