Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase (GalU) from Erwinia amylovora

Glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase from Erwinia amylovora CFPB1430 was expressed as a His-tag fusion protein in Escherichia coli. After tag removal, the purified protein was crystallized from 100 mM Tris pH 8.5, 2 M ammonium sulfate, 5% ethylene glycol. Diffraction data sets were collected to a maximum resolution of 2.46 angstrom using synchrotron radiation. The crystals belonged to the hexagonal space group P6(2), with unit-cell parameters a = 80.67, b = 80.67, c = 169.18. The structure was solved by molecular replacement using the structure of the E. coli enzyme as a search model.