Purification of the human RARgamma ligand-binding domain and crystallization of its complex with all-trans retinoic acid

Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1997 Jan 13;230(2):293-6. doi: 10.1006/bbrc.1996.5787.

Abstract

A 28-kDa fragment (residues 178-423) of the human retinoic acid receptor gamma, hRARgamma D3E, encompassing the ligand-binding domain (LBD) was overproduced in Escherichia coli and purified as a monomer to more than 95% purity and homogeneity. The Kd for all-trans retinoic acid binding was 0.6 +/- 0.1 nM. Crystals of the LBD complexed with all-trans retinoic acid were grown at pH 7 from sodium acetate in the presence of detergents using the vapor diffusion method. They diffract to 2.0 A using a synchrotron radiation (lambda=0.91 A) and belong to the tetragonal space group P4(1)2(1)2 with unit cell parameters a=b=60.6 A and c=155.3 A, one monomer per asymmetric unit, a solvent content of ca. 33%, and a Vm value of approximately 2 A3/dalton.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Binding Sites
  • Cloning, Molecular
  • Crystallization
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • DNA Primers
  • Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
  • Escherichia coli
  • Humans
  • Kinetics
  • Peptide Fragments / chemistry*
  • Peptide Fragments / isolation & purification
  • Peptide Fragments / metabolism
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Receptors, Retinoic Acid / chemistry*
  • Receptors, Retinoic Acid / isolation & purification
  • Receptors, Retinoic Acid / metabolism*
  • Recombinant Proteins / chemistry
  • Recombinant Proteins / isolation & purification
  • Recombinant Proteins / metabolism
  • Retinoic Acid Receptor gamma
  • Sequence Tagged Sites
  • Tretinoin / chemistry*
  • Tretinoin / metabolism*

Substances

  • DNA Primers
  • Peptide Fragments
  • Receptors, Retinoic Acid
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Tretinoin