Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 423-426  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309106010700 ]

Structure of myotoxin II, a catalytically inactive Lys49 phospholipase A₂ homologue from Atropoides nummifer venom

M. T. Murakami, C. C. Melo, Y. Angulo, B. Lomonte and R. K. Arni

Synopsis: The crystal structure of myotoxin II from A. nummifer venom has been determined at 2.08  Å resolution.

PDB reference: 2aoz

Online 12 April 2006

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 427-431  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309106010876 ]

Structure of ribose 5-phosphate isomerase from Plasmodium falciparum

M. A. Holmes, F. S. Buckner, W. C. Van Voorhis, C. L. M. J. Verlinde, C. Mehlin, E. Boni, G. DeTitta, J. Luft, A. Lauricella, L. Anderson, O. Kalyuzhniy, F. Zucker, L. W. Schoenfeld, T. N. Earnest, W. G. J. Hol and E. A. Merritt

Synopsis: The crystal structure of ribose 5-phosphate isomerase from P. falciparum has been determined at 2.09  Å resolution. The structure is very similar to those of RpiA from other species, but is in some ways more similar to bacterial homologs than to those from higher eukaryotes.

PDB reference: 2f8m

Online 12 April 2006

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 432-434  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309106009067 ]

Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of human phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate synthetase 1 (PRS1)

W. Tang, X. Li, Z. Zhu, S. Tong, X. Li, X. Zhang, M. Teng and L. Niu

Synopsis: Crystals of human PRPP synthetase 1 (PRS1) in complex with Mg²⁺, P_i and ATP were obtained and diffraction data were collected to 2.6  Å resolution.

Online 12 April 2006

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 435-437  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309106011456 ]

Cloning, purification and preliminary crystallographic analysis of the Bacillus subtilis GTPase YphC-GDP complex

L. Xu, S. P. Muench, A. Roujeinikova, S. E. Sedelnikova and D. W. Rice

Synopsis: Crystals of a selenomethionine-incorporated YphC-GDP complex have been grown using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method and polyethylene glycol as a precipitating agent.

Online 12 April 2006

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 438-440  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309106011894 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of the rhamnogalacturonan lyase YesW from Bacillus subtilis strain 168, a member of polysaccharide lyase family 11

A. Ochiai, M. Yamasaki, T. Itoh, B. Mikami, W. Hashimoto and K. Murata

Synopsis: The crystallization and preliminary X-ray characterization of the polysaccharide lyase family 11 rhamnogalacturonan lyase are presented.

Online 12 April 2006

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 441-445  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309106012036 ]

Preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of the secreted chorismate mutase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a tricky crystallization problem solved

U. Krengel, R. Dey, S. Sasso, M. Ökvist, C. Ramakrishnan and P. Kast

Synopsis: A method is presented that allowed the diffraction limit of crystals of the secreted chorismate mutase from M. tuberculosis to be improved from approximately 3.5 to 1.3  Å. To obtain large well diffracting crystals, it was critical to initiate crystallization at higher precipitant concentration and then transfer the drops to lower precipitant concentrations within 5-15  min.

Online 12 April 2006

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 446-448  [ doi:10.1107/S174430910601219X ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of XAC1151, a small heat-shock protein from Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri belonging to the -crystallin family

E. Hilario, E. C. Teixeira, G. A. Pedroso, M. C. Bertolini and F. J. Medrano

Synopsis: XAC1151, a small heat-shock protein from X. axonopodis pv. citri belonging to the -crystallin family, was crystallized using the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method in the presence of ammonium phosphate. X-ray diffraction data were collected to 1.65  Å resolution using a synchrotron-radiation source.

Online 12 April 2006

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 449-452  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309106012024 ]

Crystallization of the C-terminal head domain of the avian adenovirus CELO long fibre

P. Guardado Calvo, A. L. Llamas-Saiz, P. Langlois and M. J. van Raaij

Synopsis: Avian adenovirus long-fibre head trimers were expressed, purified and crystallized. The crystals belong to space group C2 (unit-cell parameters a = 216.5, b = 59.2, c = 57.5  Å, = 101.3°). A complete highly redundant data set was collected to 2.2  Å resolution at 100  K using a rotating-anode X-ray source.

Online 12 April 2006

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 453-456  [ doi:10.1107/S174430910601236X ]

Synthesis, capillary crystallization and preliminary joint X-ray and neutron crystallographic study of Z-DNA without polyamine at low pH

P. Langan, X. Li, B. L. Hanson, L. Coates and M. Mustyakimov

Synopsis: Joint X-ray and neutron crystallographic data have been collected from the oligonucleotide d(CGCGCG) crystallized without polyamine and at low pH in order to study hydration in the protein-binding major groove of Z-DNA.

Online 12 April 2006

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 457-459  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309106012504 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of a U2AF⁶⁵ variant in complex with a polypyrimidine-tract analogue by use of protein engineering

E. A. Sickmier, K. E. Frato and C. L. Kielkopf

Synopsis: A complex of the essential splicing factor U2AF⁶⁵ and a deoxyuridine oligonucleotide has been crystallized by modification of an interdomain linker.

Online 12 April 2006

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 460-463  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309106012553 ]

Preliminary X-ray investigations of several crystal forms of the ferripyoverdine FpvA outer membrane receptor from Pseudomonas aeruginosa bound to ferripyoverdine

C. Wirth, F. Hoegy, F. Pattus and D. Cobessi

Synopsis: The crystallization and X-ray data analysis of three crystal forms of the outer membrane pyoverdine transducer FpvA from P. aeruginosa bound to ferripyoverdine are described. The resolution of the crystals ranges from 3.15 to 2.7  Å depending on the crystal form; all were obtained in the presence of C₈E₄ detergent.

Online 12 April 2006

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 464-466  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309106012358 ]

Crystallization of recombinant Haemophilus influenzae e (P4) acid phosphatase

Z. Ou, R. L. Felts, T. J. Reilly, J. C. Nix and J. J. Tanner

Synopsis: Lipoprotein e (P4) is a class C acid phosphatase and a potential vaccine candidate for nontypeable H. influenzae infections. This paper reports the crystallization of recombinant e (P4) and the acquisition of a 1.7  Å resolution native X-ray diffraction data set.

Online 21 April 2006

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 467-470  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309106012838 ]

Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction of human S100A15

K. M. Boeshans, R. Wolf, C. Voscopoulos, W. Gillette, D. Esposito, T. C. Mueser, S. H. Yuspa and B. Ahvazi

Synopsis: S100 proteins are differentially expressed during epithelial cell maturation, tumorigenesis and inflammation. The novel human S100A15 protein has been cloned, expressed, purified and crystallized in two crystal forms, a triclinic and a monoclinic form, which diffract to 1.7 and 2.0  Å, respectively.

Online 21 April 2006

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 471-473  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309106012826 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of CooA from Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans

H. Komori, K. Satomoto, Y. Ueda, N. Shibata, S. Inagaki, S. Yoshioka, S. Aono and Y. Higuchi

Synopsis: CooA from C. hydrogenoformans has been crystallized by the vapour-diffusion method using polyethylene glycol as a precipitant. The crystal diffracted to 2.3  Å resolution.

Online 21 April 2006

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 474-476  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309106012875 ]

Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray characterization of the GRP carbohydrate-recognition domain from Homo sapiens

D. Zhou, J. Sun, W. Zhao, X. Zhang, Y. Shi, M. Teng, L. Niu, Y. Dong and P. Liu

Synopsis: The CRD domain of GRP from H. sapiens has been expressed, purified and crystallized and X-ray diffraction data have been collected to a resolution of 2.0  Å.

Online 21 April 2006

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 477-482  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309106013856 ]

Crystallogenesis of bacteriophage P22 tail accessory factor gp26 at acidic and neutral pH

G. Cingolani, D. Andrews and S. Casjens

Synopsis: The crystallogenesis of bacteriophage P22 tail-fiber gp26 is described. To study possible pH-induced conformational changes in gp26 structure, native trimeric gp26 has been crystallized at acidic pH (4.6) and a chimera of gp26 fused to maltose-binding protein (MBP-gp26) has been crystallized at neutral and alkaline pH (7-10).

Online 28 April 2006

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 483-485  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309106013121 ]

Cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of the glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminotransferase from Bacillus subtilis

X. Lv, J. Fan, H. Ge, Y. Gao, X. Zhang, M. Teng and L. Niu

Synopsis: Crystals of glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminotransferase (GSAT) from B. subtilis were obtained and diffraction data were collected to 2.0  Å resolution.

Online 28 April 2006

 

Acta Cryst. (2006). F62, 486-488  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309106014333 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of an exotype alginate lyase Atu3025 from Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain C58, a member of polysaccharide lyase family 15

A. Ochiai, M. Yamasaki, B. Mikami, W. Hashimoto and K. Murata

Synopsis: The crystallization and preliminary X-ray characterization of a family PL-15 exotype alginate lyase are presented.

Online 28 April 2006