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Structure of the month
 
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Protein structure of the month

Rigaku customers are the most productive in the world. Every month hundreds of protein crystal data sets are collected by scientists using Rigaku instruments. We are always pleased when we see our customers being productive with our equipment, so we have created this showcase for structures that have been released by the Protein Data Bank (PDB). 

Every month we will select one recently released structure from the PDB that was solved from data collected with Rigaku instruments, and invite the Rigaku user to write up a short description of the structure for presentation on our web site. 

Please explore the structures below to get a glimpse into the type of research and protein structures that are being studied by Rigaku users around the world.

 
October 2009

Protein: Cytoplasmic Domain of the Inner Membrane Protein EpsF, PDB ID: 2VMB

de novo Phasing at Home Using the Anomalous Signal of Iodide: The Structure Solution of Cytoplasmic Domain of the Inner Membrane Protein EpsF

Performed in the laboratory of Wim Hol, Department of Biochemistry, Biomolecular Structure Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

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September 2009

Protein: Mycobacterium tuberculosis KasA, PDB ID: 2WGD

Crystal structures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis KasA, a drug target involved in fatty acid biosynthesis

Performed in the laboratory of Caroline Kisker at the Rudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine, Institute for Structural Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.

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July 2009

Protein: Filamin B, PDB ID: 2WAS

The consequences of disease-associated mutations on the structure and function of the filamin B actin binding domain

Performed in the laboratory of Andrew Sutherland-Smith in the Institute of Molecular BioSciences at Massey University Palmerston North, New Zealand.

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June 2009

Protein 1: ATP binary complex, PDB ID: 3G59
Protein 2: substrate ternary complex, PDB ID: 3G5A

Structure and Mechanism of a Eukaryotic FMN Adenylyltransferase

Performed in the laboratory of Hong Zhang at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.

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May 2009

Protein: human LGP2, PDB ID: 3EQT

The RIG-I like Receptor LGP2 Recognizes the Termini of Double-stranded RNA

Performed in the laboratory of Pingwei Li, in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Texas A&M University.

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April 2009

Protein: Gluconate 5-dehydrogenase, PDB ID: 3CXR

Structural basis of the catalytic mechanism of gluconate 5-dehydrogenase from Streptococcus suis

Performed in the Laboratory of Prof. George F. Gao in the CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology (CASPMI), Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, P.R. China.

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March 2009

Protein: Mycoplasma hyorhinis protein, PDB ID: 3E78

Structure determination of the cancer-associated Mycoplasma hyorhinis protein Mh-p37

Performed in the laboratory of Robert McKenna at the Center for Structural Biology, University of Florida.

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February 2009

Protein: Fructose-bisphosphate aldolase, PDB ID: 3EKZ

Structural basis for catalysis of a tetrameric, class IIa fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase from M. tuberculosis

Performed in the laboratory of Andrew D Mesecar at the Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Illinois at Chicago.

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December 2008

Protein: κI O18/O8 N34I/Y87H, PDB ID: 3CDC

Structural insights into the role of mutations in amyloidogenesis

Performed in the laboratory of Dr. Marina Ramirez-Alvarado in collaboration with Dr. James R. Thompson at the College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic..

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November 2008

Protein: Human prostaglandin reductase, PDB ID: 2ZB7

Crystal structure of a human prostaglandin reductase in complex with NADPH and nicotinamide

Performed in the laboratory of Dr. Andrew H.-J. Wang at the Academia Sinica.

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September 2008

Protein: TetR/[Co Tc]+ complex, PDB ID: 2vke

Anomalous diffraction used to confirm the metal ion in Tet repressor-tetracycline complexes

Performed in the laboratory of Dr. Winfried Hinrichs at the University of Greifswald.

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August 2008

Protein 1: ALIXBro1-CHMP4B complex, PDB ID: 3c3q
Protein 2: ALIXBro1-CHMP4C complex, PDB ID: 3c3r

ALIX-CHMP4 interactions in the human ESCRT pathway

Performed in the laboratories of Dr. Wesley Sundquist and Dr. Christopher Hill at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

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If you have a structure you would like to nominate for future months, please send us an email at info@rigaku.com.