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Investigating the substrate specificity of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate (DAH7P) synthase

The shikimate pathway is a biosynthetic pathway that is responsible for producing a variety of organic compounds that are necessary for life in plants and microorganisms. The pathway consists of seven enzyme catalysed reactions beginning with the condensation reaction between D-erythrose 4-phosphate (E4P) and phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) to give the seven-carbon sugar DAH7P. This thesis describes the design, synthesis and evaluation of a range of alternative non-natural four-carbon analogues of E4P (2- and 3-deoxyE4P, 3-methylE4P, phosphonate analogues of E4P) to probe the substrate specificity of different types of DAH7P synthases [such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis (a type II DAH7PS), Escherichia coli (a type Ialpha DAH7PS) and Pyrococcus furiosus (a type Ibeta DAH7PS)].

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:canterbury.ac.nz/oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/6565
Date January 2011
CreatorsTran, David
PublisherUniversity of Canterbury. Chemistry
Source SetsUniversity of Canterbury
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic thesis or dissertation, Text
RightsCopyright David Tran, http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/thesis/etheses_copyright.shtml
RelationNZCU

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