Acta Crystallographica Section F

Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications

Volume 65, Part 1 (January 2009)



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[Cover illustration] Cover illustration: A photomontage of crystal micrographs from papers published in Acta Cryst. F in 2008. Top row: the peroxiredoxin domain of a larger natural hybrid protein from Thermotoga maritima (Barbey et al., pp. 29-31); adeno-associated virus serotype 6 (Xie et al., pp. 1074-1078); and the bifunctional enzyme proline utilization A (PutA) from Bradyrhizobium japonicum (Schuermann et al., pp. 949-953). Middle row: S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase from Lupinus luteus in complex with adenosine (Brzezinski et al., pp. 671-673); mannosyl-3-phosphoglycerate synthase from Rubrobacter xylanophilus (Sá-Moura et al., pp. 760-763); and flavodoxin NifF from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus (Pérez-Dorado et al., pp. 375-377). Bottom row: polyketide synthase-1 (PKS-1) from Cannabis sativa (Taguchi et al., pp. 217-220); the MtxX protein from Methanococcus jannaschii (Dong Hae Shin, pp. 300-303); and full-length yeast tropomyosin 2 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Meshcheryakov et al., pp. 528-530).

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Acta Cryst. (2009). F65, 1  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309108043224 ]

Crystals on the cover for 2009

H. Einspahr and M. S. Weiss

Online 30 December 2008


structural genomics communications


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Acta Cryst. (2009). F65, 2-7  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309108041511 ]

The structure of Rph, an exoribonuclease from Bacillus anthracis, at 1.7 Å resolution

A. E. Rawlings, E. V. Blagova, V. M. Levdikov, M. J. Fogg, K. S. Wilson and A. J. Wilkinson

Synopsis: The crystal structure of a phosphate-dependent exoribonuclease from B. anthracis has been solved to 1.7 Å resolution. The refined model reveals a hexameric ring structure and five bound sulfate ions per subunit. Each subunit features two sulfate ions located in the active site.

PDB reference: 3dd6

Online 25 December 2008


nucleic acid structure communications


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Acta Cryst. (2009). F65, 8-13  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309108037706 ]

The structure of d(CACACG)·d(CGTGTG)

S. Venkadesh, P. K. Mandal and N. Gautham

Synopsis: The crystal structure of d(CACACG)·d(CGTGTG) was solved to a resolution of 2.05 Å in space group P21.

PDB reference: 3e9w

Online 25 December 2008


crystallization communications


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Acta Cryst. (2009). F65, 14-16  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309108037925 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of the complex between a human anti-interferon antibody fragment and human interferon [alpha]-2A

V. Oganesyan, M. M. Damschroder, K. E. Cook, H. Wu and W. F. Dall'Acqua

Synopsis: Crystals of the complex between the Fab fragment of a human anti-interferon [alpha] therapeutic antibody and human interferon [alpha]-2A have been obtained and diffracted to 3.0 Å resolution.

Online 25 December 2008


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Acta Cryst. (2009). F65, 17-20  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309108038207 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of a C-terminal fragment of FlgJ, a putative flagellar rod cap protein from Salmonella

Y. Kikuchi, H. Matsunami, M. Yamane, K. Imada and K. Namba

Synopsis: A C-terminal fragment of Salmonella FlgJ, FlgJ120-316, which has peptidoglycan-hydrolysing activity, has been overproduced, purified and crystallized and the crystals have been characterized by X-ray diffraction.

Online 25 December 2008


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Acta Cryst. (2009). F65, 21-24  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309108038219 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of GCIP/HHM transcriptional regulator

A. Seto, H. Ikushima, T. Suzuki, Y. Sato, S. Fukai, K. Yuki, K. Miyazawa, K. Miyazono, R. Ishitani and O. Nureki

Synopsis: Native and selenomethionine-derivatized crystals of full-length human GCIP/HHM protein were obtained. The crystals belonged to space group P3221 and the best native crystal diffracted to 3.5 Å resolution.

Online 25 December 2008


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Acta Cryst. (2009). F65, 25-28  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309108038542 ]

Crystallization and diffraction patterns of the oxy and cyano forms of the Lucina pectinata haemoglobins complex

C. R. Ruiz-Martínez, C. A. Nieves-Marrero, R. A. Estremera-Andújar, J. A. Gavira, L. A. González-Ramírez, J. López-Garriga and J. M. García-Ruiz

Synopsis: The native oxygen-carrier haemoglobins complex (HbII-III) is composed of haemoglobin II (HbII) and haemoglobin III (HbIII), which are found in the ctenidia tissue of the bivalve mollusc Lucina pectinata. This protein complex was isolated and purified from its natural source and crystallized using the vapour-diffusion and capillary counter-diffusion methods.

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Acta Cryst. (2009). F65, 29-33  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309108039067 ]

Overexpression, purification, characterization and preliminary crystallographic study of phosphoglycolate phosphatase from Shigella flexneri 2a strain 301

H. Liu, H. Zhou, D. Zhu and R. Bi

Synopsis: Recombinant phosphoglycolate phosphatase from S. flexneri was overexpressed, purified, characterized and crystallized using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method. SeMet-labelled protein was also prepared and was crystallized for phase determination using the MAD technique.

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Acta Cryst. (2009). F65, 34-38  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309108039146 ]

Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of cgHle, a homoserine acetyltransferase homologue, from Corynebacterium glutamicum

C. Tölzer, S. Pal, H. Watzlawick, J. Altenbuchner and K. Niefind

Synopsis: The enzyme cgHle from C. glutamicum, which has acetyl ester hydrolase activity, was crystallized in four different crystal forms. X-ray diffraction data have been collected to a resolution of 1.2 Å.

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Acta Cryst. (2009). F65, 39-41  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309108039316 ]

Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of glutathionylated Trx1 C33S mutant from yeast

X. Lou, Y. Zhang, R. Bao, C.-Z. Zhou and Y. Chen

Synopsis: Cytosolic Trx1 containing a C33S mutant was overexpressed, purified, glutathionylated and crystallized. The crystals diffracted to 1.80 Å resolution.

Online 25 December 2008


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Acta Cryst. (2009). F65, 42-46  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309108039894 ]

Purification and crystallization of Cor a 9, a major hazelnut allergen

F. Guo, M. H. Kothary, Y. Wang, X. Yu, A. J. Howard, T.-J. Fu and Y.-Z. Zhang

Synopsis: The major hazelnut allergen Cor a 9 was purified from the natural source and crystallized. Diffraction data were collected to 1.9 Å resolution using a synchrotron-radiation source.

Online 25 December 2008


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Acta Cryst. (2009). F65, 47-50  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309108039882 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of FliJ, a cytoplasmic component of the flagellar type III protein-export apparatus from Salmonella sp.

T. Ibuki, M. Shimada, T. Minamino, K. Namba and K. Imada

Synopsis: FliJ is one of the essential cytoplasmic components of the flagellar type III protein-export apparatus; it has been expressed, produced and crystallized and the crystals have been characterized by X-ray diffraction.

Online 25 December 2008


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Acta Cryst. (2009). F65, 51-54  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309108039924 ]

Cloning, expression, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of glutamyl-tRNA synthetase (Xoo1504) from Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae

T. T. N. Doan, S. Natarajan, H. Kim, Y.-J. Ahn, J.-G. Kim, B.-M. Lee and L.-W. Kang

Synopsis: Glutamyl-tRNA synthetase (GluRS) is an essential enzyme for protein translation and has been considered as a target for drug development. In this paper, the cloning, expression and purification of the GluRS protein encoded by the gltX gene (Xoo1504) and its preliminarily crystallographic analysis are reported.

Online 25 December 2008


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Acta Cryst. (2009). F65, 55-58  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309108040025 ]

Cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of the pilus-associated sortase C from Streptococcus pneumoniae

F. Neiers, C. Madhurantakam, S. Fälker, S. Normark, B. Henriques-Normark and A. Achour

Synopsis: Crystallization conditions and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of the S. pneumoniae-derived pilus-associated protein sortase C are reported.

Online 25 December 2008


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Acta Cryst. (2009). F65, 59-62  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309108040153 ]

X-ray diffraction analysis of a human tRNAGly acceptor-stem microhelix isoacceptor at 1.18 Å resolution

A. Eichert, M. Perbandt, A. Schreiber, J. P. Fürste, C. Betzel, V. A. Erdmann and C. Förster

Synopsis: The tRNAGly acceptor-stem microhelix isoacceptor from human cytoplasm was crystallized and X-ray diffraction analysis revealed diffraction to 1.18 Å resolution. The sequence of the microhelix was derived from the gene sequence with tRNA Database ID DG9990.

Online 25 December 2008


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Acta Cryst. (2009). F65, 63-66  [ doi:10.1107/S1744309108036476 ]

Notes for authors 2009

Online 30 December 2008


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