Recent advances in zinc enzymology

WN Lipscomb, N Sträter - Chemical Reviews, 1996 - ACS Publications
Posters and lectures presented at the Seventh International Conference on Bioinorganic
Chemistry (ICBIC) in Lubeck, Germany, last year was divided into 16 sections, including …

Relating protein motion to catalysis

S Hammes-Schiffer, SJ Benkovic - Annu. Rev. Biochem., 2006 - annualreviews.org
This review examines the linkage between protein conformational motions and enzyme
catalysis. The fundamental issues related to this linkage are probed in the context of two …

Organic fluorine hardly ever accepts hydrogen bonds

JD Dunitz, R Taylor - Chemistry–A European Journal, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Statistical analysis of structural data and detailed inspection of individual crystal structures
culled from the Cambridge Structural Database and the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank …

[BOG][B] Isotope effects in chemistry and biology

A Kohen, HH Limbach - 2005 - taylorfrancis.com
The field of isotope effects has expanded exponentially in the last decade, and researchers
are finding isotopes increasingly useful in their studies. Bringing literature on the subject up …

Yeast alcohol dehydrogenase structure and catalysis

SB Raj, S Ramaswamy, BV Plapp - Biochemistry, 2014 - ACS Publications
Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) alcohol dehydrogenase I (ADH1) is the constitutive
enzyme that reduces acetaldehyde to ethanol during the fermentation of glucose. ADH1 is a …

Analysis of zinc binding sites in protein crystal structures

IL Alberts, K Nadassy, SJ Wodak - Protein science, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
The geometrical properties of zinc binding sites in a dataset of high quality protein crystal
structures deposited in the Protein Data Bank have been examined to identify important …

Natural inspirations for metal–ligand cooperative catalysis

MD Wodrich, X Hu - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
In conventional homogeneous catalysis, supporting ligands act as spectators that do not
interact directly with substrates. However, in metal–ligand cooperative catalysis, ligands are …

Ethanol's molecular targets

RA Harris, JR Trudell, SJ Mihic - Science signaling, 2008 - science.org
Ethanol produces a wide variety of behavioral and physiological effects in the body, but
exactly how it acts to produce these effects is still poorly understood. Although ethanol was …

A molecular mechanics force field for NAD+ NADH, and the pyrophosphate groups of nucleotides

JJ Pavelites, J Gao, PA Bash… - Journal of …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Empirical force field parameters for nicotinamide (NIC+) and 1, 4‐dihydronicotinamide
(NICH) were developed for use in modeling of the coenzymes nicotinamide adenine …

The three zinc-containing alcohol dehydrogenases from baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae

V Leskovac, S Trivić, D Peričin - FEMS Yeast Research, 2002 - academic.oup.com
This review is a summary of our current knowledge of the structure, function and mechanism
of action of the three zinc-containing alcohol dehydrogenases, YADH-1, YADH-2 and YADH …