Purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of human dihydrodipicolinate synthase-like protein (DHDPSL).

ABSTRACT: Human dihydrodipicolinate synthase-like protein (DHDPSL) is a gene product of unknown function. It is homologous to bacterial pyruvate-dependent aldolases such as dihydrodipicolinate synthase (DHDPS), which functions in lysine biosynthesis. However, it cannot have this function and instead is implicated in a genetic disorder that leads to excessive production of oxalate and kidney-stone formation. In order to better understand its function, DHDPSL was expressed as an MBP-fusion protein and crystallized using an in situ proteolysis protocol. Two crystal forms were obtained, both of which diffracted X-rays to approximately 2.0 Å resolution. One of these, belonging to space group P6(2)22 or P6(4)22 with unit-cell parameters a = b = 142.9, c = 109.8 Å, ? = ? = 90, ? = 120°, was highly reproducible and suitable for structure determination by X-ray crystallography.

SUBMITTER: Bunker RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3253836 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature