Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic study of a recombinant phospholipase D from cowpea (Vigna unguiculataL. Walp)

Autor: Mireille Rivière, Robert Verger, Anne-Marie Moustacas-Gardies, Abdelkarim Abousalham, Sabine Chenivesse, Chantal Abergel
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 57:320-322
ISSN: 0907-4449
DOI: 10.1107/s0907444900020825
Popis: The plant phospholipase D (PLD) is considered to be a key enzyme involved in various physiological processes such as signal transduction and membrane metabolism. Crystals of the PLD protein from Vigna unguiculata have been produced from the recombinant 768 amino-acid protein. The crystals belong to the monoclinic space group C2, with unit-cell parameters a = 157.7, b = 65.6, c = 90.2 A, beta = 111.5 degrees. There is one molecule in the asymmetric unit. Frozen crystals diffract to at least 1.94 A resolution using synchrotron radiation. A search for heavy-atom derivatives using ytterbium and tungstate is currently under way in order to solve the three-dimensional structure.
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