Crystal packing of the c(6)-type cytochrome OmcF from Geobacter sulfurreducens is mediated by an N-terminal Strep-tag II
Lukat, P., Hoffmann, M., Einsle, O.(2008) Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 64: 919-926
- PubMed: 18703839 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S0907444908021306
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
3DP5 - PubMed Abstract: 
The putative outer membrane c-type cytochrome OmcF from Geobacter sulfurreducens contains a single haem group and shows homology to soluble cytochromes c(6), a class of electron-transfer proteins that are typically found in cyanobacterial photosynthetic electron-transfer chains. OmcF was overexpressed heterologously in Escherichia coli as an N-terminal Strep-tag II fusion protein and isolated using streptactin-affinity chromatography followed by size-exclusion chromatography. The structure was solved by Fe SAD using data collected to a resolution of 1.86 A on a rotating copper-anode X-ray generator. In the crystal, packing interactions in one dimension were exclusively mediated through the Strep-tag II sequence. The tag and linker regions were in contact with three further monomers of OmcF, leading to a well defined electron-density map for this engineered and secondary-structure-free region of the molecule.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.