Why nature really chose phosphate

SCL Kamerlin, PK Sharma, RB Prasad… - Quarterly reviews of …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Phosphoryl transfer plays key roles in signaling, energy transduction, protein synthesis, and
maintaining the integrity of the genetic material. On the surface, it would appear to be a …

Biological phosphoryl-transfer reactions: understanding mechanism and catalysis

JK Lassila, JG Zalatan… - Annual review of …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Phosphoryl-transfer reactions are central to biology. These reactions also have some of the
slowest nonenzymatic rates and thus require enormous rate accelerations from biological …

Enzymatic mechanisms of phosphate and sulfate transfer

WW Cleland, AC Hengge - Chemical reviews, 2006 - ACS Publications
Many biological molecules contain phosphate or sulfate, and the enzymatic reactions that
transfer these groups play important roles in metabolism. DNA and RNA are phosphate …

Metal complexes of organophosphate esters and open-framework metal phosphates: synthesis, structure, transformations, and applications

R Murugavel, A Choudhury, MG Walawalkar… - Chemical …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Phosphorus is a vital element both in living matter and in the Earth's crust. The human body
contains about 1% by weight of the element phosphorus, about 4/5 of this being present as …

Progress in artificial metallonucleases

F Mancin, P Scrimin, P Tecilla - Chemical Communications, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of synthetic agents able to hydrolytically cleave DNA with high efficiency
and selectivity is still a fascinating challenge. Over the years, many examples have been …

Insights into the reaction of protein-tyrosine phosphatase 1B: crystal structures for transition state analogs of both catalytic steps

TAS Brandão, AC Hengge, SJ Johnson - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2010 - ASBMB
Catalysis by protein-tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) occurs through a two-step
mechanism involving a phosphocysteine intermediate. We have solved crystal structures for …

Phosphate forms an unusual tripodal complex with the Fe–Mn center of sweet potato purple acid phosphatase

G Schenk, LR Gahan, LE Carrington… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Purple acid phosphatases (PAPs) are a family of binuclear metalloenzymes that catalyze the
hydrolysis of phosphoric acid esters and anhydrides. A PAP in sweet potato has a unique …

Experimental and computational analysis of the transition state for ribonuclease A-catalyzed RNA 2′-O-transphosphorylation

H Gu, S Zhang, KY Wong, BK Radak… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Enzymes function by stabilizing reaction transition states; therefore, comparison of the
transition states of enzymatic and nonenzymatic model reactions can provide insight into …

Efficient hydrolytic cleavage of plasmid DNA by chloro-cobalt (II) complexes based on sterically hindered pyridyl tripod tetraamine ligands: Synthesis, crystal structure …

SS Massoud, RS Perkins, FR Louka, W Xu… - Dalton …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Four new cobalt (II) complexes [Co (6-MeTPA) Cl] ClO4/PF6 (2/2a),[Co (6-Me2TPA) Cl]
ClO4/PF6 (3/3a),[Co (BPQA) Cl] ClO4/PF6 (4/4a) and [Co (BQPA) Cl] ClO4/PF6 (5/5a) as …

Are mixed explicit/implicit solvation models reliable for studying phosphate hydrolysis? A comparative study of continuum, explicit and mixed solvation models

SCL Kamerlin, M Haranczyk, A Warshel - ChemPhysChem, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Are all solvation models equal? An in‐depth comparison of mixed implicit/explicit solvation
models shows that while both the implicit and explicit (QM/MM–FEP) solvation models can …