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Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of alpha-11 giardin from Giardia lamblia.

ABSTRACT: Alpha-11 Giardin, a protein from the annexin superfamily, is a 35.0 kDa protein from the intestinal protozoan parasite Giardia lamblia which triggers a form of diarrhea called giardiasis. Here, the cloning, expression, purification and the crystallization of alpha-11 giardin under two different conditions and in two different space groups is reported. Crystals from the first condition diffracted to 1.1 A and belong to a primitive orthorhombic space group, while crystals from the second condition, which included calcium in the crystallization solution, diffracted to 2.93 A and belong to a primitive monoclinic space group. Determination of the detailed atomic structure of alpha-11 giardin will provide a better insight into its biological function and might establish whether this class of proteins is a potential drug target against giardiasis.

SUBMITTER: Pathuri P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2225204 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of alpha-11 giardin from Giardia lamblia.

Pathuri Puja P Nguyen Emily Tam ET Luecke Hartmut H

Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications 20061020 Pt 11

Alpha-11 Giardin, a protein from the annexin superfamily, is a 35.0 kDa protein from the intestinal protozoan parasite Giardia lamblia which triggers a form of diarrhea called giardiasis. Here, the cloning, expression, purification and the crystallization of alpha-11 giardin under two different conditions and in two different space groups is reported. Crystals from the first condition diffracted to 1.1 A and belong to a primitive orthorhombic space group, while crystals from the second condition ...[more]

PMID: 17077490

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Project description:Alpha-11 giardin is a member of the multi-gene alpha-giardin family in the intestinal protozoan, Giardia lamblia. This gene family shares an ancestry with the annexin super family, whose common characteristic is calcium-dependent binding to membranes that contain acidic phospholipids. Several alpha giardins are highly expressed during parasite-induced diarrhea in humans. Despite being a member of a large family of proteins, little is known about the function and cellular localization of alpha-11 giardin, although giardins are often associated with the cytoskeleton. It has been shown that Giardia exhibits high levels of alpha-11 giardin mRNA transcript throughout its life cycle; however, constitutive over-expression of this protein is lethal to the parasite. Determining the three-dimensional structure of an alpha-giardin is essential to identifying functional domains shared in the alpha-giardin family. Here we report the crystal structures of the apo and Ca(2+)-bound forms of alpha-11 giardin, the first alpha giardin to be characterized structurally. Crystals of apo and Ca(2+)-bound alpha-11 giardin diffracted to 1.1 A and 2.93 A, respectively. The crystal structure of selenium-substituted apo alpha-11 giardin reveals a planar array of four tandem repeats of predominantly alpha-helical domains, reminiscent of previously determined annexin structures, making this the highest-resolution structure of an annexin to date. The apo alpha-11 giardin structure also reveals a hydrophobic core formed between repeats I/IV and II/III, a region typically hydrophilic in other annexins. Surprisingly, the Ca(2+)-bound structure contains only a single calcium ion, located in the DE loop of repeat I and coordinated differently from the two types of calcium sites observed in previous annexin structures. The apo and Ca(2+)-bound alpha-11 giardin structures assume overall similar conformations; however, Ca(2+)-bound alpha-11 giardin crystallized in a lower-symmetry space group with four molecules in the asymmetric unit. Vesicle-binding studies suggest that alpha-11 giardin, unlike most other annexins, does not bind to vesicles composed of acidic phospholipids in a calcium-dependent manner.

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Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of alpha-11 giardin from Giardia lamblia.

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Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of alpha-11 giardin from Giardia lamblia.

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