Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of the Rv2002 gene product from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a β-­ketoacyl carrier protein reductase homologue

A soluble mutant (I6T/V47M/T69M) of the Rv2002 gene product (FabG3) of M. tuberculosis was crystallized. The X-ray diffraction quality of the crystal improved significantly after annealing/dehydration, enabling data collection to 1.8 Å resolution.