This review focuses on the chemistry performed by base excision repair (BER) enzymes,
enzymes that remove nucleobases from DNA in the first step of the repair of many types of …

The reversible phosphorolysis of purine and pyrimidine nucleosides is an important
biochemical reaction in the salvage pathway, which provides an alternative to the de novo …

With the Nasonia vitripennis genome sequences available, we attempted to determine the
proteins present in venom by two different approaches. First, we searched for the transcripts …

The exosporium is the outermost layer of spores of Bacillus cereus and its close relatives
Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus thuringiensis. For these pathogens, it represents the surface …

Spores of Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, possess an exosporium. As the
outer surface layer of these mature spores, the exosporium represents the primary contact …

Background Heterodera glycines, commonly referred to as the soybean cyst nematode
(SCN), is an obligatory and sedentary plant parasite that causes over a billion-dollar yield …

Adult females of Nasonia vitripennis inject a venomous mixture into its host flies prior to
oviposition. Recently, the entire genome of this ectoparasitoid wasp was sequenced …

Nucleoside hydrolases cleave the N-glycosidic bond of ribonucleosides. Because of their
vital role in the protozoan purine salvage pathway, nucleoside hydrolases from parasitic …

Protozoan parasites lack the pathway of thede novo synthesis of purines and depend on
host-derived nucleosides and nucleotides to salvage purines for DNA and RNA synthesis …

The fucose-mannose ligand (FML) complex of Leishmania donovani is a promising vaccine
candidate against murine and canine visceral leishmaniasis, and its main component is a 36 …