Protein design: toward functional metalloenzymes

F Yu, VM Cangelosi, ML Zastrow, M Tegoni… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Protein design is a valuable tool for understanding the fundamental factors that dictate
protein structure and function. The field of protein design has seen significant progress over …

Designing hydrolytic zinc metalloenzymes

ML Zastrow, VL Pecoraro - Biochemistry, 2014 - ACS Publications
Zinc is an essential element required for the function of more than 300 enzymes spanning all
classes. Despite years of dedicated study, questions regarding the connections between …

Designing functional metalloproteins: From structural to catalytic metal sites

ML Zastrow, VL Pecoraro - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Metalloenzymes efficiently catalyze some of the most important and difficult reactions in
nature. For many years, coordination chemists have effectively used small molecule models …

[HTML][HTML] CERN-MEDICIS (medical isotopes collected from ISOLDE): a new facility

RMS Augusto, L Buehler, Z Lawson, S Marzari… - Applied Sciences, 2014 - mdpi.com
About 50% of the 1.4 GeV CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research, www. cern.
ch) protons are sent onto targets to produce radioactive beams by online mass separation at …

AsIII Selectively Induces a Disorder-to-Order Transition in the Metalloid Binding Region of the AfArsR Protein

A Tóth, K Sajdik, B Gyurcsik, ZH Nafaee… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Arsenic is highly toxic and a significant threat to human health, but certain bacteria have
developed defense mechanisms initiated by AsIII binding to AsIII-sensing proteins of the …

Influence of Active Site Location on Catalytic Activity in de Novo-Designed Zinc Metalloenzymes

ML Zastrow, VL Pecoraro - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
While metalloprotein design has now yielded a number of successful metal-bound and even
catalytically active constructs, the question of where to put a metal site along a linear …

Design of a Three‐Helix Bundle Capable of binding heavy metals in a Triscysteine environment

S Chakraborty, J Yudenfreund Kravitz… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
An important objective of de novo protein design is the preparation of metalloproteins, as
many natural systems contain metals that play crucial roles for the function and/or structural …

Mössbauer spectroscopy for heavy elements: a relativistic benchmark study of mercury

S Knecht, S Fux, R van Meer, L Visscher… - Theoretical Chemistry …, 2011 - Springer
The electrostatic contribution to the Mössbauer isomer shift of mercury for the series HgF n
(n= 1, 2, 4) with respect to the neutral atom has been investigated in the framework of four …

De Novo Protein Design as a Methodology for Synthetic Bioinorganic Chemistry

CS Mocny, VL Pecoraro - Accounts of chemical research, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The major advances in molecular and structural biology and automated peptide
and DNA synthesis of the 1970s and 1980s generated fertile conditions in the 1990s for the …

TDPAC and β-NMR applications in chemistry and biochemistry

A Jancso, JG Correia, A Gottberg, J Schell… - Journal of Physics G …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Time differential perturbed angular correlation (TDPAC) of γ-rays spectroscopy has been
applied in chemistry and biochemistry for decades. Herein we aim to present a …