Acylation stabilizes a protease-resistant conformation of protoporphyrinogen oxidase, the molecular target of diphenyl ether-type herbicides

Protein acylation is an important way in which a number of proteins with a variety of functions are modified. The physiological role of the acylation of cellular proteins is still poorly understood. Covalent binding of fatty acids to nonintegral membrane proteins is thought to produce transient or permanent enhancement of the association of the polypeptide chains with biological membranes. In this paper, we investigate the functional role for the palmitoylation of an atypical membrane-bound protein, yeast protoporphyrinogen oxidase, which is the molecular target of diphenyl ether-type herbicides. Palmitoylation stabilizes an active heat- and protease-resistant conformation of the protein. Palmitoylation of protoporphyrinogen oxidase has been demonstrated to occur in vivo both in yeast cells and in a heterologous bacterial expression system, where it may be inhibited by cerulenin leading to the accumulation of degradation products of the protein. The thiol ester linking palmitoleic acid to the polypeptide chain was shown to be sensitive to hydrolysis by hydroxylamine and also by the widely used serine-protease inhibitor phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride.

Thermal Degradation of Tetrabromobisphenol A: Emission of Polybrominated Dibenzo-P-Dioxins and Dibenzofurans and other Organic Compounds

Paper submitted to the 31st International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Compounds (Dioxin 2011), Brussels, Belgium, 21-25 August 2011.

Emissions of polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PBDD/Fs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from a cement kiln using a continuous monitoring system

Resumen de la comunicación presentada en PIC2015 – the 14th International Congress on Combustion By-Products and Their Health Effects, Umeå, Sweden, 14-17 June 2015.

Chromatographic fractionation of bitumen from sediments and presence of glycerol ethers in immature sediments (Table 2)

Alkanes having unusual saturated isoprenoidal and methyl-branched structures have been isolated from the bitumen of several sediments. The methanogenic biomarkers 2,6,10,15,19-pentamethyleicosane and squalane were found in sediments which also contained bacteriogenic glycerol ethers. However, in one ether-containing sediment, 2,6,10,13,17,21-hexamethyldocosane was tentatively identified and this compound was found in place of the established alkane biomarkers. Other hydrocarbons found were regular C21 and C23 isoprenoid alkanes, compounds which cannot be derived from phytol; two isoprenoids of the type 3,7,11.-polymethylalkane, previously reported only in petroleums; 8-methylheptadecane, a probable biomarker for cyanobacteria and a number of its homologs and other methyl-branched alkanes. Ubiquitous branched-chain alkylbenzenes and a homology of trimethylalkylbenzenes were also isolated. Most, or all, of the compounds reported here are probably not catagenetic products but may represent direct algal or bacterial bioinputs.

Ambient water quality criteria for chloroalkyl ethers /

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Technology of cellulose ethers; a theoretical and practical treatise on the origin, history, chemistry, manufacture, technical application and analysis of the etherified celluloses and carbohydrate carboxylate ehters (esterified cellulose ethers, etherified organic cellulose esters) ...

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Uber Diphenyl-itaconsaure, -citraconsaure und -brenzweinsaure /

Thesis (doctoral)--Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universitat Strassburg, 1896.

Kondensationen der diphenyl- und diphenylen-glycolsaure mit aro...

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