Norcoclaurine synthase ( NCS) catalyzes the condensation of 3,4-dihydroxy-phenylethylamine ( dopamine) and 4-hydroxyphenylacetaldehyde (4-HPAA) as the first committed step in the biosynthesis of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids in plants. The protein was cloned, expressed and purified. Crystals were obtained at 294 K by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method using ammonium sulfate and sodium chloride as precipitant agents and diffract to better than 3.0 angstrom resolution using a synchrotron-radiation source. The crystals belong to the trigonal space group P3(1)21, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 86.31, c = 118.36 angstrom. A selenomethionine derivative was overexpressed, purified and crystallized in the same space group. A complete MAD data set was collected at 2.7 angstrom resolution. The model is under construction.
Cloning, expression, crystallization and preliminary X-ray data analysis of norcoclaurine synthase from Thalictrum flavum / Alessandra, Pasquo; Bonamore, Alessandra; Stefano, Franceschini; Macone, Alberto; Boffi, Alberto; Ilari, Andrea. - In: ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA. SECTION F, STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY AND CRYSTALLIZATION COMMUNICATIONS. - ISSN 1744-3091. - 64:4(2008), pp. 281-283. [10.1107/s1744309108005678]
Cloning, expression, crystallization and preliminary X-ray data analysis of norcoclaurine synthase from Thalictrum flavum
BONAMORE, ALESSANDRA;MACONE, ALBERTO;BOFFI, Alberto;ILARI, ANDREA
2008
Abstract
Norcoclaurine synthase ( NCS) catalyzes the condensation of 3,4-dihydroxy-phenylethylamine ( dopamine) and 4-hydroxyphenylacetaldehyde (4-HPAA) as the first committed step in the biosynthesis of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids in plants. The protein was cloned, expressed and purified. Crystals were obtained at 294 K by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method using ammonium sulfate and sodium chloride as precipitant agents and diffract to better than 3.0 angstrom resolution using a synchrotron-radiation source. The crystals belong to the trigonal space group P3(1)21, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 86.31, c = 118.36 angstrom. A selenomethionine derivative was overexpressed, purified and crystallized in the same space group. A complete MAD data set was collected at 2.7 angstrom resolution. The model is under construction.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.