Search Results - "Basta, Leighanne A. Brammer"
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Defining critical residues for substrate binding to 1‐deoxy‐d‐xylulose 5‐phosphate synthase – active site substitutions stabilize the predecarboxylation intermediate C2α‐lactylthiamin diphosphate
Published in The FEBS journal (01-06-2014)“…1‐Deoxy‐d‐xylulose 5‐phosphate (DXP) synthase catalyzes the formation of DXP from pyruvate and d‐glyceraldehyde 3‐phosphate (GraP) in a thiamin…”
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Structural insight into the inactivation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis non-classical transpeptidase LdtMt2 by biapenem and tebipenem
Published in BMC biochemistry (25-05-2017)“…Background The carbapenem subclass of β-lactams is among the most potent antibiotics available today. Emerging evidence shows that, unlike other subclasses of…”
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Atypically Modified Carbapenem Antibiotics Display Improved Antimycobacterial Activity in the Absence of β‑Lactamase Inhibitors
Published in ACS infectious diseases (13-08-2021)“…Commercial carbapenem antibiotics are being used to treat multidrug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis. Like other β-lactams,…”
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Phylogenetic and Biochemical Analyses of Mycobacterial l,d-Transpeptidases Reveal a Distinct Enzyme Class That Is Preferentially Acylated by Meropenem
Published in ACS infectious diseases (13-12-2019)“…The genomes of diverse mycobacterial species encode multiple proteins with the canonical l,d-transpeptidase (Ldt) sequence motif. The reason for this apparent…”
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Loss of a Functionally and Structurally Distinct ld-Transpeptidase, LdtMt5, Compromises Cell Wall Integrity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (16-10-2015)“…The final step of peptidoglycan (PG) biosynthesis in bacteria involves cross-linking of peptide side chains. This step in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is…”
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Efficient synthesis for each of the eight stereoisomers of the iminosugars lentiginosine and 1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-arabinitol (DAB)
Published in Carbohydrate research (01-11-2024)“…Herein, we describe the efficient, diastereoselective syntheses of the iminosugars 1,4-dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-arabinitol (DAB) 1b, lentiginosine 3a, and the seven…”
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Defining critical residues for substrate binding to 1-deoxy-d-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase - active site substitutions stabilize the predecarboxylation intermediate C2[alpha]-lactylthiamin diphosphate
Published in The FEBS journal (01-06-2014)“…1-Deoxy-d-xylulose 5-phosphate (DXP) synthase catalyzes the formation of DXP from pyruvate and d-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (GraP) in a thiamin…”
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Defining critical residues for substrate binding to 1-deoxy-d-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase: Active site substitutions stabilize the pre-decarboxylation intermediate C2α-lactylthiamin diphosphate
Published in The FEBS journal (12-05-2014)“…1-Deoxy- d -xylulose 5-phosphate (DXP) synthase catalyzes formation of DXP from pyruvate and d -glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate ( d -GAP) in a thiamin diphosphate…”
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Structural insight into the inactivation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis non-classical transpeptidase Ldt Mt2 by biapenem and tebipenem
Published in BMC biochemistry (25-05-2017)“…The carbapenem subclass of β-lactams is among the most potent antibiotics available today. Emerging evidence shows that, unlike other subclasses of β-lactams,…”
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