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Publication Abstract from PubMed

The first crystal structure of a barwin-like protein, named carwin, has been determined at high resolution by single-wavelength anomalous diffraction (SAD) phasing using the six intrinsic S atoms present in the protein. The barwin-like protein was purified from Carica papaya latex and crystallized in the orthorhombic space group P212121. Using in-house Cu Kalpha X-ray radiation, 16 cumulative diffraction data sets were acquired to increase the signal-to-noise level and thereby the anomalous scattering signal. A sequence-database search on the papaya genome identified two carwin isoforms of 122 residues in length, both containing six S atoms that yield an estimated Bijvoet ratio of 0.93% at 1.54 A wavelength. A systematic analysis of data quality and redundancy was performed to assess the capacity to locate the S atoms and to phase the data. It was observed that the crystal decay was low during data collection and that successful S-SAD phasing could be obtained with a relatively low data multiplicity of about 7. Using a synchrotron source, high-resolution data (1 A) were collected from two different crystal forms of the papaya latex carwin. The refined structures showed a central beta-barrel of six strands surrounded by several alpha-helices and loops. The beta-barrel of carwin appears to be a common structural module that is shared within several other unrelated proteins. Finally, the possible biological function of the protein is discussed.

High-resolution structure of a papaya plant-defence barwin-like protein solved by in-house sulfur-SAD phasing.,Huet J, Teinkela Mbosso EJ, Soror S, Meyer F, Looze Y, Wintjens R, Wohlkonig A Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2013 Oct;69(Pt 10):2017-26. doi:, 10.1107/S0907444913018015. Epub 2013 Sep 20. PMID:24100320^[1]

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