scholarly journals Overexpression, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of hypothetical protein SAV0479 fromStaphylococcus aureusMu50

Author(s):  
Chinar Pathak ◽  
Sun-Bok Jang ◽  
Hookang Im ◽  
Hye-Jin Yoon ◽  
Bong-Jin Lee

SAV0479, a hypothetical protein from the Mu50 strain of methicillin- and vancomycin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus, was selected for structure and function determination as part of a structural genomics project. Here, the cloning, overexpression, purification and crystallization of SAV0479 are reported. Crystals were obtained by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method and diffraction data were collected to a resolution of 2.8 Å. The crystals belonged to space groupP3121, with unit-cell parametersa=b= 81.48,c= 82.53 Å. Three monomers of SAV0479 are present in each asymmetric unit.

Author(s):  
Kavitha Marapakala ◽  
A. Abdul Ajees ◽  
Jie Qin ◽  
Banumathi Sankaran ◽  
Barry P. Rosen

Arsenic is the most ubiquitous environmental toxin and carcinogen and consequently ranks first on the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund Priority List of Hazardous Substances. It is introduced primarily from geochemical sources and is acted on biologically, creating an arsenic biogeocycle. A common biotransformation is methylation to monomethylated, dimethylated and trimethylated species. Methylation is catalyzed by the ArsM (or AS3MT) arsenic(III)S-adenosylmethionine methyltransferase, an enzyme (EC 2.1.1.137) that is found in members of every kingdom from bacteria to humans. ArsM from the thermophilic algaCyanidioschyzonsp. 5508 was expressed, purified and crystallized. Crystals were obtained by the hanging-drop vapor-diffusion method. The crystals belonged to the monoclinic space groupC2, with unit-cell parametersa= 84.85,b= 46.89,c= 100.35 Å, β = 114.25° and one molecule in the asymmetric unit. Diffraction data were collected at the Advanced Light Source and were processed to a resolution of 1.76 Å.


Author(s):  
Jung Hyun Song ◽  
Woo Cheol Lee ◽  
Jeong Soon Park ◽  
Seung Il Kim ◽  
Je Chul Lee ◽  
...  

Peptidoglycan-associated lipoprotein (Pal) is one component of the Tol–Pal system that is involved in maintaining the integrity and stability of the outer membrane. The C-terminal OmpA-like domain of Pal interacts noncovalently with peptidoglycan. In this study, the OmpA-like domain of Pal fromAcinetobacter baumanniiwas overexpressed inEscherichia colistrain BL21 (DE3), purified and crystallized using the vapour-diffusion method. A native crystal diffracted to 1.4 Å resolution and belonged to space groupP61orP65, with unit-cell parametersa=b= 72.58,c= 44.65 Å, a calculated Matthews coefficient of 2.64 Å3 Da−1and one molecule per asymmetric unit.


2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (11) ◽  
pp. 1560-1562
Author(s):  
Guofang Zhang ◽  
Dan Yu ◽  
Guodong Yang ◽  
Hui Dong ◽  
Tongcun Zhang ◽  
...  

RPB_0146, a putative deaminase fromRhodopseudomonas palustrisHaA2, was expressed inEscherichia coliBL21 (DE3) cells and purified using a His6tag by Ni2+-chelating affinity chromatography for X-ray crystallographic analysis. Diffraction-quality crystals were grown by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method at 289 K and diffracted to a resolution of 2.44 Å using a wavelength of 1.000 Å at the Photon Factory (KEK), Japan. The crystals belonged to the orthorhombic space groupP212121, with unit-cell parametersa= 66.26,b= 123.94,c= 155.95 Å.


Author(s):  
Takeo Tsuda ◽  
Tomomi Suzuki ◽  
Shuichi Kojima

Bacillus subtilisYwfE, an L-amino-acid ligase, catalyzes the formation of an α-dipeptide from L-amino acids in an ATP-dependent manner. In order to elucidate the substrate-recognition mode and the reaction mechanism of this ligase, native and selenomethionine-derivatized (SeMet) crystals of YwfE in the presence of ADP, MgCl2and the dipeptide L-Ala-L-Gln were obtained using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method. These crystals diffracted to 1.9 and 2.8 Å resolution, respectively. Preliminary SAD phase calculations using the data set from the SeMet crystal suggested that the crystal belonged to the hexagonal space groupP6522, with unit-cell parametersa=b= 90.85,c = 250.31 Å, and contained one molecule in the asymmetric unit with a solvent content of 57.3%.


Author(s):  
Ha-Neul Kim ◽  
Jeong-Gi An ◽  
Yoo-Sup Lee ◽  
Seung-Hyeon Seok ◽  
Hee-Seop Yoo ◽  
...  

Shigella flexneriis a Gram-negative, anaerobic bacterium in the genusShigellathat can cause diarrhoea in humans. SF173, a hypothetical protein fromS. flexneri5a strain M90T, has been cloned, overexpressed, purified and crystallized as a part of laboratory-scale structural genomics project. The SF173 protein was crystallized using the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method in the presence of 0.8 Msuccinic acid pH 7.0 at 293 K. Preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis revealed that the crystal diffracted to 1.47 Å resolution and belonged to space groupI432, with unit-cell parametersa=b=c= 110.245 Å.


Author(s):  
Lindsey S. Marmont ◽  
John C. Whitney ◽  
Howard Robinson ◽  
Kelly M. Colvin ◽  
Matthew R. Parsek ◽  
...  

The production of the PEL polysaccharide inPseudomonas aeruginosarequires the binding of bis-(3′,5′)-cyclic dimeric guanosine monophosphate (c-di-GMP) to the cytoplasmic GGDEF domain of the inner membrane protein PelD. Here, the overexpression, purification and crystallization of a soluble construct of PelD that encompasses the GGDEF domain and a predicted GAF domain is reported. Diffraction-quality crystals were grown using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method. The crystals grew as flat plates, with unit-cell parametersa = 88.3,b= 114.0,c= 61.9 Å, α = β = γ = 90.0°. The PelD crystals exhibited the symmetry of space groupP21212 and diffracted to a minimumd-spacing of 2.2 Å. On the basis of the Matthews coefficient (VM= 2.29 Å3 Da−1), it was estimated that two molecules are present in the asymmetric unit.


Author(s):  
Thien-Hoang Ho ◽  
Myoung-Ki Hong ◽  
Ho-Phuong-Thuy Ngo ◽  
Lin-Woo Kang

RNA polymerase (RNAP) plays a crucial role in gene expression in all organisms. It is a multiprotein complex that produces primary transcript RNA. Generally, the basal transcription apparatus in archaea is simpler than the eukaryotic RNA polymerase II counterpart. To understand the structure and function of archaeal RNAP, theTON-0309gene encoding DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit L (ToRNAP_L) fromThermococcus onnurineusNA1 was cloned and the protein was overexpressed inEscherichia coli, purified and crystallized. The purified protein was crystallized using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method and the crystal diffracted to 2.10 Å resolution. The crystal belonged to the hexagonal space groupP6122, with unit-cell parametersa=b= 42.3,c= 211.2 Å. One molecule was present in the asymmetric unit, with a correspondingVMof 2.5 Å3 Da−1and a solvent content of 50.0%.


1999 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 1231-1233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana Smatanová ◽  
Yuji Nagata ◽  
L. Anders Svensson ◽  
Masamichi Takagi ◽  
Jaromír Marek

Haloalkane hydrolytic dehalogenase LinB from Sphingomonas paucimobilis UT26, an enzyme which releases chloride or bromide anion from n-halogenated alkanes and has a broad range of substrate specificity, was crystallized using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method at 278 K. The best crystals were obtained by microseeding with a precipitant containing 18–20%(w/v) PEG 6000, 0.2 M calcium acetate and 0.1 M Tris–HCl pH 8.9. The crystals diffract to at least 1.60 Å using synchrotron X-ray under cryogenic (100 K) conditions. They belong to the orthorhombic space group P21212 with unit-cell parameters a = 50.29, b = 71.70, c = 72.73 Å. The asymmetric unit contains one molecule of the enzyme.


2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (8) ◽  
pp. 1109-1113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Hayashi ◽  
Ryuichiro Suzuki ◽  
Christophe Colleoni ◽  
Steven G. Ball ◽  
Naoko Fujita ◽  
...  

Several cyanobacterial species, includingCyanothecesp. ATCC 51142, remarkably have four isoforms of α-glucan branching enzymes (BEs). Based on their primary structures, they are classified into glycoside hydrolase (GH) family 13 (BE1, BE2 and BE3) or family 57 (GH57 BE). In the present study, GH13-type BEs fromCyanothecesp. ATCC 51142 (BE1, BE2 and BE3) have been overexpressed inEscherichia coliand biochemically characterized. The recombinant BE1 was crystallized by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method. Crystals of BE1 were obtained at 293 K in the presence of 0.2 MMg2+, 7–10%(w/v) ethanol, 0.1 MHEPES–NaOH pH 7.2–7.9. The crystals belonged to the tetragonal space groupP41212, with unit-cell parametersa = b = 133.75,c= 185.90 Å, and diffracted to beyond 1.85 Å resolution. Matthews coefficient calculations suggested that the crystals of BE1 contained two molecules in the asymmetric unit.


Author(s):  
Yuki Hirato ◽  
Masaru Goto ◽  
Mayumi Tokuhisa ◽  
Minoru Tanigawa ◽  
Katsushi Nishimura

D-Threonine aldolase from the green algaChlamydomonas reinhardtii(CrDTA) catalyzes the interconversion of several β-hydroxy-D-amino acids (e.g.D-threonine) and glycine plus the corresponding aldehydes. Recombinant CrDTA was overexpressed inEscherichia coliand purified to homogeneity; it was subsequently crystallized using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method at 295 K. Data were collected and processed at 1.85 Å resolution. Analysis of the diffraction pattern showed that the crystal belonged to space groupP1, with unit-cell parametersa= 64.79,b= 74.10,c= 89.94 Å, α = 77.07, β = 69.34, γ = 71.93°. The asymmetric unit contained four molecules of CrDTA. The Matthews coefficient was calculated to be 2.12 Å3 Da−1and the solvent content was 41.9%.


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