Mahmoud Akhtar

Enantiospecific synthesis of 3-substituted aspartic acids via enzymic amination of substituted fumaric acids

Mahmoud Akhtar, Botting Nigel P., David Gani · Tetrahedron · 1987 · 77 citations

Natural Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +11

Preparation of N-substituted aspartic acids via enantiospecific conjugate addition of N-nucleophiles to fumaric acids using methylaspartase: synthetic utility and mechanistic implications 1

Mehak Gulzar, Mahmoud Akhtar, David Gani · Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1 · 1997 · 40 citations

Natural Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +12

L-Methionine decarboxylase from Dryopteris filix-mas: purification, characterization, substrate specificity, abortive transamination of the coenzyme, and stereochemical courses of substrate decarboxylation and coenzyme transamination

D. E. Stevenson, Mahmoud Akhtar, David Gani · Biochemistry · 1990 · 30 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +12

Substrate specificity of the 3-methylaspartate ammonia-lyase reaction: observation of differential relative reaction rates for substrate-product pairs

Nigel P. Botting, Mahmoud Akhtar, Mark A. Cohen et al. · Biochemistry · 1988 · 29 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +17

Fern L-methionine decarboxylase: kinetics and mechanism of decarboxylation and abortive transamination

Mahmoud Akhtar, D. E. Stevenson, David Gani · Biochemistry · 1990 · 25 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +8