J.Jeyakanthan
et al.
(2005).
Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic study of the L-fuculose-1-phosphate aldolase (FucA) from Thermus thermophilus HB8.
Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun,
61,
1075-1077.
PubMed id: 16511238
Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic study of the L-fuculose-1-phosphate aldolase (FucA) from Thermus thermophilus HB8.
Fuculose phosphate aldolase catalyzes the reversible cleavage of
L-fuculose-1-phosphate to dihydroxyacetone phosphate and L-lactaldehyde. The
protein from Thermus thermophilus HB8 is a biological tetramer with a subunit
molecular weight of 21 591 Da. Purified FucA has been crystallized using
sitting-drop vapour-diffusion and microbatch techniques at 293 K. The crystals
belong to space group P4, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 100.94, c = 45.87 A.
The presence of a dimer of the enzyme in the asymmetric unit was estimated to
give a Matthews coefficient (VM) of 2.7 A3 Da(-1) and a solvent content of
54.2%(v/v). Three-wavelength diffraction MAD data were collected to 2.3 A from
zinc-containing crystals. Native diffraction data to 1.9 A resolution have been
collected using synchrotron radiation at SPring-8.