TY - JOUR
T1 - Structure of cytochrome c2 from Rhodospirillum centenum
AU - Camara-Artigas, A.
AU - Williams, J. C.
AU - Allen, J. P.
PY - 2001/11/20
Y1 - 2001/11/20
N2 - Cytochrome c2 from the purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum centenum has been crystallized by the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method. The crystals belong to the orthorhombic space group P212121, with unit-cell parameters a = 29.7, b = 59.9, c = 65.4 Å, and diffract to a resolution limit of 1.7 Å. The Fe-atom position was determined from its anomalous scattering contribution and a molecular-replacement solution was calculated. The correctness of the solution was confirmed by parallel isomorphous replacement studies. The resulting model has a type I cytochrome fold with two features, an extended α-helix and a surface-charge distribution, that are distinctive to this protein. The implications of these structural features for the ability of the cytochrome to serve as an electron carrier are discussed.
AB - Cytochrome c2 from the purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum centenum has been crystallized by the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method. The crystals belong to the orthorhombic space group P212121, with unit-cell parameters a = 29.7, b = 59.9, c = 65.4 Å, and diffract to a resolution limit of 1.7 Å. The Fe-atom position was determined from its anomalous scattering contribution and a molecular-replacement solution was calculated. The correctness of the solution was confirmed by parallel isomorphous replacement studies. The resulting model has a type I cytochrome fold with two features, an extended α-helix and a surface-charge distribution, that are distinctive to this protein. The implications of these structural features for the ability of the cytochrome to serve as an electron carrier are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1107/S0907444901010423
DO - 10.1107/S0907444901010423
M3 - Article
C2 - 11679712
AN - SCOPUS:0034740291
VL - 57
SP - 1498
EP - 1505
JO - Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural Biology
JF - Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural Biology
SN - 0907-4449
IS - 11
ER -