Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of the guanylate kinase-like domain of PSD-95 protein from rat

Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2001 Apr;57(Pt 4):616-7. doi: 10.1107/s0907444901001937.

Abstract

The PSD-95 (postsynaptic density-95) protein, one of the members of the MAGUK (membrane-associated guanylate kinase) family, is composed of three PDZ domains, one SH3 domain and one guanylate kinase-like (GK) domain. The GK domain mediates the scaffolding function of PSD-95 by protein--protein interaction. Here, the GK domain was subcloned, expressed as an intein fusion protein, purified without the intein and then crystallized at room temperature by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method using PEG 8000 as a precipitant. The complete native data set was collected to a resolution of 2.35 A using flash-cooling. The crystals belong to the primitive tetragonal space group P4(3) (or P4(1)), with unit-cell parameters a = b = 70.03 (4), c = 37.64 (1) A.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Chromatography, Affinity
  • Crystallization
  • Disks Large Homolog 4 Protein
  • Guanylate Kinases
  • Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins / chemistry*
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins / isolation & purification
  • Nucleoside-Phosphate Kinase / chemistry*
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • Rats
  • Recombinant Fusion Proteins / chemistry
  • Recombinant Fusion Proteins / isolation & purification
  • Substrate Specificity
  • X-Ray Diffraction

Substances

  • Disks Large Homolog 4 Protein
  • Dlg4 protein, rat
  • Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Mpp2 protein, rat
  • Nerve Tissue Proteins
  • Recombinant Fusion Proteins
  • postsynaptic density proteins
  • Nucleoside-Phosphate Kinase
  • Guanylate Kinases