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crystallization communications
Vitamin B6-degradation pathway I has recently been identified in Mesorhizobium loti MAFF303099. Pyridoxine 4-oxidase, an FAD-dependent enzyme, is the first enzyme in this pathway and catalyzes the irreversible oxidation of pyridoxine to pyridoxal. The enzyme was overexpressed in Escherichia coli with a His6 tag and purified. The recombinant enzyme was crystallized at 277 K by the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method using PEG 4000 as the precipitant. The crystal, which belonged to space group P212121 with unit-cell parameters a = 62.38, b = 79.44, c = 136.43 Å, diffracted to 2.2 Å resolution. The calculated VM value (3.19 Å3 Da-1) suggested that the asymmetric unit contained one molecule.