The Biochemical journal, 428(3), 499-509 (2010-04-01)
Plasmodium falciparum is the causative agent of malaria, a disease where new drug targets are required due to increasing resistance to current anti-malarials. TMPK (thymidylate kinase) is a good candidate as it is essential for the synthesis of dTTP, a
Nucleic acids symposium series (2004), (53)(53), 39-40 (2009-09-15)
In Plasmodium falciparum, deoxyguanylate was found to be a substrate for several DNA metabolizing enzymes. Guanylate kinase utilizes dGMP with very low specificity, which is estimated to be the lowest among well-known prokaryotic and eukaryotic enzymes. Furthermore, thymidylate kinase, which
Journal of structural biology, 173(1), 20-28 (2010-10-05)
MutT distinguishes substrate 8-oxo-dGTP from dGTP and also 8-oxo-dGMP from dGMP despite small differences of chemical structures between them. In this paper we show by the method of molecular dynamics simulation that the transition between conformational substates of MutT is
Free extracellular DNA provides nutrition to bacteria and promotes bacterial evolution by inducing excessive mutagenesis of the genome. To understand the influence of extracellular DNA fragments on D. radiodurans, we investigated cell growth and survival after extracellular DNA or dNMPs
Journal of photochemistry and photobiology. B, Biology, 118, 58-65 (2012-12-12)
Photochemical properties and phototoxicity of Pazufloxacin (PAX) were systematically investigated in aqueous solutions using UV-Vis, fluorescence, laser flash photolysis, pulse radiolysis and SDS-PAGE gel electrophoresis techniques. PAX triplet-state ((3)PAX(*)) absorption spectra (λ(max)=570 nm) was determined. (3)PAX(*) was quenched by PAX
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