University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database Progress Report 108 - July 23, 2003 Thank you for your interest in the UM-BBD. If you wish to be removed from this mailing list or change your options, send a message to: [log in to unmask] with the word 'help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will get back an email message with instructions. - The pathway for pyrene has been added. This pathway was developed by a student in the 2003 Biocatalysis and Biodegradation class, offered completely over the Internet. http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/pyr/pyr_map.html http://srs.ebi.ac.uk/srs6bin/cgi-bin/wgetz?-e+[upathway-id:'pyr_map'] http://www.cbs.umn.edu/class/bioc/5309/idl/ - The Pathway Prediction System (PPS) biotransformation rules have been added to and updated. There are now 222 rules. The system can now handle 324 (58%) of the 557 pathway branches from 108 UM-BBD compounds containing C, H, O, N, P, S and/or halides that initiate pathways containing two or more reactions. A list of all rules is available. Reaction pages that exemplify up to three rules now list all of them. For an example, see the reaction: cis-3-Chloroacrylic acid to Malonate semialdehyde. http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/predict/ http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/servlets/pageservlet?ptype=allrules http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/servlets/pageservlet?ptype=r&reacID=r0688 - In Biochemical Periodic Tables, there is a new entry for Plutonium (Pu) and updated entries for Copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn), Flourine (F), Chlorine (Cl), Bromine (Br), and Iodine (I). http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/periodic/ http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/periodic/elements/pu.html http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/periodic/elements/cu.html http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/periodic/elements/zn.html http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/periodic/elements/f.html http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/periodic/elements/cl.html http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/periodic/elements/br.html http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/periodic/elements/i.html - On the Useful Internet Resources page, a link to the National Safety Council Chemical Backgrounders has been added and the links to the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Pesticide Properties Database, Thermodynamics of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and GenProtEC: E. coli genes and proteins at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, have been updated. http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/resources.html If you have comments on any aspect of the UM-BBD, please let us know. Lynda Ellis <[log in to unmask]>
