Search Results - "Devamani, Titu"
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Catalytic Promiscuity of Ancestral Esterases and Hydroxynitrile Lyases
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (27-01-2016)“…Catalytic promiscuity is a useful, but accidental, enzyme property, so finding catalytically promiscuous enzymes in nature is inefficient. Some ancestral…”
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Enantiomerically pure allylic alcohols: preparation by Candida parapsilosis ATCC 7330 mediated deracemisation
Published in Tetrahedron: asymmetry (25-07-2008)“…Biocatalytic deracemisation of racemic allylic alcohols by whole cells of Candida parapsilosis ATCC 7330 resulted in the formation of the ( R)-enantiomers in…”
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A thermostable transketolase evolved for aliphatic aldehyde acceptors
Published in Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (11-01-2015)“…Directed evolution of the thermostable transketolase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus based on a pH-based colorimetric screening of smart libraries yielded…”
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Bitopic Inhibition of ATP and Substrate Binding in Ser/Thr Kinases through a Conserved Allosteric Mechanism
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (13-11-2018)“…Protein kinases achieve substrate selective phosphorylation through their conformational flexibility and dynamic interaction with the substrate. Designing…”
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Distinct structural mechanisms determine substrate affinity and kinase activity of protein kinase Cα
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (29-09-2017)“…Protein kinase Cα (PKCα) belongs to the family of AGC kinases that phosphorylate multiple peptide substrates. Although the consensus sequence motif has been…”
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The PKC inhibitor BimI functions as a bi‐topic ligand that toggles a conserved allosteric switch to drive potent kinase inhibition
Published in The FASEB journal (01-04-2018)“…ATP‐competitive small‐molecule kinase inhibitors (SMKIs) are viewed primarily from the lens of tight and specific binding to the conserved catalytic domain…”
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Mechanism of Allosteric Regulation of Substrate Specificity in Protein Kinase C
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Evolution of a Catalytic Mechanism
Published in Molecular biology and evolution (01-04-2016)“…The means by which superfamilies of specialized enzymes arise by gene duplication and functional divergence are poorly understood. The escape from adaptive…”
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Thermostable Transketolase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus: Characterization and Catalytic Properties
Published in Advanced synthesis & catalysis (14-01-2013)“…Here we have characterized the first transketolase (TK) from a thermophilic microorganism, Geobacillus stearothermophilus, which was expressed from a synthetic…”
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Engineering a Thermostable Transketolase for Unnatural Conversion of (2S)-Hydroxyaldehydes
Published in Advanced synthesis & catalysis (26-05-2015)“…Transketolase (TK) from various origins (including Escherichia coli and yeast) has been described to be fully enantiomer specific for (2R)‐hydroxyaldehyde…”
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A pH-Based High-Throughput Assay for Transketolase: Fingerprinting of Substrate Tolerance and Quantitative Kinetics
Published in Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology (15-10-2012)“…A pH‐based high‐throughput assay method has been developed for the rapid and reliable measurement of transketolase (TK) activity. The method is based on the…”
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A Novel Method for Monitoring the Transesterification Reaction of Oil in Biodiesel Production by Estimation of Glycerol
Published in Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society (01-07-2010)“…A quantitative method is reported for the estimation of glycerol during transesterification of oil to form biodiesel. The reagent used to derivatize glycerol…”
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Engineering a Thermostable Transketolase for Unnatural Conversion of (2S)-Hydroxyaldehyde
Published in Advanced synthesis & catalysis (2015)“…Transketolase (TK) from various origins (including Escherichia coli and yeast) has been described to be fully enantiomer specific for (2R)-hydroxyaldehyde…”
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