Crystallization and preliminary diffraction studies of morphinone reductase, a flavoprotein involved in the degradation of morphine alkaloids

Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 1997 Sep 1;53(Pt 5):619-21. doi: 10.1107/S0907444997004046.

Abstract

Morphinone reductase from Pseudomonas putida M10, a flavoprotein involved in the degradation of morphine alkaloids, was purified from an overexpressing strain of Escherichia coli and crystallized using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method. Diffraction data were collected to 2.5 A. The I-centred orthorhombic cell has a monomer in the asymmetric unit. Preliminary molecular replacement calculations have been performed using Old Yellow Enzyme as the search model.