Biological pathways transforming

One of the steps in the biological pathway for carbohydrate metabolism is the conversion of fructose 1,6-bisphosphate into dihydroxyacetone phosphate and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate. Propose a mechanism for the transformation. 

We examine two groups of contaminants that exhibit biologically mediated transformation in the subsurface petroleum hydrocarbons and pesticides. Both aerobic and anaerobic pathways for their biodegradation are considered. 

Biological pathways of sulfur movement in soils of forest ecosystems are related to microbial transformation of sulfolipids. Back conversion of sulfate-S into organic-matter immobilizes the anion and potentially reduces soil cation leaching. Processes of sulfur mineralization and incorporation proceed rapidly in response to several factors, including temperature, moisture, and exogenous sulfate availability in soils and water. 

The World Wide Web has transformed the way in which we obtain and analyze published information on proteins. What only a few years ago would take days or weeks and require the use of expensive computer workstations can now be achieved in a few minutes or hours using personal computers, both PCs and Macintosh, connected to the internet. The Web contains hundreds of sites of Interest to molecular biologists, many of which are listed in Pedro s BioMolecular Research Tools (http // www.fmi.ch/biology/research tools.html). Many sites provide free access to databases that make it very easy to obtain information on structurally related proteins, the amino acid sequences of homologous proteins, relevant literature references, medical information and metabolic pathways. This development has opened up new opportunities for even non-specialists to view and manipulate a structure of interest or to carry out amino-acid sequence comparisons, and one can now rapidly obtain an overview of a particular area of molecular biology. We shall here describe some Web sites that are of interest from a structural point of view. Updated links to these sites can be found in the Introduction to Protein Structure Web site (http // WWW.ProteinStructure.com/). 

In the case of the thiopurines the electrochemical processes do not appear to agree at all with the known biological oxidations. However, again in the case of 6-thiopurine not even a complete picture of the metabolites is available. The electrochemical data indicates that thiopurines are very readily oxidized to disulfides and hence to sulfinic or sulfonic acids. In view of well-known sulfide-disulfide transformations in biological situations (e.g., L-cy-steine to L-cystine), it is not unlikely that part of the metabolic degradation pathway for thiopurines might proceed via reactions of the sulfide moiety. 

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