Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction study of glycerol kinase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus kodakaraensis.

Ryota Katsumi
Yuichi Koga
Dong-Ju You
Hiroyoshi Matsumura
Kazufumi Takano
Shigenori Kanaya

Glycerol kinase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus kodakaraensis was crystallized and preliminary crystallographic studies of the crystals were performed. Crystals were grown at 293 K by the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method. Native X-ray diffraction data were collected to 2.4 A resolution using synchrotron radiation at station BL44XU of SPring-8. The crystal belongs to the rhombohedral space group R3, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 217.48, c = 66.48 A. Assuming the presence of two molecules in the asymmetric unit, the V(M) value was 2.7 A(3) Da(-1) and the solvent content was 54.1%. The protein was also cocrystallized with substrates and diffraction data were collected to 2.7 A resolution.

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10.1107/S1744309107001388

https://doi.org/10.1107/S1744309107001388
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17277457
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2330122