The Biochemistry of Inorganic Polyphosphates

Correction: The new world of inorganic polyphosphates.

Figure 1 Model of two independent PTMs, serine-pyrophosphorylation and lysine-polyphosphorylation Protein pyrophosphorylation is the transfer of the b-phosphate group of the pyrophosphate moiety of IP7 on to a pre-phosphorylated serine residue (left) [16,17]. Conversely, protein polyphosphorylation is the covalent attachment of a chain of inorganic polyP on to a lysine residue dependent on the ...

Inorganic Biochemistry

Inorganic Biochemistry of Medicinal Plants

Most medicinal plants are flowering plants and they also serve as ornamental plants. Measurement of trace element content in medicinal plants, drugs and extracts may be relevant in view of e.g. human health, animal health and environmental relations. This fact has a great significance since about half of the plant drugs available in the trade originate from natural habitats and the element cont...

The inorganic biochemistry of photosynthetic water oxidation.

This enzyme, called the photosynthetic water oxidation complex (WOC), liberates protons and electrons needed for energy production and reduction of NADP’ and quinones that are essential for plant growth. The 0, formed in Equation 1 is not essential for plant survival, but is essential for other organisms on Earth, since it is by far the major source of global OL production for the atmosphere. T...

Analysis of inorganic polyphosphates by capillary gel electrophoresis.

This paper describes the development of a method that uses capillary gel electrophoresis (CGE) to analyze mixtures of inorganic polyphosphate ((P(i))(n)). Resolution of (P(i))(n) on the basis of n, the number of residues of dehydrated phosphate, is accomplished by CGE using capillaries filled with solutions of poly(N,N-dimethylacrylamide) (PDMA) and indirect detection by the UV absorbance of a ...