Evidence that the tri-cellular metabolism of N-acetylaspartate functions as the brain's "operating system": how NAA metabolism supports meaningful intercellular frequency-encoded communications.

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) is a free radical gas synthesised from arginine and oxygen by enzymes of the family of the nitric oxide synthase. In particular, the neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) is highly expressed by cells of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus, where the sympatho-adrenal system, the hypothalamic-pitu...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Orlando GF,Wolf G,Engelmann M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyamines are small organic polycations essential for cell proliferation and survival. Antizymes (AZs) are small proteins regulated by polyamines that inhibit polyamine biosynthesis and uptake in mammalian cells. In addition, antizyme functions are also regulated by antizyme inhibitors, homologue proteins of ornithin...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： López-Contreras AJ,Ramos-Molina B,Cremades A,Peñafiel R

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In living cells, the N-terminal tails of core histones, the proteinaceous component of nucleosomes, are subjected to a range of covalent post-translational modifications (PTMs), which have specific roles in modulating chromatin structure and function. A growing body of evidence suggests that deregulation of histone mo...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Cuomo A,Moretti S,Minucci S,Bonaldi T

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:Tryptophan is important both for protein synthesis and as a precursor of niacin, serotonin and other metabolites. Tryptophan is an unusual amino acid because of the complexity of its metabolism, the variety and importance of its metabolites, the number and diversity of the diseases it is involved in, and because of it...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Sainio EL,Pulkki K,Young SN

更新日期：1996-03-01 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：:The coupling between G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and guanine nucleotide-binding proteins (G proteins) regulates various signal transductions from extracellular space into the cell. However, the coupling mechanism between GPCRs and G proteins is still unknown, and experimental determination of their coupling sp...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Li Z,Zhou X,Dai Z,Zou X

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, an optically active diamine, N,N'-(pyromellitoyl)-bis{N-[4(4-aminophenoxy)phenyl]-2-(4-methyl)pentanamide} (1) containing amino acid L-leucine was prepared in three steps. The step-growth polymerization of this chiral diamine with several diisocyanates in room temperature ionic liquid (IL), 1,3-dipropyl...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Mallakpour S

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The successful prediction of protein-folding rates based on the sequence-predicted secondary structure suggests that the folding rates might be predicted from sequence alone. To pursue this question, we directly predict the folding rates from amino acid sequences, which do not require any information on secondary or t...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Huang JT,Xing DJ,Huang W

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperhomocysteinemia is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (ischemic disease, such as stroke and myocardial infarction, and arterial and venous thrombotic events) in the general population. We can assume that the association is causal, based on the example of homocystinuria, and on the evidence put ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Perna AF,Ingrosso D,De Santo NG

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-Homoarginine is a cationic amino acid derivative, which is structurally related to L-arginine and lysine. Several lines of evidence point to nervous tissue as an important target of homoarginine action. In the mammalian brain homoarginine can be detected in noticeable quantities, but its origin is currently poorly e...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Bernstein HG,Jäger K,Dobrowolny H,Steiner J,Keilhoff G,Bogerts B,Laube G

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopa and related catecholamines and their degradation products have been demonstrated to have neurotoxic potential in a number of cellular and in vivo experiments. Several mechanisms have been hypothesized to be involved including generation of prooxidant products that subsequently oxidize membrane lipids and exposed ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： VonVoigtlander PF,Fici GJ,Althaus JS

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vigabatrin is a GABA derivative (gamma-vinyl GABA) which inhibits irreversibly the enzyme activity of GABA transaminase and thus increased indirectly brain GABA concentrations. We have used body temperature assay to examine the effects of Vigabatrin on thermoregulation in intact rats. In order to understand the mechan...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Nikolov RP,Yakimova KS

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) represents an important molecular target for both radiotracer-based diagnostic imaging and radionuclide therapy of various cancer entities. For the delivery of radionuclides to the tumor, peptides hold great potential as a transport vehicle. With respect to EGFR, the peptide...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Striese F,Sihver W,Gao F,Bergmann R,Walther M,Pietzsch J,Steinbach J,Pietzsch HJ

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the third special issue focused on "Transglutaminases" that is now available on this journal and dedicated to one of the pioneers of these enzymes, John Edward Folk, who died December 2010 [see in this issue Beninati et al. 2012a]. The first edition, "Polyamines and Transglutaminases" was published in Amino Ac...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Beninati S,Facchiano F,Piacentini M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen fixation of the nodule of soybean is highly sensitive to oxygen deficiency such as provoked by waterlogging of the root system. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of flooding on N metabolism in nodules of soybean. Flooding resulted in a marked decrease of asparagine (the most abundant amino acid) and a ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Souza SC,Mazzafera P,Sodek L

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：:The putative translation factor eIF5A is essential for cell viability and is highly conserved from archaebacteria to mammals. This factor is the only cellular protein that undergoes an essential posttranslational modification dependent on the polyamine spermidine, called hypusination. This review focuses on the functi...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Zanelli CF,Valentini SR

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is controversial whether homocysteic acid or other homocysteine derivatives show growth promoting effects. In a clonogenic assay we could show that homocysteine thiolactone and its alpha alkylated derivative increased colony formation significantly. Our work favorizes previous observations showing growth promoting ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Lubec B,Szekeres T

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interplay between proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates and/or lipids is involved in almost every process in life on earth. As a consequence, a wide range of diseases results from abnormal interactions of such biomolecules. The main motivation of foldamer science is the development of scaffolds that are capable of ad...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Pilsl LK,Reiser O

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-[(Z)-N-Benzoyl- or N-boc-(2-fluorophenyl)dehydroalanyl]-(R)- or (S)-phenyl-alanines 1,2,5 and 6 were hydrogenated in the presence of chiral and achiral rhodium complexes. The optical induction is compared to the results obtained using the corresponding esters as substrates. ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Döbler C,Kreuzfeld HJ,Fischer C,Michalik M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymes Akt, mTOR, p70(S6K), rpS6, GSK3, and glycogen synthase interact in the control of protein and/or glycogen synthesis in skeletal muscle, and each has been found to respond to exercise and nutrient supplementation. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that nutrient supplementation post exercise, in...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ivy JL,Ding Z,Hwang H,Cialdella-Kam LC,Morrison PJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germination ofBacillus subtilis spores was initiated by L-Ala and competitively inhibited by D-Ala, suggesting the presence of an alanine receptor. The spores showed alanine racemase activity in the spore coat. To investigate the role of alanine racemase (L → D) on germination, net racemase activity was determined usi...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Yasuda Y,Kanda K,Nishioka S,Tanimoto Y,Kato C,Saito A,Fukuchi S,Nakanishi Y,Tochikubo K

更新日期：1993-02-01 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：:The tailor made amino acid β-N-methyl-amino-L-alanine (BMAA) is a neurotoxin produced by cyanobacteria. It has been associated with certain forms of progressive neurodegenerative disease, including sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease. Some different reports of BMAA in cyanobacterial blooms f...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Cervantes Cianca RC,Baptista MS,Lopes VR,Vasconcelos VM

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:A well preserved nutritional status is beneficial in chronically uremic patients for slowing the pace of deterioration of renal function, and delaying the need for dialysis therapy. The purpose of this study was to assess the nutritional profile of 10 patients in a steady state of advanced CRF, and of 15 patients with...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Troupel S,Le Moel G,Bouten A,Fessi H,Boukhalfa Z,Stamatakis G,Lecon V,Mery J,Agneray J,Jacobs C

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to test L-methioinine as a possible immune supportive supplement in HIV infected patients by means of a clinical study. A double-blind, placebo-controlled study was designed. The patients (n = 253) from four different trial centres were randomly divided into two groups, active and placeb...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Van Brummelen R,du Toit D

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The focus has been on the development of methodology for stereoselective preparation of spiroannulated intermediates of the Schöllkopf chiron and further transformations to cyclic alpha-amino acids. The spiroannulations are effected by Ru(II)-catalysed ring-closing metathesis reactions, by Ru(II)- and Pd(0)-catalysed ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Undheim K

更新日期：2008-04-01 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