Search Results - "Caulkins, Bethany G."
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NMR Crystallography of a Carbanionic Intermediate in Tryptophan Synthase: Chemical Structure, Tautomerization, and Reaction Specificity
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (23-11-2016)“…Carbanionic intermediates play a central role in the catalytic transformations of amino acids performed by pyridoxal-5′-phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzymes…”
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Protonation States of the Tryptophan Synthase Internal Aldimine Active Site from Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy: Direct Observation of the Protonated Schiff Base Linkage to Pyridoxal-5′-Phosphate
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (17-09-2014)“…The acid–base chemistry that drives catalysis in pyridoxal-5′-phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzymes has been the subject of intense interest and investigation…”
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Protonation states and catalysis: Molecular dynamics studies of intermediates in tryptophan synthase
Published in Protein science (01-01-2016)“…The importance of protonation states and proton transfer in pyridoxal 5’‐phosphate (PLP)‐chemistry can hardly be overstated. Although experimental approaches…”
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Dynamics of the Proline-Rich C‑Terminus of Huntingtin Exon‑1 Fibrils
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (18-10-2018)“…Intrinsically disordered protein domains not only are found in soluble proteins but also can be part of large protein complexes or protein aggregates. For…”
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Imaging active site chemistry and protonation states: NMR crystallography of the tryptophan synthase α-aminoacrylate intermediate
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (11-01-2022)“…NMR-assisted crystallography-the integrated application of solid-state NMR, X-ray crystallography, and first-principles computational chemistry-holds…”
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Lipid bilayer environments control exchange kinetics of deep cavitand hosts and enhance disfavored guest conformations
Published in Chemical science (Cambridge) (21-02-2018)“…The effects on the molecular recognition properties of water-soluble deep cavitand hosts upon embedding them in phosphocholine lipid bilayer environments have…”
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Solution-State (17)O Quadrupole Central-Transition NMR Spectroscopy in the Active Site of Tryptophan Synthase
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (22-01-2016)“…Oxygen is an essential participant in the acid-base chemistry that takes place within many enzyme active sites, yet has remained virtually silent as a probe in…”
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Converging nuclear magnetic shielding calculations with respect to basis and system size in protein systems
Published in Journal of biomolecular NMR (01-07-2015)“…Ab initio chemical shielding calculations greatly facilitate the interpretation of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) chemical shifts in biological systems, but…”
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Backbone assignments and conformational dynamics in the S. typhimurium tryptophan synthase α-subunit from solution-state NMR
Published in Journal of biomolecular NMR (01-07-2020)“…Backbone assignments for the isolated α-subunit of Salmonella typhimurium tryptophan synthase (TS) are reported based on triple resonance solution-state NMR…”
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Visualizing the tunnel in tryptophan synthase with crystallography: Insights into a selective filter for accommodating indole and rejecting water
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta (01-03-2016)“…Four new X-ray structures of tryptophan synthase (TS) crystallized with varying numbers of the amphipathic N-(4′-trifluoromethoxybenzoyl)-2-aminoethyl…”
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Catalytic roles of βLys87 in tryptophan synthase: (15)N solid state NMR studies
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta (01-09-2015)“…The proposed mechanism for tryptophan synthase shows βLys87 playing multiple catalytic roles: it bonds to the PLP cofactor, activates C4' for nucleophilic…”
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Direct dynamic nuclear polarization of 15N and 13C spins at 14.1 T using a trityl radical and magic angle spinning
Published in Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (01-08-2019)“…We investigate solid-state dynamic nuclear polarization of 13C and 15N nuclei using monoradical trityl OX063 as a polarizing agent in a magnetic field of 14.1…”
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Solution-State 17O Quadrupole Central-Transition NMR Spectroscopy in the Active Site of Tryptophan Synthase
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (22-01-2016)“…Oxygen is an essential participant in the acid–base chemistry that takes place within many enzyme active sites, yet has remained virtually silent as a probe in…”
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Lipid bilayer environments control exchange kinetics of deep cavitand hosts and enhance disfavored guest conformationsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Spectral data not included in the text, detailed description of the exchange fitting process. See DOI: 10.1039/c7sc05155g
Published 14-02-2018“…The effects on the molecular recognition properties of water-soluble deep cavitand hosts upon embedding them in phosphocholine lipid bilayer environments have…”
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Lipid bilayer environments control exchange kinetics of deep cavitand hosts and enhance disfavored guest conformations† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Spectral data not included in the text, detailed description of the exchange fitting process. See DOI: 10.1039/c7sc05155g
Published in Chemical science (Cambridge) (11-01-2018)“…External lipid membranes affect guest recognition properties of water-soluble hosts, enhancing molecular conformations and equilibria not observed in free…”
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Solution‐State 17 O Quadrupole Central‐Transition NMR Spectroscopy in the Active Site of Tryptophan Synthase
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (22-01-2016)“…Oxygen is an essential participant in the acid–base chemistry that takes place within many enzyme active sites, yet has remained virtually silent as a probe in…”
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Solution-State 17OQuadrupole Central-Transition NMR Spectroscopy in the Active Site of Tryptophan Synthase
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (22-01-2016)“…Oxygen is an essential participant in the acid-base chemistry that takes place within many enzyme active sites, yet has remained virtually silent as a probe in…”
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Catalytic roles of βLys87 in tryptophan synthase: 15N solid state NMR studies
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta. Proteins and proteomics (01-09-2015)“…The proposed mechanism for tryptophan synthase shows βLys87 playing multiple catalytic roles: it bonds to the PLP cofactor, activates C4′ for nucleophilic…”
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Direct dynamic nuclear polarization of 15 N and 13 C spins at 14.1 T using a trityl radical and magic angle spinning
Published in Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (01-08-2019)“…We investigate solid-state dynamic nuclear polarization of C and N nuclei using monoradical trityl OX063 as a polarizing agent in a magnetic field of 14.1 T…”
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Protonation states and catalysis: Molecular dynamics studies of intermediates in tryptophan synthase
Published in Journal of molecular recognition (01-09-2014)“…The importance of protonation states and proton transfer in pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP)-chemistry can hardly be overstated. Although experimental approaches…”
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