Crystallization and diffraction analysis of β-N-acetylhexosaminidase from Aspergillus oryzae

Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2011 Apr 1;67(Pt 4):498-503. doi: 10.1107/S1744309111004945. Epub 2011 Mar 26.

Abstract

Fungal β-N-acetylhexosaminidases are enzymes that are used in the chemoenzymatic synthesis of biologically interesting oligosaccharides. The enzyme from Aspergillus oryzae was produced and purified from its natural source and crystallized using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method. Diffraction data from two crystal forms (primitive monoclinic and primitive tetragonal) were collected to resolutions of 3.2 and 2.4 Å, respectively. Electrophoretic and quantitative N-terminal protein-sequencing analyses confirmed that the crystals are formed by a complete biologically active enzyme consisting of a glycosylated catalytic unit and a noncovalently attached propeptide.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Aspergillus oryzae / enzymology*
  • Catalytic Domain
  • Crystallization
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Glycosylation
  • beta-N-Acetylhexosaminidases / chemistry*
  • beta-N-Acetylhexosaminidases / metabolism

Substances

  • beta-N-Acetylhexosaminidases