Crystallization of a family 9 beta-1,4-glucanase from the thermoacidophilic bacterium Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius CelA is reported. Thin plates can be obtained by hanging-drop vapour-diffusion crystallization in high concentrations (60%) of MPD. These crystals are unusual in that they do not bind the dye IZIT in the mother liquor and do not appear to dissolve in water after three weeks or i...

We have studied the phase and structure evolution of the Ti33Cu67 amorphous alloy subjected to electrical pulses of high current density. By varying the pulse parameters, different stages of crystallization could be observed in the samples. Partial polymorphic nanocrystallization resulting in the formation of 5- to 8-nm crystallites of the TiCu2 intermetallic in the residual amorphous matrix oc...

Tyrosinase catalyzes the conversion of tyrosine to dihydroxyphenylalanine quinone, which is the main precursor for the biosynthesis of melanin. The enzyme from Agaricus bisporus, the common button mushroom, was purified and crystallized in two different space groups. Crystals belonging to space group P2(1) (unit-cell parameters a = 104.2, b = 105.0, c = 119.1 Å, β = 110.6°, four molecules per a...

The title compound, C(11)H(11)N(3)O(2)·H(2)O, was obtained by the reaction of 2-acetyl-phenol with cyano-acetohydrazide in methanol. The asymmetric unit contains two hydrazone mol-ecules and two water mol-ecules of crystallization. There is an intra-molecular O-H⋯N hydrogen bond in each hydrazone mol-ecule. The crystal structure is stabilized by inter-molecular N-H⋯O, O-H⋯O and O-H⋯N hydrogen b...

Four polymorphs of 2-(perfluorophenyl)-2-(phenylamino)acetonitrile have been crystallized and structurally analyzed: in addition to three racemic crystals, a rare kryptoracemate has been obtained. The central single bonds allow for conformational flexibility: the kryptoracemate as well as two of the remaining polymorphs contain several independent molecules with different conformation. In contr...

A soluble single-point mutant of full-length Mos1 mariner transposase (MW = 40.7 kDa) has been overexpressed in Escherichia coli, purified to 95% homogeneity and crystallized. This provides the first example of the crystallization of a eukaryotic transposase. The native crystals diffract to 2.5 A resolution and show tetragonal symmetry, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 44.5, c = 205.6 A. Multi...

The title compound, C(28)H(20)N(2)O(2)·2H(2)O, comprises a Schiff base mol-ecule with an imposed inversion centre in the middle of p-phenyl-enediamine unit and water mol-ecules of crystallization. In the structure, the Schiff base mol-ecule is present as the keto-amino tautomer with a strong intra-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bond. The Schiff base mol-ecules and water mol-ecules of crystallization ...

# 2000 International Union of Crystallography Printed in Denmark ± all rights reserved The puri®cation, crystallization and X-ray diffraction analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae -enoyl-CoA isomerase is described. -Enoyl-CoA isomerase is a member of the hydratase/isomerase protein family and is an auxiliary enzyme required for the -oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids. It is a hexameric enzyme ...

Mlc is a prokaryotic transcriptional repressor controlling the expression of a number of genes encoding enzymes of the Escherichia coli phospho-transferase system (PTS), as well as manXYZ and malT, the gene of the global activator of the mal regulon. The mlc gene containing the point mutation R52H has been cloned into a pQE vector and the recombinant protein was expressed and purified as the se...

Crystals of cyclomaltodextrin glucanotransferase from Bacillus circulans (EC 2.4.1.19) suitable for high-resolution X-ray analysis were obtained by vapor diffusion against 60% (v/v) 2-methyl 2,4-pentanediol buffered with 100 mM-sodium Hepes, pH 7.55. The crystals have P2(1)2(1)2(1) space group symmetry, with a = 120.4 A, b = 110.9 A and c = 66.4 A, and contain one molecule of 68,000 in the asym...