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Characterization of four orthologs of stringent starvation protein A

  1. Author:
    Andrykovitch, M.
    Routzahn, K. M.
    Li, M.
    Gu, Y. J.
    Waugh, D. S.
    Ji, X. H.

  2. Author Address

    NCI, Macromol Crystallog Lab, NIH, Frederick, MD 21702 USA NCI, Macromol Crystallog Lab, NIH, Frederick, MD 21702 USA SAIC Frederick, Intramural Res Support Program, Ft Detrick, MD 21702 USA Ji XH NCI, Macromol Crystallog Lab, NIH, Frederick, MD 21702 USA
    1. Year: 2003
  2. Journal: Acta Crystallographica Section D-Biological Crystallography
    1. 59
    2. Part 5
    3. Pages: 881-886
  4. Type of Article: Article
  1. Abstract:

    Orthologous proteins can be beneficial for X-ray crystallographic studies when a protein from an organism of choice fails to crystallize or the crystals are not suitable for structure determination. Their amino-acid sequences should be similar enough that they will share the same fold, but different enough so that they may crystallize under alternative conditions and diffract to higher resolution. This multi- species approach was employed to obtain diffraction-quality crystals of the RNA polymerase ( RNAP) associated stringent starvation protein A ( SspA). Although Escherichia coli SspA could be crystallized, the crystals failed to diffract well enough for structure determination. Therefore, SspA proteins from Yersinia pestis, Vibrio cholerae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were cloned, expressed, purified and subjected to crystallization trials. The V. cholerae SspA protein failed to crystallize under any conditions tested and the P. aeruginosa SspA protein did not form crystals suitable for data collection. On the other hand, Y. pestis SspA crystallized readily and the crystals diffracted to 2.0 Angstrom.

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