Thursday, 23 November 2017

20171122 catch up and call with nick and brazil

20171122 - Ray, Barbora and Jose  and nick, floriano, carolina and sabrina.
  • May 18 likely target for general call
  • Focussed effort through Innovate UK and Ark (Arc?) Light
  • Carolina did report with compounds 3+4 considering several flavours of cys oxidation states in active site

  • TGR assays: baseline ok-ish with new short and long preps  (one potential inconsistency in short prep's result)
  • TGR xtals: PCTs done but not assessed.
  • Jose/Barbora to look into Bogar's original trays (199/200/201 - one barcode was 441305059056)
  • Barbora's new PCT titration series - 441305075155

Friday, 10 November 2017

Monday, 30 October 2017

20171030 weekly catch up

20171030

  • Barbora set JCSG plate and got some 15 hit:
    • To cluster them and understand if there are any trends in conditions that show crystalline precipitate (salt conditions vs PEG conditions vs alcohol conditions etc).
    • Not to optimise with this protein batch.
    • Next protein batch (20 x 20ul aliquotss @ ~13mg/ml) to be ready on Friday 03-11, then to do PCT test for 2,4,8,10,13 mg/ml and use that as reference for what crystallisation condition to use Barbora points out (wisely) that concentrating more could result in full protein crashout given concentrator requires 200ul starting material. 
      • Jose's note to self: how does the PCT translate to John William's suggestion to get crashout    vs OD scheme.

Friday, 20 October 2017

20171020 Catch up notes

jose, jo, barbora

1- greiner  3 drops
2- temperature?
3- which screen?

ACTION PLAN for monday 23-10
  • 6 aliquots left frozen (use the leftover ones in fridge to test the protocol before burning the fresh aliquots)
  • room temperature
  • do PCT like Jo advised on greiner 3 well plates
    • dispense 0.5ul each PCT solution in each subwell
    • dispense 0.5ul protein at 13mg/ml, 10 mg/ml, 8mg/ml in each PCT solution
    • wait some 10 minutes
    • check in microscope
  • 2x JCSG trays at room temp first
  • (Lauro used 4degC only after other things failed)