Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic studies of UbiG, an O-methyltransferase from Escherichia coli

Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2011 Jun 1;67(Pt 6):727-9. doi: 10.1107/S1744309111014278. Epub 2011 May 26.

Abstract

UbiG, an O-methyltransferase from the ubiquinone-biosynthesis pathway in Escherichia coli, catalyzes two O-methyl transfer steps. The primary structures of the O-methyltransferase enzyme family used in ubiquinone synthesis are conserved in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, but their tertiary structures and catalytic mechanisms are not yet known. Here, UbiG with an N-terminal hexahistidine tag was expressed and crystallized. Crystals grown by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method diffracted to 2.00 Å resolution and belonged to space group C121, with unit-cell parameters a = 119.8, b = 58.6, c = 40.2 Å, β = 105.3°. Both Matthews coefficient analysis and the self-rotation function suggested the presence of one molecule per asymmetric unit in the crystal, with a solvent content of 50.52% (V(M) = 2.48 Å(3) Da(-1)).

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Crystallization
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Escherichia coli / enzymology*
  • Escherichia coli Proteins / chemistry*
  • Methyltransferases / chemistry*

Substances

  • Escherichia coli Proteins
  • Methyltransferases
  • UbiG protein, E coli