LmbB2 is a peroxygenase-like enzyme that hydroxylates L-tyrosine to L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) in the presence of hydrogen peroxide. However, its heme cofactor is ligated by a proximal histidine, not cysteine. We show that LmbB2 can oxidize L-tyrosine analogs with ring-deactivated substituents
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(15), 6213-6223 (2019-03-27)
Molecular evolution can be conceptualized as a walk over a "fitness landscape", or the function of fitness (e.g., catalytic activity) over the space of all possible sequences. Understanding evolution requires knowing the structure of the fitness landscape and identifying the
Human adenoviruses (AdV) cause generally mild infections of the respiratory and GI tracts as well as some other tissues. However, AdV can cause serious infection in severely immunosuppressed individuals, especially pediatric patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, where mortality
International journal of pharmaceutics, 550(1-2), 200-206 (2018-08-28)
To overcome the mucus layer and cell membrane barrier, self-emulsifying drug delivery systems (SEDDS) exhibiting negative zeta potential, switching to positive values when having reached the cell membrane is a promising approach. Accordingly, a novel conjugate was synthesized by covalent
Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 312(1), 151-157 (1994-07-01)
The N-linked oligosaccharides from porcine fibrinogen were purified following their release from glycopeptides using N-glycosidase F. In separate experiments, both sialyl and asialyl oligosaccharides were prepared from 5 g of fibrinogen. The reducing oligosaccharides were reacted with ammonium bicarbonate to
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