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The citric acid cycle, a nine-step process, also diverts chemical energy to the production of ATP and the reduction of NAD and FAD. In each step of the citric acid cycle (also known as the Krebs cycle) a glucose metabolite is oxidized while one of the carrier molecules, NAD or FAD, is reduced. Enzymes, nature s chemical catalysts, do a remarkable job of coupling the oxidation and reduction reactions so that energy is transferred with great efficiency. 

As early as 1972, Kuhn described a model in which he assumed that RNA replication with a certain error rate could have occurred without the participation of enzymes. Natural phenomena with cyclic behaviour are an important factor in Kuhn s thinking these drive duplication processes. Examples are summer and winter, day and night, or high and low tide (whereby the latter were probably subject to greater variations on the primeval Earth than they are today). These rhythms were often linked with considerable temperature variations, which, for example, made possible the transition from double to single strand RNA (and vice versa). It can be assumed that the cyclic variations involved reactions in which monomers were linked to form polymers. 

New enzymes to address industrial problems are searched among a collection of more than 25,000 classified microorganisms. These microorganisms cover a broad range of habitats, from garden soil to extreme conditions (volcanoes, polar ice, and deep-sea environments). This biodiversity multiplies the number of possible derivable enzymes nature is the basis for all its products. 

Rieder MJ, Taylor SL, Clark AG, Nickerson DA. Sequence variation in the human angiotensin converting enzyme. Nature Genet 1999 22[1] 59—62. 

Citric Acid with the Crystalline Condensing Enzyme. Nature 166,403 (1950). 

Jentsch, S., McGrath, J. P., and Varshavsky, A. The yeast DNA repair gene RAD6 encodes a ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme. Nature 1987, 329, 131-34. 

WiEBEL, F. F. and Kunau, W. H. The Pas2 protein essential for peroxisome biogenesis is related to ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes. Nature 1992,... 

C. Dong, F. Huang, H. Deng, C. Schaffrath, J. Spencer, D. O Hagan, J.H. Naismith, Crystal structure and mechanism of a bacterial fluorinating enzyme, Nature 427 (2004) 561-565. 

Determination of the apparent is simple for cDNA-expressed enzymes. Naturally, kinetic plots should indicate the presence of a single Km-Experimental variables will likely introduce a 2- to 3-fold variation in Km values between systems. Variations of more than 3-fold should be investigated further. 

Kuriyan,J., Krishna, T. S., Wong, L., Guenther, B., Pahler, A., Williams, C. H. Model, P. (1991). Convergent evolution of similar function in two structurally divergent enzymes. Nature, 352, 172-4. 

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This gas is essential for plant growth. However, plants cannot use it directly. Nature comes to the help of plants and converts nitrogen in the air to ammonia by using an enzyme. Nature does this through the root nodules of leguminous plants (beans, groundnut etc.)... 

DNA shuffling method for generating highly recombined genes and evolved enzymes, Nature Biotechnol. 2001, 19, 354-359. 

In this chapter we focus on supramolecular chemical reactivity. In particular this means predominantly the role supramolecular chemistry plays in accelerating or understanding chemical reactions. There are close parallels between artificial, abiotic supramolecular reactivity and biochemistry, for example in the study of enzymes, Nature s catalysts - described in Section 2.6. Synthetic catalysts can both model natural ones and allow the design of new, different kinds of reactions. Supramolecular catalysis sits somewhere between chemical catalysis (transition metal and organocatalysis) and biology. Some considerations within various kinds of catalysis are summed up in the chart shown in Figure 12.1. 

Heller A. Plugging metal connectors into enzymes. Nature Biotechnology 2003, 21, 631-632. 

Usanga EA, Luzzatto L. Adaptation of plasmodium falciparum to glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase-deficient host red cells by production of parasite-encoded enzyme. Nature 1985 313 793-795. 

This has led to a well-developed biochemistry, and has resulted in a much improved understanding of the properties of enzymes, natural photosynthesis, respiration, etc. These studies revealed that the structure of natural systems is controlled by intermolecular forces and the importance of organization and self-assembly was soon recognized. 

Apart from enzymes naturally occurring in food products and microorganisms used for food processing about 100 enzymes with genetically modified properties should be taken into consideration. 

In this chapter, we discuss our current understanding of the structure and mechanism of the F-type ATPase. However, a comprehensive review is not intended, and the results discussed are mainly from our recent studies on E. coli enzyme. Naturally discussion for important results from mitochondria or chloroplasts are included. For other aspects of the enzyme, readers are referred to excellent review articles that have appeared recently.3 10 ... 

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The final topic addressed in this chapter is the biosynthesis of the dithiolene cofactor ligand and its coordination to molybdenum and tungsten in the enzymes. Nature has clearly devised a synthetic process to overcome the twin difficulties of building a reactive dithiolene unit bearing a complicated and equally reactive pterin substituent. Molecular biology has been the tool to elucidate the steps in this complex process. Although the dithiolene formation step remains mainly a subject of conjecture, definitive information about the reagent molecule that will eventually be converted to a dithiolene is known. 

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