Kim Sung-Hou, Shin Dong-Hae, Kim Rosalind, Adams Paul, Chandonia John-Marc
Berkeley Structural Genomics Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Methods Mol Biol. 2008;426:475-96. doi: 10.1007/978-1-60327-058-8_32.
The initial objective of the Berkeley Structural Genomics Center was to obtain a near complete three-dimensional (3D) structural information of all soluble proteins of two minimal organisms, closely related pathogens Mycoplasma genitalium and M. pneumoniae. The former has fewer than 500 genes and the latter has fewer than 700 genes. A semiautomated structural genomics pipeline was set up from target selection, cloning, expression, purification, and ultimately structural determination. At the time of this writing, structural information of more than 93% of all soluble proteins of M. genitalium is avail able. This chapter summarizes the approaches taken by the authors' center.
伯克利结构基因组学中心的最初目标是获取两种最小生物体(密切相关的病原体生殖支原体和肺炎支原体)所有可溶性蛋白质的近乎完整的三维(3D)结构信息。前者的基因少于500个,后者的基因少于700个。从靶点选择、克隆、表达、纯化到最终的结构测定,建立了一个半自动的结构基因组学流程。在撰写本文时,生殖支原体所有可溶性蛋白质中超过93%的结构信息已经可用。本章总结了作者所在中心所采用的方法。