Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of the pneumococcal teichoic acid phosphorylcholine esterase Pce

Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2005 Feb 1;61(Pt 2):221-4. doi: 10.1107/S1744309105001636. Epub 2005 Feb 1.

Abstract

The pneumococcal phosphorylcholine esterase (Pce or CbpE) is a modular protein that hydrolyses the phosphorylcholine residues present in the teichoic and lipoteichoic acids of the pneumococcal cell wall. Pce has been crystallized using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method at 291 K. Diffraction-quality monoclinic crystals belong to space group C2, with unit-cell parameters a = 169.82, b = 57.26, c = 67.44 A, beta = 112.60 degrees. A 2.7 A resolution SAD data set from a non-isomorphous Gd-HPDO3A Pce derivative was collected at the gadolinium L(III) absorption edge using synchrotron radiation.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Base Sequence
  • Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases / chemistry*
  • Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases / genetics
  • Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases / isolation & purification
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Peptide Fragments / chemistry
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Recombinant Proteins / chemistry
  • Recombinant Proteins / isolation & purification
  • Restriction Mapping
  • Sequence Deletion
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
  • Streptococcus pneumoniae / enzymology*
  • X-Ray Diffraction

Substances

  • Peptide Fragments
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases
  • teichoic acid phosphorylcholine esterase