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Sideromycin Pathway Elucidation: Insights Into Salmycin Biosynthesis, Transport Paradigms, And Drug Release, Gerry Sann Macaraeg Rivera
Sideromycin Pathway Elucidation: Insights Into Salmycin Biosynthesis, Transport Paradigms, And Drug Release, Gerry Sann Macaraeg Rivera
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Antibiotic resistance is an increasing threat in today’s society. In order to overcome resistant bacteria, it is necessary to discover new drugs with novel mechanisms of action. This work focuses on the sideromycin pathway, encompassing the biosynthetic production, mechanism of entry and hydrolysis-mediated drug release. Sideromycins are an interesting approach to combat the rise of antibiotic resistance since they provide a different avenue that overcomes problems that arise when entering the cell. The dissertation is separated into distinct sections dealing with the various areas of interest in the sideromycin pathway, particularly for the sideromycin, salmycin, produced by Streptomyces violaceus. The …
Electron Decoupling With Chirped Microwave Pulses For Magic Angle Spinning Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Edward Paul Saliba
Electron Decoupling With Chirped Microwave Pulses For Magic Angle Spinning Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Edward Paul Saliba
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Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) is a method of generating hyperpolarization of nuclear spins for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Coherent, time domain techniques make the possibility of DNP directly to spins of interest at room temperature and higher feasible in magic angle spinning (MAS) NMR, allowing for optimal experimental repetition times to be limited by the T_1 of the electron, rather than a much longer T_1DNP, with excellent resolution. The strong hyperfine couplings that make such direct DNP transfers possible, however, can lead to short nuclear relaxation times that result in broadening of nuclear resonances and reduce sensitivity. This dissertation …
Fast-Forward Protein Folding And Design: Development, Analysis, And Applications Of The Fast Sampling Algorithm, Maxwell Isaac Zimmerman
Fast-Forward Protein Folding And Design: Development, Analysis, And Applications Of The Fast Sampling Algorithm, Maxwell Isaac Zimmerman
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Molecular dynamics simulations are a powerful tool to explore conformational landscapes, though limitations in computational hardware commonly thwart observation of biologically relevant events. Since highly specialized or massively parallelized distributed supercomputers are not available to most scientists, there is a strong need for methods that can access long timescale phenomena using commodity hardware. In this thesis, I present the goal-oriented sampling method, Fluctuation Amplification of Specific Traits (FAST), that takes advantage of Markov state models (MSMs) to adaptively explore conformational space using equilibrium-based simulations. This method follows gradients in conformational space to quickly explore relevant conformational transitions with orders of …