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Yasuhiro Higashi1, Thomas J Smith, Joseph M Jez, Toni M Kutchan.
Abstract
The opium poppy Papaver somniferum is the source of the narcotic analgesics morphine and codeine. Salutaridine reductase (SalR; EC 1.1.1.248) reduces the C-7 keto group of salutaridine to the C-7 (S)-hydroxyl group of salutaridinol in the biosynthetic pathway that leads to morphine in the opium poppy plant. P. somniferum SalR was overproduced in Escherichia coli and purified using cobalt-affinity and size-exclusion chromatography. Hexagonal crystals belonging to space group P6(4)22 or P6(2)22 were obtained using ammonium sulfate as precipitant and diffracted to a resolution of 1.9 A.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20124713 PMCID: PMC2815683 DOI: 10.1107/S174430910904932X
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun ISSN: 1744-3091