Structure and function of carbonic anhydrases

CT Supuran - Biochemical Journal, 2016 - portlandpress.com
Carbonic anhydrases (CAs, EC 4.2. 1.1) catalyse the interconversion between CO2 and
bicarbonate as well as other hydrolytic reactions. Among the six genetic families known to …

Zinc coordination sphere in biochemical zinc sites

DS Auld - Zinc biochemistry, physiology, and homeostasis: recent …, 2001 - Springer
Zinc is known to be indispensable to growth and development and transmission of the
genetic message. It does this through a remarkable mosaic of zinc binding motifs that …

Carbonic anhydrase as a model for biophysical and physical-organic studies of proteins and protein− ligand binding

VM Krishnamurthy, GK Kaufman, AR Urbach… - Chemical …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 4.2. 1.1) is a protein that is especially well-suited to serve as a
model in many types of studies in biophysics, bioanalysis, the physical-organic chemistry of …

Carbonic anhydrases as targets for medicinal chemistry

CT Supuran, A Scozzafava - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2007 - Elsevier
Carbonic anhydrases (CAs, EC 4.2. 1.1) are zinc enzymes acting as efficient catalysts for the
reversible hydration of carbon dioxide to bicarbonate. 16 different α-CA isoforms were …

Carbonic Anhydrase: New Insights for an Ancient Enzyme* 210

BC Tripp, K Smith, JG Ferry - Journal of biological chemistry, 2001 - ASBMB
CO2 H2O^ HCO3 H(Eq. 1) The first carbonic anhydrase was purified from erythrocytes in
1933 (1) followed by the characterization of several mammalian isozymes that dominated …

3D domain swapping: as domains continue to swap

Y Liu, D Eisenberg - Protein science, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Three‐dimensional (3D) domain swapping creates a bond between two or more
protein molecules as they exchange their identical domains. Since the term'3D domain …

Carbonic anhydrases-an overview

CT Supuran - Current pharmaceutical design, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
Carbonic anhydrases (CAs, EC 4.2. 1.1) are widespread metalloenzymes all over the
phylogenetic tree, with at least 4 distinct gene families encoding for them. At least 16 …

Structure and metal exchange in the cadmium carbonic anhydrase of marine diatoms

Y Xu, L Feng, PD Jeffrey, Y Shi, FMM Morel - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Carbonic anhydrase, a zinc enzyme found in organisms from all kingdoms, catalyses the
reversible hydration of carbon dioxide and is used for inorganic carbon acquisition by …

Applications of carbonic anhydrase inhibitors and activators in therapy

CT Supuran, A Scozzafava - Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Inhibitors and activators of the zinc enzyme carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 4.2. 1.1) have a
large number of applications in therapy. Many types of such new derivatives have been …

(In) organic anions as carbonic anhydrase inhibitors

G De Simone, CT Supuran - Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2012 - Elsevier
Carbonic anhydrases (CAs, EC 4.2. 1.1) are widespread enzymes in all life kingdoms with
five distinct genetic families known to date, the α-, β-, γ-, δ-and ζ-CAs. With the exception of …