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Biochemical investigations of two polyketide synthase subclasses – highly reducing/non-reducing pairs, and polyketide synthase non-ribosomal peptide synthetases.
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Cladosporin is a polyketide metabolite that is biosynthesized by a highly reducing (HR)/non-reducing (NR) polyketide synthase (PKS) pair, wherein they catalyse head-totail condensation of acetyl and malonyl CoA units with subsequent β-keto modification. Cladosporin has recently been reported as a...
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The Catalytic Role of a Single Water on Keto-Enol Tautomerization Explored by Fourier Transform Microwave Spectroscopy and Ab Initio Calculations
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Keto-enol tautomerization plays important roles in biochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, and crystallography. It has attracted much attention for a long time. Solvation (hydration) is found to play essential roles in controlling this tautomerization process. Here, the effects of a single water...
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Fall 2009
The use of transition metal catalysts - either homogeneous (discrete well-defined metal complexes) or heterogeneous (more poorly-defined metal surfaces) - play an important role in the transformations of small substrates into larger, value-added compounds. Although heterogeneous catalysts have...
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Microscopic and Macroscopic Insights into Second Order Nonlinear Optics through Computational and Experimental Routes
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The challenge with obtaining physical insights into physiochemical phenomena is connecting the macroscopic observables with the microscopic processes in a system. In second-order nonlinear optical spectroscopy, experimental techniques such as vibrational sum frequency generation (vSFG) and second...
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Development of Small Molecules Towards Novel Protein Targets: From Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators to Affinity Probes for a Novel Immunological Target
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Cancer is a group of diseases that result from the uncontrollable growth of cells, which eventually can metastasize to other parts of the body, resulting in spread of the cancer. Chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, and immunotherapy are the main pillars of cancer therapeutics. In recent years,...
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Spring 2023
Sialic acid is a monosaccharide found at the non-reducing end of cell surface glycans. Among the many important roles in mammals, sialic acid commonly serves as a ligand for glycan binding proteins, such as in host self-recognition (Siglecs), response to infection (Selectins), and in viral...
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Boron-Mediated Lignocellulose Degradation. Design, Synthesis, Properties, and Applications of Boron-Containing Naphthoids
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Lewis acidity is a molecule’s tendency to accept a pair of electrons. Trivalent boron compounds are archetypical Lewis acids due to the presence of a vacant p orbital, leading to many uses in organic synthesis. For example, boron trihalides use their intrinsic Lewis acidity to accept ether oxygen...
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Spring 2023
Biomimetic actuators are receiving growing attention due to the novel ideas inspired by mother nature. By mimicking the behaviors or traits of living creatures, scientists are able to realize various functions and properties that are difficult to achieve. An enormous number of applications in...