Lee Seung Mi, Park Hyun Ho
School of Biotechnology and Graduate School of Biochemistry, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea.
Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2013 Nov;69(Pt 11):1260-3. doi: 10.1107/S1744309113026444. Epub 2013 Oct 30.
The CIDE-3 protein plays a critical role in lipid metabolism by its involvement in lipid droplet formation. CIDE-3 contains two conserved cell-death-inducing DFF45-like effector (CIDE) domains (CIDE-N at the N-terminus and CIDE-C at the C-terminus) of ∼90 amino-acid residues that are involved in protein-protein interaction. In this study, the CIDE-N domain of CIDE-3 was purified and crystallized by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method and X-ray diffraction data were collected from the crystals to a resolution of 2.0 Å. The crystals were found to belong to space group P3(2), with unit-cell parameters a = b = 63.35, c = 37.60 Å, γ = 120°.
CIDE-3蛋白通过参与脂滴形成在脂质代谢中发挥关键作用。CIDE-3包含两个保守的细胞死亡诱导DFF45样效应子(CIDE)结构域(N端的CIDE-N和C端的CIDE-C),约90个氨基酸残基,参与蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用。在本研究中,通过悬滴气相扩散法纯化并结晶了CIDE-3的CIDE-N结构域,并从晶体中收集了X射线衍射数据,分辨率达到2.0 Å。发现晶体属于空间群P3(2),晶胞参数a = b = 63.35,c = 37.60 Å,γ = 120°。