Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of the major peanut allergen Ara h 1 core region

Cerrone Cabanos, Hiroyuki Urabe, Taro Masuda, Mary Rose Tandang-Silvas, Shigeru Utsumi, Bunzo Mikami, Nobuyuki Maruyama

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Abstract

Peanuts contain some of the most potent food allergens known to date. Ara h 1 is one of the three major peanut allergens. As a first step towards three-dimensional structure elucidation, recombinant Ara h 1 core region was cloned, expressed in Escherichia coli and purified to homogeneity. Crystals were obtained using 0.1 M sodium citrate pH 5.6, 0.1 M NaCl, 15% PEG 400 as precipitant. The crystals diffracted to 2.25 Å resolution using synchrotron radiation and belonged to the monoclinic space group C2, with unit-cell parameters a = 156.521, b = 88.991, c = 158.971 Å, Β = 107.144°. Data were collected at the BL-38B1 station of SPring-8 (Hyogo, Japan).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1071-1073
Number of pages3
JournalActa Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications
Volume66
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2010

Keywords

  • Ara h 1
  • peanut allergens

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biophysics
  • Structural Biology
  • Biochemistry
  • Genetics
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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