Re: [ccp4bb] Program to analyze water mediated interactions?

2011-06-15 Thread Eleanor Dodson
It helps to keep the same water naming convention in all the complexes. distang is a slow tool but it will list all contacts to a given set of atomic radii. I use that output a lot to check on interesting contacts.. But in the end it boils down to thoughtful book-keeping.. Eleanor On 06/14/

Re: [ccp4bb] Unit cell change - was Re: [ccp4bb] XDS question

2011-06-15 Thread Eleanor Dodson
It looks like a rhombehedral data set with small deviations from the exact H3 symmetry to give the weak spots. The standard H3 setting has origins at (0,0,0) (1/3, 2/3, 2/3) and (2/3,1/3,1/3) so to get your translation vector to match the conventional H3 one, you will have to reindex the P321

Re: [ccp4bb] 96-well block storage

2011-06-15 Thread Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS]
Brian, We use a PlateLoc Thermal Microplate sealer from Agilent. Works very well, pricey though ... Cheers, Carsten > -Original Message- > From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of > Brian Mark > Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 5:19 PM > To: CCP4BB@JISCM

Re: [ccp4bb] non-waters among structured solvent atoms

2011-06-15 Thread Stephen Graham
You might also want to try: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=12499536 Cheers, Stephen On 15 June 2011 02:09, Robbie Joosten wrote: > Hi Wolfram, > > This was an early study on the subject: > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8594192 > The software is still accessible via the STAN serve

[ccp4bb] low res. SAD phasing

2011-06-15 Thread tommi kajander
Dear all, Does anyone have suggestions for 6 Å resolution phasing with large number (40-50) Se sites (SAD so far)?? Thanks a bunch, Tommi Tommi Kajander, Ph.D., Docent Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography Research Program in Structural Biology and Biophysics Institute of Biotechnology P.O. B

Re: [ccp4bb] low res. SAD phasing

2011-06-15 Thread Tim Gruene
Hi Tommi, Give it a try? You give very little information, e.g. - the data quality, - possible radiation damage, - isomorphism with a native data set, and - what you have tried so far. If you have a native data set with an isomorphous unit cell, try SIRAS instead of SAD. Tim On Wed, Jun 15,

[ccp4bb] how to estimate bond length error from crystal structure

2011-06-15 Thread Tian-Min Fu
Dear friends, A zinc atom is located in the active center of my protein. I want to estimate the errors of bond-lengths between the Zinc and coordinated residues in the crystal structure. Who knows how to estimate that errors? Thank you very much!

Re: [ccp4bb] how to estimate bond length error from crystal structure

2011-06-15 Thread Dale Tronrud
If you have atomic resolution data you could use shelxl to invert the least-squares matrix and calculate standard uncertainties for all the bond lengths and angles. Dale Tronrud On 06/15/11 07:57, Tian-Min Fu wrote: > Dear friends, > > > > A zinc atom is located in the active center o

Re: [ccp4bb] Hampton's adjustable cryoloop

2011-06-15 Thread Jim Pflugrath
Since Frank mentioned cryotongs, I wanted to point to a video of their use on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikiF2qpCRKs Jim On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Frank von Delft wrote: Hi Zhijie -- With all manipulations on the goniometer, I strongly advise what I learnt from Elspeth Garman: pra

[ccp4bb] Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex - Ref 292

2011-06-15 Thread Antony Oliver
[ Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex - Ref 292 ] An MRC-funded post is available in the laboratory of Professor Laurence Pearl and Dr Antony Oliver to study the structure and function of the Smc5/6 complex. This project forms part of a coord

Re: [ccp4bb] low res. SAD phasing

2011-06-15 Thread Phoebe Rice
Based on the dents in my own forehead from banging it on similar brick walls, it would probably be more efficient to get a heavier atom with fewer binding sites, and work your way in from there. If your data set really only extends to 6A, even when you do find all those Se atoms their phasing p

[ccp4bb] Follow-up: non-waters among structured solvent atoms

2011-06-15 Thread wtempel
Thank you everyone for your replies. The Nayal & Di Cera (1996) paper may be what I had in mind. I was looking for some estimate of how often water atoms are placed in protein models where they do not belong, and I expected a relatively high percentage. Simply extrapolating from the 0.01% water <->

[ccp4bb] Cryotools

2011-06-15 Thread John R. Walker
While we are on the subject of tools for crystallography, I wanted to bring to your attention a nice tool that we use at the SGC to assist in the harvesting of crystals into Rigaku style pucks. The Quick Puck Loader is available at 1degreebio.org. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5okdJfi3kFI John

Re: [ccp4bb] [phenixbb] [Fwd: Re: elbow.join_cif_files error]

2011-06-15 Thread Maia Cherney
Hi Nigel, I need to make a cif file for a gold ion, Au1+, no other atoms. It is covalently attached to sulfur of cysteine in two conformations. So, how do I label Au+1 with A and B conformations. How to make a cif for this. Maia

Re: [ccp4bb] low res. SAD phasing

2011-06-15 Thread tommi kajander
Hi, Thanks for all the comments, i was more wondering what the state of the art might be here, we have done similar thing at 4 Å (with 3 Å data though) 10 years or so back with SnB. Maybe we need to get a heavier atom derivative indeed the break the phases, but i'll keep banging for now..