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Glutamate methyl ester? (or ethyl ester, which I’m not sure has ever been documented…hard to tell how many extra heavy atoms given the view direction in the image you supplied). Or the methyl/ethyl amides.

 

Dave

 

From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bosch, Juergen
Sent: Wednesday, 18 May 2011 14:06
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Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] unknown density

 

I take the lysine back, just realized wrong color coding it's an oxygen and not a nitrogen closer to the extra density :-)

Jürgen

 

On May 18, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Bosch, Juergen wrote:



But that's a lysine, so maybe a PTM ? Acetylated perhaps ?

 

Jürgen

 

On May 18, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Shiva Bhowmik wrote:



Hi Cedric,

 

I presume you collected the datset at a synchrtron source. It could be free radical generated due to X-ray radiation has modified the glutamate residues. I have seen this happening for Ser residues.

 

Cheers,

 

Shiva

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 9:08 AM, cedric bauvois <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi, everyone,

I am working on the refinement of a structure  at about 1.4 Ang and found some clear extra density connected to a glutamate (see figure), but I don't know what it should be. The crystal came out from Tris-HCl buffer with peg600, and protein buffer contains sodium-phosphate.


Does anyone figure out what this density can be ?
Thanks for any help you can give.

         Cédric

 

 

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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 21205

Phone: +1-410-614-4742

Lab:      +1-410-614-4894

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