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A Network of Conserved Interactions Regulates the Allosteric Signal in a Glutamine Amidotransferase by Amaro, Rommie E, Sethi, Anurag, Myers, Rebecca S, Davisson, V. Jo, Luthey-Schulten, Zaida A

“…We have combined equilibrium and steered molecular dynamics (SMD) simulations with principal component and correlation analyses to probe the mechanism of…”
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Crystal Structure of Imidazole Glycerol Phosphate Synthase: A Tunnel through a (β/α) 8 Barrel Joins Two Active Sites by Chaudhuri, Barnali N, Lange, Stephanie C, Myers, Rebecca S, Chittur, Sridar V, Davisson, V.Jo, Smith, Janet L

“…Background: Imidazole glycerol phosphate synthase catalyzes a two-step reaction of histidine biosynthesis at the bifurcation point with the purine de novo…”
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Reaction Coupling through Interdomain Contacts in Imidazole Glycerol Phosphate Synthase by Myers, Rebecca S, Amaro, Rommie E, Luthey-Schulten, Zaida A, Davisson, V. Jo

“…Imidazole glycerol phosphate (IGP) synthase, a triad glutamine amidotransferase, catalyzes the fifth step in the histidine biosynthetic pathway, where ammonia…”
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Toward Understanding the Mechanism of the Complex Cyclization Reaction Catalyzed by Imidazole Glycerolphosphate Synthase:  Crystal Structures of a Ternary Complex and the Free Enzyme by Chaudhuri, Barnali N., Lange, Stephanie C., Myers, Rebecca S., Davisson, V. Jo, Smith, Janet L.

“…Imidazole glycerol phosphate synthase catalyzes formation of the imidazole ring in histidine biosynthesis. The enzyme is also a glutamine amidotransferase,…”
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Structural Elements in IGP Synthase Exclude Water to Optimize Ammonia Transfer by Amaro, Rommie E., Myers, Rebecca S., Davisson, V. Jo, Luthey-Schulten, Zaida A.

“…In the complex pathway of histidine biosynthesis, a key branch point linking amino acid and purine biosynthesis is catalyzed by the bifunctional enzyme…”
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Substrate-Induced Changes in the Ammonia Channel for Imidazole Glycerol Phosphate Synthase by Myers, Rebecca S., Jensen, Jordan R., Deras, Ina L., Smith, Janet L., Davisson, V. Jo

“…IGP synthase is a glutamine amidotransferase that incorporates ammonia derived from glutamine into the unusual nucleotide, N…”
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Crystal Structure of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum Phosphoribosyl-AMP Cyclohydrolase HisI by Sivaraman, J, Myers, Rebecca S, Boju, Lorena, Sulea, Traian, Cygler, Miroslaw, Davisson, V. Jo, Schrag, Joseph D

“…The metabolic pathway for histidine biosynthesis is interesting from an evolutionary perspective because of the diversity of gene organizations and protein…”
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Crystal Structure of Imidazole Glycerol Phosphate Synthase by Chaudhuri, Barnali N, Lange, Stephanie C, Myers, Rebecca S, Chittur, Sridar V, Davisson, V.Jo, Smith, Janet L

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Healing the Disaster of Slavery: The Maafa Suite at St. Paul's Community Baptist Church, Brooklyn, New York by Myers, Rebecca S.

“…The word describes the suffering of African Americans by means of slavery, colonialism, and other forms of oppression throughout history. Because of the trauma…”
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Imidazole glycerol phosphate synthase: Structural and kinetic studies of a triad glutamine amidotransferase by Myers, Rebecca S

“…Imidazole glycerol phosphate (IGP) synthase is a glutamine amidotransferase (GAT) that incorporates ammonia derived from glutamine into the unusual nucleotide,…”
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A General High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Based Assay for the Hydrolysis of N-Acyl Glutamates by Myers, Rebecca S., Paton, Patrick T., Dastgah, Azar, Martell, Jose R., Berkman, Clifford E.

“…A rapid and simple HPLC assay has been developed to separate and quantify N-acyl glutamates and the corresponding carboxylic acids of the acyl moiety. This…”
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