Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of a glutathione S-transferase from the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina.

Crystals of a glutathione S-transferase from the Australian sheep blowfly Lucilia cuprina have been grown from ammonium sulphate by the hanging drop vapour diffusion method. Successful crystallization required the presence of the inhibitor S-hexylglutathione. The crystals belong to the tetragonal space group P4(1)22 (or P4(3)22) with cell dimensions of a = b = 88.1 A and c = 66.9 A. They contain one monomer in the asymmetric unit and diffract beyond 2.8 A resolution.