Week 9 - 10/29-11/2

Tuesday - Triose Phosphate Isomerase & General Acid-Base Catalysis

Reading

Voet and Voet, Chapter 15.1.A (just the first bit), 17.2.E
My lecture notes on TIM (incomplete)

Review articles on Triose Phosphate Isomerase

J. Knowles (1991) Enzyme catalysis: not different, just better.Nature 350, 121-124.
J. Knowles(1991). To Build an Enzyme... Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 332, 115-121.

Thursday - Cleaving RNA

Reading

Voet and Voet, Chapter 15.1.A (all of it), 15.1.C, 31.4.f,g

Optional

Ribonuclease Review: Steyaert (1997) Eur. J. Biochem. 247, 1

HDV Ribozyme & General Acid Catalysis: Strobel (2005) Nat. Chem. Biol. 1, 1

J. Doudna (2005) Ribozyme Catalysis: not different, just worse, NSMB 12, 395-402