4um4 | pdb_00004um4

STRUCTURE OF INORGANIC PYROPHOSPHATASE FROM ESCHERICHIA COLI IN COMPLEX WITH SULFATE

spinqualitylabelsall models 4um4, resolution 2.65Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 4um4 is a 3 chain structure. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: SO4 Activity: Inorganic diphosphatase, with EC number 3.6.1.1 Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Publication Abstract from PubMed The importance of sample homogeneity and purity in protein crystallization is essential to obtain high-quality diffracting crystals. Here, in an attempt to determine the crystal structure of thioredoxin 1 from whiteleg shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (LvTrx), we inadvertently crystallized the hexameric inorganic pyrophosphatase of Escherichia coli (E-PPase) from a non-homogeneous sample product during the initial over-expression steps and partial purification of LvTrx. The structure determination and identification of the crystallized protein were derived from several clues: the failures in the Molecular Replacement (MR) trials using LvTrx coordinates as a search model, the unit cell parameters and space group determination, and essentially by the use of the program BALBES. After using the previously deposited E-PPase structure (PDB entry 1mjw) as a search model and the correct space group assignation, the MR showed an E-PPase complexed with SO4-2 with small changes in the sulfate ion binding region when it compares to previously deposited E-PPases in the PDB. This work stresses the importance of protein purity to avoid the risk of crystallizing a contaminant protein or how pure need to be a protein sample in order to increase the possibility to obtain crystals, but also serves as a reminder that crystallization is by itself a purification process and how the program BALBES can be useful in the crystal structure determination of previously deposited structures in the PDB. First attempts to crystallize a non-homogeneous sample of thioredoxin from Litopenaeus vannamei: What to do when you have diffraction data of a protein that is not the target?,Campos-Acevedo AA, Diaz-Vilchis A, Sotelo-Mundo RR, Rudino-Pinera E Biochem Biophys Rep. 2016 Oct 15;8:284-289. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrep.2016.09.011., eCollection 2016 Dec. PMID:28955968 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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