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Plant Cell Wall Proteins: A Large Body of Data, but What about Runaways? [PDF]

, 2014
Plant cell wall proteomics has been a very dynamic field of research for about fifteen years. A full range of strategies has been proposed to increase the number of identified proteins and to characterize their post-translational modifications.
Albenne, Bhushan, Brady, Brisson, Carpita, Chen, Datta, Ferrari, Goulet, Jamet, Kehr, Kumar, Millar, Pinedo, Qi, Robertson, Rose, Ruiz-May, San Clemente, Schnabelrauch, Schultz, Tan, Verdonk, Zhou, Zhu   +24 more
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Heterologous Expression of Plant Cell Wall Degrading Enzymes for Effective Production of Cellulosic Biofuels [PDF]

, 2012
A major technical challenge in the cost-effective production of cellulosic biofuel is the need to lower the cost of plant cell wall degrading enzymes (PCDE), which is required for the production of sugars from biomass.
Jeong, Seong Hun, Jung, Sang-Kyu, Lee, Sung Kuk, Parisutham, Vinuselvi   +3 more
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Application of enzymes for textile fibres processing [PDF]

, 2008
This review highlights the use of enzymes in the textile industry, covering both current commercial processes and research in this field. Amylases have been used for desizing since the middle of the last century.
Araújo, Rita, Casal, Margarida, Paulo, Artur Cavaco   +2 more
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Biocatalysis, Enzyme Engineering and Biotechnology [PDF]

, 2012
Enzymes are biocatalysts evolved in nature to achieve the speed and coordination of nearly all the chemical reactions that define cellular metabolism necessary to develop and maintain life.
Axarli, I. A., Chronopoulou, E. G., Karamitros, C., Kotzia, G. A., Labrou, N. E., Platis, D.   +5 more
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Emergence of terpene cyclization in Artemisia annua [PDF]

, 2015
The emergence of terpene cyclization was critical to the evolutionary expansion of chemical diversity yet remains unexplored. Here we report the first discovery of an epistatic network of residues that controls the onset of terpene cyclization in ...
A Deligeorgopoulou, A Roy, A Wellner, B Ostman, B Spiller, CA Lesburg, CD Broeckling, CM De Moraes, CM Starks, D Lopes-Lutz, DE Cane, DM Weinreich, E Pichersky, EF Pettersen, F Juteau, F Zanini, H Liu, IG Szendro, J Degenhardt, J-K Weng, JA Aaron, JA Faraldos, JP Noel, JT Bridgham, K Akiyama, K Tomiyama, M Carneiro, M Dokarry, M Soskine, M Vardakou, MB Austin, N Halabi, NJ White, NM Goodey, O Trott, PE O’Maille, PE O’Maille, PE O’Maille, R Croteau, S Vandermoten, SD Pegan, SW Lockless, T Aita, WS Bowers, Y Yoshikuni, Y Zhang, Y-Y Liu, YJ Hong   +47 more
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Quantitative comparison of catalytic mechanisms and overall reactions in convergently evolved enzymes : implications for classification of enzyme function [PDF]

, 2010
The authors thank the National Institutes of Health (NIH R01 GM60595 to PCB) and the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA to JBOM) for funding.Functionally analogous enzymes are those that catalyze similar reactions on similar substrates ...
Daniel E. Almonacid, Emmanuel R. Yera, John B. O. Mitchell, Patricia C. Babbitt, Christine A. Orengo, RA George, JA Gerlt, PC Babbitt, JA Gerlt, ME Glasner, GJ Bartlett, MY Galperin, H Hegyi, ACR Martin, PF Gherardini, AE Todd, AE Todd, Z Zhang, S Tsoka, SA Teichmann, TD Otto, NH Horowitz, RA Jensen, GA Petsko, RA Chiang, CS Wright, BW Matthews, SC Morris, N Nagano, CT Porter, C Andreini, C Andreini, GL Holliday, GL Holliday, SC-H Pegg, SC-H Pegg, N Nagano, AG Murzin, G Ausiello, H Berman, NM O'Boyle, P Jaccard, P Willett, TF Smith, CA Orengo, AG McDonald, ACR Martin, SB Needleman, M Kotera, Y Yamanishi, GL Holliday, L Maveyraud, J Pitarch, R Castillo, JC Hermann, Z Wang, AP Leech, DG Gourley, AW Roszak, LM Blomberg, A Matte, MM Benning, PC Babbitt, DL Scott, BW Segelke, YS Ho, YS Ho, ME Lowe, Y Bourne, RJ Kazlauskas, H van Tilbeurgh, GJ Bartlett, T Nakai, A Zajc, E Ortlund, AB Hickman, TJ Wyckoff, CR Sweet, W Plaga, V Leppänen, F Himo, M Mathieu, Y Modis, RF Doolittle, V Sangar, BE Shakhnovich, PW Lord, J Gasteiger, O Sacher, DARS Latino, DARS Latino, DARS Latino, Y Loewenstein, T Dandekar, R Overbeek, AJ Enright, EM Marcotte, M Pellegrini, JC Hermann, JC Hermann, ME Glasner, L Jiang, M Bashton, K Tipton, KA Olszewski, R Preißner, J Park, PR Mittl, S Lorenzen, A Fersht, M Errami, EO Cannon, M Rizzi, J Symersky, Y Devedjiev, AR Battersby, N Frankenberg, MA Mathews, HL Schubert, B Stec, L Ma, JE Murphy, EB Fauman, RH Hoff, F Wang   +124 more
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Identification of chemically sulfated/desulfated glycosaminoglycans in contaminated heparins and development of a simple assay for the detection of most contaminants in heparin [PDF]

, 2010
Contaminated heparin was linked to at least 149 deaths and hundreds of adverse reactions. Published report indicates that heparin contaminants were a natural impurity, dermatan sulfate, and a contaminant, oversulfated chondroitin sulfate (OSCS). OSCS was
Frazier, Sarah B, Lu, Hong, Pan, Jing, Pazandak, Andrew, Qian, Yi, Weiser, Peter, Zhang, Lijuan, Zhou, Xiaodong   +7 more
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Characterization of C-S Lyase from C. diphtheriae [PDF]

, 2013
The emergence of antibiotic resistance in microbial pathogens requires the identification of new antibacterial drugs. The biosynthesis of methionine is an attractive target because of its central importance in cellular metabolism.
Allegrini, Alessandra, Astegno, Alessandra, Cellini, Barbara, Dominici, Paola, Giorgetti, Alejandro   +4 more
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Protein expression in Pichia pastoris: recent achievements and perspectives for heterologous protein production [PDF]

, 2014
Pichia pastoris is an established protein expression host mainly applied for the production of biopharmaceuticals and industrial enzymes. This methylotrophic yeast is a distinguished production system for its growth to very high cell densities, for the ...
Harald Pichler, Helmut Schwab, Melanie Hirz, Mudassar Ahmad   +3 more
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Expanding the Biocatalytic Toolbox of C-N Lyases:Rational Engineering and Enzyme Discovery [PDF]

With the growing demand for nonhazardous and sustainable alternatives for chemical catalysis, interest in biocatalysts has grown significantly over the past decades. The enzyme ethylenediamine-N,N’-succinic acid (EDDS) lyase from Chelativorans sp.
Bothof, Laura
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