The enzyme L-threonine dehydrogenase catalyses the NAD(+)-dependent conversion of L-threonine to 2-amino-3-ketobutyrate, which is the first reaction of a two-step biochemical pathway involved in the metabolism of threonine to glycine. Here, the crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of L-threonine dehydrogenase (Tk-TDH) from the hyperthermophilic organism Thermococcus kodakar...

It is axiomatic that efficient crystal production reflects upon the quality of structure. An empirical relation for mass proportions of two solvents in crystallization of Z-Tyr-Gly-OEt shows a linear relationship. The dipeptide crystallizes in orthorhombic space group P212121, with cell parameters a=5.0680(1)Å, b=13.8650(1)Å and c=28.2630(1)Å, Z=4, Dcalc= 1.339Mg/m , μ=0.820mm-, F000=848, CuKα ...

The chloride intracellular channel (CLIC) family of proteins are unusual in that they can exist in either an integral membrane-channel form or a soluble form. Here, the expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary diffraction analysis of CLIC2, one of the least-studied members of this family, are reported. Human CLIC2 was crystallized in two different forms, both in the presence of...

The periplasmic nitrate reductase from Cupriavidus necator (also known as Ralstonia eutropha) is a heterodimer that is able to reduce nitrate to nitrite. It comprises a 91 kDa catalytic subunit (NapA) and a 17 kDa subunit (NapB) that is involved in electron transfer. The larger subunit contains a molybdenum active site with a bis-molybdopterin guanine dinucleotide cofactor as well as one [4Fe-4...

Bacterial Dsb proteins catalyse the in vivo formation of disulfide bonds, a critical step in the stability and activity of many proteins. Most studies on Dsb proteins have focused on Gram-negative bacteria and thus the process of oxidative folding in Gram-positive bacteria is poorly understood. To help elucidate this process in Gram-positive bacteria, DsbA from Staphylococcus aureus (SaDsbA) ha...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(14)H(13)ClN(2)O(2)S·0.15H(2)O, a novel sulfonamide derivative, comprises two crystallographically independent mol-ecules (A and B) and a water mol-ecule of crystallization, which is partially occupied. One of the mol-ecules (B) is disordered over two positions (B and C) with refined site occupancies of 0.605 (10) and 0.395 (10). The dihedral angles b...

A snake-venom C-type lectin-like protein, agkaggregin, has been isolated from Agkistrodon acutus venom. Agkaggregin has an apparent molecular mass of about 28 kDa and consists of two different types of subunits, an alpha-subunit (approximately 15 kDa) and a beta-subunit (approximately 14 kDa). Agkaggregin has the ability to induce platelet aggregation at concentrations of the order of nanomoles...

The asymmetric unit of the solvated title salt, 2C(3)H(7)N(6) (+)·C(4)H(4)O(4) (2-)·C(4)H(6)O(4)·2H(2)O, contains one essentially planar melaminium (2,4,6-triamino-1,3,5-triazin-1-ium) cation (r.m.s. deviation of the non-H atoms = 0.0097 Å), one-half of a succinate anion, one-half of a succinic acid solvent mol-ecule and one water molecule of crystallization; full mol-ecules are generated by in...

This is the first report of the crystallization of a sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS; EC 2.4.1.14). It also constitutes the first study of a sucrose phosphate synthase from a non-photosynthetic thermohalophilic anaerobic bacterium, Halothermothrix orenii. The purified recombinant spsA protein has been crystallized in the monoclinic space group C2, with unit-cell parameters a = 154.2, b = 47.9, ...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, {[Ce(C(3)H(2)O(4))Cl(H(2)O)(3)]·0.5H(2)O}(n), contains a Ce(3+) atom coordinated by a chloride anion, three water mol-ecules and a malonate ligand, and one water mol-ecule of crystallization with a factor of occupancy of 50%. The malonate ligand is bonded to three different symmetry-related metal atoms yielding a one-dimensional coordination polymer ru...