Cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray studies of a pyridoxine 5′-phosphate oxidase from Mycobacterium smegmatis

Colin J. Jackson, Matthew C. Taylor, David B. Tattersall, Nigel G. French, Paul D. Carr, David L. Ollis, Robyn J. Russell, John G. Oakeshott

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    Abstract

    Pyridoxine 5′-phosphate oxidases (PNPOxs) are known to catalyse the terminal step in pyridoxal 5′-phosphate biosynthesis in a flavin mononucleotide-dependent manner in humans and Escherichia coli. Recent reports of a putative PNPOx from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Rv1155, suggest that the cofactor or catalytic mechanism may differ in Mycobacterium species. To investigate this, a putative PNPOx from M. smegmatis, Msmeg_3380, has been cloned. This enzyme has been recombinantly expressed in E. coli and purified to homogeneity. Good-quality crystals of selenomethionine-substituted Msmeg_3380 were obtained by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion technique and diffracted to 1.2 Å using synchrotron radiation.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)435-437
    Number of pages3
    JournalActa Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications
    Volume64
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 5 Apr 2008

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