Effect of natural amino alcohols on the yield of essential amino acids and the amino acid pattern in stressed barley.

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：:Muscle carnosine synthesis is limited by the availability of beta-alanine. Thirteen male subjects were supplemented with beta-alanine (CarnoSyn) for 4 wks, 8 of these for 10 wks. A biopsy of the vastus lateralis was obtained from 6 of the 8 at 0, 4 and 10 wks. Subjects undertook a cycle capacity test to determine tota...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Hill CA,Harris RC,Kim HJ,Harris BD,Sale C,Boobis LH,Kim CK,Wise JA

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dipeptide carnosine is found in high concentrations in human skeletal muscle and shows large inter-individual differences. Sex and age are determining factors, however, systematic studies investigating the sex effects on muscle carnosine content throughout the human lifespan are lacking. Despite the large inter-in...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Baguet A,Everaert I,Achten E,Thomis M,Derave W

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lens transparency depends on higher concentration of lens proteins and their interactions. α-Crystallin is one of the predominant lens proteins, responsible for proper structural and functional architecture of the lens microenvironment, and any alteration of which results in cataract formation. The R12C, R21L, R49...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ramkumar S,Fujii N,Sakaue H,Fujii N,Thankappan B,kumari RP,Natarajaseenivasan K,Anbarasu K

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of the expression of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) was studied in cloned murine macrophages (MT2) and microglial (N11) cells. Both cell lines express IDO and inducible nitric oxide synthase activity after interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) stimulation. The regulation of IDO expression appears to differ in...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Alberati-Giani D,Cesura AM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ventral pallidum is part of the corticoaccumbo-thalamocortical loop of the basal ganglia. In the past the function of this structure was discussed as a pure relay station in the process of limbic-motor integration. Some recent studies, however, underline that on the level of the ventral pallidum motor behavior can...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kretschmer BD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-Arginine:glycine amidinotransferase (AGAT) is the main producer of the creatine precursor, guanidinoacetate (GAA), and L-homoarginine (hArg). We and others previously reported lower levels of circulating and urinary hArg in renal transplant recipients (RTR) compared to healthy subjects. In adults, hArg emerged as a ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Hanff E,Said MY,Kayacelebi AA,Post A,Minovic I,van den Berg E,de Borst MH,van Goor H,Bakker SJL,Tsikas D

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among many actions assigned to taurine (Tau), the most abundant amino acid in numerous mammalian tissues, it prevents high-fat diet-induced obesity with increasing resting energy expenditure. To sustain this Tau action, the goal of the present study was to explore the acute effects of Tau on baseline and on adrenaline...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Piña-Zentella G,de la Rosa-Cuevas G,Vázquez-Meza H,Piña E,de Piña MZ

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to evaluate the effect of taurine (tau) supplementation to low fishmeal (FM) diets on growth performance, oxidative status, and immune response of European seabass juveniles. Four isoproteic (46% crude protein) and isolipidic (19% crude lipid) diets were formulated to contain either 25 or 12.5% FM and...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Martins N,Magalhães R,Castro C,Couto A,Díaz-Rosales P,Oliva-Teles A,Peres H

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an optimized procedure for the synthesis of (S)-vinylglycine from (S)-methionine. The key step is a solvent free pyrolysis of an intermediate sulfoxide at high temperature. Using our optimized reaction conditions, Cbz-protected vinylglycine was obtained in high yield and with almost no side products. The pr...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Küchenthal CH,Migenda J,Polednia M,Maison W

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased intracellular cysteine poses a potential danger to cells due to the high ability of cysteine to reduce free iron and promote the Fenton reaction. Here, we studied ways to maintain cysteine homeostasis in E. coli cells while inhibiting protein synthesis with valine or chloramphenicol. When growing wild-type b...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Smirnova GV,Tyulenev AV,Bezmaternykh KV,Muzyka NG,Ushakov VY,Oktyabrsky ON

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predicting the three-dimensional structure of proteins is a long-standing challenge of computational biology, as the structure (or lack of a rigid structure) is well known to determine a protein's function. Predicting relative solvent accessibility (RSA) of amino acids within a protein is a significant step towards re...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kaleel M,Torrisi M,Mooney C,Pollastri G

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article traces the development of research on the naturally occurring amino acid L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-dopa), from the first synthesis of its D,L racemate in 1911, and the isolation of its L-isomer from seedling of Vicia faba beans to the amino acid's successful application, from 1961 onward, as the most...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Hornykiewicz O

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：: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：:The aim of our research was to analyze the antioxidant role and efficacy of thermal or salus per aquam (spa) therapy with chlorine-sulphur-bicarbonate mineral water. The study has been performed on 30 rats. The animals were randomized in three groups, each of them composed by ten animals, denominated A, B and C. The A...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Costantino M,Giuberti G,Caraglia M,Lombardi A,Misso G,Abbruzzese A,Ciani F,Lampa E

更新日期：2009-02-01 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 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：: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：: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：:Over the last few years, consistent data have demonstrated that creatine (Cr) supplementation prevents the accumulation of fat in rat liver as well as the progression of fatty liver disease in different situations. Studies have demonstrated that Cr is effective and prevents fatty liver in high-fat and choline-deficien...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Deminice R,de Castro GS,Brosnan ME,Brosnan JT

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid networks (AANs) are undirected networks consisting of amino acid residues and their interactions in three-dimensional protein structures. The analysis of AANs provides novel insight into protein science, and several common amino acid network properties have revealed diverse classes of proteins. In this revi...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Yan W,Zhou J,Sun M,Chen J,Hu G,Shen B

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to investigate the ability of curcumin to convert asparagine into acrylamide during heating at different temperatures. Binary and ternary model systems of asparagine-curcumin and asparagine-curcumin-fructose were used to determine the role of curcumin on acrylamide formation in competitive and uncompe...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Hamzalıoğlu A,Mogol BA,Lumaga RB,Fogliano V,Gökmen V

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:Starting from a chiral 4-hydroxymethyl pyrrolidin-2-one, an isostere of α-methyl homoserine tethered on a γ-lactam ring was prepared exploiting a stereoselective acylation-methylation sequence, followed by Curtius rearrangement, and structural assignment was confirmed by n.O.e. experiments. By reverting the sequence, ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Civitavecchia A,Martelli G,Orena M,Rinaldi S

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：: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：:Lamin A/C proteins are the major components of a thin proteinaceous filamentous meshwork, the lamina, that underlies the inner nuclear membrane. A few specific mutations in the lamin A/C gene cause a disease with remarkably different clinical features: FPLD, or familial partial lipodystrophy (Dunnigan-type), which mai...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Rajendran V,Purohit R,Sethumadhavan R

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：: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