Crystals of the recombinant thiol aminopeptidase PepC, from Lactoccocus lactis, have been obtained using the hanging-drop method of vapor diffusion from ammonium sulfate solutions. Crystals are rhombohedral, the space group is R32, a = 175.2 A, c = 94.5 A (hexagonal setting). The asymmetric unit probably contains one monomer of a hexameric molecule-arrangement of 300 kDa which exhibits the crystallographic point group of symmetry 32. The crystals diffract to at least 3 A resolution.
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