Background: Aspirin use is extensive, but its short half-life limits bioavailability. Results: Butyrylcholinesterase and PAFAH1b2 hydrolyze aspirin in plasma. Aspirin hydrolysis in plasma varies up to 12-fold from non-genetic modulation of butyrylcholinesterase activity. Conclusion: Two enzymes hydrolyze aspirin in plasma and their contribution varies among individuals. Significance: Aspirin hy...

Literature reports disagree concerning esculin hydrolysis in the family Enterobacteriaceae. A total of 2,490 strains of the family were investigated for esculin hydrolysis by two methods, the esculin spot test and the PathoTec incubation strip, which measures constitutive enzyme, and five growth-supporting methods, which determine both constitutive and inducible enzymes. The five growth-support...

We have performed a series of first-principles electronic structure calculations to examine the reaction pathways and the corresponding free energy barriers for the ester hydrolysis of protonated cocaine in its chair and boat conformations. The calculated free energy barriers for the benzoyl ester hydrolysis of protonated chair cocaine are close to the corresponding barriers calculated for the ...

The metabotropic glutamate 1a (mGlu1a) receptor is a G protein-coupled receptor linked with phosphoinositide (PI) hydrolysis and with β-arrestin-1-mediated sustained extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) phosphorylation and cytoprotective signaling. Previously, we reported the existence of ligand bias at this receptor, inasmuch as glutamate induced both effects, whereas quisqualate induce...

Hydrolysis and precipitation are the key processes that determine coagulation performance of inorganic metal salts. The valence concentration salts, ligands, solution pH all influence performance. In order to get a full picture on pros cons various salts as coagulants, this paper conducted thermodynamic equilibrium calculations experiments analyze verify hydrolysis-precipitation a...

DNA catalysts (deoxyribozymes) for a variety of reactions have been identified by in vitro selection. However, for certain reactions this identification has not been achieved. One important example is DNA-catalyzed amide hydrolysis, for which a previous selection experiment instead led to DNA-catalyzed DNA phosphodiester hydrolysis. Subsequent efforts in which the selection strategy deliberatel...

Hsp90 is a homodimeric ATP-dependent molecular chaperone that remodels its substrate 'client' proteins, facilitating their folding and activating them for biological function. Despite decades of research, the mechanism connecting ATP hydrolysis and chaperone function remains elusive. Particularly puzzling has been the apparent lack of cooperativity in hydrolysis of the ATP in each protomer. A c...

The effect of HCl hydrolysis on the dye content (Feulgen reaction) of normal cells and mouse ascites tumor cells was examined by means of cytophotometric measurements. After 11 min of hydrolysis, 16-day-old tumor cells showed a hypotetraploid DNA line with doubling peaks. The DNA values were in the ratios of 1:2:4:8 during all the tested hydrolysis times (3 to 21 min). The size of the nucleus a...

BACKGROUND The BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) developed a high-throughput screening method to rapidly identify low-recalcitrance biomass variants. Because the customary separation and analysis of liquid and solids between pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis used in conventional analyses is slow, labor-intensive and very difficult to automate, a streamlined approach we term 'co-hydrolysis' wa...

Specific hydrolysis of the separate groups of steroid conjugates appeared to offer the simplest technique for achieving the hydrolysis without chemical modification of the steroids (3-5). A partial solution to this problem was offered when it was found that steroid glucuronides could be hydrolyzed specifically by the use of /3-glucuronidase concentrates of either animal (Cohen (3)) or bacterial...