Characterization of lysozyme crystals with unusually low solvent content

Nagendra, HG and Sudarsanakumar, C and Vijayan, M (1995) Characterization of lysozyme crystals with unusually low solvent content. In: Acta Crystallographica Section D, 51 (Part 3). pp. 390-392.

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Abstract

Studies on the low-humidity (88%) forms of tetragonal and monoclinic lysozyme, resulting from water-mediated transformations, have provided a wealth of information on the variability in protein hydration, its structural consequences and the water structure associated with proteins, in addition to facilitating the delineation of the rigid and the flexible regions in the protein molecule and the invariant features in its hydration shell. Surprisingly, monoclinic lysozyme continues to diffract even when the environmental humidity is drastically reduced, thus permitting the structural study of the enzyme at different levels of hydration. As part of a study in this direction, three very low humidity forms, two of them occuring at a nominal relative humidity of 38% and the other at 5% relative humidity, have been characterized. These have unprecedented low solvent contents of 16.9, 17.6 and 9.4%, respectively, as determined by the Matthews method.

Item Type:	Editorials/Short Communications
Publication:	Acta Crystallographica Section D
Publisher:	International Union of Crystallography
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to International Union of Crystallography.
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Molecular Biophysics Unit
Date Deposited:	15 Jun 2011 09:32
Last Modified:	15 Jun 2011 09:32
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/37232

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