Journal of Biophysics
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 434038, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/434038
Research Article

Crystal Structural and Functional Analysis of the Putative Dipeptidase from Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3

Jeyaraman Jeyakanthan,1 Katsumi Takada,2 Masahide Sawano,3 Kyoko Ogasahara,2 Hisashi Mizutani,3 Naoki Kunishima,3 Shigeyuki Yokoyama,3,4,5 and Katsuhide Yutani3

1Experimental Facility Division, SPring-8 Group, National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, 101 Hsin-Ann Road, Hsinchu 30076, Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan
2Peptide Institute, Inc., Ina Mino-shi, Osaka 562-8686, Japan
3RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Harima Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
4RIKEN Systems and Structural Biology Center, Yokohama Institute, RIKEN, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
5Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

Received 3 February 2009; Accepted 30 April 2009

Academic Editor: Eaton Edward Lattman

Copyright © 2009 Jeyaraman Jeyakanthan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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