Haushalter Robert W, Worthington Andrew S, Hur Gene H, Burkart Michael D
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA.
Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2008 May 15;18(10):3039-42. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2008.01.026. Epub 2008 Jan 11.
Chemo-enzymatic methods for covalently crosslinking carrier proteins with partner enzymes within modular synthases hold promise for elucidating and engineering metabolic pathways. Our efforts to crystallize the ACP-KS complexes of fatty acid synthases have been complicated by difficulties in the purification of the crosslinked complex from the other proteins in the reaction. Here we present a solution that employs an orthogonal purification strategy to achieve the quantity and level of purity necessary for further studies of this complex.