Production, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic studies of the bacteriophage phi 12 packaging motor.

The hexameric ATPase P4 from bacteriophage phi 12 is responsible for packaging single-stranded genomic precursors into the viral procapsid. P4 was overexpressed in Escherichia coli and purified. Crystals of native and selenomethionine-derivatized P4 have been obtained that belong to space group I222...

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Autori principali: Mancini, E, Kainov, D, Wei, H, Gottlieb, P, Tuma, R, Bamford, D, Stuart, D, Grimes, J
Natura: Journal article
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: 2004