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A novel bacterial phytase from a Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain was crystallized using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method. The amino-acid sequence of the enzyme does not show any homology to those of other known phytases or phosphatases, with the exception of a phytase from Bacillus subtilis. The enzyme exhibits a thermal stability which is strongly dependent on calcium ions. High-quality single crystals of the enzyme in the absence of calcium ions were obtained using a precipitant solution containing 20% 2-methyl-2, 4-pentanediol and 0.1 M MES (pH 6.5). Native diffraction data to 2.0 A resolution were obtained from a flash-frozen crystal at 110 K using a rotating-anode X-ray source. The crystals belong to space group P212121 with unit-cell dimensions a = 50.4, b = 64.1, c = 104. 2 A and contain one monomer per asymmetric unit. Structure determination using heavy-atom derivative crystals is in progress, along with an effort to crystallize the calcium ion bound form of the enzyme.

1CVM is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_amyloliquefaciens Bacillus amyloliquefaciens] with <scene name='pdbligand=CA:'>CA</scene> and <scene name='pdbligand=CD:'>CD</scene> as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligands ligands]. Active as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-phytase 3-phytase], with EC number [http://www.brenda-enzymes.info/php/result_flat.php4?ecno=3.1.3.8 3.1.3.8] Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1CVM OCA].  

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[[Category: Oh, B H.]]

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