Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of the second GAF domain of DevS from Mycobacterium smegmatis

Ha Yeon Cho, Hyo Je Cho, Young Min Kim, Jeong Il Oh, Beom Sik Kang

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Abstract

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is known to transform into the nonreplicating persistence state under the influence of hypoxia or nitric oxide. DevS-DevR is a two-component regulatory system that mediates the genetic response for the transformation. DevS is a histidine kinase that contains two GAF domains for sensing hypoxia or nitric oxide. The second GAF from M. smegmatis DevS was crystallized using the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method in the presence of sodium citrate and 2-propanol as precipitants. X-ray diffraction data were collected from crystals containing selenomethionine to a maximum resolution of 2.0 Å on a synchrotron beamline. The crystals belong to the hexagonal space group P61. The asymmetric unit contains one molecule, corresponding to a packing density of 2.5 Å3 Da-1. The selenium substructure was determined by the single anomalous dispersion method and structure refinement is in progress.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)274-276
Number of pages3
JournalActa Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications
Volume64
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 29 Mar 2008

Keywords

  • GAF domain
  • Hypoxia sensing
  • Mycobacteria

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