Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of a new crystal form of hydroxylamine oxidoreductase from Nitrosomonas europaea

Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2009 Dec 1;65(Pt 12):1296-8. doi: 10.1107/S1744309109046119. Epub 2009 Nov 27.

Abstract

Hydroxylamine oxidoreductase (HAO) from Nitrosomonas europaea is a homotrimeric protein that catalyzes the oxidation of hydroxylamine to nitrite. Each monomer, with a molecular weight of 67.1 kDa, contains seven c-type hemes and one heme P460, the porphyrin ring of which is covalently linked to a tyrosine residue from an adjacent subunit. HAO was first crystallized and structurally characterized at a resolution of 2.8 A in 1997. The structure was solved in space group P6(3) and suffered from merohedral twinning. Here, a crystallization procedure is presented that yielded untwinned crystals belonging to space group P2(1)2(1)2, which diffracted to 2.25 A resolution and contained one trimer in the asymmetric unit. The unit-cell parameters were a = 140.7, b = 142.6, c = 107.4 A.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Crystallization
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Heme / chemistry
  • Nitrosomonas europaea / enzymology*
  • Oxidoreductases / chemistry*
  • Protein Structure, Quaternary
  • Protein Subunits
  • Tyrosine / chemistry

Substances

  • Protein Subunits
  • Tyrosine
  • Heme
  • Oxidoreductases
  • hydroxylamine dehydrogenase