Hydro-Lyases

The pea aphid genome includes 66 genes contributing to amino acid biosynthesis and 93 genes to amino acid degradation. In several… (More)

The assimilation of carbon dioxide (CO2) into organic material is quantitatively the most important biosynthetic process. We… (More)

Very long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs) are essential lipids whose functional diversity is enabled by variation in their chain… (More)

The suf and isc operons of Escherichia coli have been implicated in Fe-S cluster assembly. However, it has been unclear why E… (More)

Nitric oxide (NO) is a poison, and organisms employ diverse systems to protect against its harmful effects. In Escherichia coli… (More)

The cysteine desulfurase, IscS, provides sulfur for Fe-S cluster synthesis in vitro, but a role for IscS in in vivo Fe-S cluster… (More)

The propanediol utilization (pdu) operon of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium LT2 contains genes needed for the coenzyme B… (More)

We have discovered a superfamily of enzymes related by their ability to catalyze the abstraction of the alpha-proton of a… (More)

We report in this paper that highly purified Escherichia coli dihydroxy-acid dehydratase, fumarase A, fumarase B, and mammalian… (More)

gamma-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) dehydratase catalyzes the synthesis of porphobilinogen (PBG) from two molecules of ALA. A… (More)