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ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION F-STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS
卷 68, 期 -, 页码 1259-1262出版社
INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
DOI: 10.1107/S1744309112031181
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- Tertiary Education Commission through Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery
- University of Auckland
In mammals, the enzyme D-xylulokinase (XK; EC 2.7.1.17) catalyses the last step of the glucuronate-xylulose pathway, in which the ketopentose sugar D-xylulose is phosphorylated to yield D-xylulose 5-phosphate (Xu5P). Xu5P is also a metabolite of the pentose phosphate pathway and acts as a signalling molecule that regulates lipogenesis and glycolysis in the liver. To date, no eukaryotic XK has been structurally characterized. A putative human XK was expressed in Escherichia coli aided by molecular chaperones, purified and crystallized. A seeding procedure involving repeated rounds of seeding was developed and proved to be essential for obtaining diffraction-quality crystals. Preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis was performed using synchrotron radiation. This resulted in the collection of a complete diffraction data set to 2.7 angstrom resolution from a crystal belonging to the trigonal space group P3(1) or P3(2) with unit-cell parameters a = b = 101.87, c = 158.85 angstrom.
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