Detecting the nature and solving the crystal structure of a contaminant protein from an opportunistic pathogen.
Pederzoli, R., Tarantino, D., Gourlay, L.J., Chaves-Sanjuan, A., Bolognesi, M.(2020) Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun 76: 392-397
- PubMed: 32880586 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053230X20010626
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
6TV0 - PubMed Abstract: 
The unintentional crystallization of contaminant proteins in the place of target recombinant proteins is sporadically reported, despite the availability of stringent expression/purification protocols and of software for the detection of contaminants. Typically, the contaminant protein originates from the expression organism (for example Escherichia coli), but in rare circumstances contaminants from different sources have been reported ...