Re: [ccp4bb] Restrained refinement problem

2012-03-12 Thread Laurent Maveyraud
Hi, did you check in the refmac logfile that the cif file created at the first step was actually read ? If it is, you will have to carefully check the cif file and you ligand structure : 1) is the ligand structure included in the PDB at the fisrt step complete ?? Maybe you included only a part

Re: [ccp4bb] Restrained refinement problem

2012-03-12 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Dipankar, according to the log-file, the restraints-file was not read in the second time you ran refmac5. It should otherwise be listet in the section underneath "Information from CCP4Interface script" where it is mentioned as "LIBOUT" instead of

[ccp4bb] recombinant enterokinase

2012-03-12 Thread Elias Fernandez
Dear all, Would anyone know of a source for recombinant enterokinase? Best, Elias

Re: [ccp4bb] recombinant enterokinase

2012-03-12 Thread Rajesh kumar
http://www.neb.com/nebecomm/products/productP8070.asp Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:38:22 -0400 From: elias.fernan...@utk.edu Subject: [ccp4bb] recombinant enterokinase To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Dear all,Would anyone know of a source for recombinant enterokinase? Best,Elias

Re: [ccp4bb] recombinant enterokinase

2012-03-12 Thread Sean Seaver
Dear Elias, Here are three sources for recombinant enterokinase: http://www.genscript.com/protein/Z02199-Porcine_Enterokinase_Lyophilized.html http://www.prospecbio.com/Enterokinase/?gclid=CMuXvK6-4a4CFUQUKgodjGwlXQ http://www.neb.com/nebecomm/products/productP8070.asp Hope it helps! Take Care,

Re: [ccp4bb] recombinant enterokinase

2012-03-12 Thread Elias Fernandez
Hi All, I misspoke - what I'm looking for is a source for an expression system for recombinant enterokinase. Elias Subject: recombinant enterokinase Dear all, Would anyone know of a source for recombinant enterokinase? Best, Elias

Re: [ccp4bb] Help! weird thing

2012-03-12 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
Hi - I agree with Garib that its likely a pseudo-translation issue. I also agree with that the advice he gives is correct, but ... ... since I am evidently less smart to follow all these steps, I like to use phenix.xtriage that will tell me if there is pseudo- translation or not, and will give

[ccp4bb] My protein precipitates at r.t and dissolves at 4 oC

2012-03-12 Thread Min-Kyu Cho
Hi all, I have a homotetrameric coiled-coil domain sample with 45aa per each. While I store this sample at 4oC, the sample looks clear w/o any particles. But when I took out the sample to my bench at r.t, I can see there are precipitates (as stack of needle like particles) at the bottom of

Re: [ccp4bb] My protein precipitates at r.t and dissolves at 4 oC

2012-03-12 Thread Kevin Jin
Which kind of buffer you use? If it is Tris, then temperature change will cause pH change. Actually, this is a good way for crystallization. Kevin On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Min-Kyu Cho wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a homotetrameric coiled-coil domain sample with 45aa per each. While > I st

Re: [ccp4bb] Help! weird thing

2012-03-12 Thread Randy Read
Yes, the current version of Phaser will do the same test that xtriage carries out, and if it finds a sufficiently high non-origin Patterson peak, it will automatically characterise the translational NCS and use this for molecular replacement. This is working pretty well in our tests. In the ne

Re: [ccp4bb] Help! weird thing

2012-03-12 Thread Randy Read
Airlie points out that what I said about the ccp4i interface wasn't correct! In order to keep the ccp4i interface in synch with the version of Phaser, we've started distributing the ccp4i files with the source code. The ones on our website are for an older version of Phaser, but the latest one

Re: [ccp4bb] Matthews coeff. from model

2012-03-12 Thread james09 pruza
Dear CCP4bbers, > > Is there any tool to calculate the Matthews coefficient from a > crystallographic model of RNA-protein complex? > > Thanking you. > James. >

[ccp4bb] pdbcur wont remove hydrogens on the residues that have alternative conformations

2012-03-12 Thread Xun Lu
Just want to point this out although it's pretty easy to remove these hydrogens manually... Or, maybe this only happened to me. Xun -- Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry North Carolina State University

Re: [ccp4bb] Matthews coeff. from model

2012-03-12 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear James, I do not know such a tool, but you can use 140A^3/a.a. and 380A^3/base to calculate the solvent content by hand. Regards, Tim On 03/12/2012 06:35 PM, james09 pruza wrote: > Dear CCP4bbers, >> >> Is there any tool to calculate the Matthew

Re: [ccp4bb] Matthews coeff. from model

2012-03-12 Thread Ian Tickle
matthews_coef ? -- Ian On 12 March 2012 17:35, james09 pruza wrote: > > > >> Dear CCP4bbers, >> >> Is there any tool to calculate the Matthews coefficient from a >> crystallographic model of RNA-protein complex? >> >> Thanking you. >> James. > >

Re: [ccp4bb] My protein precipitates at r.t and dissolves at 4 oC

2012-03-12 Thread Min-Kyu Cho
I am using KPi buffer at pH 5.5, 100mM KCl, 2mM beta-mercaptoethanol, 0.02% NaN3. Yes, I agree I should check CD melting curve to see temperature preference of my protein. Min-Kyu | -Original Message- | From: Kevin Jin [mailto:kevin...@gmail.com] | Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 11:16 A

Re: [ccp4bb] Matthews coeff. from model

2012-03-12 Thread Ian Tickle
... or rwcontents ? -- Ian On 12 March 2012 17:35, james09 pruza wrote: > > > >> Dear CCP4bbers, >> >> Is there any tool to calculate the Matthews coefficient from a >> crystallographic model of RNA-protein complex? >> >> Thanking you. >> James. > >

[ccp4bb] mosflm and pilatus 2M

2012-03-12 Thread Dean Derbyshire
Has anyone successfully processed images from the new Pilatus detector? I can visualize them and auto index but not refine the cell or integrate! Oh I'm using version 7.0.7 Cheers Dean

Re: [ccp4bb] mosflm and pilatus 2M

2012-03-12 Thread Bosch, Juergen
SSRL 12-2 uses a Pilatus 6M and can be processed in Mosflm or XDS without problems (have not tried HKL or D*Trek). Do you have the right beam center ? Jürgen On Mar 12, 2012, at 2:22 PM, Dean Derbyshire wrote: Has anyone successfully processed images from the new Pilatus detector? I can visualiz

Re: [ccp4bb] Matthews coeff. from model

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Thompson
James, For a detailed analysis of Matthews coefficients (Matthews probabilities), you can use this web-based tool: http://www.ruppweb.org/Mattprob/ There is a pull-down menu to select the sample type, and one choice is "protein-DNA complex." Perhaps someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I c

Re: [ccp4bb] mosflm and pilatus 2M

2012-03-12 Thread Harry
Hi Dean I'd get in touch with the Mosflm authors and ask them for help ;-) A copy of the mosflm.lp file (or the date-stamped version from iMosflm) would be useful in diagnosing the problem. On 12 Mar 2012, at 18:22, Dean Derbyshire wrote: Has anyone successfully processed images from the ne

Re: [ccp4bb] My protein precipitates at r.t and dissolves at 4 oC

2012-03-12 Thread Lijun Liu
Min-Kyu, This sounds like to be a hydrophobicity ~ temperature issue (as Kevin pointed out, pH gets involved too). If your protein is sensitive in this regards, it could form different oligomerization states at diff temp, associated with diff solubility. You may want to crystallize it at diff

Re: [ccp4bb] Matthews coeff. from model

2012-03-12 Thread Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.)
> I can't imagine the results would be very different for protein-DNA vs. > protein-RNA. The reason protein-nucleic acids is an extra category in mattprob is largely due to poorer statistics resulting from limited sample size and hence no reliable resolution dependence can be computed. In add

Re: [ccp4bb] mosflm and pilatus 2M

2012-03-12 Thread Dean Derbyshire
Hi again, it's the 2M detector I'm having problems with. Got different data from a 6M and yep that works a dream. ? :0) From: Harry [ha...@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk] Sent: 12 March 2012 20:30 To: Dean Derbyshire Cc: Harry; CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb]

Re: [ccp4bb] Matthews coeff. from model

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Thompson
Is there a difference in the psv between DNA and RNA? I assumed (possibly incorrectly) that they would be very close if not exactly the same? Is mattprob more applicable to protein-DNA complexes than Protein-RNA complexes? Thanks for the insight, Mike - Original Message - From: "Bern

[ccp4bb] Envelope Phasing.

2012-03-12 Thread David Briggs
Hi CCP4bb, I would like to ask about "envelope phasing" - specifically with SAXS data. There are papers (1) and tutorials (2) describing how this might be done, but I have also found comments on the ccp4bb, such as this one (http://www.proteincrystallography.org/ccp4bb/message11690.html) which ar

Re: [ccp4bb] My protein precipitates at r.t and dissolves at 4 oC

2012-03-12 Thread Artem Evdokimov
Could be one of those weird behaviors displayed by detergents where cloud point anomalously changes with temperature... Artem On Mar 12, 2012 1:11 PM, "Min-Kyu Cho" wrote: > I am using KPi buffer at pH 5.5, 100mM KCl, 2mM beta-mercaptoethanol, 0.02% > NaN3. > > Yes, I agree I should check CD mel

Re: [ccp4bb] Envelope Phasing.

2012-03-12 Thread Anastassis Perrakis
Hi David - I think you have four hurdles to overcome: 1. How good is a SAXS envelope 2. How will you place it in the right place 3. How will you extend from ~15-20 A to around 4 A 4. How will you extend from 4 A to beyond Steps 2 and 4 might be the easiest - albeit far from trivial. Point 1 can

Re: [ccp4bb] My protein precipitates at r.t and dissolves at 4 oC

2012-03-12 Thread Kevin Jin
I remember I saw the similar problem caused by beta-mercaptoethanol. Kevin On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Artem Evdokimov wrote: > Could be one of those weird behaviors displayed by detergents where cloud > point anomalously changes with temperature... > > Artem > > On Mar 12, 2012 1:11 PM,

Re: [ccp4bb] Matthews coeff. from model

2012-03-12 Thread Tim Gruene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The number 380A^3/base I gave results from a decent number of nucleic acids-only PDB files I once analysed with the 'volume' program from ccp4. I cannot think of an application where knowing the solvent content must be known to more than 1%, so I bet t

Re: [ccp4bb] Envelope Phasing.

2012-03-12 Thread Bosch, Juergen
Point 3: Use the saxs model for preliminary phasing of your HA derivative Jürgen .. Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 Baltimore, MD

Re: [ccp4bb] Matthews coeff. from model

2012-03-12 Thread George Sheldrick
My memory is not as good as it used to be, but I think that I indeed got the number of 140 cubic Angstroms per amino-acid from Kevin. It has worked fine ever since, and is how hkl2map calculates the solvent content for proteins. George On 12.03.2012 21:40, Tim Gruene wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: [ccp4bb] Envelope Phasing.

2012-03-12 Thread David Briggs
Hi Francis, As you may have guessed - my question is stems from my recent acquisition of some native data for a protein that I have lots of SAXS data for. I suspect that more conventional MR is unlikely to work in this case as I only have a half-decent phasing model for ~30% of the protein (2 cop

Re: [ccp4bb] My protein precipitates at r.t and dissolves at 4 oC

2012-03-12 Thread Min-Kyu Cho
Hi Kevin, Could you tell me more detail about beta-mercaptoethanol problem? Min-Kyu | -Original Message- | From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of | Kevin Jin | Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 3:32 PM | To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK | Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] My

[ccp4bb] RE : [ccp4bb] Envelope Phasing.

2012-03-12 Thread Alexandre OURJOUMTSEV
Dear David, I would remind that the "molecular-replacement positionning" of molecular envelopes and some methodological features (in comparison with a conventional MR) of this have been discussed in : Urzhumtsev & Podjarny (1995). "On the Solution of the Molecular Replacement Problem at Very