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Hi,

we recently published a method that could be just what you need, and 
easy to implement.
It detects covalent modifications of cysteines, and mercury, gold and 
some platinums target cysteines...

have a look at this paper.
feel free to contact me if you want more information.
vincent


Fluorescence Detection of Heavy Atom Labeling (FD-HAL): A rapid method 
for identifying covalently modified cysteine residues by phasing atoms.

Chaptal V, Ujwal R, Nie Y, Watanabe A, Kwon S, Abramson J.

J Struct Biol. 2010 Feb 10.






Le 3/25/11 8:39 AM, Careina Edgooms a écrit :
> Dear ccp4 users
>
> I would like to know, is there a way to check that heavy metal has 
> bound to crystals before I take it to synchrotron which is far away?
>
> thanks
> Careina
>

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Vincent Chaptal, PhD

Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines

Drug-resistance modulation and mechanism Laboratory

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69007 LYON

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