Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of the Rv2002 gene product from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a beta-ketoacyl carrier protein reductase homologue.

A 260-residue protein (FabG3) encoded by the Rv2002 gene of Mycobacterium tuberculosis shows amino-acid sequence similarity to beta-ketoacyl carrier protein (ACP) reductase, FabG. A soluble mutant (I6T/V47M/T69M) was produced by the green fluorescent protein-based directed-evolution method. It was crystallized at 296 K using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method. The diffraction quality of the crystal improved significantly after annealing/dehydration. X-ray diffraction data were collected to 1.8 A resolution using synchrotron radiation. The crystal belongs to the space group P3(1)21 (or P3(2)21), with unit-cell parameters a = b = 70.38, c = 148.93 A. The asymmetric unit contains two subunits, with a corresponding V(M) of 1.90 A(3) Da(-1) and a solvent content of 35.3%.