Coitinho Juliana Barbosa, Costa Débora Maria Abrantes, Guimarães Samuel Leite, de Góes Alfredo Miranda, Nagem Ronaldo Alves Pinto
Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antônio Carlos 6627, 31270-901 Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil.
Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2012 Jan 1;68(Pt 1):93-7. doi: 10.1107/S174430911105038X. Epub 2011 Dec 24.
Pseudomonas putida G7 is one of the most studied naphthalene-degrading species. The nah operon in P. putida, which is present on the 83 kb metabolic plasmid NAH7, codes for enzymes involved in the conversion of naphthalene to salicylate. The enzyme NahF (salicylaldehyde dehydrogenase) catalyzes the last reaction in this pathway. The nahF gene was subcloned into the pET28a(TEV) vector and the recombinant protein was overexpressed in Escherichia coli Arctic Express at 285 K. The soluble protein was purified by affinity chromatography followed by gel filtration. Crystals of recombinant NahF (6×His-NahF) were obtained at 291 K and diffracted to 2.42 Å resolution. They belonged to the hexagonal space group P6(4)22, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 169.47, c = 157.94 Å. The asymmetric unit contained a monomer and a crystallographic twofold axis generated the dimeric biological unit.
恶臭假单胞菌G7是研究最多的萘降解菌之一。恶臭假单胞菌中的nah操纵子存在于83 kb的代谢质粒NAH7上,编码参与萘转化为水杨酸的酶。NahF酶(水杨醛脱氢酶)催化该途径中的最后一步反应。将nahF基因亚克隆到pET28a(TEV)载体中,并在285 K的大肠杆菌北极特快中过量表达重组蛋白。通过亲和层析随后进行凝胶过滤纯化可溶性蛋白。在291 K下获得重组NahF(6×His-NahF)晶体,衍射分辨率为2.42 Å。它们属于六方空间群P6(4)22,晶胞参数a = b = 169.47,c = 157.94 Å。不对称单元包含一个单体,一个晶体学二重轴产生二聚体生物单元。