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Leptospira interrogans serovar Hardjo and Leptospira borgpetersenii serovar Hardjo are major bovine‐ and ovine‐adapted pathogens that differ markedly in genome content. To investigate early events during host exposure, we compared the survival of both species using an ovine peritoneal dialysis membrane chamber (DMC) model, which exposes leptospires to ...
Klaudia Dubniewicz +8 more
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Abstract The nickel‐pincer nucleotide (NPN) cofactor catalyzes the racemization/epimerization of α‐hydroxy acids in enzymes of the LarA family. The established proton‐coupled hydride transfer mechanism requires two catalytic histidine residues that alternately act as general acids and general bases. Notably, however, a fraction of LarA homologs (LarAHs)
Santhosh Gatreddi +8 more
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Determinants of Catalytic Power and Ligand Binding in Glutamate Racemase
Glutamate racemases (EC 5.1.1.3) catalyze the cofactor-independent stereoinversion of d- and l-glutamate and are important for viability in several Gram-negative and -positive bacteria.
Katherine L. Pankow (2307292) +5 more
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Abstract Understanding the functions and evolution of specificity‐determining residues is essential for improving strategies to predict and design enzyme functions. Whether the function of an amino acid residue is retained during evolution depends on intramolecular epistasis, which occurs when the same residue contributes to different phenotypes in ...
Dat P. Truong +14 more
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The mechanism of the reactions catalyzed by the pyridoxal-phosphate-independent amino acid racemases and epimerases faces the difficult task of deprotonating a relatively low acidicity proton, the amino acid's α-hydrogen, with a relatively poor base, a ...
Àngels González-Lafont (2458606) +4 more
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The chemistry and evolution of enzyme function: isomerases as a case study [PDF]
The study of the evolution of proteins has been traditionally undertaken from a sequence and structural point of view. However any attempt to understand how protein function changes during evolution benefits from consistent definitions of function and ...
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ABSTRACT Previously, we produced drought‐tolerant transgenic sugarcane plants that overexpressed the AtBBX29 gene, which encodes a transcription factor (TF) B‐box protein. These plants displayed delayed senescence, were able to maintain photosynthesis, and accumulated high levels of antioxidants and osmolytes when exposed to water deficit stress ...
Christell van der Vyver +3 more
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ABSTRACT Since the introduction of azoles as antifungals in 1979, they gradually gained a spotlight in both medicinal and industrial fields. Other than being the leading antifungal medicinal drug agents, azoles have also been a major pesticide in agricultural industry.
Tuuliina Tuominen +3 more
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Proteomic analysis reveals that instead of specific proteins, different tissues exhibit common dysregulated functional networks. Specifically, the integrity of the midgut barrier function is compromised during aging, which can be restored through the downregulation of the insulin receptor (InR).
Congying Zhang +10 more
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The cirratiomycin biosynthetic gene cluster was identified in Streptomyces cirratus by genome sequencing and gene inactivation. The biosynthesis of two nonproteinogenic amino acids was elucidated: (2S,3S)‐2,3‐diaminobutyric acid (DABA) is synthesized from threonine by four enzymes, CirQ, CirR, CirS and CirB, and α‐(hydroxymethyl)serine (HMSer) is ...
Shunki Sakata +6 more
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