Cell-type specificity of mGluR activation in striatal neuronal subtypes.

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 role of pH-dependent ionic structures of L-amino acids in catalysis has been investigated for the two-component Mannich reactions between dimethyl malonate (DMM)/ethyl acetoacetate (EAA) and imines. As catalysts, L-amino acids performed well, even better than corresponding base catalysts and provided the β-amino c...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Rani D,Thakur L,Khera M,Goel N,Agarwal J

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the large family of cyclodepsipeptides, the simplest members are the cyclodidepsipeptides which have an ester group and an amide group in the same six-membered ring. To point out the pharmacological potential of this class of compounds, the present article reviews structure, isolation, synthesis and biological p...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Smelcerovic A,Dzodic P,Pavlovic V,Cherneva E,Yancheva D

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Placental vascular formation and blood flow are crucial for fetal survival, growth and development, and arginine regulates vascular development and function. This study determined the effects of dietary arginine or N-carbamylglutamate (NCG) supplementation during late gestation of sows on the microRNAs, vascular endot...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Liu XD,Wu X,Yin YL,Liu YQ,Geng MM,Yang HS,Blachier F,Wu GY

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of enantiomerically pure 2-aminocyclobutanecarboxylic acids has been refined to improve both the efficiency and the simplicity. These improvements provide a shorter and easier access to the racemic cis-cyclobutane β-amino acid core. Derivatization of this material with a chiral non-racemic oxazolidin-2-o...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Declerck V,Aitken DJ

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:Arginine (Arg) and glutamine (Gln) utilization is greatly increased during catabolic stress. While the supply of both amino acids has been advocated in this situation, arginine administration is possibly associated with deleterious effects. From a metabolic point of view, these two amino acids are reciprocal precursor...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ventura G,Moinard C,Segaud F,Le Plenier S,Cynober L,De Bandt JP

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyamines are essential for proliferation of endothelial cells (EC) and angiogenesis. This study was conducted to identify the metabolic source(s) of ornithine for polyamine synthesis in EC, using N(ω)-hydroxy-nor-L-arginine (Nor-NOHA, an inhibitor of arginase) and gabaculine (an inhibitor of ornithine aminotransfera...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Li H,Meininger CJ,Bazer FW,Wu G

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioma is the most common type of brain tumor, and has the worst prognosis in human malignancy. Experimental evidence suggests that the use of high concentrations of various amino acids may perturb neoplastic cell growth. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate whether essential amino acids can alter the growth...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Takeuchi S,Nawashiro H,Wada K,Nomura N,Toyooka T,Otani N,Osada H,Matsuo H,Shinomiya N

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-Amino acid oxidase cDNA was amplified by a polymerase chain reaction using RNA extracted from the mouse kidney. When digested withHindIII, the cDNAs of the BALB/c and ddY/DAO(-) mice were cleaved into two fragments whereas the cDNA of the ddY/DAO(+) mice was not. Sequencing revealed that nucleotide-471 of the cDNAs ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Konno R,Sasaki M,Enami J,Niwa A

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agmatine, a natural polyamine produced from arginine by arginine decarboxylase, was first discovered in 1910, but its physiological significance was disregarded for a century. The recent rediscovery of agmatine as an endogenous ligand for α2-adrenergic and imidazoline receptors in the mammalian brain suggests that thi...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Akasaka N,Fujiwara S

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O-linked β-N-actylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) is a carbohydrate post-translational modification on hydroxyl groups of serine and/or threonine residues of cytosolic and nuclear proteins. Analogous to phosphorylation, O-GlcNAcylation plays crucial regulatory roles in a variety of cellular processes. O-GlcNAc was termed a nut...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ma Z,Vosseller K

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin is made up of mainly collagen type I and its structure is stabilised by the formation of covalent immature and mature crosslinks. In this study, collagen immature crosslink hydroxylysinonorleucine (HLNL) was isolated from bovine skin in high purity using two sequential purification steps. These consisted of prepa...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Naffa R,Edwards PJB,Norris G

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin (FN) is a cell adhesion protein that binds integrins in a process also involving the protein-crosslinking enzyme transglutaminase 2 (TG2) as a co-receptor. The cell-adhesive property of TG2 has been linked to a complex formation with FN and to its ability to crosslink and polymerize FN on the cell surface....

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Forsprecher J,Wang Z,Nelea V,Kaartinen MT

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoprostanes, non-enzymatic peroxidation products of arachidonic acid, are attractive biomarkers of oxidative stress in research in biology, medicine and nutrition. For the appropriate use of biomarkers it is required that these are both biologically and technically valid. Whereas the biological validity of isoprostan...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Coolen SA,van Buuren B,Duchateau G,Upritchard J,Verhagen H

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-adenosylmethionine (SAM), a major substrate in 1-C metabolism is a common precursor in the biosynthetic pathways of polyamines and ethylene, two important plant growth regulators, which exhibit opposing developmental effects, especially during fruit ripening. However, the flux of various substrates including SAM int...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Lasanajak Y,Minocha R,Minocha SC,Goyal R,Fatima T,Handa AK,Mattoo AK

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Chemo-therapeutic treatment of glioma patients has minor success. Little is known about mechanisms of a pronounced resistance of gliomas towards actual therapies, yet. ABC-1 belongs to the group of transporters known to be involved in the export of hydrophobic substances and vascular regulation. This study in...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Trog D,Moenkemann H,Haertel N,Schüller H,Golubnitschaja O

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until now information about the influence of puberty on gingival tissue responses to Ni-Ti alloy haven't been available. Since our previous researches have demonstrated that Ni-Ti appliances have an influence on hyperplastic gingivopathy and data has pointed out a possible hormonal influence on the susceptibility of g...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Venza M,Visalli M,Ruggeri P,Cicciù D,Teti D

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taurine is known to increase ATP-dependent calcium ion (Ca2+) uptake in retinal membrane preparations and in isolated rod outer segments (ROS) under low calcium conditions (10 microM) (Pasantes-Morales and Ordóñez, 1982; Lombardini, 1991). In this report, ATP-dependent Ca2+ uptake in retinal membrane preparations was ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Militante JD,Lombardini JB

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) biosynthesis depended to a great extent on the biotransformation characterization of glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) and process conditions. In this paper, the enhancing effect of D101 macroporous adsorption resin (MAR) on the GABA production was investigated based on the whole-cell biotra...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Yang SY,Liu SM,Jiang M,Wang BS,Peng LH,Zeng C

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The G protein-coupled receptor kinase (GRK) family consists of seven cytosolic serine/threonine (Ser/Thr) protein kinases, and among them, GRK2 is involved in the regulation of an enormous range of both G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and non-GPCR substrates that participate in or regulate many critical cellular p...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kang JH,Toita R,Kawano T,Murata M,Asai D

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effect of different sampling environments on hemolymph amino acid content of individual Drosophila melanogaster larvae. Hemolymph was collected from individual third instar larvae under cold-anesthetized, awake, and stress conditions. Qualitative and quantitative hemolymph amino acid analys...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Piyankarage SC,Augustin H,Featherstone DE,Shippy SA

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TES ether of the C6-hydroxy derivative of naturally occurring epi-jasmonic acid (epi-JA) was designed as epimerization-free equivalent of epi-JA. The TES ether was synthesized from (1R,4S)-4-hydroxycyclopent-2-enyl acetate in 13 steps. The acid part of the ether was activated with ClCO2Bui and subjected to condens...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ogawa N,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is particularly difficult to treat because it possesses a variety of resistance mechanisms and because it often forms biofilms. Antimicrobial peptides represent promising candidates for future templates of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections due to their unique mechanism of antimicrobial a...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Xie J,Li Y,Li J,Yan Z,Wang D,Guo X,Zhang J,Zhang B,Mou L,Yang W,Jiang X

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe six children with tetrahydrobiopterin (BH(4)) responsive phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) deficiency. All patients carry two mutant alleles in the PAH gene. Cofactor deficiency was excluded. The effect of BH(4) administration was studied by correlating different oral BH(4) doses with plasma phenylalanine le...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Steinfeld R,Kohlschütter A,Ullrich K,Lukacs Z

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schiff bases represent a class of molecules widely studied for their importance in organic and coordination chemistry. Despite the large amount of studies on the chemical and biological properties of the Schiff bases, the different experimental conditions prevent a useful comparison to search for a correlation structu...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Fattuoni C,Vascellari S,Pivetta T

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, nanoparticles of Fe3O4 as well as their modified forms with different ionic liquids (IL-Fe3O4) were prepared and used for adsorption of lysozyme. The mean size and the surface morphology of the nanoparticles were characterized by TEM, XRD and FTIR techniques. Adsorption studies of lysozyme were performe...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kamran S,Absalan G,Asadi M

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of hydroxypyrroloindoline (Hpi) containing dipeptides along with the corresponding monomeric Hpi-α-amino acid (Hpi-2-carboxylate), were prepared by reacting a series of N α-protected-tryptophans in aqueous or biphasic [water/cyclopentyl methyl ether (CPME)] solutions containing Oxone® (potassium peroxymonosul...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Blanc A,Xia F,Todorovic M,Perrin DM

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spore coat-associated alanine racemase of Bacillus subtilis, which converts L-alanine to D-alanine, that is, the germinant to the competitive inhibitor, to regulate spore germination for survival of the organism under unfavorable growth conditions, was examined. The dormant spores, L-alanine-initiated germination of w...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kanda-Nambu K,Yasuda Y,Tochikubo K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure for the synthesis of enantiopure beta3-amino acids from proteinogenic alpha-amino acids, developed by our group a few years ago, has been modified to enable the production of C-2 fully deuterated, C-protected beta3-amino acids and, even more important, the synthesis of valuable deuterium labelled N(Boc)-pr...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Caputo R,Longobardo L

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00