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Enzymology and Molecular Genetics of Biological Halogenation
Heme-containing haloperoxidases were the first halogenating enzymes detected. Later vanadium-containing haloperoxidases were isolated from eukaryotic...
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Biological Effects and Biosynthesis of Brominated Metabolites
On the basis of halogenated metabolites assembled by Gribble, an attempt is made to provide a hypothesis for the biosynthesis of representative...
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Biocatalytic Applications
Of all the types of enzyme-catalyzed reactions, hydrolytic transformations involving amide- and ester-bonds are the easiest to perform using...
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Phytogenesis of halomethanes: A product ofselection or a metabolic accident?
Phytoplankton (microalgae), seaweeds(macroalgae), higher plants and fungi producehalomethanes. Algae and fungi produce bothmethyl halides and...
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Interactive effects of ozone depletion and climate change on biogeochemical cycles
The effects of ozone depletion on global biogeochemical cycles, via increased UV-B radiation at the Earth’s surface, have continued to be documented...
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Heterogeneous Enzyme Mimics Based on Zeolites and Layered Hydroxides
Careful combination of a metal compound,a ligand and an inorganic support material leads to supramolecular catalysts that mimic the structural,...
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Microbial biosynthesis of halometabolites
Halometabolites are compounds that are commonly found in nature and they are produced by many different organisms. Whereas bromometabolites can...
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Influence of drying treatment on three
Sargassum species 2. Protein extractability,in vitro protein digestibility and amino acid profile of protein concentratesThe effects of different drying treatments (oven- andfreeze-drying) on protein extractability of three subtropical brownseaweeds, Sargassum hemiphyllum ...
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Influence of drying treatment on three
Sargassum speciesThe effects were investigated of two different drying treatments (oven- andfreeze-drying) on the proximate composition, amino acid profile and...
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Vanadium-catalysed enantioselective sulfoxidations: rational design of biocatalytic and biomimetic systems
Approaches to the rational design of vanadium-based biocatalytic and biomimetic model systems as catalysts for enantioselective oxidations are...
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Halogenated metabolites in two marine polychaetes and their planktotrophic and lecithotrophic larvae
This study investigated the occurrence and ontogenetic changes of halogenated secondary metabolites in planktotrophic and lecithotrophic larvae and...
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Layered double hydroxides exchanged with tungstate as biomimetic catalysts for mild oxidative bromination
The manufacture of a range of bulk and fine chemicals, including flame retardants, disinfectants and antibacterial and antiviral drugs, involves...
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Effects of chloroperoxidase and hydrogen peroxide on the viabilities of Aspergillus flavus conidiospores
The effects of chloroperoxidase [EC 1.1.1.10] and hydrogen peroxide on the viabilities of quiescent and germinating conidiospores of an aflatoxigenic...
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X-ray crystal structures of active site mutants of the vanadium-containing chloroperoxidase from the fungus Curvularia inaequalis
The X-ray structures of the chloroperoxidase from Curvularia inaequalis , heterologously expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae , have been determined...
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Biocatalytic Applications
Of all the types of enzyme-catalyzed reactions, hydrolytic transformations involving amide- and ester-bonds are the easiest to perform using...
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Biocatalytic Approaches for the Synthesis of Enantiopure Epoxides
Because of their high chemical versatility, enantiopure epoxides, as well as their corresponding vicinal diols, are recognized as being high value...
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Iodine uptake in Laminariales involves extracellular, haloperoxidase-mediated oxidation of iodide
Sporophytes of Laminaria digitata (L.) Lamour. were assayed for their content of accumulated iodine, which ranged from 0.4% of dry weight in adult...
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Use of azo dye ligand chromatography for the partial purification of a novel extracellular peroxidase from Streptomyces viridosporus T7A
Crude peroxidase preparations from the lignocellulose-degrading actinomycete, Streptomyces viridosporus T7A, were shown to decolorize several azo dye...