BIOLWednesday, 13 September 2006

4:30 PM-6:30 PM Moscone Center -- Hall D, Poster
Enzymes
Organizers:Tadhg Begley
Karen N. Allen
α-cFaPydG: Synthesis, replication and repair
Florian Büsch, Prof. Thomas Carell
Saccharomyces cerevisiae phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase: Relevance of Thr463 and Arg457 for nucleotide binding and catalysis
Ivan Tobar, Jaime A Rivas-Pardo, Felipe Arenas, Ana M. Jabalquinto, Emilio Cardemil
A chemoinformatics approach to the classification of enzymatic reactions
Joao Aires-de-Sousa, Diogo A. R. S. Latino
A hydrophobic tunnel is important for the binding of molecular oxygen and subsequent catalysis by cholesterol oxidase
Lin Chen, Nicole S. Sampson
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A theoretical study of site-directed spin labeling of subtilisin Carlsberg in organic solvents
Marc D. Legault, Gabriel L. Barletta, Vibha Bansal
Ab initio molecular dynamics reveals striking reorganization of the trinuclear metal cluster of endonuclease IV during catalysis
Ivaylo Ivanov, John A. Tainer, J. Andrew McCammon
Activation of orotidine 5'-monophosphate decarboxylase by exogenous inorganic oxydianions
Krisztina Toth, Tina L. Amyes, John P. Richard
Au(I)-Based inhibition of cysteine proteases: A structural and mechanistic investigation
Mark R. Karver, Amy M. Barrios
Catalysis by flavin-dependent thymidylate synthases
Bruce A. Palfey, Mehran Ebadi-Tehrani, Samuel G. Gattis
Catalysis-based selection system as a tool for identifying xylanase mutants with novel (or improved) catalytic properties
David T Fox, Spencer J Williams, Stephen G. Withers
Catalytic metal ion switching: A new perspective on “zinc”-dependent deacetylases
Samuel G. Gattis, Marcy Hernick, Stephanie L. Gantt, Carol A. Fierke
Catalytically active monomeric human histidine triad nucleotide binding protein 1 (hHint1) engineered by a single amino acid substitution
Tsui-Fen Chou, Ilya B. Tikh, Carston R. Wagner
Characterization and effect mechanism of agarolytic enzymes from Chlorostoma rusticum
Wenjun Mao
Characterization of a bi-functional protein with hemolysin and ABC transporter activity
Yu Kuo Wang, Tung Kung Wu
Characterization of GlfT, a mycobacterial UDP-galactofuranosyl transferase
John F. May, Christine Brotschi, Laura L. Kiessling
Characterizing the mechanism of Dpo4 polymerase bypass of O6-alkyl-guanine adducted DNA
Robert Lawton Eoff, Hong Zang, F. P. Guengerich
Cobalamin-dependent methionine synthase conformation is governed by the ligand trans effect
Angela S. Fleischhacker, Rowena G. Matthews
Combinatorial modulation of protein prenylation
Amanda J. Krzysiak, Sarah A. Reigard, Diwan S. Rawat, Katherine A. Hicks, Carol A. Fierke, Richard A. Gibbs
Comparative study of colorimetric methods for analysis of water-soluble and immobilized proteins and peptides
Nataliya M. Samoshina, Vyacheslav V. Samoshin
Comparative study of properties, immobilization, and applications of fungal glycosidases
Nataliya M. Samoshina, Vyacheslav V. Samoshin
Computational methods for the directed evolution of Chondroitinase B
Refugio Alvarez, Daniel V. Gil, Mark J Olsen
Cysteine based ferrocenyl peptides as heavy metal sensors
Conor Scully, Peter J. Rutledge
Development and application of the first colorimetric poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase (PARP) substrate
Amanda C. Nottbohm, Robin S. Dothager, Karson S. Putt, Mirth Hoyt, Paul J. Hergenrother
Discovery of novel inhibitors of Sortase A from Staphylococcus aureus by virtual screening
Matthew L. Bentley, Sarah E. Chobot, Dewey G. McCafferty
DNA sequence selectivity and kinetic properties of de novo designed chimeric dimmers: Are two better than one?
Siu Wah Wong-Deyrup, Dr. Sonya J Franklin
Docking P47phox PX domain on an interfacial membrane
Kepeng Che, Alyssa L. Smith, Robert D. Nielson, Michael H. Gelb, Bruce H. Robinson
Dramatic solvent and hydration effects on the transition state of soybean peroxidase
Anne L Serdakowski, Jonathan S. Dordick
DYNAPRED: Combining docking and sequence based methods for the prediction of MHC/peptide complexes for vaccine design
Iris Antes, Shirley WI. Siu, Thomas Lengauer
Effect of cadmium on cysteine biosynthesis for Arabidopsis thaliana and Brassica juncea
Ryo Hasegawa, Jane G. DeWitt
Energetics of the three predominant tautomers of 2-oxo-6-methylpurine, a slowly reacting substrate of xanthine oxidase
Jong Hwa Kim, Taryn Hartley
Engineered biosynthesis of plant polyketides
Tsuyoshi Abe, Satoshi Oguro, Hiroshi Noguchi, Ikuro Abe
Enzymatic characterization of human 15-lipoxygenase-2 and its splice variants
Aaron T. Wecksler, Joshua D. Deschamps, Theodore R. Holman
Enzymatic synthesis of unnatural novel cyclic polyprenoids by bacterial squalene cyclase
Hisashi Noma, Hideya Tanaka, Hiroshi Noguchi, Ikuro Abe
Enzyme mimics for the bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Sarah M. Barry, Peter J. Rutledge
Evidence for participation of remote residues in the catalytic activity of nitrile hydratase
Heather Brodkin, Amy C. Milne, Mary Jo Ondrechen, Dagmar Ringe
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Expression and secretion of Clostridium cellulovorans XynA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Sarah B. Batt, Dominic W. S. Wong, Kurt Wagschal, Charles C. Lee
Flex-Hets inhibit electron transport in isolated human ovarian cancer cells: A possible prelude to apoptosis
William J. Kelly, Lance W. Gill, Doris M. Benbrook
Functional analysis of polymorphic CYP1B1 allelic variants in African-Americans and their effects on the metabolism of (-)-benzo[a]pyrene-trans-7,8-dihydrodiol (B[a]P-7,8-diol)
Mostafizur Rahman, Victor R. Kelley, Carrie Hayes Sutter, Gary L. Emmert, Paul T. Strickland, Douglas A. Bell, Thomas R. Sutter
Geosmin biosynthesis. Streptomyces coelicolor germacradienol/germacrene D synthase converts farnesyl diphosphate to geosmin
Jiaoyang Jiang, Xiaofei He, David E. Cane
Glucocorticoid receptor: A disturbing element in the HPA axis negative feedback loop during stress response
Shakti Gupta, Eric Aslakson, Brian M. Gurbaxani, Suzanne D. Vernon
Glycosyltransferase substrate engineering: Broadening the synthetic utility of enzymatic catalysis by facilitating productive binding modes for alternative substrates
Luke L. Lairson, Andrew G. Watts, Warren W. Wakarchuk, Stephen G. Withers
Identification of proteins from the yeast haploid deletion library involved in Fre1 activity: Novel involvement of Pho85 and Avl9 in Mac1 activation
Alisha Thompson, Xiaoli Shi, Ted Holman, Zhu Zhiwu
Imaging transcription
Hua Yu, Kyubong Jo, David C. Schwartz
Improved model for peptidyl transfer in the ribosome
Gottfried K. Schroeder, Richard V. Wolfenden
In vitro translation of unnatural cyclic peptides
Matthew C. T. Hartman, Kristopher Josephson, Jack W. Szostak
Inhibition of Eschericia coli RecA by a rationally designed peptide helix
Daniel J Cline, Scott F Singleton
Inhibitor binding to a distal active site region of bovine plasma amine oxidase selectively blocks metabolism of polyamine but not short-chain monoamine substrates
Yanwen Chen, Bo Zhong, Lawrence M. Sayre
Inhibitors and inactivators of Protein Arginine Deiminase 4: Functional and structural characterization
Yuan Luo, Kyouhei Arita, Monica Bhatia, Bryan Knuckley, Young-Ho Lee, Michael R. Stallcup, Mamoru Sato, Paul R. Thompson
Insights on replication of xDNA and yDNA by DNA polymerases
Haige Lu, Haibo Liu, Jianmin Gao, Alex Lee, Sandra A. Helquist, Shin Mizukami, Eric Kool
Interacting AcpM with InhA, the enoyl–ACP reductase from M. tuberculosis
Xujie Zhang
Investigation of a chromate reductase in a Psuedomonas veronii bacteria cell
Michelle R. A. Stewart
Investigation of new potential substrates for Saccharomyces carlsbergensis Old Yellow Enzyme
Magdalena A. Swiderska, Jon D. Stewart
Leaving-group substituent effects on DNA polymerase beta catalysis and fidelity
Christopher A. Sucato, Thomas G. Upton, Boris A. Kashemirov, Charles E. McKenna, Arieh Warshel, Jan Florian, Samuel H. Wilson, Myron F. Goodman
Linking docking domains and substrate sequences: The design, synthesis, and evaluation of a selective p38a MAP kinase substrate
Denise E. Bailey, Nancy Allbritton, David L. Van Vranken
Magnetic nanoparticle-supported enzymes as recyclable biocatalysts
Aimee R. Herdt, Byeong-Su Kim, T. Andrew Taton
Measurement of primary 14C and α-secondary 3H kinetic isotope effects to probe the chemical transition state of the farnesyltransferase reaction
June E. Pais, Katherine E. Bowers, Carol A. Fierke
Mechanism of potassium activation of IMP dehydrogenase
Thomas Riera, Lizbeth Hedstrom
Mechanistic studies of a flavin-dependent Thymidylate Synthase
Todd J Fleischmann, Nitish Agrawal, Amnon Kohen
Mechanistic studies of isothermal DNA amplification through polymerase and nicking enzyme activities
Eric Tan, Megan Buechel, Barbara Erwin, Shale Dames, Karl Voelkerding, Angelika Niemz
Modulation of mammalian DNA methyltransferase activity by RNA
Matthew M. Purdy, Norbert O. Reich
Mutagenesis and NMR insights into the mechanism of UDP-galactopyranose mutase
Todd D. Gruber, Laura L. Kiessling
New strategies for the bioremediation of cyanide and nitrile contaminants
Kate Houlihan, Peter J. Rutledge
Nitration of phenol catalyzed by horseradish peroxidase
Rongji Dai, Hui Huang, Bin Tong, Weiwei Meng, Yulin Deng
Novel inhibitors for fungal glycosidases
Barbora Brazdova, Nataliya M. Samoshina, Vyacheslav V. Samoshin
Novel oxidative pathways involved in the biosynthesis of rebeccamycin and staurosporine
Annaleise R. Howard-Jones, Christopher T. Walsh
Peroxide-dependent oxidative degradation of halophenols catalyzed by heme proteins: From globins to peroxidases
Robert L. Osborne, Michael K. Coggins, John H. Dawson
Photoacoustic study of ligand dissociation from lactoperoxidase
Dustin Lockney, Jaroslava Miksovska
Phylogenetic differences in the mechanism of dihydroorotate oxidation by dihydroorotate dehydrogenases
Rebecca L. Fagan, Paul M. Pagano, Maria N. Nelson, Bruce A. Palfey
Physical organic studies inside the membrane-embedded bacterial enzyme PagP
Fraser Hof, Aaron H. McKie, Soizic Wadge, Olga V. Sarytcheva
Polyphenolic inhibition of vascular NADPH oxidase
Jingjing Yu, Disha Ahuja, Michel Weïwer, Robert J. Linhardt, Jonathan S. Dordick
Probing the catalytic mechanism of human histone deacetylase 8
Stephanie L. Gantt, Carol A. Fierke
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Profiling substrate specificities of protein tyrosine phosphatases: Toward the development of highly selective inhibitors
Sayantan Mitra, Amy M. Barrios
Proton coupled electron transfer in co-mixed valence cytochrome C oxidase
Randy Larsen
Quantification of reaction rates in the E. coli Min system
Steven S Andrews, Adeleh Mazloom Moghaddam, Jay T. Groves
Rational redesign of the specificity of Sortase A from Staphylococcus aureus
Matthew L. Bentley, Helena Gaweska, Dewey G. McCafferty
Reaction-diffusion kinetics of enzymes immobilized within a gel pad microarray
Chao-Jen Wong, Modesto Lopez, Eric Tan, Ali Nadim, Angelika Niemz
Recognition and binding mechanisms of the DNA repair enzyme, MutY: A molecular dynamics study
J. Samuel Arey, Ursula Rothlisberger
Recombinant enzymes over-expressed in bacteria show broad catalytic specificity of human cytochrome P450 2W1 and limited activity of human cytochrome P450 2S1
Zhong-Liu Wu, Christal D. Sohl, Tsutomu Shimada, F. Peter Guengerich
Reduction of 4-nitrophenol catalyzed by nitroreductase
Rongji Dai, Jie Chen, Bin Tong, Weiwei Meng, Yulin Deng
Paper Withdrawn
Rheumatoid arthritis and gold(I): A mechanistic investigation into the inhibition of lysosomal cysteine proteases by a series of linear Au(I) complexes
Shamila S. Gunatilleke, Amy M. Barrios
Role of heme-protein covalent bonds in mammalian peroxidases revealed by horseradish peroxidase F41E mutant
Liusheng Huang, Grzegorz Wojciechowski, Paul R. Ortiz de Montellano
Stabilizing and catalytic roles of six secondary active site residues in E. coli chorismate mutase and implications for computational enzyme design
Jonathan Kyle Lassila, Jennifer R. Keeffe, Stephen L. Mayo
Structure and function of the Bordetella bronchiseptica CAE protein of the haloalkanoate dehydrogenase superfamily
Henry Nguyen, Liangbing Wang, Debra Dunaway-Mariano, Karen N. Allen
Studies of the reaction mechanism of phosphate hydrolysis in the ras-GAP proteins and in aqueous model systems
Edina Rosta, Marco Klahn, Arieh Warshel
Study the correlation between parameters of lipid exchange and their ferment groups in patients ill with cystic vaginal fistula
Jamshid Nurullayev, Nurali Q. Mukhamadiev, Shuhrat M. Sayitkulov
Paper Withdrawn
Synthesis of biliverdin amides and substrate specificity for Bacteriophytochromes and Bilin reductases
Lixia Shang, J Clark Lagarias
Targeting RecA to prevent the evolution of antibiotic resistance: HTS-screening strategies and ATP-competitive inhibitors
Tim J. Wigle, Andrew M. Lee, Scott F Singleton
Temperature dependent free energy profiles of alanine racemase from Staphylococcus aureus
Shara K. Compton, Michael D. Toney
The iroA gene cluster: The latest step in an evolutionary arms race
Michael A. Fischbach, Hening Lin, Kelly D. Smith, David R. Liu, Christopher T. Walsh
Traceless immobilization of proteins onto solid supports using protein trans-splicing
Youngeun Kwon, Mathew A. Coleman, Julio A Camarero
Transition state analog discrimination by related purine nucleoside phosphorylases
Erika A Taylor, Gary Evans, Peter C. Tyler, Richard H. Furneaux, Andrew S. Murkin, Vern L. Schramm
Trapping the catalytic complex of polymerase eta with a template primer by site-specific DNA protein disulfide crosslinking
Dan Gu, J. S. Taylor
Two distinct proton donors at the active site of E. coli 2,4-dienoyl-CoA reductase are responsible for the formation of different products
Xi Tu, Paul A. Hubbard, Jung-Ja Kim, Horst Schulz
Uncovering enzymatic mechanisms through ultra-high resolution structures
Yu Chen, Brian K. Shoichet
Understanding general acid-base catalysis of enzyme-catalyzed reactions from computer simulations: Serine-carboxyl peptidases
Hong Guo, Haobo Guo, Qin Xu, Alex Wlodawer
Understanding the biological activity of protein tyrosine phosphatases using peptide inhibitors containing Phosphonomethyl phenylalanine
Caitlin E Hubbard, Amy M. Barrios
Using immobilized enzymes to study substrate specificity and free radical chemistry
Bradley E Sturgeon

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The 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006