X-ray crystallographic studies on C-phycocyanins from cyanobacteria from different habitats: marine and freshwater.

ABSTRACT: C-phycocyanins from three cyanobacterial cultures of freshwater and marine habitat, Spirulina, Phormidium and Lyngbya spp., were purified to homogeneity and crystallized using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method. Blue-coloured crystals in different crystal forms, monoclinic and hexagonal, were obtained for the three species. The crystals took 1-12 weeks to grow to full size using polyethylene glycols of different molecular weights as precipitants. The amino-acid sequences of these proteins show high similarity to other known C-phycocyanins from related organisms; however, the C-phycocyanins reported here showed different biochemical and biophysical properties, i.e. molecular weight, stability etc. The X-ray diffraction data were collected at resolutions of 3.0 A for the monoclinic and

SUBMITTER: Satyanarayana L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1978106 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature