Abstract
Rat liver arginase, a manganese-metalloenzyme, has been crystallized from polyethylene glycol 8000 in N,N-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)glycine (Bicine) buffer at pH 8.5. Crystals form as either cubes or pyramids and belong to space group P3 1 (or P3 2) with hexagonal unit cell dimensions a = b = 88·9 A ̊ , c = 114·8 A ̊ , or a = b = 88·5 A ̊ , c = 104·5 A ̊ ; the variation along the c axis does not correlate with the external crystal morphology of cube or pyramidshaped. X-ray diffraction data are measured to a limiting resolution of 2·4 Å. Given the volume constraints of the unit cell it is likely that rat liver arginase is a trimer, with three 35,000 Da monomers in the asymmetric unit. This resolves a persistent ambiguity regarding the oligomeric structure of this enzyme.
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