James Hennessy

TL;DR: The perks and pitfalls of membrane research and development are talked about, and how activities at the new Barrer Centre might lead to next-generation separation technologies.

TL;DR: Recombinant formate dehydrogenase from the acetogen Clostridium carboxidivorans strain P7T, expressed in Escherichia coli, shows particular activity towards NADH-dependent carbon dioxide reduction to formate due to the relative binding affinities of the substrates and products.

TL;DR: In this paper, the utility of this ATP recycling strategy in enzyme-catalyzed chemical synthesis is illustrated through the conversion of uridine to UMP by the lysate from recombinant overexpression of URINE with the E. coli.

TL;DR: This work reports that three FDRs from Mycobacterium smegmatis also exhibit a different catalytic function towards some aflatoxins through the use of a different cofactor, the first example of an enzyme showing promiscuity for its cofactor leading to divergence of function against the same substrate.

TL;DR: 3-Chloro-Abu and 4-chloro-Nva are biosynthetically incorporated into E. coli peptidyl-Pro cis-trans isomerase B, as substitutes for Val and Leu, respectively, and substituted protein is catalytically active.