title: Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of C-reactive protein from rat.
abstract: Crystals of C-reactive protein from rat have been grown both with and without calcium. Two major components of the protein have been resolved on the basis of their calcium-dependent fine specificity for monophosphate esters. Crystals grown without calcium are tetragonal, space group P42(1)2 with unit cell parameters a = b = 163.81(9)A and c = 125.21(6)A, and diffract X-rays to 3.0 A resolution. The rotation function specifies a molecular 5-fold symmetry axis at 24 degrees away from c in the (110) plane.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Keele, Staffordshire, England.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hopkins
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Flanagan
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bailey
authors.forename: I D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Glover
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Myles
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Greenhough
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002097:C-Reactive Protein / Q000737:chemistry*; D003460:Crystallization; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar
chemical_list: D002097:C-Reactive Protein