Crystallization and preliminary neutron diffraction studies of ADP-ribose pyrophosphatase-I from HB8

岡崎 伸生; 安達 基泰; 玉田 太郎; 栗原 和男; 大賀 拓史*; 神谷 信夫*; 倉光 成紀*; 黒木 良太

Acta Crystallographica Section F, 68(1), p.49 - 52, 2012/01

https://doi.org/10.1107/S1744309111044551

ADP-ribose pyrophosphatase-I from HB8 (ADPRase-I) prevents the intracellular accumulation of ADP-ribose by hydrolyzing it to AMP and ribose 5'-phosphate. To understand the catalytic mechanism of ADPRase-I, it is necessary to investigate the role of glutamates and metal ions as well as the coordination of water molecules located at the active site. A macroseeding method was developed in order to obtain a large ADPRase-I crystal which was suitable for a neutron diffraction study to provide structural information. Neutron and X-ray diffraction experiments were performed at room temperature using the same crystal. The crystal diffracted to 2.1 and 1.5 resolution in the neutron and X-ray diffraction experiments, respectively. The crystal belonged to the primitive space group 321, with unit-cell parameters = = 50.7, = 119 .