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The Roles and Regulation of Potassium in Bacteria by Epstein, Wolfgang

“…Potassium is the major intracellular cation in bacteria as well as in eucaryotic cells. Bacteria accumulate K+ by a number of different transport systems that…”
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Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases: relating structure and function by Francis, S H, Turko, I V, Corbin, J D

“…Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases (PDEs) comprise a superfamily of metallophosphohydrolases that specifically cleave the 3',5'-cyclic phosphate moiety of…”
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Jasmonates and octadecanoids: Signals in plant stress responses and development by Wasternack, Claus, Hause, Bettina

“…Plants are sessile organisms. Consequently they have to adapt constantly to fluctuations in the environment. Some of these changes involve essential factors…”
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Lysyl oxidases: A novel multifunctional amine oxidase family by Csiszar, Katalin

“…Lysyl oxidase (LOX) is a copper-containing amine oxidase belonging to a heterogeneous family of enzymes that oxidize primary amine substrates to reactive…”
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Chapter 3 Endonucleolytic Initiation of mRNA Decay in Escherichia coli by Carpousis, Agamemnon J., Luisi, Ben F., McDowall, Kenneth J.

“…Instability is a fundamental property of mRNA that is necessary for the regulation of gene expression. In E. coli, the turnover of mRNA involves multiple,…”
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Chapter 9 Maturation and Degradation of Ribosomal RNA in Bacteria by Deutscher, Murray P.

“…Ribosomal RNAs are the major components of ribosomes and are responsible for their catalytic activity. The three bacterial rRNAs (16S, 23S, and 5S) are…”
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DNA Modifications by antitumor platinum and ruthenium compounds: Their recognition and repair by Brabec, Viktor

“…The development of metal-based antitumor drugs has been stimulated by the clinical success of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) (cisplatin) and its analogs and…”
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Chapter 12 mRNA Interferases, Sequence‐Specific Endoribonucleases from the Toxin–Antitoxin Systems by Yamaguchi, Yoshihiro, Inouye, Masayori

“…Escherichia coli contains a large number of suicide or toxin genes, whose expression leads to cell growth arrest and eventual cell death. One such toxin, MazF,…”
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Chapter 8 The Making of tRNAs and More – RNase P and tRNase Z by Hartmann, Roland K., Gößringer, Markus, Späth, Bettina, Fischer, Susan, Marchfelder, Anita

“…Transfer‐RNA (tRNA) molecules are essential players in protein biosynthesis. They are transcribed as precursors, which have to be extensively processed at both…”
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Topoisomerase II as a target for anticancer drugs: When enzymes stop being nice by Fortune, John M., Osheroff, Neil

“…Topoisomerase 11 is an essential enzyme that plays a role in virtually every cellular DNA process. This enzyme interconverts different topological forms of DNA…”
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A growing family of guanine nucleotide exchange factors is responsible for activation of ras-family GTPases by Quilliam, Lawrence A, Rebhun, John F, Castro, Ariel F

“…GTPases of the Ras subfamily regulate a diverse array of cellular-signaling pathways, coupling extracellular signals to the intracellular response machinery…”
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Structure, mechanism, and evolution of the mRNA capping apparatus by Shuman, S

“…When capping was last reviewed here in 1995, I wrote that "the next several years will be a very exciting period for studies of RNA capping as more…”
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The unique biochemistry of methanogenesis by Deppenmeier, Uwe

“…Methanogenic archaea have an unusual type of metabolism because they use H2 + CO2, formate, methylated C1 compounds, or acetate as energy and carbon sources…”
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Distinct regulatory properties of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase and phosphatase isoforms by Roche, Thomas E., Baker, Jason C., Yan, Xiaohua, Hiromasa, Yasuaki, Gong, Xiaoming, Peng, Tao, Dong, Jianchun, Turkan, Ali, Kasten, Shane A.

“…The mammalian pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) plays central and strategic roles in the control of the use of glucose-linked substrates as sources of…”
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Chapter 10 RNA Polyadenylation and Decay in Mitochondria and Chloroplasts by Schuster, Gadi, Stern, David

“…Mitochondria and chloroplasts were originally acquired by eukaryotic cells through endosymbiotic events and retain their own gene expression machinery. One…”
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Chapter 5 The Role of 3′–5′ Exoribonucleases in RNA Degradation by Andrade, José M., Pobre, Vânia, Silva, Inês J., Domingues, Susana, Arraiano, Cecília M.

“…RNA degradation is a major process controlling RNA levels and plays a central role in cell metabolism. From the labile messenger RNA to the more stable…”
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Nuclear Receptor-Mediated Transactivation Through Interaction with Sp Proteins by Safe, Stephen, Kim, Kyounghyun

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PDE4 cAMP-specific phosphodiesterases by Houslay, Miles D

“…This chapter discusses the cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases (PDE4) cyclic Adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)-specific phosphodiesterases. Inhibitors selective…”
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A history of poly A sequences: from formation to factors to function by Edmonds, Mary

“…Biological polyadenylation, first recognized as an enzymatic activity, remained an orphan enzyme until poly A sequences were found on the 3′ ends of eukaryotic…”
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Regulation and function of the cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE3) gene family by Shakur, Yasmin, Holst, Lena Stenson, Landstrom, Tova Rahn, Movsesian, Matthew, Degerman, Eva, Manganiello, Vincent

“…This chapter discusses some general information about cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases (PDEs). It also discusses the PDE3 gene family, emphasizing the…”
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