The ureides allantoin and allantoic acid are the major long-distance forms of nitrogen (N) in nodulated tropical legumes like French bean (

As a folate-dependent enzyme, serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) catalyzes the reversible conversion of L-serine and (6S)-H4PteGlun (tetrahydrofolate, THF) to glycine and (6S)-5,10-CH2-H4PteGlun. The glycine-forming ...

Jasmonic acid (JA) is a plant hormone that controls many aspects of growth, development, and defense. As a defense hormone JA is rapidly synthesized in response to wounding, or attack from herbivores and pathogens, triggering ...

The unifying goal of cancer therapy is to selectively eradicate cancer cells while sparing normal tissue from damage. As many current anticancer therapies lack specificity and cause unwanted side effects there is an unmet ...

Due to increasing antibiotic resistance among dangerous pathogens, there is a critical need for new antibiotics. Enzymes represent a powerful tool for antibiotic production and discovery, however more enzymatic mechanisms ...

Arogenate dehydratases (ADTs) perform the final step of phenylalanine (Phe) biosynthesis in plants. As one of twenty protein-coding amino acids, Phe is essential in all living organisms, and in plants it is also a precursor ...

Polyunsaturated fatty acids serve both structural and functional roles as membrane components as well as precursors for a number of different factors involved in inflammation and signaling. Humans are unable to synthesize ...

Plant natural products are useful for many different applications, including medicines, flavors and fragrances, and industrial uses. Two important aspects of plant natural products research are the identification of compounds ...

The repair of double strand breaks (DSB) is a fundamental process that plays a key role in cell survival and evolution. DSB repair is required for cell survival, and a variety of pathways have evolved. Homologous ...