Search Results - "Mueser, Timothy C."
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Direct visualization of critical hydrogen atoms in a pyridoxal 5′-phosphate enzyme
Published in Nature communications (16-10-2017)“…Enzymes dependent on pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP, the active form of vitamin B 6 ) perform a myriad of diverse chemical transformations. They promote various…”
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Detailed characterization of the solution kinetics and thermodynamics of biotin, biocytin and HABA binding to avidin and streptavidin
Published in PloS one (28-02-2019)“…The high affinity (KD ~ 10-15 M) of biotin for avidin and streptavidin is the essential component in a multitude of bioassays with many experiments using…”
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Crystal Structure of 12-Lipoxygenase Catalytic-Domain-Inhibitor Complex Identifies a Substrate-Binding Channel for Catalysis
Published in Structure (London) (05-09-2012)“…Lipoxygenases are critical enzymes in the biosynthesis of families of bioactive lipids including compounds with important roles in the initiation and…”
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Microgravity crystallization of perdeuterated tryptophan synthase for neutron diffraction
Published in NPJ microgravity (04-05-2022)“…Biologically active vitamin B 6 -derivative pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP) is an essential cofactor in amino acid metabolic pathways. PLP-dependent enzymes…”
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Substrate Binding Stiffens Aspartate Aminotransferase by Altering the Enzyme Picosecond Vibrational Dynamics
Published in ACS omega (04-08-2020)“…Protein dynamics on various time scales from femtoseconds to milliseconds impacts biological function by driving proteins to conformations conducive to ligand…”
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Structural analysis of bacteriophage T4 DNA replication: a review in the Virology Journal series on bacteriophage T4 and its relatives
Published in Virology journal (03-12-2010)“…The bacteriophage T4 encodes 10 proteins, known collectively as the replisome, that are responsible for the replication of the phage genome. The replisomal…”
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Interface Sliding As Illustrated by the Multiple Quaternary Structures of Liganded Hemoglobin
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (19-12-2000)“…Initial crystallographic studies suggested that fully liganded mammalian hemoglobin can adopt only a single quaternary structure, the quaternary R structure…”
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Pyridoxal 5'-phosphate dependent reactions: Analyzing the mechanism of aspartate aminotransferase
Published in Methods in enzymology (01-01-2020)“…Enzyme catalysis is the primary activity in energy and information metabolism and enzyme cofactors are key to the catalytic ability of most enzymes. Pyridoxal…”
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Direct evidence that an extended hydrogen-bonding network influences activation of pyridoxal 5′-phosphate in aspartate aminotransferase
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (07-04-2017)“…Pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP) is a fundamental, multifunctional enzyme cofactor used to catalyze a wide variety of chemical reactions involved in amino acid…”
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Equilibration of precipitants in a counter‐diffusion apparatus for protein crystallization
Published in Journal of applied crystallography (01-08-2023)“…A cost‐effective capillary dialysis apparatus (Toledo Capillary Box, TCB) developed for biomacromolecule crystal growth in microgravity and unit gravity…”
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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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Optimization of buffer solutions for protein crystallization
Published in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography. (01-05-2008)“…Increasing the solubility of protein stock solutions to above that in a standard chromatography buffer (50 mM Tris–HCl pH 7.5, 100 mM NaCl) led to an increase…”
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An N H N low-barrier hydrogen bond preorganizes the catalytic site of aspartate aminotransferase to facilitate the second half-reaction
Published in Chemical science (Cambridge) (31-08-2022)“…Pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzymes have been extensively studied for their ability to fine-tune PLP cofactor electronics to promote a wide array of…”
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Hyperconjugation Promotes Catalysis in a Pyridoxal 5′-Phosphate-Dependent Enzyme
Published in ACS catalysis (06-07-2018)“…Pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzymes facilitate reaction specificity by aligning the scissile σ-bond of the PLP-substrate covalent complex…”
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Thermodynamic and Structural Analysis of DNA Damage Architectures Related to Replication
Published in Journal of Nucleic Acids (01-01-2013)“…Damaged DNA, generated by the abstraction of one of five hydrogen atoms from the 2′-deoxyribose ring of the nucleic acid, can contain a variety of lesions,…”
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Bacteriophage T4 32 Protein Is Required for Helicase-dependent Leading Strand Synthesis When the Helicase Is Loaded by the T4 59 Helicase-loading Protein
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (26-03-2004)“…In the bacteriophage T4 DNA replication system, T4 gene 59 protein binds preferentially to fork DNA and accelerates the loading of the T4 41 helicase. 59…”
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Neutron diffraction from a microgravity-grown crystal reveals the active site hydrogens of the internal aldimine form of tryptophan synthase
Published in Cell reports physical science (21-02-2024)“…Pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP), the biologically active form of vitamin B6, is an essential cofactor in many biosynthetic pathways. The emergence of…”
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Visualizing the Bohr effect in hemoglobin: neutron structure of equine cyanomethemoglobin in the R state and comparison with human deoxyhemoglobin in the T state
Published in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology (01-07-2016)“…Neutron crystallography provides direct visual evidence of the atomic positions of deuterium‐exchanged H atoms, enabling the accurate determination of the…”
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Bacteriophage T4 Gene 41 Helicase and Gene 59 Helicase-Loading Protein: A Versatile Couple with Roles in Replication and Recombination
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-07-2001)“…Bacteriophage T4 uses two modes of replication initiation: origin-dependent replication early in infection and recombination-dependent replication at later…”
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Mutations of Bacteriophage T4 59 Helicase Loader Defective in Binding Fork DNA and in Interactions with T4 32 Single-stranded DNA-binding Protein
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (11-06-2004)“…Bacteriophage T4 gene 59 protein greatly stimulates the loading of the T4 gene 41 helicase in vitro and is required for recombination and…”
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