Acta Crystallographica Section F

Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications

Volume 64, Part 4 (April 2008)

crystallization communications

Acta Cryst. (2008). F64, 252-254 [ doi:10.1107/S1744309108004132 ]

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of a carbonyl reductase from Candida parapsilosis

R. Zhang, Y. Xu, Y. Sun, Y. Nie, X. Mu, X. Li, X. C. Zhang and Z. Rao

Abstract: A novel short-chain NADPH-dependent (S)-1-phenyl-1,2-ethanediol dehydrogenase (SCR) has been crystallized. Two distinct but related crystal forms of SCR were obtained using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method and a reservoir solution consisting of 18%(w/v) polyethylene glycol 2000 monomethyl ether and 8%(v/v) 2-propanol as the precipitant. The crystals were rhomboid in shape with average dimensions of 0.3 × 0.3 × 0.4 mm and diffracted to a resolution of 2.7-3.0 Å. The crystal forms both belong to space group P2₁2₁2₁ and have unit-cell parameters a = 104.7, b = 142.8, c = 151.8 Å and a = 101.1, b = 146.0, c = 159.8 Å. The calculated values of V_M, rotation-function and translation-function solutions and consideration of potential crystal packing suggest that there are eight protein subunits per asymmetric unit.

Keywords: alcohol dehydrogenases; Candida parapsilosis; short-chain dehydrogenases/reductases.