Toth Marta, Vakulenko Sergei B, Smith Clyde A
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2009 Jun 1;65(Pt 6):582-5. doi: 10.1107/S1744309109015759. Epub 2009 May 22.
Bacterial resistance to the beta-lactam family of antibiotics is primarily the result of the deactivation of the drugs by beta-lactamase enzymes. The gene encoding the proficient beta-lactamase Oih-1 from the alkaliphilic and halotolerant Gram-positive bacterium Oceanobacillus iheyensis has been cloned and the mature wild-type protein (comprising 274 amino-acid residues) has been expressed in Escherichia coli and subsequently purified to homogeneity. Oih-1 crystallized in two crystal forms both belonging to the trigonal space group P3(1)21 but with distinctly different unit-cell parameters. Synchrotron diffraction data were collected to high resolution (1.65-1.75 A) from both crystal forms on beamlines BL7-1 and BL11-1 at SSRL (Stanford, California, USA).