Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of<scp>L</scp>-threonine dehydrogenase (TDH) from the hyperthermophilic archaeon<i>Thermococcus kodakaraensis</i>
作者:A. Bowyer、H. Mikolajek、J. N. Wright、A. Coker、P. T. Erskine、J. B. Cooper、Q. Bashir、N. Rashid、F. Jamil、M. Akhtar
DOI:10.1107/s1744309108025384
日期:2008.9.1
The enzyme L-threonine dehydrogenase catalyses the NAD(+)-dependent conversion of L-threonine to 2-amino-3-ketobutyrate, which is the first reaction of a two-step biochemical pathway involved in the metabolism of threonine to glycine. Here, the crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of L-threonine dehydrogenase (Tk-TDH) from the hyperthermophilic organism Thermococcus kodakaraensis KOD1 is reported. This threonine dehydrogenase consists of 350 amino acids, with a molecular weight of 38 kDa, and was prepared using an Escherichia coli expression system. The purified native protein was crystallized using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method and crystals grew in the tetragonal space group P4(3)2(1)2, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 124.5, c = 271.1 angstrom. Diffraction data were collected to 2.6 angstrom resolution and preliminary analysis indicates that there are four molecules in the asymmetric unit of the crystal.