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Matched Description: … pH values. Spermine is associated with nucleic acids, particularly in viruses, and is thought to stabilize the helical structure. ... Spermine is a biogenic polyamine formed from spermidine. It is found in a wide variety of organisms ... and tissues and is an essential growth factor in some bacteria. It is found as a polycation at all …

Matched Description: … Aspartic acid (Asp, D), also known as aspartate (the name of its anion), is one of the 20 natural ... forms: D and L. L-aspartic acid is the isomer with more biological roles and is the form used in ... interconversion can occur between L-asparagine and L-aspartate. L-aspartate is also involved in the …

Matched Description: … Cinnamic acid has the formula C6H5CHCHCOOH and is an odorless white crystalline acid, which is ... components in the essential oil of cinnamon. It is involved in E. coli's aromatic compound metabolism ... and 3-phenylpropanoate degradation. Cinnamic acid is also part of the biosynthetic shikimate and …

Matched Description: … Cob(I)yrinate a,c diamide is an intermediate in porphyrin and chlorophyll metabolism. It is the ... sixth to last step in the synthesis of vitamin B12 coenzyme and is converted from Cob(II)yrinate a,c ... diamide via the enzyme cob(II)yrinic acid a,c-diamide reductase [EC:1.16.8.1]. It is then converted to …

Matched Description: … Glyceraldehyde is a triose monosaccharide with chemical formula C3H6O3. It is the simplest of all ... carbohydrate metabolism. The word comes from combining glycerine and aldehyde, as glyceraldehyde is merely glycerine with one hydroxide changed to an aldehyde. ... common aldoses. It is a sweet colorless crystalline solid that is an intermediate compound in …

Matched Description: … D- and L-lactaldehyde are also good substrates for aldose reductase. The aldose reductase-catalyzed …

Matched Description: … L-Histidinol is a structural analogue of the essential amino acid L-histidine. It is an ... intermediate in histidine metabolism. It is converted to L-histidinal via bifunctional histidinal dehydrogenase/histidinol dehydrogenase (EC:1.1.1.23). (KEGG) …

Matched Description: … D-galactonate is a member of the chemical class known as Sugar Acids and Derivatives. These are ... compounds containing a saccharide unit which bears a carboxylic acid group. The gluconic acid is ... aldehyde reductase, an enzyme of the aldo-keto reductase superfamily. l-Gulonate is converted to l …

Matched Description: … Dihydromonapterin-triphosphate is a member of the chemical class known as Biopterins and ... . Tetrahydromonapterin is the major tetrahydropterin in E. coli, although the biological role of tetrahydromonapterin in E. coli is currently unknown. ... triphosphate (DHNTP) is an intermediate in tetrahydrobiopterin and tetrahydromonopterin biosynthesis …

Matched Description: … N-(5-Phosphoribosyl)-anthranilate is a member of the chemical class known as Pentoses. These are ... monosaccharides in which the carbohydrate moiety contains five carbon atoms. N-(5-phosphoribosyl ... )-anthranilate is invovled in tryptophan biosynthesis. N-(5'-Phosphoribosyl)anthranilate isomerase-indole …

Matched Description: … phosphorylethanolamine moiety occupies a glycerol substitution site. As is the case with ... fatty acid distribution at the C-1 and C-2 positions of glycerol within phospholipids is continually in ... activated by phosphorylation and then coupled to CDP. The ethanolamine is then transferred from CDP …

Matched Description: … Pyridoxine 5'-phosphate is a substrate for Pyridoxine-5'-phosphate oxidase and Pyridoxal kinase. …

Matched Description: … nicotinate moiety of NAD is synthesized from aspartate, while in eukaryotes, the de novo pathway starts with tryptophan. ... Iminoaspartic acid (alpha-iminosuccinate) is an intermediate in NAD biosynthesis from aspartate ... pathwyay. As a general rule, most prokaryotes utilize the aspartate de novo pathway, in which the …

Matched Description: … phosphorylethanolamine moiety occupies a glycerol substitution site. As is the case with ... fatty acid distribution at the C-1 and C-2 positions of glycerol within phospholipids is continually ... be activated by phosphorylation and then coupled to CDP. The ethanolamine is then transferred from …

Matched Description: … D-ribose-5-phosphate is a member of the chemical class known as Pentoses. These are monosaccharides ... in which the carbohydrate moiety contains five carbon atoms. Ribose 5-phosphate is both a product ... the pentose phosphate pathway is the production of ribulose-5-phosphate. Depending on the body's state …

Matched Description: … L-lysine is an alpha-amino acid with the chemical formula HO2CCH(NH2)(CH2)4NH2. Lysine is a basic ... amino acid as are arginine and histidine. Lysine is a proteogenic amino acid, meaning that it is used ... in protein synthesis. Lysine typically constitutes about 7-8% of an average protein. The epsilon …

Matched Description: … 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate serves as a precursor for the biosynthesis of the vitamins thiamine ... and pyridoxal and for the formation of isopentenyl pyrophosphate and dimethylallyl pyrophosphate via ... the nonmevalonate pathway of terpenoid biosynthesis. Escherichia coli incorporates …

Matched Description: … Glycogen is a highly branched glucose polymer. It is formed of small chains of 8 to 12 glucose ... ) bonds. A single molecule of glycogen can be made of up to 120,000 molecules of glucose. It is ... stored in the form of granules in the cytosol. (EcoCyc) Glycogen only has one reducing end and a large …

Matched Description: … UDP-D-galacto-1,4-furanose is a member of the chemical class known as Pyrimidine Nucleotide Sugars ... group. Uridine diphosphogalactofuranose (UDP-Galf) is the precursor of the d-galactofuranose (Galf ... -galactofuranose, the precursor of galactofuranose, which is an important cell wall component in Aspergillus fumigatus and other pathogenic microbes. (PMID 20615386) …

Matched Description: … that is used as a monomer in RNA. It is an ester of phosphoric acid with the nucleoside cytidine ... . CMP consists of a phosphate group, a pentose sugar ribose and the nucleobase cytosine; hence it is a ... kinase, with Adenosine triphosphate or guanine triphosphate donating the phosphate group. CMP is used to activate mannose in metabolism. …

Matched Description: … , D-xylulose (as well as D-arabinose or D-ribulose) is a precursor of the pentiol D-arabitol, since ... D-xylulose is a monosaccharide containing five carbon atoms. D-xylulose is converted from xylitol ... by the enzyme NAD+-linked xylitol dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.9) in the glucuronate pathway. Most likely …

Matched Description: … -D-ribityl)lumazine is the second to last step in the synthesis of ribitol and is converted from 4 ... -(1-D-ribitylamino)-5-amino-2,6-dihydroxypyrimidine via the enzyme riboflavin synthase beta chain. It is then ... 6,7-Dimethyl-8-(1-D-ribityl)lumazine is an intermediate in riboflavin metabolism. 6,7-Dimethyl-8-(1 …

Matched Description: … 2,3-dihydroxybenzoylserine is a member of the chemical class known as Catechols. These are ... degradation. It is a product of the enzyme 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate-serine ligase (EC 6.3.2.14) is an enzyme ... compounds containing a 1,2-benzenediol moeity. 2,3-dihydroxybenzoylserine is invovled in Enterobactin …

Matched Description: … Crotonobetaine is a member of the chemical class known as Quaternary Ammonium Salts. These are ... compounds containing positively charged polyatomic ion of the structure NR4+, R being an alkyl group or ... an aryl groupCrotonobetaine is invovled in Carnitine metabolism, and ABC transporters …

Matched Description: … phosphorylethanolamine moiety occupies a glycerol substitution site. As is the case with ... acid distribution at the C-1 and C-2 positions of glycerol within phospholipids is continually in ... activated by phosphorylation and then coupled to CDP. The ethanolamine is then transferred from CDP …