International Union of Crystallography, Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, 4(67), p. 494-497, 2011
DOI: 10.1107/s1744309111004751
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Chitinase from the moderately thermophilic bacterium Ralstonia sp. A-471 (Ra-ChiC) is divided into two domains: a chitin-binding domain (residues 36-80) and a catalytic domain (residues 103-252). Although the catalytic domain of Ra-ChiC has homology to goose-type lysozyme, Ra-ChiC does not show lysozyme activity but does show chitinase activity. The catalytic domain with part of an interdomain loop (Ra-ChiC(89-252)) was crystallized under several different conditions using polyethylene glycol as a precipitant. The crystals diffracted to 1.85 Å resolution and belonged to space group P6(1)22 or P6(5)22, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 100, c = 243 Å. The calculated Matthews coefficient was approximately 3.2, 2.4 or 1.9 Å(3) Da(-1) assuming the presence of three, four or five Ra-ChiC(89-252) molecules in the asymmetric unit, respectively.