Re: [ccp4bb] Protein concentration vs Molecular wt...

2012-07-20 Thread Patrick Shaw Stewart
See http://www.douglas.co.uk/PDB_data.htm, section 4 On 19 July 2012 20:58, james09 pruza wrote: > Dear Crystallographers, > Is there any rule of thumb for Protein concentration and molecular weight > for crystallization trials of a soluble protein? Looking for high molecular > wt. protein ~50

[ccp4bb] Job advert: Research Fellow at the University of Leicester, Structural Studies of Protein-Drug Interactions

2012-07-20 Thread Bayliss, Richard (Dr.)
A position is available in the Centre for Translational Therapeutics (CTT) within the College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology for a talented postdoctoral structural biologist to work on a collaborative in-house structural biology projects, with an emphasis on structure-based drug

[ccp4bb] advice on spectrometric instruments choice

2012-07-20 Thread Sebastiano Pasqualato
Dear all, I'm looking for some advices on the choice of some spectroscopic equipment for our lab. What we would like to have is the possibility of measuring Circular Dichroism spectra, and perform kinetic analysis in fluorescence, possibly also with a stopped-flow set up, for pre-steady state

Re: [ccp4bb] advice on spectrometric instruments choice

2012-07-20 Thread Scott Thomas Walsh
Hi Sebastiano, We have a Chirascan instrument with all the attachments (fluorescence, stopped flow, multi-cell attachment, etc). It is by far the best CD instrument that I have used. I have experience in the past with Aviv, Jasco, and Olis instruments. Cheers, Scott ***

Re: [ccp4bb] Nucleophilic attack by the side-chain carboxyl group of Asp?

2012-07-20 Thread Roger Rowlett
Asp is not a strong nucleophile, and coordination to zinc will make it less so. It is more likely that a zinc-bound water is acting as a nucleophile. If there is no observed water attached to your Zn, consider the possibility of ligand-water exchange, as in bacterial beta-carbonic anhydrases. Roge

[ccp4bb] EDS server woes resolved

2012-07-20 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Dear all, The EDS server was unfortunately down for a number of days. However, as of yesterday it is up and running again. Apologies for the inconvenience. http://eds.bmc.uu.se/ --Gerard **

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein concentration vs Molecular wt...

2012-07-20 Thread Oganesyan, Vaheh
Number of years ago Jaru Jancarik (the author of Screen I & II sold by HR) while in Berkeley Structural Genomics Center (or may be even earlier) made an observation regarding protein precipitation in condition A6 in that very screen. Based on this observation HR sells now PCT (protein concentrat

Re: [ccp4bb] off topic Thermal shift assay

2012-07-20 Thread Dr. Lorenzo Finci
Noor, Thank you very much for your inquiry. As we all know, thermodynamic principles of cooperativity and allostery have long been used as a foundation to begin understanding the complex interplay between associated ligand binding events. In principle, the delta Tm shifts that occur when multi

[ccp4bb] Ferredoxin Containing Crystal Bleaching

2012-07-20 Thread RHYS GRINTER
Hi All, I was collecting some data at home on a crystal from a protein containing a ferredoxin domain. This crystal was originally red-brown in colour, but after 16h of data collection, a large portion of it appears not be colourless. The crystal still seems to diffract fine (beyond 2A). I assu

Re: [ccp4bb] Ferredoxin Containing Crystal Bleaching

2012-07-20 Thread Yuri Pompeu
Actually with haeme, and or flavin containing enzymes it is known for the cofactor to undergo reduction. There is a recent JACS paper that explores these changes as a function of X-ray exposure. (2012) J.Am.Chem.Soc. 134: 2823-2834 Excellent work done in part at Allen Orville's X6A As far as qual

Re: [ccp4bb] Ferredoxin Containing Crystal Bleaching

2012-07-20 Thread Edward A. Berry
Iron sulfur proteins tend to absorb less (although not zero) in the visible when reduced. We see this with succinate dehydrogenase when we reduce with dithionite to see the heme spectrum- the difference extinction coefficient at the beta "peak" is actually negative because the baseline absorbance

[ccp4bb] Another lame question

2012-07-20 Thread bhaba krishna Das
I have sent this same query to JASCO earlier and did not get a response. So thought of posting it here. *Can a JASCO 810 CD spec be used as a simple UV-Vis Spec?* I did not have a faster Spectrophotometer and so went ahead using JASCO 810 for a absorbance based enzyme assay/kinetics @ a constant

Re: [ccp4bb] Nucleophilic attack by the side-chain carboxyl group of Asp?

2012-07-20 Thread Peter Hsu
I too am also studying the reaction mechanism of an enzyme, but my chemistry/enzymatic biochemistry is rather weak after many years of non-use and no review. Does anyone know just as a general rule which residues are the best to worst nucleophiles? Sorry if this seems rather presumptuous, just