title: Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of the peptide methionine sulfoxide reductase from Escherichia coli.
abstract: Peptide methionine sulfoxide reductase mediates the reduction of protein sulfoxide methionyl residues back to methionines and could thus be implicated in the antioxidant defence of organisms. Hexagonal crystals of the Escherichia coli enzyme (MsrA) were obtained by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion technique. They belong to space group P6(5)22, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 102.5, c = 292.3 A, gamma = 120 degrees. A native data set was collected at 1.9 A resolution. Crystals of selenomethionine-substituted MsrA were also grown under the same crystallization conditions. A three-wavelength MAD experiment has led to the elucidation of the positions of the Se atoms and should result in a full structure determination.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Cristallographie et de Modélisation des Matériaux Minéraux et Biologiques, Groupe Biocristallographie, ESA 7036, BP 239, F-54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy CEDEX, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tête-Favier
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cobessi
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Leonard
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Azza
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Talfournier
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Boschi-Muller
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Branlant
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aubry
mesh_terms: D003460:Crystallization; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology*; D051150:Methionine Sulfoxide Reductases; D010088:Oxidoreductases / Q000737:chemistry*; D012645:Selenomethionine / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D012645:Selenomethionine; D010088:Oxidoreductases; D051150:Methionine Sulfoxide Reductases; C027219:methionine sulfoxide reductase