Structural and biochemical properties of L‐asparaginase

J Lubkowski, A Wlodawer - The FEBS Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
l‐Asparaginase (a hydrolase converting l‐asparagine to l‐aspartic acid) was the first
enzyme to be used in clinical practice as an anticancer agent after its approval in 1978 as a …

Molecular analysis of L-asparaginases for clarification of the mechanism of action and optimization of pharmacological functions

MV Pokrovskaya, VS Pokrovsky, SS Aleksandrova… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
L-asparaginases (EC 3.5. 1.1) are a family of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of L-
asparagine to L-aspartic acid and ammonia. These proteins with different biochemical …

Improving the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia

A Radadiya, W Zhu, A Coricello, S Alcaro… - Biochemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
l-Asparaginase (EC 3.5. 1.1) was first used as a component of combination drug therapies to
treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, almost 50 …

Imaging active site chemistry and protonation states: NMR crystallography of the tryptophan synthase α-aminoacrylate intermediate

JB Holmes, V Liu, BG Caulkins… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
NMR-assisted crystallography—the integrated application of solid-state NMR, X-ray
crystallography, and first-principles computational chemistry—holds significant promise for …

[HTML][HTML] Structural and biophysical aspects of L-asparaginases: a growing family with amazing diversity

JI Loch, M Jaskolski - IUCrJ, 2021 - scripts.iucr.org
l-Asparaginases have remained an intriguing research topic since their discovery∼ 120
years ago, especially after their introduction in the 1960s as very efficient antileukemic …

Towards a dependable data set of structures for L-asparaginase research

A Wlodawer, Z Dauter, J Lubkowski, JI Loch… - Biological …, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
The Protein Data Bank (PDB) includes a carefully curated treasury of experimentally derived
structural data on biological macromolecules and their various complexes. Such information …

From synthesis to characterization of site-selective PEGylated proteins

LH Belén, CO Rangel-Yagui… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Covalent attachment of therapeutic proteins to polyethylene glycol (PEG) is widely used for
the improvement of its pharmacokinetic and pharmacological properties, as well as the …

Epitope mapping and binding assessment by solid-state NMR provide a way for the development of biologics under the quality by design paradigm

D Rizzo, L Cerofolini, S Giuntini, L Iozzino… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Multispecific biologics are an emerging class of drugs, in which antibodies and/or proteins
designed to bind pharmacological targets are covalently linked or expressed as fusion …

Biochemical characterization of L-asparaginase isoforms from Rhizobium etli—the boosting effect of zinc

J Sliwiak, P Worsztynowicz, K Pokrywka, JI Loch… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
L-Asparaginases, divided into three structural Classes, catalyze the hydrolysis of L-
asparagine to L-aspartic acid and ammonia. The members of Class 3, ReAIV and ReAV …

Structural characterization of a protein adsorbed on aluminum hydroxide adjuvant in vaccine formulation

L Cerofolini, S Giuntini, E Ravera, C Luchinat, F Berti… - npj Vaccines, 2019 - nature.com
The heterogeneous composition of vaccine formulations and the relatively low concentration
make the characterization of the protein antigens extremely challenging. Aluminum …