title: Crystallization and preliminary x-ray diffraction analysis of three mastoparans.
abstract: Mastoparans are tetradecapeptides found to be the major component of wasp venoms. These peptides possess a variety of biological activities. Three related mastoparans, mastoparan from Polistes jadwagae (MP-PJ), mastoparanX (MP-X) and its carboxyl-free C-terminal form (MP-X-COO-), were crystallized. X-ray diffraction data for them were collected at resolutions of 1.2 A, 2.0 A and 3.3 A respectively.
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 15 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China.
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiaoqin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: He
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xianjun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Shenquan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jiang
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D014862:Wasp Venoms / Q000737:chemistry*; D014863:Wasps / Q000737:chemistry*; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
chemical_list: D010455:Peptides; D014862:Wasp Venoms; C071124:polistes mastoparan