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Publication Abstract from PubMed

Fuculose phosphate aldolase catalyzes the reversible cleavage of L-fuculose-1-phosphate to dihydroxyacetone phosphate and L-lactaldehyde. The protein from Thermus thermophilus HB8 is a biological tetramer with a subunit molecular weight of 21 591 Da. Purified FucA has been crystallized using sitting-drop vapour-diffusion and microbatch techniques at 293 K. The crystals belong to space group P4, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 100.94, c = 45.87 A. The presence of a dimer of the enzyme in the asymmetric unit was estimated to give a Matthews coefficient (VM) of 2.7 A3 Da(-1) and a solvent content of 54.2%(v/v). Three-wavelength diffraction MAD data were collected to 2.3 A from zinc-containing crystals. Native diffraction data to 1.9 A resolution have been collected using synchrotron radiation at SPring-8.

Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic study of the L-fuculose-1-phosphate aldolase (FucA) from Thermus thermophilus HB8.,Jeyakanthan J, Taka J, Kikuchi A, Kuroishi C, Yutani K, Shiro Y Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2005 Dec 1;61(Pt, 12):1075-7. Epub 2005 Nov 24. PMID:16511238^[1]

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