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A New Screening Method for the Directed Evolution of Thermostable Bacteriolytic Enzymes
Published on: November 7, 2012
Crystallization and preliminary x-ray diffraction studies of hyperthermostable glutamate dehydrogenase from
S Higuchi1, M Nakasako, T Kudo
1The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Hirosawa 2-1, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
Abstract:
Recombinant glutamate dehydrogenase from a hyperthermophilic archaeon, Thermococcus profundus, was crystallized in the presence of both polyethylene glycol 8000 and lithium sulfate. Four types of crystals having different morphologies appeared in the crystallization trials; however, only one type was suitable for X-ray crystal structure analysis. The crystal belonged to the monoclinic space group P2(1) and the unit-cell parameters were a = 112.99, b = 163.70, c = 133.07 A, beta = 113.46 degrees at 110 K. The calculated V(M) value of 3.42 A(3) Da(-1) was acceptable when one hexamer of the enzyme, which was the physiological functional unit, occupied a crystallographic asymmetric unit. X-ray diffraction intensity data were collected to a resolution of 2.25 A with good statistics at the BL44B2 beamline of SPring-8.
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