Expression, purification and crystallization of human CD5 domain III, a nano-scale crystallization example.
The human lymphocyte receptor CD5, a key regulator of immune responses, is involved in the modulation of antigen specific receptor-mediated T cell activation and differentiation signals. CD5 is a membrane glycoprotein which belongs to the group B scavenger receptor cysteine-rich (SRCR) superfamily for which no structural information is available. The most conserved membrane-proximal SRCR domain of CD5 (domain III) has been expressed in HEK-EBNA-293 cells. Although the yield of the purified protein was at the level of micrograms, well diffracting crystals have been obtained. The crystals belong to a tetragonal space group P4(1)22 or P4(3)22. They contain two molecules per asymmetric unit and diffracted to 2.5A resolution using synchrotron radiation. The strategy shown here to produce, isolate and crystallize CD5 domain III can be used for other mammalian proteins difficult to produce for structural or other biophysical studies.
Rodamilans
Bernardo
B
Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme, Macromolecular Crystallography Group, Spanish National Cancer Center (CNIO) c/Melchor Fdez. Almagro 3, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
Ibañez
Sonia
S
Bragado-Nilsson
Elisabeth
E
Sarrias
Maria Rosa
MR
Lozano
Francisco
F
Blanco
Francisco J
FJ
Montoya
Guillermo
G
D018956:CD5 Antigens / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002460:Cell Line; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003460:Crystallization; D006801:Humans; D053758:Nanoparticles; D011487:Protein Conformation; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
D018956:CD5 Antigens