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David T. Gallagher, M P. Mayhew, Marcia J. Holden, A J. Howard, K J. Kim, V L. Vilker
The enzyme chorismate lyase (CL) catalyzes the removal of pyruvate from chorismate to produce 4-hydroxy benzoate (4HB) for the ubiquinone pathway. In Escherichia coli, CL is monomeric with 164 residues; we have determined the structure of the CL product
8-Hydroxyadenine (8-OH-Ade) is one of the major lesions, which is formed in DNA by hydroxyl radical attack on the C-8 position of adenine followed by oxidation. We describe the measurement of the nucleoside form of this compound, 8-hydroxy-2'
Lili Wang, A. E. Roitberg, Curtis W. Meuse, Adolfas K. Gaigalas
Raman and FTIR transform-infra red (FT-IR) spectroscopies of fluorescein in aqueous solutions have been investigated in the pH range from 9.1 to 5.4. At pH 9.1 fluorescein is in the dianion form. At pH 5.4, fluorescein is a mixture of monoanion (
Metallolactamase active site structures are examined theoretically for clues to the differences in the enzyme active site observed in different organisms. We will show that the inherent behavior of this type of active site yields a relatively flat
The structure of the active site of human glyoxalase I and the reaction mechanism of the enzyme-catalyzed conversion of the thiohemiacetal, formed from methylglyoxal and glutathione, to S-D-lactoylglutathione has been investigated by ab initio quantum
The reaction path for the rearrangement of chorismate to prephenate, catalyzed by chorismate mutase, has been calculated with ab initio quantum chemistry. The calculation of a reaction path is initiated from two catalytically competent conformations of the
M. B. Esch, Laurie E. Locascio, Michael J. Tarlov, R. A. Durst
This paper describes a microfluidic chip that enables the detection of viable Cryptosporidium parvum by detecting RNA amplified by nucleic-acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA). The mRNA serving as the template for NASBA is produced by viable C. parvum
The calculated reaction path for an unusual substrate of chorismate mutase (Bacillus.subtilis) is found to be completely comparable to that of the native chorismate. In the unusual substrate, the cyclohexadienyl ring in chorismate is replaced by
Residual dipolar couplings can provide powerful restraints for determination and refinement of the solution structure of macromolecules. The application of these couplings in nucleic acid structure elucidation can have an especially dramatic impact since
In November 2000, NIST hosted a workshop on Measurement Traceability for Clinical Laboratory Testing and In Vitro Diagnostic Devices. One of the driving forces was the new European Community (EC) In Vitro Diagnostic Devices (IVDD) directive that requires
The physical nature of the catalytic activity exerted by various ribonuclease A active site constituents is analyzed in terms of the differential transition state stabilization approach in which activation barrier changes induced by the molecular
S. Chu, M. Tordova, G L. Gilliland, I Gorshkova, Y. Shi, S. Wang, Frederick P. Schwarz
The x-ray crystal structure of the cAMP-ligated T127L/S128A double mutant of cAMP receptor protein (CRP) was determined to a resolution of 2.2 . Although this structure is close to that of the x-ray crystal structure of cAMP-ligated CRP with one subunit in
A Mathematica package BioEqCalc.m has been developed for treating complex equilibria in aqueous solutions. The package is geared towards the treatment of biochemical systems and as such yields information on the molalities and mole fractions of the species
Recent studies suggested that 8,5'-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine may play a role in diseases with defective nucleotide-excision repair. This compound is one of the major lesions formed in DNA by hydroxyl radical attack on sugar moiety of 2'-deoxyadenosine. It is
Differential scanning calorimeters (DSCs) have been widely used to determine the thermodynamics of phase transitions and conformational changes in biological systems including proteins, nucleic acid sequences, and lipid assemblies. DSCs monitor the
Mention has already been made, in Section 5.1. Of the use of DNA-based techniques for control of microbiological DNA. In parallel to the work of ATCC the USA National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed three Standard Reference Materials