Purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of the glycine-cleavage system component T-protein from Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3.
The glycine-cleavage system component T-protein is a folate-dependent enzyme that catalyzes the formation of ammonia and 5,10-CH2-tetrahydrofolate from the aminomethyl intermediate bound to the lipoate cofactor of H-protein. T-protein from Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3 has been cloned, overexpressed in Escherichia coli, purified and crystallized by the microbatch method using PEG 4000 as a precipitant at 296 K. X-ray diffraction data have been collected to 1.50 A resolution at 100 K using synchrotron radiation. The crystals belong to the orthorhombic space group P2(1)2(1)2(1), with unit-cell parameters a = 78.980, b = 95.708, c = 118.331 A. Assuming one homodimer per asymmetric unit gives a VM value of 2.4 A3 Da(-1) and a solvent content of 49.0%.
Lokanath
Neratur K
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Highthroughput Factory, RIKEN Harima Institute at SPring-8, 1-1-1 Kouto, Mikazuki-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan.
Kuroishi
Chizu
C
Okazaki
Nobuo
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Kunishima
Naoki
N
D050960:Aminomethyltransferase; D003460:Crystallization; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D005998:Glycine / Q000378:metabolism; D019877:Hydroxymethyl and Formyl Transferases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D043902:Pyrococcus horikoshii / Q000201:enzymology*
D019877:Hydroxymethyl and Formyl Transferases; D050960:Aminomethyltransferase; D005998:Glycine