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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications2013

Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of TP0435 (Tp17) from the syphilis spirochete Treponema pallidum.

Chad A Brautigam, Ranjit K Deka, Michael V Norgard

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chad A BrautigamDepartment of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390, USA. chad.brautigam@utsouthwestern.edu
Ranjit K Deka
Michael V Norgard
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

The flavin-centric metabolic lifestyle of Treponema pallidumR01AI056305 · NIAID · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI HENDRIXSON, DAVID R · 2003 to 2024
$9.6M
NIAID NIH HHS AI056305NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI056305
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Syphilis, caused by the bacterial spirochete Treponema pallidum, remains a prominent sexually transmitted infection worldwide. Despite sequencing of the genome of this obligate human pathogen 15 years ago, the functions of a large number of the gene products of T. pallidum are still unknown, particularly with respect to those of the organism's periplasmic lipoproteins. To better understand their functions, a structural biology approach has been pursued. To this end, the soluble portion of the T. pallidum TP0435 lipoprotein (also known as Tp17) was cloned, hyper-expressed in Escherichia coli and purified to apparent homogeneity. The protein crystals obtained from this preparation diffracted to 2.4 Å resolution and had the symmetry of space group R3. In the hexagonal setting, the unit-cell parameters were a = b = 85.7, c = 85.4 Å.

Indexed as

Bacterial ProteinsCrystallizationCrystallography, X-RayLipoproteinsTreponema pallidumBacterial ProteinsLipoproteinsTP0435 (Tp17)Treponema pallidum

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PMID23545658
PMCPMC3614177
OpenAlexW2012644284

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