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Biocatalytic Applications
Of all the types of enzyme-catalyzed reactions, hydrolytic transformations involving amide- and ester-bonds are most easy to perform using proteases,...
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Biological Oxidations with Heme Proteins
There are several classes of heme proteins which all contain iron protoporphyrinIX as their prosthetic group. Hemoglobins and myoglobins function to...
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Bromoperoxidases: Their Role in the Formation of HOBr and Bromoform by Seaweeds
The biogenic release of halogenated volatile organics from the ocean by natural sources and the biochemical pathways which lead to the production of...
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Enzymes from marine phycophages that degrade cell walls of seaweeds
Agarase, cellulase and alginate lyase activities from crude extracts of Aplysia dactylomela Rang, Haliotis coccinea canariensis Nordsieck, Littorina...
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Plant peroxidases—an organismic perspective
Peroxidases are ubiquitous enzymes found in virtually all green plants, many fungi and aerobic bacteria. The isozymic heterogeneity of peroxidases...
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Formation of C1/C2-bromo-/chloro-hydrocarbons by haloperoxidase reactions
We report here the first results of a study of the enzymatic formation of halogenated C 1 /C 2 -hydrocarbons from natural, biochemically relevant...
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Structure and function of vanadium compounds in living organisms
Vanadium has been recognized as a metal of biological importance only recently. In this mini-review, its main functions uncovered during the past few...
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Elucidation of biochemical formation of C1/C2-(bromo-/chloro)-hydrocarbons
To elucidate possible biochemical pathways of the formation of halogenated C 1 /C 2 -hydrocarbons we investigated the product pattern of the reaction of...
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The novel non-heme vanadium bromoperoxidase from marine algae: Phosphate inactivation
Vanadium bromoperoxidase is a naturally occurring vanadium-containing enzyme isolated from marine algae. V-BrPO catalyzes the oxidation of halides by...
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Biocatalytic Applications
Among all the types of enzyme-catalysed reactions, hydrolytic transformations involving amide- and ester-bonds are most easy to perform by using...
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Bromoperoxidase from Streptomyces Aureofaciens Tü24 and its Role in 7-Chlorotetracycline Biosynthesis
Streptomyces aureofaciens Tü24 and S. aureofaciens ATCC 10762 both produce the antibiotics tetracycline and 7-chlorotetracycline....
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Biohalogenation
A vast number of halogenated compounds are present in the biosphere. While most of these have resulted from the work of synthetic chemists, a large...
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Vanadium Haloperoxidases
Since the beginning of the 19th century peroxidases have attracted the attention of chemists, biologists and physiologists. These oxido-reductases...
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Vanadium in the Biosphere
This opening chapter will strive to give an overview of the role of vanadium in the biosphere and to help place the subsequent chapters in the...
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An Introduction to Marine Natural Products
If examined at the molecular level, the basic processes of life occur in much the same way with all living organisms. This is particularly apparent...
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Vanadate as an inhibitor of plant and mammalian peroxidases
Vanadate ions are shown to inhibit horseradish, squash, and rat intestinal peroxidases by following the reaction spectrophotometrically in a wide...
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X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopic Studies of Vanado-Enzymes: Nitrogenase and Bromoperoxidase
Vanadium is well recognised as an essential trace element, is widely distributed throughout the lithosphere and biosphere, and is present in all...