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Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2005 May 1; 61(Pt 5): 537–540.
Published online 2005 April 28. doi: 10.1107/S1744309105010511.
PMCID: PMC1952305
Isolation, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of a methanol-induced corrinoid protein from Moorella thermoacetica
Weihong Zhou,a Amaresh Das,a Jeff E. Habel,a Zhi-Jie Liu,a Jessie Chang,a Lirong Chen,a Doowon Lee,a Duong Nguyen,a Shu-Huey Chang,a Wolfram Tempel,a John P. Rose,a Lars G. Ljungdahl,a* and Bi-Cheng Wanga*
aDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Correspondence e-mail: larsljd/at/uga.edu, Email: wang/at/bcl1.bmb.uga.edu
Received March 1, 2005; Accepted April 4, 2005.
Abstract
A corrinoid protein was induced and overexpressed in methanol-grown cells of the thermophilic anaerobic bacterium Moorella thermoacetica. The protein was purified from cytosolic extracts. After screening for crystallization conditions and optimization, crystals were obtained that diffracted strongly on a rotating-anode X-ray source. A diffraction data set was collected and processed including reflections to 1.9 Å resolution. Reflections were indexed in a primitive orthorhombic cell with unit-cell parameters a = 55.69, b = 62.74, c = 34.54 Å. N-­terminal amino-acid sequencing indicates that the crystals contain a C-­terminal fragment of the protein.
Keywords: corrinoid, methyltransferases