Applications of isothermal titration calorimetry–the research and technical developments from 2011 to 2015

RJ Falconer - Journal of Molecular Recognition, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Isothermal titration calorimetry is a widely used biophysical technique for studying the
formation or dissociation of molecular complexes. Over the last 5 years, much work has …

Substrate oxidation by cytochrome P450 enzymes

PR Ortiz de Montellano - Cytochrome P450: structure, mechanism, and …, 2015 - Springer
Cytochrome P450 enzymes catalyze a broad diversity of reactions, including well-
established transformations such as carbon and nitrogen hydroxylation, heteroatom …

Anatomy of enzyme channels

L Pravda, K Berka, R Svobodová Vařeková… - BMC …, 2014 - Springer
Background Enzyme active sites can be connected to the exterior environment by one or
more channels passing through the protein. Despite our current knowledge of enzyme …

Conformational mobility in cytochrome P450 3A4 explored by pressure-perturbation EPR spectroscopy

DR Davydov, Z Yang, N Davydova, JR Halpert… - Biophysical journal, 2016 - cell.com
We used high hydrostatic pressure as a tool for exploring the conformational landscape of
human cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4) by electron paramagnetic resonance and …

Tunneling kinetics and nonadiabatic proton-coupled electron transfer in proteins: the effect of electric fields and anharmonic donor–acceptor interactions

B Salna, A Benabbas, D Russo… - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
A proper description of proton donor–acceptor (D–A) distance fluctuations is crucial for
understanding tunneling in proton-coupled electron transport (PCET). The typical harmonic …

Cholesterol ester oxidation by mycobacterial cytochrome P450

DJ Frank, Y Madrona, PRO de Montellano - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2014 - ASBMB
Mycobacteria share a common cholesterol degradation pathway initiated by oxidation of the
alkyl side chain by enzymes of cytochrome P450 (CYP) families 125 and 142. Structural and …

Activation of molecular oxygen in cytochromes P450

IG Denisov, SG Sligar - Cytochrome P450: Structure, Mechanism, and …, 2015 - Springer
The complex multistep mechanism of oxygen activation in P450 is reviewed as a sequence
of the following reactions: Substrate binding, reduction of the heme iron from ferric to the …

Different behaviors of a substrate in P450 decarboxylase and hydroxylase reveal reactivity-enabling actors

VS Bharadwaj, S Kim, MT Guarnieri, MF Crowley - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Biological routes to the production of fuels from renewable feedstocks hold significant
promise in our efforts towards a sustainable future. The fatty acid decarboxylase enzyme …

Structure-based design of bacterial nitric oxide synthase inhibitors

JK Holden, S Kang, SA Hollingsworth, H Li… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Inhibition of bacterial nitric oxide synthase (bNOS) has the potential to improve the efficacy
of antimicrobials used to treat infections by Gram-positive pathogens Staphylococcus aureus …

An engineered glutamate in biosynthetic models of heme-copper oxidases drives complete product selectivity by tuning the hydrogen-bonding network

ID Petrik, R Davydov, M Kahle, B Sandoval… - Biochemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
Efficiently carrying out the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is critical for many applications
in biology and chemistry, such as bioenergetics and fuel cells, respectively. In biology, this …