MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Beautiful, but CruEL…

Beautiful, but CruEL…

Well, it’s one of those classic structural biology stories… Scientist (Anjumara) purifies and crystallizes protein, gets 3-A dataset at synchrotron (with Chandrika’s help). Can’t be solved, but scientists ask cryoEM colleagues kindly and they...
The haloalkane dehydrogenase DmrA

The haloalkane dehydrogenase DmrA

[ PDB file ] [ PubMed link ] Haloalkane dehalogenases (HLDs) catalyse the hydrolysis of haloalkanes to alcohols, offering a biological solution for toxic haloalkane industrial wastes. Hundreds of putative HLD genes have been identified in bacterial genomes, but...