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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications2008

Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of the transpeptidase domain of penicillin-binding protein 2B from Streptococcus pneumoniae.

Mototsugu Yamada, Takashi Watanabe, Nobuyoshi Baba, Takako Miyara, Jun Saito, Yasuo Takeuchi

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mototsugu YamadaPharmaceutical Research Center, Meiji Seika Kaisha Ltd, 760 Morooka-cho, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 222-8567, Japan. mototsugu_yamada@meiji.co.jp
Takashi Watanabe
Nobuyoshi Baba
Takako Miyara
Jun Saito
Yasuo Takeuchi
Unitika (Japan) · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Penicillin-binding protein (PBP) 2B from Streptococcus pneumoniae catalyzes the cross-linking of peptidoglycan precursors that occurs during bacterial cell-wall biosynthesis. A selenomethionyl (SeMet) substituted PBP 2B transpeptidase domain was isolated from a limited proteolysis digest of a soluble form of recombinant PBP 2B and then crystallized. The crystals belonged to space group P4(3)2(1)2, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 86.39, c = 143.27 A. Diffraction data were collected to 2.4 A resolution using the BL32B2 beamline at SPring-8. The asymmetric unit contains one protein molecule and 63.7% solvent.

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Bacterial ProteinsCrystallizationCrystallography, X-RayPenicillin-Binding ProteinsPeptidyl TransferasesStreptococcus pneumoniaeBacterial ProteinsPenicillin-Binding ProteinsPeptidyl Transferases

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PMID18391428
PMCPMC2374250
OpenAlexW2031314042

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