Crystallization and X-ray diffraction analysis of 6-aminohexanoate-dimer hydrolase from Arthrobacter sp. KI72

To investigate the structure-function relationship between 6-aminohexanoate-dimer hydrolase (EII) from Arthrobacter sp. and a cryptic protein (EII') which shows 88% sequence identity to EII, a hybrid protein (named Hyb-24) of EII and EII' was overexpressed, purified and crystallized using the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method with ammonium sulfate as a precipitant in MES buffer pH 6.5. The crystal belongs to space group P3(1)21 or P3(2)21, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 96.37, c = 113.09 A. Diffraction data were collected from native and methylmercuric chloride derivative crystals to resolutions of 1.75 and 1.80 A, respectively.