Preliminary crystallographic analysis of the cysteine desulfurase IscS from Escherichia coli.

Autor: Urbina, Hugo D., Cupp-Vickery, Jill R., Vickery, Larry E.
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Zdroj: Acta Crystallographica: Section D (Wiley-Blackwell); Jul2002, Vol. 58 Issue 7, p1224-1225, 2p
Abstrakt: IscS is a widely distributed cysteine desulfurase that catalyzes the pyridoxal phosphate dependent β-elimination of sulfur from L-cysteine and plays a central role in the delivery of sulfur to a variety of metabolic pathways. Crystals of Escherichia coli IscS have been obtained by the hanging-drop vapor-diffusion method using polyethylene glycol (PEG) as a precipitant. Initial seed crystals were obtained using PEG 6000 and sodium acetate, and diffraction-quality crystals were grown using a mixture of PEG 2000 and PEG 10000 in the presence of sodium citrate. A complete native X-ray diffraction data set was collected from a single crystal at 103 K to a resolution of 2.1 Å. The crystals belong to space group P212121 and have unit-cell parameters a = 73.7086, b = 101.9741, c = 108.617 Å (α = β= γ = 90°). Analysis of the Matthews equation and self-rotation function suggest two molecules per asymmetric unit, consistent with the presence of a single dimeric molecule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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