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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications2009

Production, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of the nucleoside diphosphate kinase b from Leishmania major.

Celisa Caldana Costa Tonoli, Plinio Salmazo Vieira, Richard John Ward, Raghuvir Krishnaswamy Arni, Arthur Henrique Cavalcante de Oliveira, Mario Tyago Murakami

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Celisa Caldana Costa TonoliCenter for Structural Molecular Biology, Brazilian Association for Synchrotron Light Technology, Campinas-SP, Brazil.
Plinio Salmazo Vieira
Richard John Ward
Raghuvir Krishnaswamy Arni
Arthur Henrique Cavalcante de Oliveira
Mario Tyago Murakami
Universidade de Ribeirão Preto · BRBrazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory · BRUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nucleoside diphosphate kinases (NDKs; EC 2.7.4.6) play an essential role in the synthesis of nucleotides from intermediates in the salvage pathway in all parasitic trypanosomatids and their structural studies will be instrumental in shedding light on the biochemical machinery involved in the parasite life cycle and host-parasite interactions. In this work, NDKb from Leishmania major was overexpressed in Escherichia coli, purified to homogeneity and crystallized using the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method. The NDK crystal diffracted to 2.2 angstrom resolution and belonged to the trigonal crystal system, with unit-cell parameters a = 114.2, c = 93.9 angstrom. Translation-function calculations yielded an unambiguous solution in the enantiomorphic space group P3(2)21.

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Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsCrystallizationCrystallography, X-RayLeishmania majorMolecular Sequence DataNM23 Nucleoside Diphosphate KinasesProtozoan ProteinsX-Ray DiffractionNM23 Nucleoside Diphosphate KinasesProtozoan Proteins

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PMID19923730
PMCPMC2777038
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