Abstract
Mitochondria, chloroplasts and several species of bacteria have outer membrane proteins (OMPs) that perform many essential biological functions. The β-barrel assembly machinery (BAM) complex is one of the OMPs of Borrelia burgdorferi, the pathogenic spirochete that causes Lyme disease, and its BamA component (BbBamA) includes a C-terminal β-barrel domain and five N-terminal periplasmic polypeptide-transport-associated (POTRA) domains, which together perform a central transport function. In the current work, the production, crystallization and X-ray analysis of the three N-terminal POTRA domains of BbBamA (BbBamA-POTRA P1-P3; residues 30-273) were carried out. The crystals of BbBamA-POTRA P1-P3 belonged to space group P21, with unit-cell parameters a = 45.353, b = 111.538, c = 64.376 Å, β = 99.913°. The Matthews coefficient was calculated to be 2.92 Å3 Da-1, assuming the presence of two molecules per asymmetric unit, and the corresponding solvent content was 57.9%. Owing to the absence of an ideal homology model, numerous attempts to solve the BbBamA-POTRA P1-P3 structure using molecular replacement (MR) failed. In order to solve the structure, further trials using selenomethionine derivatization are currently being carried out.
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