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X-Ray Crystallography to Study the Oligomeric State Transition of the Thermotoga maritima M42 Aminopeptidase TmPep1050
Published on: May 13, 2020
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of shikimate kinase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in
1Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Abstract:
Shikimate kinase (SK) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mt) was overexpressed in Escherichia coli, purified and cocrystallized with MgADP in hanging drops using the vapor-diffusion procedure with PEG 4000 and 2-propanol as precipitants at pH 7.5. The crystal of MtSK-MgADP, which diffracted to 2.2 A resolution, belonged to space group P3(2)21 or P3(1)21, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 64.01, c = 92.41 A. There was one MtSK molecule in the asymmetric unit. Molecular-replacement trials with the crystal structure of SK from Erwinia chrysanthemi (PDB code 1shk) and adenylate kinase (PDB code 1ake) as search models were not successful. Heavy-atom derivative screening is in progress.
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