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Title: Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of pantothenate kinase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Journal Article · · Acta Crystallographica. Section F

Pantothenate kinase, the first enzyme of the universal coenzyme A biosynthetic pathway, from M. tuberculosis H37Rv has been cloned, expressed, purified and X-ray analysed in two different crystal forms. Pantothenate kinase is an essential enzyme in the bacterial life cycle. It catalyzes the phosphorylation of pantothenate (vitamin B{sub 5}) to 4′-phosphopantothenate, the first step in the coenzyme A biosynthetic pathway. The enzyme from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, MW 35.7 kDa, has been cloned, expressed, purified and crystallized in two different trigonal crystal forms, both belonging to space group P3{sub 1}21. Two complete data sets of resolution 2.5 Å (form I) and 2.9 Å (form II) from crystals with unit-cell parameters a = b = 78.3, c = 115.45 Å and a = b = 107.63, c = 89.85 Å, respectively, were collected at room temperature on a home X-ray source. Structures of both crystal forms were solved for one subunit in the asymmetric unit by molecular replacement.

OSTI ID:
22356101
Journal Information:
Acta Crystallographica. Section F, Vol. 61, Issue Pt 1; Other Information: PMCID: PMC1952411; PMID: 16508093; PUBLISHER-ID: bw5066; OAI: oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:1952411; Copyright (c) International Union of Crystallography 2005; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1744-3091
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English