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The EMBO Journal (1998) 17, 2947–2960, doi:10.1093/emboj/17.10.2947

Table 2
The crystal structure of asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase from Thermus thermophilus and its complexes with ATP and asparaginyl-adenylate: the mechanism of discrimination between asparagine and aspartic acid
Carmen Berthet-Colominas, Laurence Seignovert, Michael Härtlein, Morten Grotli, Stephen Cusack and Reuben Leberman
Table 2: Data collection and phasing statistics
Structure solution
  AsnRS Native SmNO3 Uacetate
Beamline BM14 BM14 BM14
Detector 300 mm Mar 300 mm Mar 300 mm Mar
Wavelength 0.93 Å 0.93 Å 0.88 Å
Exposure/image 120 s/1° 120 s/0.8° 150 s/1°
No. of crystals 1 (frozen) 1 (frozen) 1 (frozen)
Resolution 31–2.8 Å 31–2.8 Å 43–2.6 Å
Total reflections 73 000 160 045 70 630
Unique reflections 14 619 14 864 17 567
Average redundancy 5.0 10.8 4.0
Completeness 98.9 100 96.3
R-merge (highest bin) 0.067 (0.250) 0.065 (0.157) 0.033 (0.075)
Heavy-atom refinement and phasing
Resolution used 2.85 Å 4 Å 2.85 Å
No. of sites   1 2
Phasing power   1.33 1.70
R-cullis   0.74 0.68
Mean figure of merit      
  acentric 0.409    
  centric 0.631    
  all 0.444    
Substrate complexes
  Asn-adenylate AsnRS + Asn-AMS AsnRS-ATP
Beamline BM14 BM14 Swiss–Norwegian
Detector 300 mm Mar 300 mm Mar 300 mm Mar
Wavelength 1.002 Å 0.890 Å 0.87 Å
Exposure/image 360 s/1° 160 s/1° 360 s/0.8°
Space group P6422 P6422 P6522
No. of crystals 1 (frozen) 1 (frozen) 1 (frozen)
Resolution 27–3.2 Å 15–2.62 Å 24–2.95 Å
Total reflections 46 376 120 269 168 818
Unique reflections 9777 16 965 23 382
Average redundancy 4.7 7.1 7.2
Completeness 99.8 94.5 94.5
R-merge (highest bin) 0.081 (0.27) 0.052 (0.262) 0.105 (0.271)
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