Yin Jiang, Garen Craig R, Cherney Maia M, Cherney Leonid T, James Michael N G
Protein Structure and Function Group, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H7, Canada.
Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2008 Sep 1;64(Pt 9):805-8. doi: 10.1107/S1744309108024500. Epub 2008 Aug 9.
The gene product of open reading frame Rv1018c from Mycobacterium tuberculosis is annotated as encoding a probable N-acetylglucosamine 1-phosphate uridylyltransferase (MtbGlmU), an enzyme that catalyzes the biosynthesis of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine, a precursor common to lipopolysaccharide and peptidoglycan biosynthesis. Following overexpression in Escherichia coli, the enzyme was purified and crystallized using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method. Native diffraction data were collected from crystals belonging to space group R32 and processed to a resolution of 2.2 A.