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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications2016

Surface-layer protein from Caulobacter crescentus: expression, purification and X-ray crystallographic analysis.

Michael D Jones, Anson C K Chan, John F Nomellini, Michael E P Murphy, John Smit

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A bacterial surface layer protein exploits multistep crystallization for rapid self-assembly.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michael D JonesDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada.
Anson C K ChanDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada.
John F NomelliniDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada.
Michael E P MurphyDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada.
John SmitDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada.
University of British Columbia · CA

Funding

CIHR
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein surface layers are self-assembling, paracrystalline lattices on the surface of many prokaryotes. Surface-layer proteins have not benefited from widespread structural analysis owing to their resistance to crystallization. Here, the successful expression of a truncated version of RsaA, the surface-layer protein from Caulobacter crescentus, from a Caulobacter protein-expression system is reported. The purification, crystallization and initial X-ray diffraction analysis of the truncated RsaA, the largest surface-layer protein studied to date and the first from a Gram-negative bacterium, are also reported.

Indexed as

Bacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsCaulobacter crescentusCrystallizationCrystallography, X-RayGene ExpressionMembrane GlycoproteinsPlasmidsRecombinant ProteinsX-Ray DiffractionBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsMembrane GlycoproteinsRecombinant ProteinsS-layer proteinsGram-negativephasingRTX motifS-layersurface-layer protein

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PMID27599857
PMCPMC5012206
OpenAlexW2509805166

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