Some of the amino acid chemistry going on in the Laboratory of Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins.

abstract：:The expression of pluripotent stem cell protein markers, self-renewal, the potential to differentiate in cell types of all three germlines and teratoma formation in nude mice form the spectrum of the stringent pluripotency criteria for human stem cells. Currently, intercellular variability is discussed as an additiona...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Rosner M,Hengstschläger M

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary theoretical models used in describing electrostatic properties of amino acids in polypeptides rely usually on atomic point charges. Recently noted defects of such models in reproducing protein folding originate from the inadequate representation of the electrostatic term, in particular inability of atomic...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Sokalski W

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous research, we have shown that adequate levels of polyamines are required in transformed mouse fibroblasts for the correlated activations of MAPK subtypes (ERK and JNK) and caspases induced by etoposide and leading to apoptosis. We report now that the treatment of fibroblasts with etoposide also elicited a...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Tantini B,Pignatti C,Fattori M,Fiumana E,Facchini A,Stefanelli C,Caldarera CM,Pegg AE,Flamigni F

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of the expression of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) was studied in cloned murine macrophages (MT2) and microglial (N11) cells. Both cell lines express IDO and inducible nitric oxide synthase activity after interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) stimulation. The regulation of IDO expression appears to differ in...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Alberati-Giani D,Cesura AM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of our research was to analyze the antioxidant role and efficacy of thermal or salus per aquam (spa) therapy with chlorine-sulphur-bicarbonate mineral water. The study has been performed on 30 rats. The animals were randomized in three groups, each of them composed by ten animals, denominated A, B and C. The A...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Costantino M,Giuberti G,Caraglia M,Lombardi A,Misso G,Abbruzzese A,Ciani F,Lampa E

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the obvious advantages of long-acting peptide and protein drugs, strategies to prolong plasma half life time of such compounds are highly on demand. Short plasma half life times are commonly due to fast renal clearance as well as to enzymatic degradation occurring during systemic circulation. Modifications of t...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Werle M,Bernkop-Schnürch A

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an autosomal recessive genetic disease caused by the defects in the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene. Individuals homozygous for defective PAH alleles show elevated levels of systemic phenylalanine and should be under strict dietary control to reduce the risk of neuronal damage associated ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ikeda K,Schiltz E,Fujii T,Takahashi M,Mitsui K,Kodera Y,Matsushima A,Inada Y,Schulz GE,Nishimura H

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prophylactic supplementation of N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC) and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) was studied for physiological and cellular changes in skeletal muscle after eccentric muscle contractions. Thirty healthy, active males (20.0 +/- 1.8 years, 160 +/- 7.1 cm, 76.1 +/- 17.0 kg) ingested for 14 days either 1,800 mg...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kerksick CM,Kreider RB,Willoughby DS

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Involvement of individual antioxidant proteins (AOXP) and antioxidants in the differentiation process has been already reported. A systematic search strategy for detecting differentially regulated AOXP in neuronal differentiation, however, has not been published so far. The aim of this study was to provide an analytic...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Oh JE,Karlmark Raja K,Shin JH,Hengstschläger M,Pollak A,Lubec G

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of lysine decarboxylase was studied in 3-day-old soybean (Glycine max (L.) Meer cv. Sakai) seedlings also in relation to light conditions. Lysine decarboxylase activity was mainly localized in the roots and to a lesser extent in the hypocotyls and was detectable in both the soluble and particulate fractio...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ohe M,Scoccianti V,Bagni N,Tassoni A,Matsuzaki S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:M33 is a branched peptide currently under preclinical characterization for the development of a new antibacterial drug against gram-negative bacteria. Here, we report its pegylation at the C-terminus of the three-lysine-branching core and the resulting increase in stability to Pseudomonas aeruginosa elastase. This pro...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Falciani C,Lozzi L,Scali S,Brunetti J,Bracci L,Pini A

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin collagen metabolism abnormalities induced by ultraviolet (UV) radiation are the major causes of skin photoaging. It has been shown that the one-time exposure of UV irradiation decreases procollagen mRNA expression in dermis and that chronic UV irradiation decreases collagen amounts and induces wrinkle formation. ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Murakami H,Shimbo K,Inoue Y,Takino Y,Kobayashi H

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several new beta,beta-dihalo and beta-halo-beta-substituted dehydroalanines and dehydrodipeptides were synthesized by reacting the corresponding dehydroamino acid derivative with a N-halosuccinimide or in the case of beta,beta-di-iododehydroalanines with iodine. The results obtained confirmed that the stereochemical o...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ferreira PM,Monteiro LS,Pereira G

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, crystalized mouse ketimine reductase/CRYM complexed with NADPH was found to have pyruvate bound in its active site. We demonstrate that the enzyme binds α-keto acids, such as pyruvate, in solution, and catalyzes the formation of N-alkyl-amino acids from alkylamines and α-keto acids (via reduction of imine in...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Hallen A,Cooper AJ,Smith JR,Jamie JF,Karuso P

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protooncogenes (PO) play a crucial role for brain biology and pathology. Only the concerted action of protooncogenes enables normal brain development. The reliable and sensitive quantification of brain PO is still holding centre stage in neurobiological research. The aim of our study was therefore the determination of...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Schatzmann-Turhani D,Greber-Platzer S,Cairns N,Lubec G

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress, an excess of reactive oxygen species (ROS), may lead to oxidative post-translational modifications of proteins resulting in the cleavage of the peptide backbone, known as α-amidation, and formation of fragments such as peptide amides and α-ketoacyl peptides (α-KaP). In this study, we first compared d...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Sajapin J,Hellwig M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer epidemic in the early twenty-first century results in around two million new cases and half-a-million of the disease-related deaths registered annually worldwide. A particularly dramatic situation is attributed to some specific patient subgroups such as the triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). TNBC is a...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Golubnitschaja O,Filep N,Yeghiazaryan K,Blom HJ,Hofmann-Apitius M,Kuhn W

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dipeptide carnosine is found in high concentrations in human skeletal muscle and shows large inter-individual differences. Sex and age are determining factors, however, systematic studies investigating the sex effects on muscle carnosine content throughout the human lifespan are lacking. Despite the large inter-in...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Baguet A,Everaert I,Achten E,Thomis M,Derave W

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting the three-dimensional structure of proteins is a long-standing challenge of computational biology, as the structure (or lack of a rigid structure) is well known to determine a protein's function. Predicting relative solvent accessibility (RSA) of amino acids within a protein is a significant step towards re...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kaleel M,Torrisi M,Mooney C,Pollastri G

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-tryptophan (TRP) is the precursor amino acid for the synthesis of serotonin (5-HT). 5-HT is effective both on the food intake and gastrointestinal system contractility. The aim of this study was to search the effects of systemic TRP treatment on 5-HT levels of ileum and searching the effect of ileal contractility an...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ozer C,Gönül B,Ercan ZS,Take G,Erdoğan D

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate is stored in synaptic vesicles in presynaptic neurons. It is released into the synaptic cleft to provide signalling to postsynaptic neurons. Normally, the astroglial glutamate transporters GLT-1 and GLAST take up glutamate to mediate a high signal-to-noise ratio in the synaptic signalling, and also to preven...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Persson M,Rönnbäck L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood-borne angiotensin II (AngII) is known to mediate water-intake by its excitatory effect on neurons in the subfornical organ (SFO). Conversely, nitric oxide (NO) has exclusively inhibitory effects on rat SFO-neurons and on SFO-mediated water-intake. Extracellular and patch-clamp recordings from freshly dissociated...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Schmid HA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased intracellular cysteine poses a potential danger to cells due to the high ability of cysteine to reduce free iron and promote the Fenton reaction. Here, we studied ways to maintain cysteine homeostasis in E. coli cells while inhibiting protein synthesis with valine or chloramphenicol. When growing wild-type b...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Smirnova GV,Tyulenev AV,Bezmaternykh KV,Muzyka NG,Ushakov VY,Oktyabrsky ON

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work deals with the Dakin-West synthesis, starting from the nucleoamino acid 1-thyminyl acetic acid, as well the NMR, ESI MS, and X-ray characterization of a heteroaromatic compound denominated by us T(2)CO, comprising two thymine moieties anchored to a 2-propanonic unit, the spectroscopic properties of which wer...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Roviello GN,Roviello G,Musumeci D,Bucci EM,Pedone C

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IEF is often used in multidimensional shotgun proteomics and the narrow range of 3.5-4.5 is the recommended pH interval for the fractionation of tryptic peptides. Usually, even if IEF is performed in IPG strip with a narrow range pH, the entire sample must be loaded onto the strip, including the "out of IPG range" pep...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Iori E,Rattazzi M,Millioni R

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the solid phase synthesis and some pharmacological properties of 24 oxytocin (OT) analogues. Basic modifications at position 9 (introduction of L- or D-beta-(2-thienyl)-alanine [L- or D-Thi], or L- or D-3-Pyridylalanine [L- or D-3-Pal]) were combined with D-tyrosine(OEthyl) [D-Tyr(Et)] or D-1-naphthylalanine...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Magafa V,Borovicková L,Slaninová J,Cordopatis P

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human organism is exposed to numerous processes that generate reactive oxygen species (ROS). ROS may directly or indirectly cause oxidative modification and damage of proteins. Protein oxidation is regarded as a crucial event in the pathogenesis of various diseases ranging from rheumatoid arthritis to Alzheimer's ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Pietzsch J,Bergmann R,Wuest F,Pawelke B,Hultsch C,van den Hoff J

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last few years, consistent data have demonstrated that creatine (Cr) supplementation prevents the accumulation of fat in rat liver as well as the progression of fatty liver disease in different situations. Studies have demonstrated that Cr is effective and prevents fatty liver in high-fat and choline-deficien...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Deminice R,de Castro GS,Brosnan ME,Brosnan JT

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) plays a vital role in the progress of malignant disease and elevated Hsp90 expression has been reported in pancreatic cancer. In this study, we radiolabeled a dimeric Sansalvamide A derivative (Di-San A1) with 64Cu, and evaluated the feasibility of using 64Cu-Di-San A1 for PET imaging of ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Wang X,Zhang J,Wu H,Li Y,Conti PS,Chen K

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanoma is the most malignant type of all skin neoplasms. Its worldwide incidence has steadily increased during the past decades, suggesting a probable melanoma 'epidemic'. Although current clinical, morphologic, and histopathologic methods provide insights into disease behavior and outcome, melanoma is still an unpr...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Tandler N,Mosch B,Pietzsch J

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00