Category: Crosslinks between two AAs

  • Erich Traub (1906 – 1985)  German veterinarian, scientist and virologist who specialized in foot-and-mouth disease, Rinderpest and Newcastle disease

    Erich Traub (1906 – 1985) German veterinarian, scientist and virologist who specialized in foot-and-mouth disease, Rinderpest and Newcastle disease

    Erich Traub worked directly for Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), as the lab chief of the Nazis’ leading bio-weapons facility on Riems Island. Note: Riems is home to the oldest virological research institution in the world, now called the Friedrich Loeffler Institute, which was built by Friedrich Loeffler in 1910. Loeffler, a professor at the University of Greifswald, ran filtration tests in 1898 and found…

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  • Lysine Tyrosylquinone (LTQ)

    Lysine Tyrosylquinone (LTQ)

    LTQ does not have a wikipedia page so I will check elsewhere. In the meantime, I found another reason to just say no to beans – osteolathyrism aka odoratism, which is a form of the disease Lathyrism. Wikipedia says: The disease results from the ingestion of Lathyrus odoratus seeds (sweet peas) from the family Fabaceae (legumes). The toxin found in the sweet peas is…

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  • Tryptophan tryptophylquinone (TTQ) formation

    Tryptophan tryptophylquinone (TTQ) is an enzyme cofactor, generated by posttranslational modification of amino acids within the protein. Methylamine dehydrogenase (MADH), an amine dehydrogenase, requires TTQ for its catalytic function. From Wikipedia where this page was last updated June 22, 2022 See also Amicyanin is a type I copper protein that plays an integral role in electron transfer. In bacteria such as Paracoccus denitrificans, amicyanin is part of a three-member redox complex, along…

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