A cofactor is a non-protein chemical compound or metallic ion that is required for an enzyme's role as a catalyst (a catalyst is a substance that increases...

Look up cofactor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cofactor may also refer to: Cofactor (biochemistry), a substance that needs to be present in addition...

Propionyl-CoA carboxylase (PCC) For the first two, biotin serves as a cofactor responsible for transfer of bicarbonate to acetyl-CoA, converting it to...

carboxylase). An example of an enzyme that contains a cofactor is carbonic anhydrase, which uses a zinc cofactor bound as part of its active site. These tightly...

Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and...

PMID 27230956. Felton LM, Anthony C (2005). "Biochemistry: role of PQQ as a mammalian enzyme cofactor?". Nature. 433 (7025): E10, discussion E11–2. Bibcode:2005Natur...

from conformational change and loss of solubility or dissociation of cofactors to aggregation due to the exposure of hydrophobic groups. The loss of...

FeMoco (FeMo cofactor) is the primary cofactor of nitrogenase. Nitrogenase is the enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen molecules...

electrons are released and accepted by redox cofactors (NAD and ferredoxin). At later points, these cofactors donate electrons to their final acceptor and...

"From Genetic Footprinting to Antimicrobial Drug Targets: Examples in Cofactor Biosynthetic Pathways". J. Bacteriol. 184 (16): 4555–4572. doi:10.1128/JB...

SidA is a highly specific ornithine hydroxylase with bound flavin cofactor". Biochemistry. 49 (31): 6777–6783. doi:10.1021/bi100291n. PMID 20614882. Zdobnov...

examples is: Precursor   molecule + Cofactor → e n z y m e macromolecule {\displaystyle {\ce {{Precursor~molecule}+Cofactor->[][enzyme]macromolecule}}} Simple...

citric acid - citric acid cycle - cladistics - cloning - coenzyme - cofactor (biochemistry) - colchicine - collagen - colloid - colony-stimulating factor -...

dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase (E2), dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase (E3), six cofactors: thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP), lipoamide, coenzyme A (CoA), flavin adenine...

Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4, THB), also known as sapropterin (INN), is a cofactor of the three aromatic amino acid hydroxylase enzymes, used in the degradation...

tons of nicotinamide were sold in 2014. Nicotinamide, as a part of the cofactor nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH / NAD+) is crucial to life. In...

reversibly reacts with an aldehyde or ketone of a cofactor or substrate. The common enzyme cofactor pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) forms a Schiff base with...

biochemistry can be said to have started with the ancient Greeks who were interested in the composition and processes of life, although biochemistry as...

proteins, however, generate and maintain a superoxidized form of the flavin cofactor, the flavin-N(5)-oxide. Flavoproteins were first discovered in 1879 by...

activity. Others require non-protein molecules called cofactors to be bound for activity. Cofactors can be either inorganic (e.g., metal ions and iron-sulfur...

incorporated into important cofactors of enzymatic reactions (e.g., coenzyme A, FAD, FMN, NAD, and NADP+). In experimental biochemistry, nucleotides can be radiolabeled...

Macromolecules are created from smaller molecules using enzymes and cofactors. Anabolism is powered by catabolism, where large molecules are broken...

of various oxidoreductases, including NADH dehydrogenase, as well as a cofactor in biological blue-light photo receptors. During the catalytic cycle, a...

inhibitory effects on enzymes, catalytic activity of their own (usually as a cofactor to an enzyme), defense, and interactions with other organisms (e.g. pigments...

D, Voet JG (2004). Biochemistry (3rd ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-39223-5. Schwarz G, Mendel RR (2006). "Molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis and molybdenum...

by both factor IX with its cofactor, factor VIII in a complex known as intrinsic pathway; and factor VII with its cofactor, tissue factor in a complex...

property. Prosthetic groups are a subset of cofactors. Loosely bound metal ions and coenzymes are still cofactors, but are generally not called prosthetic...

F430 is the cofactor (sometimes called the coenzyme) of the enzyme methyl coenzyme M reductase (MCR). MCR catalyzes the reaction EC 2.8.4.1 that releases...

non-peptide groups attached, which can be called prosthetic groups or cofactors. Proteins can also work together to achieve a particular function, and...

In biochemistry, metabolic flux (often referred to as flux) is the rate of turnover of molecules through a metabolic pathway. Flux is regulated by the...