X-ray User Group Meeting
X-ray User Group Meetings
Schedule
Aug 25: Yonghong Zhao
Sept 28: SCSB Celebration (Tues)
Oct 27:
Nov 24:
Dec 29: Happy New Year
When: August 25th at 11am
Where: in BSB 2.240
What: Hsp31, An example of the use of MIRAS for structure solution. A combination of heavy metal derivatives, and enhanced anomalous scattering was used to solve the Hsp31 structure and then to identify a bound Zn ion.
Who: Yonghong Zhao
Contact: Dr. Mark A. White white@xray.utmb.edu
SCSB Crystallography News
Problem with DIP2030 Detector Solved: Over the last month the Mac Science DIP2030 detector system has has intermittent periods of failure, sometimes stopping or producing rotated images. I dismantled the detector and ran tests on the unit. Eventually, I was able to recreate the errors and trace the problems to a single cause: a worn mechanical component which locks the Image plate into position. Replacement of the worn component has solved both of the problems. The detector is now functioning perfectly.
MOSFLM, PHASER and CCP4-5.0.1 are now installed and operational on our Linux workstations. HKL2000 will be available soon.
Why wait two weeks? Skip the queue! The waiting list for the DIP2030 detector, equipped with the new MSC Blue confocal optics is now averaging two weeks. The SMART2K CCD detector system, which still has the older Gobel optics, is available for larger crystals (> 0.2mm) which diffract reasonably well. So don't wait, hop on the CCD, the queue is much shorter.
Recent SCSB Crystallography Publications
Emily E. Scott, Mark A. White, You Ai He, Eric F. Johnson, C. David Stout, and James R. Halpert, Structure of mammalian cytochrome P450 2B4 complexed with 4-(4-chlorophenyl)imidazole at 1.9 A resolution: Insight into the range of P450 conformations and coordination of redox partner binding J. Biol. Chem 279, 26, 27294-301, 2004.(PDF)
X-ray Crystallography Reading List – Aug
(Available from the MML via ILLIAD)
(See more at Acta Cryst. D)
Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 1355-1363 [ DOI 10.1107/S0907444904011679 ], PRODRG: a tool for high-throughput crystallography of protein-ligand complexes, A. W. Schüttelkopf and D. M. F. van Aalten
Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 1413-1416 [ DOI 10.1107/S0907444904013678 ], Spectacular improvement of X-ray diffraction through fast desiccation of protein crystals, C. Abergel
Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 1506-1508 [ DOI 10.1107/S0907444904011710 ], Heavy-atom derivatives in lipidic cubic phases: results on hen egg-white lysozyme tetragonal derivative crystals with Gd-HPDO3A complex, É. Girard, E. Pebay-Peyroula, J. Vicat and R. Kahn
J.
Appl. Cryst. (2004). 37, 555-564,
The role of wavelength and source in the search for sulfur-atom
positions evaluated in two case studies: lysozyme at room
temperature and cryo apocrustacyanin A1, M. Cianci, J. R.
Helliwell, D. Moorcroft, A. Olczak, J. Raftery and P. J.
Rizkallah (![[PDF version]](http://journals.iucr.org/j/graphics/pdfborder.gif){kind=small}
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European Crystallographic Meeting: Aug. 26-31, 2004, Budapest (Info)
Eleanor & Guy Dodson Symposium: Sept. 10-12, 2004,York (UK) (Info)
Structural Biology Symposium: Sept. 15-18, 2004, Hamburg (Info)
Rigaku/MSC Crystallography Course: September 15-17, 2004, Houston (info)
EMBL: 15-18 Sept. 2004, (DESY) Hamburg (info)
SPINE: 18-19 Oct. 2004, London, UK (info )
SouthWestern Macromolecular: Oct. 22-24, 2004, Houston. (info)
EMBO: 10-13 Nov. 2004, Heidelberg, DL (info)
Protein Crystallography in Drug Discovery: 17-19 Jan., 2005, SF, CA (info)
ACA: May 28-June 2, 2005, Orlando, Florida. (Info)
IuCr XX: 23-21 Aug. 2005, Florence, Italy. (info)
CAMD - PX1
Beam Time
August 23 - 25th 2004
Time begins at noon of 1st day. Radiation Safety - PX1 – Ring Current – Directions – Hotels and Restaurants (PX1 225.578.7137) – Contacts: UTMB - CAMD