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Research

Professor Paul Engel BA MA DPhil

Books:

Paul C. Engel (2009) Pain-free Biochemistry. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. [Details]
P.C. Engel. (1995) Labfax Enzymology. *: BIOS Scientific Publishers. [Details]
Paul C. Engel & Peter Taylor (1985) The regulation of enzyme-catalysed reactions in biological systems. S342 Topic Study 1. A study unit for the Open University Chemistry course. *: Open University. [Details]
R.C. Bray, P.C. Engel & S.G. Mayhew (1984) Flavins and Flavoproteins. Berlin: de Gruyter. [Details]
Paul C. Engel (1981) Enzyme Kinetics: The Steady-state Approach, 2nd edition. London: Chapman & Hall. [Details]
Paul C. Engel (1977) Enzyme Kinetics: The Steady-state Approach. London: Chapman & Hall. [Details]

Book Chapters:

Engel, P.C and Paradisi, F. (2010) 'Novel enzymes for biotransformation and resolution of alpha-amino acids' In: J.C Vederas (eds). Comprehensive Natural Product 2 Chemistry and Biology. Oxford: Elsevier. [Details]
Conway,P. and Paradisi, F. and Engel, P.C. (2010) 'Synthesis of substituted derivatives of L-phenylalanine and of other non-natural L-amino acids using engineered mutants of phenylalanine dehydrogenase' In: John Whittal & Peter W. Sutton (eds). Practical Methods in Biocatalysis and Biotransformations. Oxford: John Wiley. [DOI] [Details]
Paul C. Engel (1984) 'Enzyme Kinetics. Chapter 7' In: M. I. Page (eds). The Chemistry of Enzyme Action, Vol.6 of New Comprehensive Biochemistry. *: Elsevier. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals:

Oliveira, TF,Carrigan, JB,Hamza, MA,Sharkey, MA,Engel, PC,Khan, AR (2010) 'Crystallization and preliminary structural analyses of glutamate dehydrogenase from Peptoniphilus asaccharolyticus'. Acta Crystallographica Section F, 66 :523-526. [DOI] [Details]
Aparicio, IM,Marin-Menendez, A,Bell, A,Engel, PC (2010) 'Susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum to glutamate dehydrogenase inhibitors-A possible new antimalarial target'. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 172 :152-155. [DOI] [Details]
J. Griffin & P.C. Engel (2010) 'The -SH Protection Method for Determining Accurate Kd Values for Enzyme-coenzyme Complexes of a Series of Mutant Variants of NAD+-dependent Glutamate Dehydrogenase and Engineered Mutants: Evidence for Non-productive NADPH Complexes'. Enzyme Research, 5 . [DOI] [Details]
X.-G. Wang, P. Zhang, S. Lynch and P. C. Engel (2010) 'Forced Evolution of E. coli Cells with the Ability to Effectively Utilise Non-natural Amino Acids L-tert-leucine,L-norleucine and ¡-methyl-L-leucine'. Biocatalysis and Biotransformation, 28 (5-6):293-303. [Details]
Hamza, MA,Martin, SR,Engel, PC (2007) 'The contribution of tryptophan residues to conformational changes in clostridial glutamate dehydrogenase - W64 and W449 as mediators of the cooperative response to glutamate'. Febs Journal, 274 :4126-4134. [DOI] [Details]
Hamza, MA,Engel, PC (2007) 'Enhancing long-term thermal stability in mesophilic glutamate dehydrogenase from Clostridium symbiosum by eliminating cysteine residues'. Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 41 :706-710. [DOI] [Details]

Other Journals:

Wang, X.T., Lam V.M.S. & Engel, P.C. (2006) 'Functional properties of two mutants of human glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, R393G and R393H, corresponding to the clinical variants G6PD Wisconsin and Nashville' Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (Molecular Basis of Disease) 1762 :767-774. [Details]
Paradisi, F., Collins, S., Maguire, A.R. & Engel, P.C. (2006) 'The use of phenylalanine dehydrogenase mutants as efficient catalysts for the synthesis of non-natural amino acids: scale-up process' * . [Details]
Wang, X.T., Lam, V.M.S. & Engel, P.C. (2005) 'Marked decrease in specific activity contributes to disease phenotype in two human glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase mutants, G6PDUnion and G6PDAndalus' Human Mutation MIB . [Details]
Busca P, Paradisi F, Moynihan E, Maguire AR, Engel PC. (2004) 'Enantioselective synthesis of non-natural amino acids using phenylalanine dehydrogenases modified by site-directed mutagenesis' Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2 (2691) . [Details]