Re: [ccp4bb] biomolecular NMR for IDPs

2021-08-15 Thread Sorin Draga
Hello Ethan, Thank you for the suggestions. I should have mentioned in my initial post that my intention is to first conduct a high throughput virtual screening on these proteins, thus I would need high "resolution" of the structures which SAXS could not provide, as far as I understand. SAXS/SAS m

Re: [ccp4bb] biomolecular NMR for IDPs

2021-08-15 Thread Jon Cooper
Hello, my numpty-level understanding is that being intrinsically disorder and giving high-resolution structural data are mutually exclusive. I will re-read your e-mails. Hope this helps. Cheers, Jon.C. Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On 15 Aug 2021, 09:16, Sorin D

Re: [ccp4bb] biomolecular NMR for IDPs

2021-08-15 Thread Krieger, James M
It is possible to get an ensemble for an intrinsically disordered segment from NMR. We did this in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008819/ Best wishes James On Aug 15, 2021, at 14:48, Jon Cooper <488a26d62010-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: Hello, my numpty-level unders

Re: [ccp4bb] biomolecular NMR for IDPs

2021-08-15 Thread Sorin Draga
Hello Jon, Indeed - in the case of NMR, as far as I understand, we can't talk about resolution (that is why I used quotes). What I need here is a structure (or ensemble of structures) to which I could hope to dock ligands with some level of accuracy - something that SAXS could not provide. On S

Re: [ccp4bb] biomolecular NMR for IDPs

2021-08-15 Thread Sorin Draga
Hi James, Could you shed some light on the costs involved? This has been done also in the case of the 2 proteins that I am interested in - however the data is not publically available and the authors of the articles are reluctant to share the data, which I could understand. Many thanks! On Sun,

Re: [ccp4bb] biomolecular NMR for IDPs

2021-08-15 Thread Krieger, James M
I'm not really sure. I did this many years ago during my masters and applied it to a much shorter segment (~20 amino acids), which we could chemically synthesise and use for natural abundance HSQC experiments. The computational cost was also much less as a consequence of the system size I imagin

Re: [ccp4bb] biomolecular NMR for IDPs

2021-08-15 Thread Roopa Thapar
Hello Sorin, 1. The cost of getting NMR data on the IDPs you propose depends upon the expression levels of the protein/s as you will need to label with 15N and 13C - and depending upon your overall yields per liter of E.coli culture, this can add up.  In addition you will need to run triple re

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2021-08-15 Thread Qun Liu
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Re: [ccp4bb] biomolecular NMR for IDPs

2021-08-15 Thread Harry Powell - CCP4BB
Hi Just my two ha’porth. I’m currently involved in a project where my collaborators are investigating the interactions between protein pairs (both hetero and homo) - they specifically asked me _not_ to give them any models from ensembles (actually, they said “no NMR structures because they are

Re: [ccp4bb] biomolecular NMR for IDPs

2021-08-15 Thread Scott Horowitz
Hi Sorin, I hate to say it, but this is a really tough and expensive one. Solving a true conformational ensemble of one IDP of decent size (~>70 residues) at something like decent resolution is hard, and not that many labs actually do it (it's usually a different set of NMR techniques than solv

Re: [ccp4bb] biomolecular NMR for IDPs

2021-08-15 Thread Jon Cooper
As Joel has suggested before, alphafold on an IDP would be interesting and would seem like a zero-cost starting point - perhaps one you have tried already. Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On 15 Aug 2021, 15:53, Scott Horowitz wrote: > Hi Sorin, > > I hate to say i