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When oxygen is added to the diferrous enzyme, partial activity is recovered concomitantly with radical formation and iron oxidation. The O2 has been proposed to bind at the site occupied by water on Fel in the diferric RNRB2 structure (Nordlund et al, 1990). The oxygen would extend toward the tyrosine and into a hydrophobic pocket (see above). 

In the presence of PPi, known to bind strongly to the enzyme active site (Section III,E), there was a weak protective effect. The experimental points fell in the shaded area of Fig. 6, and the data were analyzed with equations developed by Scrutton and Utter (45). The results of this treatment led to the conclusion that TNBS can react with both free enzyme and enzyme-PPi complex to cause catalytic inactivation the differences are only quantitative (45). Either TNBS can displace PP, from an active site lysine or TNBS modifies a different lysine, apart from the active site, and the presence of PPi on the enzyme partially protects against TNBS inactivation by some indirect mechanism. Unfortunately, as discussed above, this issue cannot be settled with these kinetic analyses. Furthermore, because all of the enzyme lysines are to some extent reactive with TNBS (Fig. 5), the single super-reactive lysine whose modification leads to inactivation cannot be isolated and identified, as, for example, in a particular peptide fragment. A variety of interpretations are possible, as discussed elsewhere (45). 

A possible involvement of polyamines in the response has been suggested. Prolactin stimulated ornithine decarboxylase activity in Nb2 cells [109]. A specific inhibitor of this enzyme partially blocked the actions of lactogenic hormones on Nb2 cell proliferation [110], and addition of polyamines (putrescine, spermidine or spermine) restored normal growth. However, polyamines alone had no effect on Nb2 cell proliferation, suggesting that they are not the sole or major factors involved in mediating the actions of prolactin on cell growth. 

The lack of reactivity of the semiquinone per se with either thioredoxin or NADPH shows that it cannot be involved in catalysis. The rapid production of semiquinone by irradiation of partially reduced enzyme is a light-activated disproportionation since it is totally dependent upon the presence of some oxidized enzyme. Enzyme fully reduced by dithionite forms no semiquinone, while enzyme partially reduced by dithionite rapidly forms semiquinone upon irradiation. Furthermore, the light-activated disproportionation of enzyme first reduced with NADPH results in the reduction of NADP. Thus, FAD catalyzes the disproportionation in keeping with the known photosensitizing nature of free flavins. This reaction is reversed slowly (half-time ca. 150 min 25°) in the dark. The semiquinone is rapidly reoxidized by oxygen to yield an enzyme with unaltered spectral and catalytic properties (58). Similar reactions have been very briefly reported for lipoamide dehydrogenase the dark reverse reaction is comparatively rapid, being complete in 30 min (16S). 

Host cell enzymes partially degrade (he envelope and capsid to... 

As a case study the starch converting plant was used. Summer wheat mills and starch converts into sugars after liquefaction, fermentation and conversion using corresponding enzymes. Partial starch hydrolysis is performed with a-amylase. The second phase deep hydrolysis is occurs at the present sweet enzymes. 

One more enzyme belongs to this system, converting a free base directly into a ribosides -monophosphate (adenine phosphoribosyltransferase, EC 2.4.2.7). The enzyme partially purified from wheat germ [123] converted iPA into iPARMP moreover, the crude enzymes extracted from Arabidopsis thaliana and Lycopersicon esculentum plants were able to convert also BA into BARMP [124,125, respectively]. 

The action of the enzyme is represented in Figure 15.24. All these spectra were run on freeze-dried samples from which KBr pellets were prepared. Total inactivation of an antibiotic with abolition of the so-called c band ( 1760cm ) is characteristic of the action of this enzyme. Partial inactivation with preservation of this band implies deacylation or other degradation leaving the /S-lactam ring intact. 

From these results it would appear that some mannosyl transfers take place from dolichyl mannosyl phosphate, with some from GDPMan, to generate 1,6 branches. The enzyme partially characterised by Forsee et al. (1977) is involved in transfers from dolichyl mannosyl phosphate. Jensen and Schutzbach (1982) have recently shown that the second mannosyl tranferase has a requirement for phospholipid. 

When wool fibers were extracted by means of formic acid and enzymes, partial dissolution of the CMC was assumed to occur [93,97,171]. It is well known that formic acid treatment causes extensive swelling of fibers and subsequent release of lipids and proteins that account for about 1 to 2% of the fiber weight [97]. To support the contention that these chemical moieties were preferentially extracted from the CMC, dispersions of cuticle and cortical cells... 

Vitamin Bg (an aldehyde) reacts with an enzyme (partial structure shown below) to form a coenzyme that catalyzes the conversion of a-amino acids (Chapter 17) to a-keto acids. 

Further oxidation of the imidazole ring is catalyzed by imidazolone propionate oxidase, an enzyme partially purified from guinea pig liver. (The purified enzyme was free of xanthine oxidase, crystalline xanthine oxidase also catalyzes the oxidation of uro-canate.)... 

The reduction of dehydroshikimic acid to shikimic acid is catalyzed by an enzyme partially purified from E. coli by Yaniv and Gilvarg. -TPNH is specifically required. The reaction is reversible and the oxidation-reduction potential of the DHS-shikimic couple at the pH optimum, 8.5, equals that of the TPN system, which is about —0.350 volts. 

Intestinal mucosa enzyme partially inhibited by arsenate leads to the formation of guanosine, cytidine, and cytidine-5 -phosphate. This preparation splits at (2) with subsequent partial dephosphorylation. Snake venom diesterase also sphts at (2). Prostatic phosphatase liberates... 

Denaturation of protein Death of cells Reaction with other components (including proteins and vitamins) Denaturation of proteins and enzymes Partial denaturation, loss of nutritive value Change of protein functionality Enzyme reaction Improved digestibility and energy utilization Fragmentation of molecule... 

An enzyme partially purified from yeast acts upon the nucleotides of adenine, guanine, and uridine to carry out transphosphorylation (Eqs. 33) to 36)] 112-116). Nucleoside monophosphate kinases have been partially purified from E. coli, which catalyzes the formation of triphosphates of deoxyadenine, deoxyguanosine, thymidine, and deoxycytidine from their corresponding 5 -monophosphates, in the presence of ATP 116, 117). 

Intercalation of EtBr may inhibit the cleavage of DNA by restriction enzymes. Partial digestion in the presence of EtBr results in mixtures with one or both strands cleaved, among them a complete set of full-length permuted linear molecules. Such singly cleaved permuted linear molecules provide a convenient method for restriction mapping of DNA (24). 

In the same fashion, GTP can be converted to GDP-Man as an intermediate in the recychng of GDP-Fuc (Scheme 12) [36]. This conversion can be accomplished by utilizing GDPMP from dried yeast cells and GDP-Fuc-generating enzymes partially purified from the bacterium Klebsiella pneumonia. This system must be coupled to an alcohol dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.2), which catalyzes the oxidation of 2-propanol to acetone, along with the reduction of NADP+ to NADPH. Alternatively, Fuc-l-P can be biosynthesized from fucose by the action of fucokinase (EC 2.7.1.52) from porcine liver in the presence of ATP (Scheme 13). Reaction of Fuc-l-P with GTP catalyzed by GDP-Fuc pyrophosphorylase (EC 2.7.7.30) then affords GDP-Fuc [37]. Both of these methods have been utilized in the synthesis of sLe from 3 -SLN. 

Papaver somniferum.- Rapoport and Hodges have obtained from this species an enzyme which catalyzes the reduction of codeinone to codeine, in the presence of NADH as a coenz3nne. Another enzyme, partially purified by centrifugal fractionation, was obtained which catalyzed the oxidative coupling of the phenolic rings of reticuline to yield the dienone salutaridine . Hydrogen peroxide was utilized by this enzyme for the oxidation. A crude enzyme from this species converted morphine to the dimeric pseudomorphine and morphine -oxide . ... 

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