Adenovirus proteinase: crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies to atomic resolution

Comparison of the structure of the adenovirus proteinase, whose crystallization and X-ray diffraction are reported here, with that of the enzyme activated by the 11-amino acid peptide pVIc will reveal why the enzyme is inactive and how the enzyme is activated by pVIc. The low solvent content, 29.2%, may be the reason why this crystal diffracted to such high resolution, 0.98 Å.