Selenomethionine incorporation is a standard method for determining the phases in protein crystallography by single- or multiwavelength anomalous dispersion. Recombinant expression of selenomethionine-containing protein in non-auxotrophic Pichia pastoris strains yield an incorporation of about 50%. The expression of a mutated variant of Penicillium minioluteum dextranase in P. pastoris is used to illustrate the method utilized to obtain selenomethionyl-substituted protein and to show the phasing power of the acquired anomalous signal. The dextranase structure was solved using the anomalous signal achieved from 50% selenomethionine incorporation.
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Larsson, A. M., & Jones, T. A. (2007). Selenomethionine Labeling of Recombinant Proteins (pp. 165–174). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-456-8_12
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