Re: [ccp4bb] detergent crystals

2009-08-05 Thread Jose Antonio Cuesta Seijo
Jakob, That Compacdt disc appearance is very familiar, those were right next to the hexagonal ones in my experiments. And all were oily when touched. It is very likely that my "detergent" crystals were in reality detergent-protein complexes with less than crystalline order. I was doing experiments

Re: [ccp4bb] detergent crystals

2009-08-05 Thread Jason Hurlbert
On 8/5/09 5:30 AM, "Jose Antonio Cuesta Seijo" wrote: > Jakob, > > That Compacdt disc appearance is very familiar, those were right next to > the hexagonal ones in my experiments. And all were oily when touched. It is > very likely that my "detergent" crystals were in reality detergent-protein >

[ccp4bb] Restraint hydrogen bond Refmac

2009-08-05 Thread Kristof Van Hecke
Dear, When (trying) to refine a DNA-structure (resolution 2.5) using Refmac_5.5.0072 (CCP4 6.1.1), some of the H-bonds between Watson- Crick bases are becoming too large. Reducing the Matrix weighting term to tighten the geometry, doesn't effect these H-bond distances much. Reducing the "

Re: [ccp4bb] Restraint hydrogen bond Refmac

2009-08-05 Thread Ian Tickle
Hi Kristof AFAIK there's no attractive H-bond term in Refmac, only a repulsive one, and even that is probably between the N/O atoms not between the H atoms themselves, which only 'ride' on their parent atoms (again this is to my knowledge). This is all related to the fact that H atoms don't scatt

[ccp4bb] question

2009-08-05 Thread Chandra Verma
Dear all Can anyone suggest examples where the same peptide is bound to the same receptor site in two or more different (very different) conformations and this binding has been resolved crystallographically as well as using ITC. In the extreme cases this could be two different proteins as well

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral position in x-ray crystallography at Birkbeck

2009-08-05 Thread Gabriel Waksman
ref 10289 Full time and fixed term until 31 March 2013 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 ty

Re: [ccp4bb] Restraint hydrogen bond Refmac

2009-08-05 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
Hi Kristof - I think that you are overlooking at the fact that you do not know what the hydrogen bond lengths are between the base pairs. You should make sure that the covalent geometry is correct (tighten or loosen the matrix as you do!) and then when you have a well refined structure, analy

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral Position Announcement

2009-08-05 Thread Raquel Lieberman
Dear All, The Lieberman Lab, located in the School of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA) invites highly motivated individuals interested in the field of protein misfolding diseases and/or membrane protein crystallography to join our research team

[ccp4bb] Making choice on screw axes on resolution with HA sites.

2009-08-05 Thread Francis E Reyes
Hi all I did some HA searching and found some sites in C222 that seem to be NCS related. Any ideas on how to determine whether or not the space group is really C2221 from these sites? Thanks FR - Francis Reyes M.Sc. 215 UCB University of Colorad

Re: [ccp4bb] Making choice on screw axes on resolution with HA sites.

2009-08-05 Thread Eleanor Dodson
I would expect that if you found HA sites in C222 then they must obey C222 symmetry? Why not just repeat the search in C2221 and see if you get a better answer? Going back a stage: Arent you able to guess whether there is a screw axis from your absences along 00l? Pointless gives a good ana

[ccp4bb] Protein Biochemistry Positions at Merck

2009-08-05 Thread Soisson, Stephen M
Hello All- I figured I would post this here since there are some protein biochemists who frequent the site, and many of the crystallographers may know of protein biochemists who might be looking for a job. Please pass this along to any potentially interested parties. Thanks! Steve P.S. Please

[ccp4bb] Zinc or Iron binding protein, that is a question!

2009-08-05 Thread Xuan Yang
Dear Sir or Madam, The ICP-ES results indicated that 1 molar my protein purified from E.coli Origami(DE3) contained about a half molar Zinc and nearly a quarter molar Iron (whether II or III was not available). The protein carried a MBP tag on the N-terminal and the situation was similar with or w

Re: [ccp4bb] Zinc or Iron binding protein, that is a question!

2009-08-05 Thread Guenter Fritz
Hi Xuan, I guess your protein is not an E.coli protein. There are several examples that eukaryotic Zn-proteins expressed in E.coli contain Fe instead of Zn. I am sceptic whether IMAC with different metal ions will give the solution of the problem. If you really want to get information on the m