Labiris Institut de Recherche 1 article published in JoVE Biochemistry X-Ray Crystallography to Study the Oligomeric State Transition of the Thermotoga maritima M42 Aminopeptidase TmPep1050 Raphael Dutoit1,2, Nathalie Brandt2, Dany Van Elder1, Louis Droogmans1 1Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Molecular Biology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2Labiris Institut de Recherche This protocol has been developed to study the dimer-dodecamer transition of TmPep1050, an M42 aminopeptidase, at the structural level. It is a straightforward pipeline starting from protein purification to X-ray data processing. Crystallogenesis, data set indexation, and molecular replacement have been emphasized through a case of study, TmPep1050H60A H307A variant.