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Metabolic Mapping: Quantitative Enzyme Cytochemistry and Histochemistry to Determine the Activity of Dehydrogenases in Cells and Tissues
Published on: May 26, 2018
Characterization of the recombinant (R)- and (S)-hydroxypropyl-coenzyme M dehydrogenases: A case study to augment the
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University-Chico, Chico, California, 95929.
Abstract:
A homologous pair of stereospecific NAD-dependent enzymes, (R)- and (S)-hydroxypropyl-coenzyme M dehydrogenase, are part of a bacterial pathway of short-chain alkene and epoxide metabolism. Their discovery and study, which spans multiple publications over more than a decade, is a data rich story that combines both classical and contemporary experimental biochemistry. A subset of the data for characterization of the recombinant enzymes was used as a case study to augment the teaching of enzyme kinetics and stereoselectivity in an undergraduate biochemistry course at California State University-Chico. © 2018 International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 47(2): 124-132, 2019.
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