Nikki Bilgram ChemBio Spotlight #3 Paper: Catalytic Mechanism of a Retinoid Isomerase Essential for Vertebrate Vision http://www.nature.com/nchembio/journal/v11/n6/full/nchembio.1799.html RPE65 is a membrane-bound retinoid isomerase that is…
Category: Enzyme Mechanism
Kelly Cann ChemBio Spotlight Week 3 Paper:The Interplay of Protein Kinase A and Perilipin 5 Regulates Cardiac Lipolysis Getting to the Heart of the Matter:…
By Hudson Roth Spotlight #2 Zheng, H. et al. Biochemistry 2013, 52, 5876-5883. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/bi400821s In recent years there has been an increasing interest in biocatalysis,…
By Ian Smith Paper: Vinylogous chain branching catalysed by a dedicated polyketide synthase module http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12588.html Creating complex naturally-occurring compounds biosynthetically, by mimicking prokaryotic metabolism, is…
