Thiamine Pyrophosphate (TPP)-Dependent Enzymes

Thiamine Pyrophosphate (TPP)-Dependent Enzymes, Volume 736 in the Methods in Enzymology series covers this diverse group of ubiquitous enzymes with timely chapters on Methods for Studying ThDP-dependent Mycobacterial MenDs (SEPHCHC Synthases), Mammalian 2-hydroxyacyl-CoA lyases, discovery and assays, Anti-infective target 1-deoxy-d-xylulose-5-phosphate synthase (DXS) and drug design for enzyme inhibition, Expression, Purification, and Mechanistic Studies of DXP synthases from Deinococcus radiodurans, Plasmodium falciparum, and Plasmodium vivax, Comparison of the catalysis of ThPP-dependent enzymes AHAS, ALS, and DXS, and much more. Additional sections cover Plant and fungal acetohydroxyacid synthases (AHAS): Methods for heterologous expression, kinetic characterization, and structural analysis, Biochemical and Structural characterization of novel ‘split-gene’ archeal transketolases, 4-Hydroxybenzoylformate decarboxylase enzymes from Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 and Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf-5: characterization and involvement in bacterial lignin degradation, Engineering of phosphoketolase from Bifidobacterium adolescentis for increased activity on non-phosphorylated substrates and application in a cell-free reaction system for ATP regeneration, Repurposing TPP-dependent enzymes with anodic oxidation for the conversion of aldehydes to enantioenriched carboxylic acids, and much more.