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unusual facts about catalytic



2',3'-Cyclic-nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase

Deletion of the C-terminus of CNP or phosphorylation abolish the catalytic activity of microtubule formation.

Alameda Science and Technology Institute

One of the very first Early College High Schools in California to receive funding through a catalytic "start-up" grant made available by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others, ASTI's funding intermediaries are the Foundation for California Community Colleges and Jobs for the Future.

Alexander E. Shilov

Academian Shilov is the author of the famous book Activation and Catalytic Reactions of Saturated Hydrocarbons in the Presence of Metal Complexes together with Georgiy B. Shul'pin.

Alpha-lactalbumin

α-Lactalbumin forms the regulatory subunit of the lactose synthase (LS) heterodimer and β-1,4-galactosyltransferase (beta4Gal-T1) forms the catalytic component.

ATP5E

The epsilon subunit is located in the stalk region of the F1 complex, and acts as an inhibitor of the ATPase catalytic core.

Catalytic bead sensor

A catalytic bead sensor is a type of sensor that is used for gas detection.

Cell division control protein 4

Cdc4 adapts a suprafacial configuration: The substrate-binding sites lie in the same plane AS the catalytic sites, with a separation of 64Å within and 102Å between each SCF monomer.

Chemical reactor

However, most petrochemical reactors are catalytic, and are responsible for most of industrial chemical production in the world, with extremely high-volume examples such as sulfuric acid, ammonia, reformate/BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene) and alkylate gasoline blending stock.

DFFA

The main function of this domain is the inhibition of DFFB by binding to its C-terminal catalytic domain through ionic interactions, thereby inhibiting the fragmentation of DNA in the apoptotic process.

Fructose-bisphosphate aldolase

Aldolase has also been implicated in many "moonlighting" or non-catalytic functions, based upon its binding affinity for multiple other proteins including F-actin, α-tubulin, light chain dynein, WASP, Band 3 anion exchanger, phospholipase D (PLD2), glucose transporter GLUT4, inositol trisphosphate, V-ATPase and ARNO (a guanine nucleotide exchange factor of ARF6).

Gene silencing

Sidney Altman and Thomas Cech first discovered catalytic RNA molecules, RNase P and group II intron ribozymes, in 1989 and won the Nobel Prize for their discovery.

Glutamate—cysteine ligase

Glutamate cysteine ligase modifier subunit (GCLM, ~31 kDa) increases the catalytic efficiency of GCLC.

John Mooney

John J. Mooney, American chemical engineer who was co-inventor of the three-way catalytic converter

Kumada coupling

The first investigations into the catalytic coupling of Grignard reagents with organic halides date back to the 1941 study of cobalt catalysts by Karasch and Fields.

Michele Cassou

"Michele Cassou is catalytic visionary: a fuse lighter who sends people rocketing into their creativity."- Julia Cameron.

Nanomaterial-based catalyst

Carbon nanotube supported catalysts can be used as a cathode catalytic support for fuel cells and metal nanoparticles have been used to catalyze the growth of carbon nanotubes.

NFE2L2

Glutamate-cysteine ligase, catalytic (Gclc) and glutamate-cysteine ligase, modifier (GCLM) subunits form a heterodimer, which is the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of glutathione (GSH), a very powerful endogenous antioxidant.

Paul Harteck

In 1941, his department constructed a conversion unit for Norsk Hydro for the catalytic production of heavy water.

POLG2

The POLG2 gene encodes a 55 kDa accessory subunit protein that imparts high processivity and salt tolerance to the catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase gamma, encoded by the POLG gene.

Polyethylene

Catalytic systems based on soluble catalysts, the metallocenes, were reported in 1976 by Walter Kaminsky and Hansjörg Sinn.

Protein kinase, AMP-activated, alpha 1

It is the catalytic subunit of the 5'-prime-AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK).

PSA TU engine

A new version with 100 PS (99 hp/74 kW) was created in 1992 for the Peugeot 106 Rallye, with the adoption of a Magneti Marelli fuel injection system and a catalytic converter.

Relaxase

This means that they use a metal ion to aid the transfer of an ester bond from the DNA phosphodiester backbone to a catalytic tyrosine side chain, resulting in a long-lived covalent phosphotyrosine intermediate that essentially unified the nicked DNA strand and the enzyme as one molecule.

Robinson–Gabriel synthesis

Starting with aspartic acid β esters undergoing acylation to differentiate the first substituent, linked to carbon-2, followed by Dakin-West conversion to keto-amide to introduce the second substituent, and ending with the Robinson-Gabriel cyclodehydration at 90°C for 30 minutes with either phosphorus oxychloride in DMF or catalytic sulfuric acid in acetic anhydride.

Sándor Kürti

Working for Honeywell, (Bracknell, UK) he simulated process control system of a catalytic crack plant.

Stationary or Bubbling Fluidized Bed

In 1938, Exxon Research joined a consortium of large oil and processing companies that came up with the concept of fluidized bed catalyst, which is then used for catalytic cracking of crude oil feed in gasoline production.

Steroid Delta-isomerase

Low-barrier hydrogen bonds and unusual pKa values for the catalytic residues have been proposed as the basis for the fast action of KSI.

T-Stoff

Catalytic decomposition of T-Stoff by Z-Stoff was also used as a monopropellant in several "cold" Walter rocket engines, including early versions of the engine for the Me 163A, and rocket-assisted takeoff pack engines like the Walter HWK 500.

Thomas Cech

Thomas Robert Cech (born December 8, 1947 in Chicago) is a chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel prize in chemistry with Sidney Altman, for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA.

Tihomir Novakov

In October, 1974 Science Magazine published Sulfates as Pollution Particulates: Catalytic Formation on Carbon (Soot) Particles, which Novakov co-wrote with S. G. Chang and A. B. Harker.

UBE1C

This enzyme contains an E2 binding domain, which resembles ubiquitin, and recruits the catalytic core of the E2 enzyme UBE2M (Ubc12) in a similar manner to that in which ubiquitin interacts with ubiquitin binding domains.

ZGB

The Ziff–Gulari–Barshad model, model in chemical physics for the catalytic oxidation of carbon monoxide

Zinc–air battery

Cobalt oxide/carbon nanotube hybrid oxygen reduction catalyst and Nickel-iron layered double hydroxide oxygen evolution cathode catalysts exhibited higher catalytic activity and durability in concentrated alkaline electrolytes than precious metal Platinum and Iridium catalysts.


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