Cloning, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction of the OleC protein fromStenotrophomonas maltophiliainvolved in head-to-head hydrocarbon biosynthesis

Abstract

OleC, a biosynthetic enzyme involved in microbial hydrocarbon biosynthesis, has been crystallized. Synchrotron X-ray diffraction data have been collected to 3.4 Å resolution. The crystals belonged to space groupP3121 orP3221, with unit-cell parametersa=b= 98.8,c= 141.0 Å.