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(2010) Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 66: 871-877
The rapid and inexpensive production of high-quality eukaryotic proteins in recombinant form still remains a challenge in structural biology. Here, a protein-expression system based on the protozoan Leishmania tarentolae was used to produce human Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) in recombinant form. Sequential integration of the SOD1 expression cassettes was demonstrated to lead to a linear increase in expression levels to up to 30 mg per litre. Chromatographic purification resulted in 90% pure recombinant protein, with a final yield of 6.5 mg per litre of culture. The protein was crystallized and the structures of two new crystal forms were determined. These results demonstrate the suitability of the L. tarentolae expression system for structural research.
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Macromolecule Content 
Entity ID: 1 | |||||
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| Molecule | Chains | Sequence Length | Organism | Details | Image |
| Superoxide dismutase [Cu-Zn] | 153 | Homo sapiens | Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: SOD1 EC: 1.15.1.1 | ![]() | |
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Find proteins for P00441 (Homo sapiens) Explore P00441  Go to UniProtKB:  P00441 | |||||
PHAROS:  P00441 GTEx:  ENSG00000142168  | |||||
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| Sequence Clusters | 30% Identity50% Identity70% Identity90% Identity95% Identity100% Identity | ||||
| UniProt Group | P00441 | ||||
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| Length ( Å ) | Angle ( ˚ ) |
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| a = 112.188 | α = 90 |
| b = 112.188 | β = 90 |
| c = 428.268 | γ = 120 |
| Software Name | Purpose |
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| XSCALE | data scaling |
| REFMAC | refinement |
| PDB_EXTRACT | data extraction |
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