Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of a family 43 β-D-xylosidase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus T-6

Christian Brüx, Karsten Niefind, Alon Ben-David, Maya Leon, Gil Shoham, Yuval Shoham, Dietmar Schomburg*

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Abstract

β-D-Xylosidases (EC 3.2.1.37) are hemicellulases that cleave single xylose units from the nonreducing end of xylooligomers. In this study, the crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of a β-D-xylosidase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus T-6 (XynB3), a family 43 glycoside hydrolase, is described. XynB3 is a 535-amino-acid protein with a calculated molecular weight of 61 891 Da. Purified recombinant native and catalytic inactive mutant proteins were crystallized and cocrystallized with xylobiose in two different space groups, P21212 (unit-cell parameters a = 98.32, b = 99.36, c = 258.64 Å) and P41212 (or the enantiomorphic space group P43212; unit-cell parameters a = b = 140.15, c = 233.11 Å), depending on the detergent. Transferring crystals to cryoconditions required a very careful protocol. Orthorhombic crystals diffract to 2.5 Å and tetragonal crystals to 2.2 Å.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1054-1057
Number of pages4
JournalActa Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications
Volume61
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005

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