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B12 METABOLISM IN HUMANS By NICOLE
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The work in this dissertation is de
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGME
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General Molecular and Protein Metho
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LIST OF TABLES Table page 1-1. Aden
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3-7. Stoichiometry of the MSR-ATR s
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DTT dithiothreitol E. coli Escheric
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Abstract of Dissertation Presented
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION History of C
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3 (DMB). The DMB moiety is covalent
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5 and deoxyadenosine. After hydroge
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7 homocysteine recycling and methio
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methylmalonic acid. Methylmalonic a
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folate-dependent reactions includin
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tetanomorphum, P. shermanii, Euglen
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enzyme. This suggests that cob(II)a
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at the 5’-C of ATP by cob(I)alami
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iochemical studies and complementat
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1997). Both cases of the cblD disor
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23 The cblB complementation group i
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(Watkins et al. 2002). Some patient
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Chapter 2 of this dissertation repo
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Corrin Ring Dimethyl benzimidazole
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Classes Eliminases Dehydratases OH
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A) B) CH 3THF 33 MS-cob(I)alamin Me
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propanol dehydrogenase (PduQ) propa
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or from mutations that impair the a
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1989). 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-
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41 5’-GCCGCCGGTACCGATGACGACGACAAG
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43 Growth of Adenosyltransferase Ex
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anti-rabbit IgG (γ-chain specific)
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sequence similarity to a known ATR
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ATRs were produced as fusion protei
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51 of the lacI repressor (not shown
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in which proteins bind B12, the "ba
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libraries may be particularly usefu
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57 Figure 2-1. Multiple sequence al
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Table 2-2. Specific activities of b
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61 1 2 3 4 5 25 kDa Figure 2-4. Wes
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63 (cyanocobalamin, CNCbl) and hydr
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65 5’- triphosphate (ATP), and di
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extracts of ATR 239K (160 mg protei
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Milford, MA). Samples (200 µl) wer
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Linearity of the ATR reaction 71 Th
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73 reactions was characteristic of
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75 MSR Produces little Cob(I)alamin
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Johnson et al. 2001, Saridakis et a
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AdoCbl by the MSR-ATR system. Exper
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propionyl-CoA PCC (2S)-methylmalony
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kDa 97 66 45 31 21 14 7 83 1 2 3 4
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85 Table 3-3. The MSR-ATR system se
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Absorbance 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0
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