Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of molybdenum-cofactor biosynthesis protein C from Thermus thermophilus

Kanaujia, Shankar Prasad and Ranjani, Chellamuthu Vasuki and Jeyakanthan, Jeyaraman and Baba, Seiki and Chen, Lirong and Liu, Zhi-Jie and Wang, Bi-Cheng and Nishida, Masami and Ebihara, Akio and Shinkai, Akeo and Kuramitsu, Seiki and Shiro, Yoshitsugu and Sekar, Kanagaraj and Yokoyama, Shigeyuki (2007) Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of molybdenum-cofactor biosynthesis protein C from Thermus thermophilus. In: Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, 63 (Part 1). pp. 27-29.

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Abstract

The Gram-negative aerobic eubacterium Thermus thermophilus is an extremely important thermophilic microorganism that was originally isolated from a thermal vent environment in Japan. The molybdenum cofactor in this organism is considered to be an essential component required by enzymes that catalyze diverse key reactions in the global metabolism of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur. The molybdenum-cofactor biosynthesis protein C derived from T. thermophilus was crystallized in two different space groups. Crystals obtained using the first crystallization condition belong to the monoclinic space group $P2_1$, with unit-cell parameters a = 64.81, b = 109.84, c = 115.19 \AA, $\beta=104.9^o$; the crystal diffracted to a resolution of 1.9 \AA. The other crystal form belonged to space group R32, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 106.57, c = 59.25 \AA, and diffracted to 1.75 \AA resolution. Preliminary calculations reveal that the asymmetric unit contains 12 monomers and one monomer for the crystals belonging to space group $P2_1$ and R32, respectively.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications
Publisher:	International Union of Crystallography
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to International Union of Crystallography.
Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Supercomputer Education & Research Centre Division of Information Sciences (Doesn't exist now) > BioInformatics Centre
Date Deposited:	06 Mar 2007
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:34
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/9583

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