PCProt Research Results Presented at ACA Annual Meeting

摘要

The Pharmaceutical Consortium for Protein Structure Analysis (PCProt) and the RIKEN Harima Institute (RIKEN) determined the three-dimensional structure of the putative Phosphomannomutase (PMM) from Thermus Thcrmophilus HB8 and presented it (Fig. 1) at the Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA organized by University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)) held from July 17 through 22 in Chicago (Photo 1). The PMM is an important enzyme that exists in the biosynthetic pathways of living organisms from bacteria to the human being and this research achievement is expected to contribute significantly to the development of new pharmaceuticals. The authors of this report also attended the workshop organized by ACA and independently visited the Industrial Mac-romolecular Crystallography Association — Collaborative Access Team (IMCA-CAT), which is a consortium organized by American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association at the Advanced Photon Source (APS).