On the segregation of protein ionic residues by charge type.

abstract：:The daily requirement of a 70-kg male for creatine is about 2 g; up to half of this may be obtained from a typical omnivorous diet, with the remainder being synthesized in the body Creatine is a carninutrient, which means that it is only available to adults via animal foodstuffs, principally skeletal muscle, or via su...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Brosnan ME,Brosnan JT

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of developing rats with monosodium glutamate (MSG) produces an increase of glutamate levels in the brain, being this elevation dependent on both route of administration and animal's age. The capacity of exogenous MSG to induce convulsions seems to be related to the rate of glutamate elevation in the brain, r...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Peñafiel R,Cremades A,Monserrat F,Puelles L

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reactions of phosphorus trichloride with various amino acids afford the pentacoordinated spirophosphoranes. The reaction procedures were traced by (31)P NMR spectra techniques. A new crystal structure of alanine derivative was characterized, which is a slightly distorted TBP structure. Besides, this kind of spirop...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Yu L,Liu Z,Fang H,Zeng QL,Zhao YF

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:How to enhance fruit tolerance to cold stress is an important biological interest. In this paper, we found that mango (Mangifera indica L.) fruit treated with 10 μM brassinolide (BL) showed a higher tolerance to cold temperature of 5 °C. Further, we compared the changes in expression profiles of plasma membrane (PM) p...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Li B,Zhang C,Cao B,Qin G,Wang W,Tian S

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies identified lysine- and tryptophan-rich sequences within various cationic antimicrobial peptides. In the present study, we synthesized a series of peptides composed of lysine (K)-tryptophan (W) repeats (KW)( n ) (where n equals 2, 3, 4 or 5) with amida...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Gopal R,Seo CH,Song PI,Park Y

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carnosine is found in high concentrations in skeletal muscles, where it is involved in several physiological functions. The muscle carnosine content measured within a population can vary by a factor 4. The aim of this study was to further characterize suggested determinants of the muscle carnosine content (diet, gende...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Everaert I,Mooyaart A,Baguet A,Zutinic A,Baelde H,Achten E,Taes Y,De Heer E,Derave W

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence implicates endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-induced cellular dysfunction and apoptosis as important factors to a variety of diseases. In endothelial cells (ECs), the sulfur-containing amino acid homocysteine (Hcy) causes EC apoptosis and reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation through induction o...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kil JS,Jeong SO,Chung HT,Pae HO

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:Minerals more readily adsorb amino acids with charged R groups than uncharged R groups, so that the incorporation of amino acids with charged R groups into peptides would be more frequent than for amino acids with uncharged R groups. However, 74% of the amino acids in the proteins of modern organisms contain uncharged...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Zaia DA

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of wild type CFTR facilitates the efflux of neutral amino acids (Rotoli et al., Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 204: 653-658, 1994); as a result, after an extensive depletion of intracellular amino acid pool obtained through an incubation in saline solution, the intracellular leucine levels were lower in...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Rotoli BM,Bussolati O,Cabrini G,Gazzola GC

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:Filamentous fungi of the genusHypocrea were grown on malt extract/peptone agar, the mycelia were extracted with dichloromethane/methanol, and the extracts were totally hydrolyzed with 6 N HCl (110°C, 24 h). The amino acids (AA) released from peptides were converted into theirN(O)-pen-tafluoropropionyl 1-propyl esters ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Brückner H,Maisch J,Reinecke C,Kimonyo A

更新日期：1991-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Functionalized collagen-mimetic peptides (CMPs) have been widely used in the preparation of collagen-related biomaterials. Among the reported results, the induced noncovalent interactions between the implanted functional groups or moieties were frequently the key elements to promote the self-assembly of small CMPs. In...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Huang PW,Chang JM,Horng JC

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the postgenomic era new technologies are emerging for global analysis of protein function. The introduction of active site-directed chemical probes for enzymatic activity profiling in complex mixtures, known as activity-based proteomics has greatly accelerated functional annotation of proteins. Here we review probe...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Schmidinger H,Hermetter A,Birner-Gruenberger R

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary polyamines and amino acids (AAs) are crucial for human growth, development, reproduction, and health. However, the scientific literature shows large variations in polyamine and AA concentrations among major staple foods of plant origin, and there is a scarcity of information regarding their complete compositio...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Hou Y,He W,Hu S,Wu G

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 3T3 cells temperatures higher than physiological stimulated amino acid transport activity in a dose-dependent manner up to 44 degrees C. However, the temperature increase did not induce widespread transport increase of all other nutrients tested. The activities of both amino acid transport systems A and ASC were en...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Petronini PG,Caccamo AE,Alfieri RR,Bonelli MA,Borghetti AF

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chiral dehydroamino acid building blocks are versatile starting materials for the preparation of optically active unusual amino acids and other compounds of pharmacological interest. Herein we disclose the expedient preparation of dehydroalanines (ΔAla) equipped with oxazolidin-2-one (Oxd) chiral auxiliaries, Ts-Oxd-Δ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： De Marco R,Cavina L,Greco A,Gentilucci L

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histamine plays highlighted roles in the development of many common, emergent and rare diseases. In mammals, histamine is formed by decarboxylation of L-histidine, which is catalyzed by pyridoxal-5'-phosphate (PLP) dependent histidine decarboxylase (HDC, EC 4.1.1.22). The limited availability and stability of the prot...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Castro-Oropeza R,Pino-Ángeles A,Khomutov MA,Urdiales JL,Moya-García AA,Vepsäläinen J,Persson L,Sarabia F,Khomutov A,Sánchez-Jiménez F

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:Changes in plasma aromatic amino acids (AAA = phenylalanine, tryptophan, tyrosine) and branched chain amino acids (BCAA = isoleucine, leucine, valine) levels possibly influencing intracranial pressure (ICP) and cerebral oxygen consumption (SjvO(2)) were investigated in 19 sedated patients up to 14 days following sever...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Vuille-Dit-Bille RN,Ha-Huy R,Stover JF

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of the inhibitory amino acid taurine is markedly enhanced under ischemic conditions in both adult and developing brain stem, together with a pronounced increase in the release of the neuromodulator adenosine. We now studied the effects of adenosine receptor agonists and antagonists on [(3)H]taurine release...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Saransaari P,Oja SS

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins with polybasic clusters bind to negatively charged phosphoinositides at the cell membrane. In this review, I have briefly discussed the types of phosphoinositides naturally found on membrane surfaces and how they recruit protein complexes for carrying out the process of signal transduction. A large number of ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Gokhale NA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical modification of protein by nonenzymatic browning or Maillard reactions increases with age and in disease. Maillard products are formed by reactions of both carbohydrate- and lipid-derived intermediates with proteins, leading to formation of advanced glycation and lipoxidation end-products (AGE/ALEs). Thes...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Thorpe SR,Baynes JW

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals at the neonatal stage have to eat more to support better growth and health. However, it is difficult to understand the mechanism of feeding during an early stage of life in the brain of the rodent model. Chickens are precocial and they can look for their food by themselves right after hatching. Neonatal chicks...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Tran PV,Chowdhury VS,Furuse M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied in vivo production of taurine, hypotaurine and sulfate following subcutaneous administration of L-cysteinesulfinate (CSA) to rats and mice. When 5.0 mmol/kg of body weight of CSA was injected to rats, increased urinary excretions of taurine, hypotaurine and sulfate in 24 h urine were 617, 52 and 1,767 micro...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Nakamura H,Yatsuki J,Ubuka T

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00