Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of a monomeric mutant of Azami-Green (mAG), an Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein-like green-emitting fluorescent protein from the stony coral Galaxea fascicularis

Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2009 Dec 1;65(Pt 12):1292-5. doi: 10.1107/S1744309109045382. Epub 2009 Nov 27.

Abstract

Monomeric Azami-Green (mAG) from the stony coral Galaxea fascicularis is the first monomeric green-emitting fluorescent protein that is not a derivative of Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein (avGFP). mAG and avGFP are 27% identical in amino-acid sequence. Diffraction-quality crystals of recombinant mAG were obtained by the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method using PEG 3350 as the precipitant. The mAG crystal diffracted X-rays to 2.20 A resolution on beamline AR-NW12A at the Photon Factory (Tsukuba, Japan). The crystal belonged to space group P1, with unit-cell parameters a = 41.78, b = 51.72, c = 52.89 A, alpha = 90.96, beta = 103.41, gamma = 101.79 degrees. The Matthews coefficient (V(M) = 2.10 A(3) Da(-1)) indicated that the crystal contained two mAG molecules per asymmetric unit.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Anthozoa / chemistry*
  • Anthozoa / genetics
  • Base Sequence
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • DNA Primers / genetics
  • Green Fluorescent Proteins / chemistry*
  • Green Fluorescent Proteins / genetics
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mutation
  • Recombinant Proteins / chemistry
  • Recombinant Proteins / genetics
  • Scyphozoa / chemistry*
  • Scyphozoa / genetics
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid

Substances

  • DNA Primers
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • green fluorescent protein, Aequorea victoria
  • Green Fluorescent Proteins