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Base-Caged Adenosine Triphosphate As A Model System For Photoactivatable Small Interfering Rna, Amanda Yoesting Hendrix
Base-Caged Adenosine Triphosphate As A Model System For Photoactivatable Small Interfering Rna, Amanda Yoesting Hendrix
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Photocaged adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is one of the earliest examples of exerting spatial-temporal control over the activity of a substrate. The activity of ATP is blocked until near-ultraviolet light exposure photocleaves the cage moiety. Caged ATP has been used for a myriad of applications including kinetic studies of ATP-dependent enzymes. Traditional caging of ATP occurs at the gamma-phosphate, which has been found to competitively inhibit several enzymatic systems. It was hypothesized that blocking access to the adenosine N6 position via cage molecule would prevent the initial enzyme-substrate binding event from occurring prior to photolysis, effectively minimizing competitive inhibition. Utilizing a …