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SUBMITTER: Higashi Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2815683 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Higashi Yasuhiro Y Smith Thomas J TJ Jez Joseph M JM Kutchan Toni M TM
Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications 20100127 Pt 2
The opium poppy Papaver somniferum is the source of the narcotic analgesics morphine and codeine. Salutaridine reductase (SalR; EC 1.1.1.248) reduces the C-7 keto group of salutaridine to the C-7 (S)-hydroxyl group of salutaridinol in the biosynthetic pathway that leads to morphine in the opium poppy plant. P. somniferum SalR was overproduced in Escherichia coli and purified using cobalt-affinity and size-exclusion chromatography. Hexagonal crystals belonging to space group P6(4)22 or P6(2)22 we ...[more]