Profiling of residue-level photo-oxidative damage in peptides.

abstract：:The hydration of selected amino acids, alanine, glycine, proline, valine, isoleucine and phenylalanine, has been studied in aqueous solutions by means of FTIR spectra of HDO isotopically diluted in H2O. The difference spectra procedure and the chemometric method have been applied to remove the contribution of bulk wat...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Panuszko A,Adamczak B,Czub J,Gojło E,Stangret J

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial branched chain aminotransferase-deficient mouse model (BCATm KO), which exhibits elevated plasma and tissue branched chain amino acids (BCAAs), was used to study the effect of BCAAs on mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) regulation of organ size. BCATm is the first enzyme in the BCAA cat...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Neishabouri SH,Hutson SM,Davoodi J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate H(e) concentration in plasma from 80 healthy donors in relation to age (6 newborns are also included), sex, daily variation (9, 11 a.m.; 2, 6, 12 p.m.) and a period of 5 subsequent months. A significant correlation (r = 0.63, p < 0.001) was observed between plasma H(e) and ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Fermo I,De Vecchi E,D'Angelo SV,D'Angelo A,Paroni R

更新日期：1993-02-01 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：: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：:Relaxin family peptides perform a variety of biological functions by binding and activating relaxin family peptide receptor 1-4 (RXFP1-4), four A-class G protein-coupled receptors. In the present work, we developed a novel ligand binding assay for RXFP3 and RXFP4 based on NanoLuc complementation technology (NanoBiT). ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Hu MJ,Shao XX,Li HZ,Nie WH,Wang JH,Liu YL,Xu ZG,Guo ZY

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC) are able to proliferate when cultured on plates, but become differentiated when maintained in three-dimensional type I collagen matrices (honeycombs). SMC grown in honeycombs contained a low level of polyamines due to the presence of antizyme 1 (AZ1), a negative regulator of ornithin...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ishii I,Suzuki T,Kaneko H,Uchida M,Suzuki Y,Higashi K,Yagi S,Ariyoshi N,Igarashi K,Kitada M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel recombinant disintegrin, vicrostatin (VCN), displays high binding affinity to a broad range of human integrins in substantial competitive biological advantage over other integrin-based antagonists. In this study, we synthesized a new 64Cu-labeled VCN probe and evaluated its imaging properties for prostate canc...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Jadvar H,Chen K,Park R,Yap LP,Vorobyova I,Swenson S,Markland FS

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of poly(A) to hnRNA in the cell nucleus is a post-transcriptional event and is presumed to be brought about by a specific poly(A)polymerase. Since it is known that tryptophan rapidly increases the cytoplasmic levels of polyadenylated mRNA, it was of interest to investigate whether the essential amino acid, tr...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kurl RN,Verney E,Sidransky H

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutaryl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (GDD), which is one of the most frequent organic acid disorders, is characterized by a specific age- and regional-dependent neuropathology. We hypothesized that the distinct brain damage in GDD could be caused by the main pathologic metabolites, the organic acids glutaric (GA) and...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kölker S,Ahlemeyer B,Krieglstein J,Hoffmann GF

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we report the complete separation of amino acids as DABS-derivatives using a 3µm Supelcosil LC-18 (25 cm × 2.1 mm I.D.) narrowbore column. The system described makes it possible to perform the analysis of DABS-amino acids with a sensitivity to the femtomole level. We have also studied the conditions nece...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Stocchi V,Palma F,Piccoli G,Biagiarelli B,Magnani M,Masat L,Cucchiarini L

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity on the KCl-evoked amino acid concentrations was investigated by in vivo microdialysis in the striatum in a rat model of excitotoxic lesion. Basal microdialysate levels of amino acids decreased during the quinolinic acid-induced neurodegeneration process, except for...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Böckelmann R,Reiser M,Horn TF,Wolf G

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New bioinorganic complexes of the aspartic acid with the antimony or bismuth triiodide were synthesized by a direct solid-solid reaction at room temperature. The formula of the complex is MI(3)[OOCCH(2)CH(NH(2))CO](2.5) x 2.5H(2)O (M = Sb, Bi). The complex may be a dimer with bridge structure. The crystal structure of...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Jia RR,Wu CP,Wu S,Yang YX,Chen YR,Jia YQ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-DNA interaction plays an important role in many biological processes. The classical methods and the novel technologies advanced have been developed for the interaction of protein-DNA. Recent developments of these methods and research achievements have been reviewed in this paper. ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Cai YH,Huang H

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taurine (TAU) has been shown to improve exercise time to exhaustion and 3-km running performance; however, no studies have considered the effect of acute TAU ingestion on short duration cycling time trial (TT) performance. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of a single oral acute dose of 1000 mg of TAU...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ward R,Bridge CA,McNaughton LR,Sparks SA

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:Based on previous research with bovine peadipocytes, we hypothesized that infusion of arginine into the abomasum of Angus steers stimulates stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD) gene expression in bovine subcutaneous (s.c.) adipose tissue, and that this would be attenuated by conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). Growing Angus stee...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Choi SH,Wickersham TA,Wu G,Gilmore LA,Edwards HD,Park SK,Kim KH,Smith SB

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subcellular localization is an important protein property, which is related to function, interactions and other features. As experimental determination of the localization can be tedious, especially for large numbers of proteins, a number of prediction tools have been developed. We developed the PROlocalizer service t...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Laurila K,Vihinen M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the subcellular location of a protein provides valuable information about its function, possible interaction with other proteins and drug targetability, among other things. The experimental determination of a protein's location in the cell is expensive, time consuming and open to human error. Fast and acc...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Mooney C,Cessieux A,Shields DC,Pollastri G

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) plays a crucial role in amino acid deamination and has been used as an inductor of nutrients metabolism. In this study, we cloned and analyzed the GDH cDNAs in diploids (red crucian carp), triploids and tetraploids and characterized their expression profiles upon dietary treatments. Resul...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Liu Z,Zhou Y,Liu S,Zhong H,Zhang C,kang X,Liu Y

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis and properties of a new fluorescent/fluorogenic substrate Ac-DEVD-AMAC for caspase-3 are reported. The substrate is obtained by conventional Fmoc-based solid phase peptide synthesis and its properties are investigated with regard to fluorescence, sensitivity, applicability and kinetic constants. A non-tradit...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Lozanov V,Ivanov IP,Benkova B,Mitev V

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Ornithine decarboxylase antizyme 1 (AZ1) is a major regulatory protein responsible for the regulation and degradation of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC). To better understand the role of AZ1 in polyamine metabolism and in modulating the response to anticancer polyamine analogues, a small interfering RNA strategy was use...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Fraser AV,Goodwin AC,Hacker-Prietz A,Sugar E,Woster PM,Casero RA Jr

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide bonds in protein structures are mainly found in trans conformation with a torsion angle ω close to 180°. Only a very low proportion is observed in cis conformation with ω angle around 0°. Cis-trans isomerization leads to local conformation changes which play an important role in many biological processes. In t...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Craveur P,Joseph AP,Poulain P,de Brevern AG,Rebehmed J

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the hypothesis that glutamate tonically suppresses the activity of the enzyme aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC), and hence the biosynthesis of dopamine, to explain how antagonists of glutamate receptors might potentiale the motor actions of L-DOPA in animal models of Parkinson's disease. A...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Fisher A,Biggs CS,Starr MS

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When considering protein phosphorylation in bacteria, phosphorylation of aspartic acid and histidine residues mediated by the two-component systems is the first to spring to mind. And yet other phosphorylation systems have been described in bacteria in the past 20 years including eukaryotic-like serine/threonine kinas...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Bechet E,Guiral S,Torres S,Mijakovic I,Cozzone AJ,Grangeasse C

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have shown that specific amino acids are required for optimal growth of leukemic versus normal cells, and it is believed that the depletion of selected amino acids can abrogate tumor growth. We have developed a technique for studying the effect of amino acid deprivation on leukemic cell proliferation. The tech...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Reiken SR,Briedis DM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative deamination of norepinephrine (NE) and dopamine (DA) by monoamine oxidase (MAO) generates the catecholaldehydes 3,4-dihydroxyphenylglycolaldehyde (DOPEGAL) and 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetaldehyde (DOPAL), respectively, and H2O2. Catecholaldehydes are highly reactive electrophiles that have been implicated as cau...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Nelson MM,Builta ZJ,Monroe TB,Doorn JA,Anderson EJ

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Using the olfactory bulbectomy model of depression, we examined the antidepressant-like activity of 2-methyl-6-(phenylethynyl)-pyridine (MPEP) in rats. Bulbectomized rats required a significantly greater number of trials to acquire the response similar to sham-operated controls in the passive avoidance model. Both the...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Wieronska JM,Szewczyk B,Branski P,Palucha A,Pilc A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00