Binds an amino acid to the correct corresponding tRNA sequence. Wikipedia mentions that humans have 20 of them, one for each proteinogenic amino acid.
The second protein to have its structure determined, after myoglobin, by X-ray crystallography, in 1965.
Breaks up peptidoglycan present in the bacterial cell wall, which is thicker in Gram-positive bacteria, which is what this enzyme seems to target.
Part of the inate immune system.
With X-ray crystallography by David Chilton Phillips. The second protein to be resolved fter after myoglobin, and the first enzyme.
Published at: Structure of Hen Egg-White Lysozyme: A Three-dimensional Fourier Synthesis at 2 Å Resolution (1965). The work was done while at the Davy Faraday Research Laboratory of the Royal Institution.
Phillips also published a lower resolution (6angstrom) of the enzyme-inhibitor complexes at about the same time: Structure of Some Crystalline Lysozyme-Inhibitor Complexes Determined by X-Ray Analysis At 6 Å Resolution (1965). The point of doing this is that it points out the active site of the enzyme.
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Published at: a Three-Dimensional Model of the Myoglobin Molecule Obtained by X-Ray Analysis (1958). The work was done at the Cavendish Laboratory.
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Study of the metabolome.
For a commented initial example, see: e. Coli K-12 MG1655 gene thrA.
But BioCyc is generally better otherwise.
Design software for synthetic biological circuit.
The input is in Verilog! Overkill?
Flow Cytometry Animation by StarCellBio (2015)
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