Peptides derived from Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv2301 protein are involved in invasion to human epithelial cells and macrophages.

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：:In the article (Romek et al. 2013) we reported the values of δ15N (‰) and δ13C (‰) obtained by. ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Romek KM,Julien M,Frasquet-Darrieux M,Tea I,Antheaume I,Hankard R,Robins RJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are cell surface receptors. The dynamic property of receptor-receptor interactions in GPCRs modulates the kinetics of G-protein signaling and stability. In the present work, the structural and dynamic study of A(2A)R-D(2)R interactions was carried to acquire the understanding of the...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Prakash A,Luthra PM

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:In previous studies we characterized arginine transporter genes from Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania donovani, the etiological agents of chagas disease and kala azar, respectively, both fatal diseases in humans. Unlike arginine transporters in higher eukaryotes that transport also lysine, these parasite transporters ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Inbar E,Canepa GE,Carrillo C,Glaser F,Suter Grotemeyer M,Rentsch D,Zilberstein D,Pereira CA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Branched Chain Amino Acids (BCAAs) are related to different aspects of diseases like pathogenesis, diagnosis and even prognosis. While in some diseases, levels of all the BCAAs are perturbed; in some cases, perturbation occurs in one or two while the rest remain unaltered. In case of ischemic heart disease, there is a...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ghosh S,Sengupta A,Chandra K

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of exogenous Ca(2+) and Mg(2+) and in the presence of EGTA, which favours the release of endogenous Ca(2+), the polyamine spermine is able to stimulate the activity of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) of energized rat liver mitochondria (RLM). This stimulation exhibits a gradual concentration-depend...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Pezzato E,Battaglia V,Brunati AM,Agostinelli E,Toninello A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects exerted by heavy isotope substitution in biopolymers on the functioning of whole organisms have not been investigated. We report on the decrease of permissive temperature of nematodes fed with bacteria containing 5,5-D2-lysine. We synthesized 5,5-dideuterolysine and, taking advantage of lysine being an essenti...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Korneenko TV,Pestov NB,Hurski AL,Fedarkevich AM,Shmanai VV,Brenna JT,Shchepinov MS

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral diffusion of membrane-integral receptors within the plane of the membrane has been postulated to be mechanistically important for signal transduction. Direct measurement of polypeptide hormone receptor lateral mobility using fluorescence photobleaching recovery techniques indicates that tyrosine kinase recepto...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Jans DA,Pavo I

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Reduced glutathione (GSH) levels and glutathione reductase (GR) and glutathione S-transferase (GST) activities were investigated in the erythrocytes and lymphocytes of non-dialyzed patients with varying degrees of chronic renal insufficiency, and also of patients on regular hemodialysis treatment. GSH, GR and GST leve...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Mimic-Oka J,Simic T,Djukanovic L,Stefanovski J,Ramic Z

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestine is not only critical for the absorption of nutrients, but also interacts with a complex external milieu. Most foreign antigens enter the body through the digestive tract. Dietary amino acids are major fuels for the small intestinal mucosa, as well as important substrates for syntheses of intestinal prote...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Wang WW,Qiao SY,Li DF

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) constitute a diverse class of naturally occurring or synthetic antimicrobial molecules that have potential for use in the treatment of drug-resistant infections. Several undesirable properties of AMPs, however, may ultimately hinder their development as antimicrobial agents. Thus, new syn...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Dong N,Zhu X,Lv YF,Ma QQ,Jiang JG,Shan AS

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclization of N-Boc-α-alkylserines to corresponding β-lactones under Mitsunobu reaction conditions and the ring opening with heterocyclic amines (pyrrolidine, piperidine, morpholine and thiomorpholine) produced N-Boc-α-alkyl-β-(sec-amino)alanines. The removal of the Boc group gives di-hydrochlorides of non-protei...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Olma A,Lasota A,Kudaj A

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lysine catabolism pathway differs in adult mammalian brain from that in extracerebral tissues. The saccharopine pathway is the predominant lysine degradative pathway in extracerebral tissues, whereas the pipecolate pathway predominates in adult brain. The two pathways converge at the level of ∆(1)-piperideine-6-ca...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Hallen A,Jamie JF,Cooper AJ

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effect of taurine and β-alanine supplementation on muscle function and muscle taurine transporter (TauT) protein expression in mdx mice. Wild-type (WT) and mdx mice (5 months) were supplemented with taurine or β-alanine for 4 weeks, after which in vitro contractile properties, fatigue resis...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Horvath DM,Murphy RM,Mollica JP,Hayes A,Goodman CA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental changes in the levels of the excitatory amino acids L-glutamate (Glu) and L-Aspartate (Asp) and inhibitory amino acids glycine (Gly) and gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA), as well as taurine and its related amino acids L-methionine (Met), L-cysteine (Cys) and L-serine (Ser) in the brain and pectoralis musc...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Sato M,Tomonaga S,Denbow DM,Furuse M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) is a methylated form of arginine and an endogenous nitric oxide synthase inhibitor. Renal function decline is associated with increase of plasma ADMA in chronic kidney disease populations. It is yet unknown how isolated renal function impairment affects ADMA homeostasis in healthy hu...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Said MY,Douwes RM,van Londen M,Minović I,Frenay AR,de Borst MH,van den Berg E,Heiner-Fokkema MR,Kayacelebi AA,Bollenbach A,van Goor H,Navis G,Tsikas D,Bakker SJL

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：:Short CCK peptides elicit panic attacks in humans and anxiogenic-like effects in some animal models, but CCK receptor antagonists have not been found clinically effective. Yet CCK overactivity appears to be involved in submissive behaviour, and CCKB receptor expression and binding are increased in suicide victims and ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Harro J

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

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：:3-Hydroxyaspartic acid and its derivatives are found both in the free form and as peptide constituents in various microorganisms and fungi. Considering the biological importance of this amino acid and its potential utility as a multifunctional building block in organic syntheses, we have developed a short-step, asymme...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Khalaf JK,Datta A

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proline dehydrogenase/oxidase (PRODH/POX) is a mitochondrial protein critical to multiple stress pathways. Because of the roles of PRODH/POX in signaling, and its shared localization to the mitochondrial inner membrane with the electron transport chain (ETC), we investigated whether there was a direct relationship bet...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Hancock CN,Liu W,Alvord WG,Phang JM

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both 1,4-benzoquinones and 1,4-naphthoquinones were attached to the non-proteinogenic amino acid taurine to form N-quinonyl taurine derivatives. The products were formed via the direct Michael-like addition or by substitution of a good leaving group. An attempt to bridge the two moieties via an ureido spacer resulted ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Gorohovsky S,Temtsin-Krayz G,Bittner S

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：:Cupiennin 1a, a cytolytic peptide isolated from the venom of the spider Cupiennius salei, exhibits broad membranolytic activity towards bacteria, trypanosomes, and plasmodia, as well as human blood and cancer cells. In analysing the cytolytic activity of synthesised all-D: - and all-L: -cupiennin 1a towards pro- and e...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kuhn-Nentwig L,Willems J,Seebeck T,Shalaby T,Kaiser M,Nentwig W

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-acetylaspartate (NAA), an acetylated derivative of L-aspartate (Asp), and N-acetylaspartylglutamate (NAAG), a derivative of NAA and L-glutamate (Glu), are synthesized by neurons in brain. However, neurons cannot catabolize either of these substances, and so their metabolism requires the participation of two other ce...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Baslow MH

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00