title: Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of the ISC-like [2Fe-2S] ferredoxin (FdxB) from Pseudomonas putida JCM 20004.
abstract: The iron-sulfur (Fe-S) cluster-biosynthesis (ISC) system of the gamma-proteobacterium Pseudomonas putida JCM 20004 contains a constitutively expressed vertebrate-type [2Fe-2S] ferredoxin, FdxB, which lacks the conserved free cysteine residue near the Fe-S cluster site that has been proposed to function in the catalysis of biological Fe-S cluster assembly in other bacterial homologues. Recombinant FdxB was heterologously overproduced in Escherichia coli, purified and crystallized in its oxidized form by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion and streak-seeding methods using 1.6 M trisodium citrate dihydrate pH 6.5. The thin needle-shaped crystals diffract to 1.90 A resolution and belong to the hexagonal space group P6(1)22, with unit-cell parameters a = 87.58, c = 73.14 A. The asymmetric unit contains one protein molecule.
authors: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Nippon Medical School, Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8602, Japan. tiwasaki@nms.ac.jp
authors: Toshio
authors: T
authors: Iwasaki
authors: Daijiro
authors: D
authors: Ohmori
authors: Nobutaka
authors: N
authors: Shimizu
authors: Takashi
authors: T
authors: Kumasaka
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D003460:Crystallization; D005288:Ferredoxins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family / Q000235:genetics*; D016958:Pseudomonas putida / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
chemical_list: C081714:2Fe-2S ferredoxin; D005288:Ferredoxins