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Cobalamin (vitamin B-12) biosynthesis - Cloning, expression and crystallisation of the Bacillus megaterium S-adenosyl-L-methionine-dependent cobalt-precorrin-4 transmethylase CbiF

Raux-Deery, Evelyne, Warren, Martin J. (1998) Cobalamin (vitamin B-12) biosynthesis - Cloning, expression and crystallisation of the Bacillus megaterium S-adenosyl-L-methionine-dependent cobalt-precorrin-4 transmethylase CbiF. European Journal of Biochemistry, 254 (2). pp. 341-346. ISSN 0014-2956. (doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07300.x) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:11083)

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07300.x

Abstract

The Bacillus megaterium cbiF, encoding the cobalt-precorrin-4 S-adenosyl-L-methionine-dependent transmethylase of the anaerobic cobalamin biosynthetic pathway, has been cloned and overexpressed as a His-tagged recombinant protein in Escherichia coli. The protein was purified to homogeneity by a combination of metal chelate chromatography and high-resolution anion-exchange chromatography. The protein migrated with a subunit mass of 31 kDa by SDS/PAGE and with a molecular mass of 62 kDa by analytical gel filtration, suggesting that the native recombinant protein is a homodimer. The His-tagged protein was physiologically active as it was able to complement a Salmonella typhimurium cbiF mutant. However, the protein did not bind S-adenosyl-L-methionine with the same avidity as observed with other corrin biosynthetic transmethylases. A crystallisation screen of the purified protein led to the identification of two discrete crystal forms. One of these forms has been characterised and a full data set collected.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07300.x
Uncontrolled keywords: vitamin b-12 cbif cobalt-preconin-4 bacillus megaterium s-adenosyl-l-methionine uroporphyrinogen-iii methyltransferase pseudomonas-denitrificans salmonella-typhimurium sequence-analysis genes purification synthase intermediate precorrin-2 acid
Subjects: Q Science
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Biosciences
Depositing User: Martin Warren
Date Deposited: 03 Oct 2009 11:42 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:49 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/11083 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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