Nakasako M, Hirata M, Shimizu N, Hosokawa S, Matsuoka D, Oka T, Yamamoto M, Tokutomi S. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis [correction of anaylsis] of the LOV1 domains of phototropin 1 and 2 from Arabidopsis thaliana.
Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 2008;
64:617-21. [PMID:
18607090 DOI:
10.1107/s1744309108015534]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2008] [Accepted: 05/23/2008] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
Phototropin is a blue-light receptor protein in plants that is responsible for phototropic responses, stomata opening and photo-induced relocation of chloroplasts. Higher plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana have two isoforms of phototropin: phototropin 1 and phototropin 2. Both isoforms comprise a tandem pair of blue-light-absorbing light-oxygen-voltage domains named LOV1 and LOV2 in the N-terminal half and a serine/threonine kinase domain in the C-terminal half. The LOV1 domain is thought to function as a dimerization site. In the present study, recombinant LOV1 domains of A. thaliana phototropin 1 and phototropin 2 were crystallized. The crystal of the LOV1 domain of phototropin 1 belonged to the orthorhombic space group P2(1)2(1)2(1), with unit-cell parameters a = 61.2, b = 64.9, c = 70.8 A, and diffracted X-rays to a resolution of 2.1 A. The crystal of the LOV1 domain of phototropin 2 belonged to space group P2(1), with unit-cell parameters a = 32.5, b = 66.5, c = 56.7 A, beta = 92.4 degrees , and diffracted X-rays to beyond 2.0 A resolution. In both crystals, two LOV1 domains occupied the crystallographic asymmetric unit.
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