Stereochemistry and Mechanism of a Microbial Phenylalanine Aminomutase
作者:Nishanka Dilini Ratnayake、Udayanga Wanninayake、James H. Geiger、Kevin D. Walker
DOI:10.1021/ja2030728
日期:2011.6.8
The stereochemistry of a phenylalanine aminomutase (PAM) on the andrimid biosynthetic pathway in Pantoea agglomerans (Pa) is reported. PaPAM is a member of the 4-methylidene-1H-imidazol-5(4H)-one (MIO)-dependent family of catalysts and isomerizes (2S)-alpha-phenylalanine to (3S)-beta-phenylalanine, which is the enantiomer of the product made by the mechanistically similar aminomutase TcPAM from Taxus plants. The NH2 and pro-(3S) hydrogen groups at C-alpha and C-beta, respectively, of the substrate are removed and interchanged completely intramolecularly with inversion of configuration at the migration centers to form P-phenylalanine. This is a contrast to the retention of configuration mechanism followed by TcPAM.
METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING DISEASES
申请人:Becton, Dickinson and Company
公开号:EP2208071B1
公开(公告)日:2012-08-01
System and method for diagnosing diseases
申请人:Gelfand Craig A.
公开号:US20090208923A1
公开(公告)日:2009-08-20
One aspect of the invention provides a method of diagnosing a disease condition, comprising measuring presence or amount of a targeted protein or a degradation product of said protein in a collected biological sample as a marker for the disease condition. The targeted protein or degradation product is selected for measurement based on a prior identification of a measurable half-life at a predetermined time period, including the time at which said method is conducted, and correlating said measuring with the presence or absence of the disease condition. The targeted protein or degradation product may be identified by selecting a protein known or suspected to be a diagnostic marker for the disease condition, analyzing degradation of the protein in the collected biological sample, and selecting a protein or degradation product that exhibits a measurable half-life at a predetermined period of time. The analyzing may include identifying degradation product(s) of the protein as a function of time, and half-life of the protein and the degradation product(s).