Acta Crystallographica Section D

Biological Crystallography

Volume 60, Part 11 (November 2004)



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[Cover illustration] Cover illustration: Electron-density map of the protein histone methyltransferase SET 7/9 contoured at 1[sigma] calculated from the peak-wavelength Se-SAD data. Phases were derived by OASIS-2004 and improved by DM. The data were provided by Drs S. J. Gamblin and B. Xiao. The protein was originally determined by J. R. Wilson et al. [(2002), Cell, 111, 105-115] using the MAD method. The refined structure model from the original authors is superimposed on the electron-density map (p. 1987).

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 1929-1934  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904020645 ]

Structure of human erythrocyte NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase

S. Bando, T. Takano, T. Yubisui, K. Shirabe, M. Takeshita and A. Nakagawa

Synopsis: The structure of human NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase at 1.75 Å resolution is the same as that of rat NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase except for a large main-chain shift caused by a Pro268Thr substitution. Five mutations seem to be related to cytochrome b5.

PDB reference: 1umk

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 1935-1942  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904021390 ]

Recurring main-chain anion-binding motifs in short polypeptides: nests

E. J. Milner-White, J. W. M. Nissink, F. H. Allen and W. J. Duddy

Synopsis: Peptidic molecules in the CSD are searched for nests, three-amino-acid residue anion-binding motifs found commonly in proteins. 37 are found. One, in the antibiotic vancomycin, has the function of binding the C-terminal carboxylate group of the bacterial cell wall precursor peptide.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 1943-1948  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904021572 ]

Inhibitor binding at the protein interface in crystals of a HIV-1 protease complex

J. Brynda, P. Rezácová, M. Fábry, M. Horejsí, R. Stouracová, M. Soucek, M. Hradílek, J. Konvalinka and J. Sedlácek

Synopsis: In the course of investigating the complex of HIV-1 protease with a novel phenylnorstatine inhibitor, two inhibitor molecules were found to be bound to the enzyme, one in a non-productive mode. The contribution of the contacts of this inhibitor molecule at the protein interface to the crystal quality is discussed.

PDB reference: 1u8g

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 1949-1957  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904021791 ]

Structure of 2C-methyl-D-erythritol-2,4-cyclodiphosphate synthase from Shewanella oneidensis at 1.6 Å: identification of farnesyl pyrophosphate trapped in a hydrophobic cavity

S. Ni, H. Robinson, G. C. Marsing, D. E. Bussiere and M. A. Kennedy

Synopsis: The structure of 2C-methyl-D-erythritol-2,4-cyclophosphate from S. oneidensis MR1 (SO3437) has been determined to 1.6 Å resolution in the absence of substrate.

PDB reference: 1t0a

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 1958-1963  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904021730 ]

Radiation-damage-induced phasing with anomalous scattering: substructure solution and phasing

P. H. Zwart, S. Banumathi, M. Dauter and Z. Dauter

Synopsis: The effects of radiation damage on iodinated thaumatin crystals have been analysed. It was shown that combination of the anomalous and isomorphous signals in the form of RIPAS (radiation-damage-induced phasing with anomalous scattering) is beneficial for both locating the substructure and subsequent phasing.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 1964-1970  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904021912 ]

Structure determination and refinement at 2.44 Å resolution of argininosuccinate lyase from Escherichia coli

P. Bhaumik, M. K. Koski, U. Bergmann and R. K. Wierenga

Synopsis: The crystal structure of E. coli argininosuccinate lyase has been determined at 2.44 Å resolution; in this structure, one active site, complexed with two phosphate ions, adopts the closed conformation.

PDB reference: 1tj7

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 1971-1980  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904022292 ]

Solution and structure of an alternating D,L-peptide

E. Alexopoulos, A. Küsel, G. M. Sheldrick, U. Diederichsen and I. Usón

Synopsis: The D,L-alternating peptide H-(L-Tyr-D-Tyr)4-L-Lys-OH adopts a gramicidin A-like structure. Fragment-search strategies aiming to exploit the high-resolution data available (1.3 Å) were tested.

PDB reference: 1uno

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 1981-1986  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904023005 ]

A pivotal role for reductive methylation in the de novo crystallization of a ternary complex composed of Yersinia pestis virulence factors YopN, SycN and YscB

F. D. Schubot and D. S. Waugh

Synopsis: De novo crystallization of a ternary complex composed of Y. pestis virulence factors YopN, SycN, and YscB could only be achieved after reductive methylation of surface-exposed lysine residues. This case study also demonstrates that the modification can be safely employed on multiprotein complexes and selenomethionine-substituted samples, underscoring its general potential as a crystallization tool, even in high-throughput settings.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 1987-1990  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904023856 ]

Optimizing the error term in direct-method SAD phasing

J. W. Wang, J. R. Chen, Y. X. Gu, C. D. Zheng, F. Jiang and H. F. Fan

Synopsis: The influence of the error term on direct-method SAD phasing is examined. A method for automatically tuning the scaling factor in the error term is proposed.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 1991-1996  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904023893 ]

Direct-method SAD phasing with partial-structure iteration: towards automation

J. W. Wang, J. R. Chen, Y. X. Gu, C. D. Zheng and H. F. Fan

Synopsis: Structure fragments resulting from automatic model building based on initial direct-method SAD phasing are fed back to the direct-method probability formula in order to strengthen the phasing power and to benefit the automation of structure solution of proteins.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 1997-2002  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904021146 ]

Structure of the RNA-processing inhibitor RraA from Thermus thermophilis

P. H. Rehse, C. Kuroishi and T. H. Tahirov

Synopsis: The X-ray crystallographic structure of T. thermophilis RraA has been solved to 2.3 Å resolution.

PDB reference: 1j3l

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crystallization papers


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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2003-2005  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904019869 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of chorismate synthase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

M. V. B. Dias, F. Ely, F. Canduri, J. H. Pereira, J. Frazzon, L. A. Basso, M. S. Palma, W. F. de Azevedo and D. S. Santos

Synopsis: The last step of the shikimate pathway is catalyzed by chorismate synthase (CS). Optimization of crystallization trials allowed the crystallization of homogeneous recombinant CS from M. tuberculosis.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2006-2008  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904020232 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of homing endonuclease I-Tsp061I

T. Imagawa, H. Nakayama, N. Katunuma, H. Sakuraba, T. Ohshima, T. Itoh, Y. Sako, N. Nomura and H. Tsuge

Synopsis: A thermostable homing endonuclease from Thermoproteus sp. IC-061 has been crystallized. The crystals diffract to 2.7 Å resolution.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2009-2012  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904020530 ]

Cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray characterization of the full-length single-stranded DNA-binding protein from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus

D. J. Clarke, C. G. Northey, L. A. Mack, I. W. McNae, D. Alexeev, L. Sawyer and D. J. Campopiano

Synopsis: The full-length single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB) from the extremophile A. aeolicus has been expressed in Escherichia coli, purified and crystallized and initial X-ray data have been obtained.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2013-2015  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904020517 ]

Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of the fusion core of the spike protein of the murine coronavirus mouse hepatitis virus (MHV)

Y. Xu, Z. Bai, L. Qin, X. Li, G. Gao and Z. Rao

Synopsis: Preliminary crystallographic data of the fusion core of the spike protein of the murine coronavirus mouse hepatitis virus have been obtained.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2016-2018  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904020475 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of chitinase F1 (ChiF1) from the alkaliphilic Nocardiopsis sp. strain F96

T. Matsui, T. Kumasaka, K. Endo, T. Sato, S. Nakamura and N. Tanaka

Synopsis: Crystals of ChiF1 have been grown and they diffract beyond 1.24 Å resolution.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2019-2021  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904020608 ]

Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of human liver regucalcin

M. Warizaya, T. Kinoshita, M. Yamaoka, T. Shibata, N. Saito, H. Nakajima and T. Fujii

Synopsis: Human liver regucalcin, consisting of 299 amino-acid residues, has been overexpressed in Escherichia coli, purified and crystallized by the vapour-diffusion method in the presence of polyethylene glycol 4000 as a precipitant.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2022-2024  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904020827 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of VCBP3 from Branchiostoma floridae

J. A. Hernández Prada, R. N. Haire, J. P. Cannon, G. W. Litman and D. A. Ostrov

Synopsis: VCBP3, an immunoglobulin-like protein from the protochordate B. floridae with the characteristics of a `primordial' antigen receptor, has been crystallized and complete native data sets have been collected to 2.4 Å resolution. Isomorphous crystals from two different crystallization conditions are consistent with space groups P3121 and P3221, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 58.99, c = 79.21 Å, [alpha] = [beta] = 90, [gamma] = 120°.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2025-2027  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904020724 ]

Crystallization and preliminary diffraction studies of TraF, a component of the Escherichia coli type IV secretory system

G. F. Audette, S. J. Holland, T. C. Elton, J. Manchak, K. Hayakawa, L. S. Frost and B. Hazes

Synopsis: The expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of the protein TraF from the E. coli F plasmid are reported.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2028-2030  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904021031 ]

Purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic studies of the ligand-binding domain of a plant vacuolar sorting receptor

S. W. Rogers, B. Youn, J. C. Rogers and C. Kang

Synopsis: Vacuolar sorting receptor (VSR) proteins target ligands to the lytic vacuole in a sequence-specific manner. Purification from Drospohila S2 cells, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of Arabidopsis thalia VSR, AtBP80b, have been carried out.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2031-2034  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904021134 ]

Expression, purification and preliminary X-ray analysis of crystals of Bacillus subtilis glutamate racemase

M. A. Taal, S. E. Sedelnikova, S. N. Ruzheinikov, P. J. Baker and D. W. Rice

Synopsis: Glutamate racemase from B. subtilis has been crystallized in the presence of L-glutamate in a form suitable for structure determination.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2035-2037  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904021110 ]

Purification, characterization, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of two novel C-type lectin-like proteins: Aall-A and Aall-B from Deinagkistrodon acutus venom

G. Xu, M. Teng, L. Niu, P. Liu, Y. Dong, Q. Liu, Q. Huang and Q. Hao

Synopsis: Aall-A and Aall-B, two novel heterodimeric snake-venom C-type lectin-like proteins (sv-CLPs), were purified from the venom of D. acutus from Anhui, China, and crystallized.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2038-2039  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904021183 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic studies of a lectin from the mushroom Marasmius oreades

E. Grahn, Å. Holmner, C. Cronet, H. Tateno, H. C. Winter, I. J. Goldstein and U. Krengel

Synopsis: The M. oreades agglutinin (MOA) has been crystallized. Crystals diffract anisotropically to 2.5 Å resolution. A complete X-ray data set has been obtained to 3.0 Å resolution.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2040-2043  [ doi:10.1107/S090744490402116X ]

Expression, crystallization and preliminary structural analysis of the ectoplasmic region of apical membrane antigen 1 from Plasmodium vivax, a malaria-vaccine candidate

B. Vulliez-Le Normand, J. C. Pizarro, M.-L. Chesne-Seck, C. H. M. Kocken, B. Faber, A. W. Thomas and G. A. Bentley

Synopsis: The ectoplasmic region of apical membrane antigen 1 from P. vivax has been expressed and crystallized in two crystal forms. Phases have been obtained by the MAD technique using a Pt derivative.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2044-2047  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904021171 ]

Crystallization and preliminary analysis of a water-forming NADH oxidase from Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis

G. T. Lountos, B. R. Riebel, W. B. Wellborn, A. S. Bommarius and A. M. Orville

Synopsis: The water-forming NADH oxidase from L. sanfranciscensis has been crystallized in space group P212121 and X-ray diffraction data to 1.85 Å resolution have been collected.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2048-2050  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904021201 ]

RAR[beta] ligand-binding domain bound to an SRC-1 co-activator peptide: purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis

S. Kammerer, P. Germain, R. Flaig, C. Peluso-Iltis, A. Mitschler, N. Rochel, H. Gronemeyer and D. Moras

Synopsis: The retinoic acid receptor [beta] ligand-binding domain has been expressed and crystallized bound to a synthetic retinoid (TTNPB) with or without a co-activator peptide (SRC-1).

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2051-2053  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904021596 ]

Crystallization, data collection and phasing of infestin 4, a factor XIIa inhibitor

I. T. N. Campos, B. G. Guimarães, F. J. Medrano, A. S. Tanaka and J. A. R. G. Barbosa

Synopsis: Crystals of infestin 4, a factor XIIa Kazal-type inhibitor from T. infestans, diffracted to 1.8 Å resolution and belong to the orthorhombic space group P212121, with unit-cell parameters a = 25.89, b = 45.64, c = 57.41 Å.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2054-2057  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904021584 ]

Preparation, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of a complex between the Plasmodium vivax sexual stage 25 kDa protein Pvs25 and a malaria transmission-blocking antibody Fab fragment

A. K. Saxena, K. Singh, C. A. Long and D. N. Garboczi

Synopsis: Crystals of the complex between the P. vivax sexual stage 25 kDa protein Pvs25 and a malaria transmission-blocking Fab diffract X-rays to 3.5 Å. Two complex molecules are predicted per asymmetric unit.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2058-2060  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904021638 ]

Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of mexicain

M. C. Oliver-Salvador, L. A. González-Ramírez, J. A. Gavira, M. Soriano-García and J. M. García-Ruiz

Synopsis: Mexicain, a cysteine protease, has been extracted from the latex of the tropical plant Pileusmexicanus, purified and crystallized. The crystals belong to the space group P21 and they diffract X-rays to 2.1 Å resolution.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2061-2062  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904021754 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of pyridoxal 4-dehydrogenase, the second enzyme in degradation pathway I of pyridoxine

N. Yokochi, Y. Yoshikane, T. Yagi, M. Yamasaki and B. Mikami

Synopsis: Pyridoxal 4-dehydrogenase from Microbacterium luteolum has been crystallized by the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method. The crystals were monoclinic and belonged to space group C2, with unit-cell parameters a = 107.0, b = 56.7, c = 130.2 Å, [beta] = 103.6°. Diffraction data were collected from a single crystal to 2.0 Å.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2063-2066  [ doi:10.1107/S090744490402181X ]

Crystallization and atomic resolution X-ray diffraction of the catalytic domain of the large sialidase, nanI, from Clostridium perfringens

S. Newstead, C.-H. Chien, M. Taylor and G. Taylor

Synopsis: The catalytic domain of one of three sialidases encoded by the C. perfringens genome has been subcloned and crystallized. The diffraction of this 50 kDa domain to beyond 0.92 Å will allow detailed mechanistic enzymology of this enzyme superfamily.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2067-2069  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904021985 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of spermidine synthase from Helicobacter pylori

P.-K. Lu, S.-Y. Chien, J.-Y. Tsai, C.-T. Fong, M. J. Lee, H. Huang and Y.-J. Sun

Synopsis: The crystallization of spermidine synthase from H. pylori is reported.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2070-2072  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904022395 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of sulfite dehydrogenase from Starkeya novella

U. Kappler and S. Bailey

Synopsis: Sulfite dehydrogenase from S. novella has been crystallized. Crystals diffract to at least 1.8 Å resolution and belong to space group P21212, with unit-cell parameters a = 97.5, b = 92.5, c = 55.9 Å.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2073-2075  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904022425 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of the apo form of Escherichia coli tryptophanase

A. Kogan, G. Y. Gdalevsky, R. Cohen-Luria, A. H. Parola and Y. Goldgur

Synopsis: Crystals of wild-type and two mutants of apo tryptophanase from E. coli belong to space group F222 and diffract to 1.9 Å.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2076-2077  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904022632 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of a protein disulfide oxidoreductase from Aquifex aeolicus

K. D'Ambrosio, G. De Simone, E. Pedone, M. Rossi, S. Bartolucci and C. Pedone

Synopsis: A protein disulfide oxidoreductase from A. aeolicus has been crystallized for the first time. Crystals belong to space group R32 and diffract to 2.4 Å resolution.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2078-2080  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904022735 ]

Crystallization of a core fragment of the flagellar hook protein FlgE

F. A. Samatey, H. Matsunami, K. Imada, S. Nagashima and K. Namba

Synopsis: The hook is a short, highly curved segment of the bacterial flagellum, working as a universal joint, and is a helical assembly of about 120 copies of a single protein FlgE (42 kDa). The expression, purification, crystallization and diffraction data collection of a 31KDa fragment of FlgE, which is otherwise extremely difficult to crystallize because of its strong polymerization ability, are reported.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2081-2083  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904022668 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analyses of the active and the inactive forms of family GH-8 chitosanase with subclass II specificity from Bacillus sp. strain K17

Y. Sakihama, W. Adachi, S. Shimizu, T. Sunami, T. Fukazawa, M. Suzuki, R. Yatsunami, S. Nakamura and A. Takénaka

Synopsis: Chitosanase from Bacillus sp. strain K17, which belongs to glycoside hydrolase family 8 and exhibits subclass II specificity, has been crystallized in two forms corresponding to the active and inactive states.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2084-2086  [ doi:10.1107/S090744490402267X ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic studies of mouse autocrine motility factor

N. Naba, N. Tanaka, K. Shiraiwa, Y. Kusakabe, T. Funasaka, A. Haga, H. Nagase, A. Raz and K. T. Nakamura

Synopsis: Mouse autocrine motility factor has been crystallized in the absence and presence of carbohydrate phosphate inhibitors. Diffraction data have been collected using synchrotron radiation.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2087-2090  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904024102 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of a proteinase-K-resistant domain within the phosphoprotein of vesicular stomatitis virus (Indiana)

H. Ding, T. J. Green and M. Luo

Synopsis: A stable domain of the vesicular stomatitis virus phosphoprotein was crystallized. The crystals belonged to space group P41212 or P43212, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 74.50, c = 156.84 Å, and diffraction data were collected to 2.75 Å.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2091-2094  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904023972 ]

Glutamate-5-kinase from Escherichia coli: gene cloning, overexpression, purification and crystallization of the recombinant enzyme and preliminary X-ray studies

I. Pérez-Arellano, F. Gil-Ortiz, J. Cervera and V. Rubio

Synopsis: The production and crystallization of recombinant E. coli glutamate-5-kinase, the enzyme that catalyzes the first and feedback-controlled step of proline biosynthesis and a member of the amino-acid kinase enzyme family, is reported. In addition to the catalytic machinery, this enzyme contains a PUA putative RNA-binding domain that endows it with gene-expression regulatory properties.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2095-2097  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904024126 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic studies of human 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase

Y. Sakamoto, N. Tanaka, T. Ichimiya, T. Kurihara and K. T. Nakamura

Synopsis: Crystals of the catalytic fragment of human 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase (hCNP-CF) have been obtained. The crystals diffract X-rays to 1.8 Å resolution.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2098-2099  [ doi:10.1107/S090744490402428X ]

Crystallographic characterization of the N-terminal domain of PEX1

K. Shiozawa, N. Maita, K. Tomii, A. Seto, N. Goda, Y. Akiyama, T. Shimizu, M. Shirakawa and H. Hiroaki

Synopsis: PEX1 N-terminal domain crystals have been prepared. The crystals belong to space group P31 or P32, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 63.5, c = 33.5 Å, and contain one protein molecule per crystallographic asymmetric unit. An intensity data set was collected to a resolution of 2.05 Å.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2100-2103  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904023868 ]

Purification, identification and preliminary crystallographic characterization of a novel seed protein from Vigna unguiculata

V. Chanana, K. J. Kaur and D. M. Salunke

Synopsis: Purification, identification and preliminary crystallographic studies on an allergy-related protein from V. unguiculata seeds were carried out. The protein, crystals of which diffract to about 2.1 Å resolution, does not indicate homology with any protein with known crystal structure.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2104-2106  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904024114 ]

Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray structure analysis of the banana lectin from Musa paradisiaca

D. D. Singh, K. Saikrishnan, P. Kumar, Z. Dauter, K. Sekar, A. Surolia and M. Vijayan

Synopsis: The banana lectin from M. paradisiaca has been purified and crystallized and the crystal structure studied.

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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2107-2109  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904024229 ]

Crystallization of a proteolyzed form of the horse pancreatic lipase-related protein 2: structural basis for the specific detergent requirement

J. M. Mancheño, S. Jayne, B. Kerfelec, C. Chapus, I. Crenon and J. A. Hermoso

Synopsis: A proteolyzed form of horse PLRP2 has been crystallized by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method in complex with DDAO. Native data have been collected to 2.9 Å resolution.

Online 20 October 2004


short communications


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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2110-2113  [ doi:10.1107/S0907444904022474 ]

Structure of the phenazine biosynthesis enzyme PhzG

J. F. Parsons, K. Calabrese, E. Eisenstein and J. E. Ladner

Synopsis: This work describes the structure of PhzG from two species of Pseudomonas.

PDB references: 1t9m and 1ty9

Online 20 October 2004


addenda and errata


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Acta Cryst. (2004). D60, 2114  [ doi:10.1107/S090744490402390X ]

SAD phasing by combination of direct methods with the SOLVE/RESOLVE procedure. Erratum

J. W. Wang, J. R. Chen, Y. X. Gu, C. D. Zheng, F. Jiang, H. F. Fan, T. C. Terwilliger and Q. Hao

Synopsis: An erratum to the paper by Wang et al. (2004), Acta Cryst. D60, 1244-1253.

Online 20 October 2004


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