Fluoride inhibition of Sporosarcina pasteurii urease: structure and thermodynamics

S Benini, M Cianci, L Mazzei, S Ciurli - JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic …, 2014 - Springer
Urease is a nickel-dependent enzyme and a virulence factor for ureolytic bacterial human
pathogens, but it is also necessary to convert urea, the most worldwide used fertilizer, into …

Design, synthesis, and evaluation of novel organophosphorus inhibitors of bacterial ureases

S Vassiliou, A Grabowiecka… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2008 - ACS Publications
A new group of organophosphorus inhibitors of urease, P-methyl phosphinic acids was
discovered by using the structure based inhibitor design approach. Several derivatives of …

The crystal structure of Sporosarcina pasteurii urease in a complex with citrate provides new hints for inhibitor design

S Benini, P Kosikowska, M Cianci, L Mazzei… - JBIC Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Urease, the enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of urea, is a virulence factor for a large
number of ureolytic bacterial human pathogens. The increasing resistance of these …

Insights into Urease Inhibition by N-(n-Butyl) Phosphoric Triamide through an Integrated Structural and Kinetic Approach

L Mazzei, M Cianci, U Contaldo… - Journal of agricultural and …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The nickel-dependent enzyme urease represents a negative element for the efficiency of soil
nitrogen fertilization as well as a virulence factor for a large number of pathogenic and …

Construction of two ureolytic model organisms for the study of microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation

J Connolly, M Kaufman, A Rothman, R Gupta… - Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Two bacterial strains, Pseudomonas aeruginosa MJK1 and Escherichia coli MJK2, were
constructed that both express green fluorescent protein (GFP) and carry out ureolysis. These …

Coupled effects of carbonation and bio-deposition in concrete surface treatment

J Xu, X Wang, W Yao - Cement and Concrete Composites, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper reports the coupled effects of carbonation and microbially induced carbonate
precipitation (MICP) on behaviors in relation to the durability of concrete. Liquid immersion …

Inhibition of urease by hydroquinones: a structural and kinetic study

L Mazzei, M Cianci, S Ciurli - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hydroquinones are a class of organic compounds abundant in nature that result from the full
reduction of the corresponding quinones. Quinones are known to efficiently inhibit urease, a …

Mathematical model of biofilm induced calcite precipitation

T Zhang, I Klapper - Water Science and Technology, 2010 - iwaponline.com
Microbially modulated carbonate precipitation is a fundamentally important phenomenon of
both engineered and natural environments. In this paper, we propose a mixture model for …

Kinetic and structural studies reveal a unique binding mode of sulfite to the nickel center in urease

L Mazzei, M Cianci, S Benini, L Bertini… - Journal of Inorganic …, 2016 - Elsevier
Urease is the most efficient enzyme known to date, and catalyzes the hydrolysis of urea
using two Ni (II) ions in the active site. Urease is a virulence factor in several human …

Nickel binding properties of Helicobacter pylori UreF, an accessory protein in the nickel-based activation of urease

B Zambelli, A Berardi, V Martin-Diaconescu… - JBIC Journal of …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Helicobacter pylori UreF (Hp UreF) is involved in the insertion of Ni 2+ in the urease
active site. The recombinant protein in solution is a dimer characterized by an extensive α …