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Purification and preliminary crystallographic studies on the sporulation response regulatory phosphotransferase
X Z Zhou1, Madhusudan, J M Whiteley
1Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
Proteins
|April 1, 1997
Abstract:
The phosphotransferase protein Spo0B, a component of the sporulation signal transduction system in Bacillus subtilis was expressed from the Escherichia coli strain BL21DE3. It was purified, crystallized, and 2.25 A data measured using the synchrotron source at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The search for heavy atom derivatives is in progress.
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