Hi Derek
We have had success with iodine - 20 seconds soak.
J
Derek Logan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:>
> Hi Uwe,
>
> Just what I wanted to hear, and with a limited set of compounds too!
> Follow-up question: what are these 4-6 most successful compounds?
> Thanks also for the tips on monitoring thw soaking
>
> Derek
>
> On Sep 25, 2007, at 13:23, Uwe Mueller wrote:
>
>> Dear Derek,
>> we are using the quick-soak method frequently at the BESSY-MX
>> beamlines. So far we were able to obtain phase information in terms
>> of MAD/SAD- phases in all cases which we tried. The starting set-up
>> is the screen over the 4-6 most successful heavy atom compounds at
>> 5-10mM concentration and 10-20 min soaking time.
>> If you follow the soaking under a transmissive light microscope
>> like the Leica MZ7.5, you can receive quite intriguing visual
>> feedbacks from your experimental set-up, including the bending of
>> large crystal face areas towards the crystal center due to the
>> large osmotic pressure at the beginning of the process an others.
>> Those observations might provide you further information for the
>> optimization loop which will be confirmed by the detection of an
>> anomalous signal after the peak-dataset.
>> 3-8 of such fast feedback loops could be carried out within a 8h
>> beamtime shift and led to interpretable electron densities. So, I
>> regard this method as a very powerful alternative, where the
>> availability of SeMet-crystals is limited.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Uwe
>>
>>
>> Derek Logan schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to find out how successful the "quick soak" method for
>>> heavy atom derivatisation proposed by Radaev and Sun:
>>>
>>> Sun PD, Radaev S, Kattah M. Generating isomorphous heavy-atom
>>> derivatives by a quick-soak method. Part I: test cases. Acta
>>> Cryst. 2002. D58:1092-1098.
>>>
>>> has been in comparison to the "classical" method of longer soaks
>>> at low concentrations of heavy atom compound. The method was quite
>>> successful in our hands a few years ago but (fortunately?) it's
>>> becoming increasingly rare that we use heavy atoms. I understand
>>> that evidence will necessarily be anecdotal, but let's not let
>>> that stop us.
>>>
>>> Derek
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