Overexpression, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of hypothetical protein SAV0479 from Staphylococcus aureus Mu50

SAV0479, a hypothetical protein from the Mu50 strain of methicillin- and vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, was selected for structure and function determination as part of a structural genomics project. Here, the cloning, overexpression, purification and crystallization of SAV0479 are reported. Crystals were obtained by the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method and diffraction data were collected to a resolution of 2.8 Å. The crystals belonged to space group P3₁21, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 81.48, c = 82.53 Å. Three monomers of SAV0479 are present in each asymmetric unit.