Three‐dimensional structure of catalase from Micrococcus lysodeikticus at 1.5 Å resolution

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Abstract
The three-dimensional crystal structure of catalase from Micrococcus lysodeikticus has been solved by multiple isomorphous replacement and refined at 1.5 Å resolution. The subunit of the tetrameric molecule of 222 symmetry consists of a single polypeptide chain of about 500 amino acid residues and one haem group. The crystals belong to space group P42212 with unit cell parameters a = b = 106,7 Å, c = 106,3 Å, and there is one subunit of the tetramer. per asymmetric unit. The amino acid sequence has been tentatively determined by computer graphics model building and comparison with the known three-dimensional structure of beef liver catalase and sequences of several other catalases. The atomic model has been refined by Hendrickson and Konnert's least-squares minimisation against 94,315 reflections between 8 Å and 1.5 Å. The final model consists or 3,977 non-hydrogen atoms of the protein and haem group, 426 water molecules and ones sulphate ion. The secondary and tertiary sructures of the bacterial catalase have been analyzed and a comparison with the structure of beef liver catalase has been made.