... (2011) 1232–1243 ª 2011 The Authors Journal compilation ª 2011 FEBS 1243
Active site residue involvement in monoamine or diamine
oxidation catalysed by pea seedling amine oxidase
Maria Luisa Di Paolo
1
, ... fac-
tors underlying substrate selectivity still remain to be discovered. With this
in view, we examined the kinetic behaviour of pea seedling amine...
... of
substrates by forming energy-rich thioester bonds. Oxo-
coenzyme A (which has an ethanolamine residue instead of
a cysteamine residue) cannot fulfill this role and may inhibit
cell growth. Therefore, ... converted to PPC (in presence
of cysteine) or to PP (in the presence of cysteamine) or
to 4¢-phosphopantothenoylcysteine methyl ester (in the
Fig. 3. Residues that are crucial f...
... been
suggested to be important for the ability of HSV-1 TK to
bind and phosphorylate the acyclic guanosine analogues.
The corresponding amino acid residue in Dm-dNK is an
isoleucine (I29). To investigate ... deoxyribonucleo-
side kinase; dCK, deoxycytidine kinase; dGK, deoxyguanosine kinase;
TK2, thymidine kinase 2; HSV-1 TK, herpes simplex virus type-1
thymidine kinase; dAdo, deoxyadenos...
... maintains almost iden-
tical CoA binding site and the catalytic triad of
Cys164, His303, and Asn336 (numbering in M. sativa
CHS) (Fig. 2). Furthermore, most of the active site
residues including ... located in proximity of the catalytic Cys164 at
the ‘ceiling’ of the active site cavity guides the growing polyketide chain to extend into the buried pocket.
I. Abe et al. Active...
... covalently bound to an active site
lysine residue via an imine linkage [18]. This suggestion was
supported by experiments on the bovine liver enzyme in
which the active site cysteine thiol had been ... observed in approximately equal amounts,
confirming that the reaction was accompanied by incor-
poration of a single solvent-derived oxygen atom. In order
to determine the po...
... catalytically fully or partially active. Active- site direc-
ted competitive inhibitors are often effective active- site- specific chaperones
when they are used at subinhibitory concentrations. Active- site- specific
chaperones ... first domain
contains the active- site formed by the C-terminal ends
of the b strands at the center of a barrel. Thirteen
amino acid residues were pred...
... regions lining the substrate-binding site allow the enzyme to
conform to substrates of varying structure. This study describes mutant
forms of thimet oligopeptidase in which Gly or Tyr residues in ... around the active site residues
of domain I and the loop and Tyr residues in domai-
n II supports our initial conformation for the model.
Furthermore, the experimental effects obse...
... receptor and
downstream adaptors are involved in TLR7 induction
by NTHi. Because TLR2 is important for mediating
NTHi-induced gene transcription, we first investigated
the role of TLR2 in NTHi-induced ... bacterial prod-
ucts including peptidoglycan, lipoprotein and lipoara-
binomannan [1–5]. The importance of TLR2 in host
Keywords
cylindromatosis; mixed infection;
nontypeable Haemophi...
... first performed several empirical analyses in or-
der to determine to what extent contextual informa-
tion helps in discriminating between agreement and
disagreement. By integrating the interpretation ... baseline algorithm.
3.2 Maximum Entropy Ranking
We view the problem as an instance of statisti-
cal ranking, a general machine learning paradigm
used for example in statistical pars...
... binding constants to the proteins.
According to Schemes 1 and 2, the nitrating species
produced by the enzyme is either NO
2
,formedby
compound I or II and nitrite (pathway A), or E
nitr
formed
by ... Spectroscopic and binding studies
on the interaction of inorganic anions with lactoperoxidase.
J. Inorg. Biochem. 68, 17–26.
35. Gebicka, L. (1999) Kinetic studies on the oxidation o...