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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications2013

Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of adenylosuccinate synthetase from the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans.

Ross D Blundell, Simon J Williams, Carl A Morrow, Daniel J Ericsson, Bostjan Kobe, James A Fraser

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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. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ross D BlundellAustralian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
Simon J Williams
Carl A Morrow
Daniel J Ericsson
Bostjan Kobe
James A Fraser
University of Queensland · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With increasingly large immunocompromised populations around the world, opportunistic fungal pathogens such as Cryptococcus neoformans are a growing cause of morbidity and mortality. To combat the paucity of antifungal compounds, new drug targets must be investigated. Adenylosuccinate synthetase is a crucial enzyme in the ATP de novo biosynthetic pathway, catalyzing the formation of adenylosuccinate from inosine monophosphate and aspartate. Although the enzyme is ubiquitous and well characterized in other kingdoms, no crystallographic studies on the fungal protein have been performed. Presented here are the expression, purification, crystallization and initial crystallographic analyses of cryptococcal adenylosuccinate synthetase. The crystals had the symmetry of space group P2(1)2(1)2(1) and diffracted to 2.2 Å resolution.

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Adenylosuccinate SynthaseCryptococcus neoformansCrystallography, X-RayEscherichia coliFungal ProteinsGene ExpressionRecombinant ProteinsAdenylosuccinate SynthaseFungal ProteinsRecombinant Proteinsadenylosuccinate synthetaseCryptococcus neoformans

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PMID23989157
PMCPMC3758157
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