The present invention is related to an isolated and purified nucleotide sequence from microbial origin, encoding an epoxide hydrolase, the vector comprising said nucleotide sequence, the recombinant host cell transformed by said nucleotide sequence and the epoxide hydrolase amino acid sequence encoded by said nucleotide sequence and/or expressed by said recombinant host cell.

Reagents for the determination of hydrolase comprises compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein Z is an organic or inorganic acid residue or a sugar residue, A is an organic or inorganic acid residue, and B is an organic acid residue. Each of R.sup.2 and R.sup.5, is hydrogen, halogen or lower alkyl. Each of R.sup.1, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.6, is hydrogen, halogen, cyano, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, carboxyl, lower alkoxycarbonyl, carboxy lower alkyl or lower alkoxycarbonyl lower alkyl, or carb...

The invention provides human hydrolase-like molecules (HHLM) and polynucleotides which identify and encode HHLM. The invention also provides expression vectors, host cells, antibodies, agonists, and antagonists. The invention also provides methods for treating or preventing disorders associated with expression of HHLM.

This invention relates to inhibitors for glycoside-hydrolases derived from bacteria of the order Actinomycetales, means for their production comprising cultivation of a microorganism of the order Actinomycetales in appropriate nutrient solutions under conditions most favorable to growth and production of the enzyme inhibitor and recovering, as a new product, glycoside-hydrolase enzyme inhibitors, from the culture as well as the use of said enzyme inhibitors in pharmaceutically acceptable therape...

Reagents for the determination of hydrolase comprises compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein Z is an organic or inorganic acid residue or a sugar residue, A is an organic or inorganic acid residue, and B is an organic acid residue. Each of R.sup.2 and R.sup.5, is hydrogen, halogen or lower alkyl. Each of R.sup.1, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.6, is hydrogen, halogen, cyano, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, carboxyl, lower alkoxycarbonyl, carboxy lower alkyl or lower alkoxycarbonyl lower alkyl, or carb...

This invention relates to inhibitors for glycoside-hydrolases derived from bacteria of the order Actinomycetales, means for their production comprising cultivation of a microorganism of the order Actinomycetales in appropriate nutrient solutions under conditions most favorable to growth and production of the enzyme inhibitor and recovering, as a new product, glycoside-hydrolase enzyme inhibitors, from the culture as well as the use of said enzyme inhibitors in pharmaceutically acceptable therape...

The invention provides pth polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding pth polypeptides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques. Also provided are methods for utilizing pth polypeptides to screen for antibacterial compounds.

The compounds of the formula: ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is hydrogen or alkyl; R.sup.2 is alkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, phenylalkyl or alkylphenylalkyl; or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 taken together complete a heterocyclic moiety of the formula: ##STR2## in which X is ##STR3## where R.sup.3,R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are, independently hydrogen, alkyl, phenyl or substituted phenyl, in which the substituents are halogeno, alkoxy or trifluoromethyl; R.sup.6 is hydrogen, alkyl or gemdialkyl and n is one of t...

An enzyme produced by a microorganism belonging to the genus Myrothecium hydrolyzes .gamma.-polyglutamic acid with an endo action to produce oligoglutamic acid consisting of 2 to 4 glutamic acid residues.

The compounds of the formula: ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is alkyl of 4 or more carbon atoms, cycloalkyl, 1-adamantyl, 2-adamantyl, 3-noradamantyl, 3-methyl-1-adamantyl, 1-fluorenyl, 9-fluorenyl, cycloalkylalkyl, phenyl, substituted phenyl, alkyl, alkoxy, halo, nitro, cyano or trifluoromethyl, phenylalkyl or substituted phenylalkyl, where the substituent on the benzene ring is alkyl, alkoxy, halo, nitro, cyano, trifluoromethyl or phenyl; R.sup.2 is hydrogen, alkyl or R.sup.1 taken with R.sup.2 and...