The art of blowing up protein

A segfault and NaN driven series of disconnected ideas, analyses and just plain silly posts about computational biochemistry, synthetic biology and microbiology.

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Tuesday, 9 August 2016

Cysteine racemase: an impossible enzyme?

Cysteine racemase is an enzyme (EC 5.1.1.10) that was characterised in lysates long ago, but have never been found since. Is it a real enzym...

Saturday, 6 February 2016

Promiscuously hitchhiking on a pathway

In the seminal 1976 paper on enzyme evolution Roy Jensen first pointed out that the TCA cycle, the ketoadipate route to lysine, pantothenate...

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Speculations about methionine biosynthesis genes

Last year I wrote a review on the bacterial diversity methionine biosynthesis: Ferla MP, Patrick WM. Bacterial methionine biosynthesis. M...

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Matteo Ferla: English/Italian computational biochemist at the University of Oxford in OPIG/XChem, formerly in Oxford BRC genomic medicine subtheme. All opinions my own.

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