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Title: Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of rice lectin from Oryza sativa

Journal Article · · Acta Crystallographica. Section F
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  1. Life Science Group, Research Division, National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu 30076,Taiwan (China)
  2. Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu 30013,Taiwan (China)
  3. Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529,Taiwan (China)

Rice lectin was crystallized and analyzed by X-ray crystallography. Lectins with sugar-binding specificity are widely distributed in higher plants and various other species. The expression of rice lectin from Oryza sativa is up-regulated in the growing coleoptile when anaerobic stress persists. A rice lectin of molecular weight 15.2 kDa has been crystallized using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method. From the diffraction of the lectin crystals at 1.93 Å resolution, the unit cell belongs to space group P3{sub 1}, with unit-cell parameters a = 98.58, b = 98.58, c = 44.72 Å. Preliminary analysis indicates that there are two lectin molecules in an asymmetric unit with a large solvent content, 70.1%.

OSTI ID:
22356256
Journal Information:
Acta Crystallographica. Section F, Vol. 62, Issue Pt 2; Other Information: PMCID: PMC2150942; PMID: 16511272; PUBLISHER-ID: bw5118; OAI: oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:2150942; Copyright (c) International Union of Crystallography 2006; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1744-3091
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English