Glutathione and its associated enzymes in peripheral blood cells in different stages of chronic renal insufficiency.

abstract：:Reaction between glutathione and ribose was carried out to study the volatiles formed via Maillard reaction and their antioxidant activity as well as their role in inhibition of LDL oxidation. The simultaneous distillation-extraction technique was used for trapping the volatile components followed by GC-MS analysis. T...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： El-massry K,Farouk A,El-Ghorab A

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the activating role of Mcm1p at ARG1 during arginine starvation. Our results showed that two Mcm1p binding sites positively contribute to ARG1 transcription and cell growth. Especially, we provide strong evidence that the Mcm1p binding sites play a positive role in ARG1 transcription to ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Hong S,Yoon S

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taurine can protect against cardiovascular diseases, whereas elevated levels of plasma homocysteine are associated with atherosclerotic and thromboembolic cardiovascular diseases. To illustrate the effects of taurine on hyperhomocysteinemia, we observed the myocardial mitochondria dysfunction in the rats with hyperhom...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Chang L,Xu J,Yu F,Zhao J,Tang X,Tang C

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine (Arg) and glutamine (Gln) utilization is greatly increased during catabolic stress. While the supply of both amino acids has been advocated in this situation, arginine administration is possibly associated with deleterious effects. From a metabolic point of view, these two amino acids are reciprocal precursor...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ventura G,Moinard C,Segaud F,Le Plenier S,Cynober L,De Bandt JP

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatitis B core (HBc) protein has been used successfully in numerous experiments as a carrier for heterologous peptides. Folding and capsid formation of the chimeric proteins is not always achieved easily. In silico analyses were performed to provide further comprehension of the feasibility for predicting success...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Janssens ME,Geysen D,Broos K,De Goeyse I,Robbens J,Van Petegem F,Timmermans JP,Guisez Y

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plasma and serum, the presence of high-abundance proteins can overwhelm the signals of low-abundance proteins, which then become undetectable either by two-dimensional gels or chromatographic techniques. Therefore, depletion of abundant proteins is a prerequisite to detect low-abundance components. Furthermore, the...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Millioni R,Puricelli L,Iori E,Tessari P

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：:A prior knowledge of protein structural classes can provide useful information about its overall structure, so it is very important for quick and accurate determination of protein structural class with computation method in protein science. One of the key for computation method is accurate protein sample representatio...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Li ZC,Zhou XB,Dai Z,Zou XY

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are essential cell organelles of eukaryotes. Hence, it is vitally important to develop an automated and reliable method for timely identification of novel mitochondrial proteins. In this study, mitochondrial proteins were encoded by dipeptide composition technology; then, the genetic algorithm-partial lea...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Tan F,Feng X,Fang Z,Li M,Guo Y,Jiang L

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-penetrating peptides, a group of short peptides, can traverse cell membranes to enter cells and thus facilitate the uptake of various molecular cargoes. Thus, they have the potential to become powerful drug delivery systems. The correct identification of peptides as cell-penetrating or non-cell-penetrating would ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Chen L,Chu C,Huang T,Kong X,Cai YD

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we describe the asymmetric synthesis of a series of fluorinated and non-fluorinated quaternary α-amino acid derivatives. This methodology involves the diastereoselective addition of chiral 2-p-tolylsulfinyl benzylcarbanions to either imines containing a 2-furyl moiety or trifluoromethyl α-imino esters. S...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Fustero S,Sánchez-Roselló M,Báez C,Del Pozo C,García Ruano JL,Alemán J,Marzo L,Parra A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying protein-protein interactions (PPIs) is critical for understanding the cellular function of the proteins and the machinery of a proteome. Data of PPIs derived from high-throughput technologies are often incomplete and noisy. Therefore, it is important to develop computational methods and high-quality intera...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Shi MG,Xia JF,Li XL,Huang DS

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycine is a major amino acid in mammals and other animals. It is synthesized from serine, threonine, choline, and hydroxyproline via inter-organ metabolism involving primarily the liver and kidneys. Under normal feeding conditions, glycine is not adequately synthesized in birds or in other animals, particularly in a ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Wang W,Wu Z,Dai Z,Yang Y,Wang J,Wu G

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immobilization of papain on Sepharose 6B in the presence of different concentrations of cysteine affected the enzyme activity depending on cysteine concentration. The maximum specific activity was observed when papain was immobilized with 200 mM cysteine. The immobilization process brought significant enhancement of s...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Homaei AA,Sajedi RH,Sariri R,Seyfzadeh S,Stevanato R

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:Hippocampus trimaculatus is one of the most heavily traded seahorse species for traditional medicine purposes in many countries. In the present study, we showed neuroprotective effects of peptide derived from H. trimaculatus against amyloid-β42 (Aβ42) toxicity which are central to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disea...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Pangestuti R,Ryu B,Himaya S,Kim SK

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have been studying control mechanisms of gene expression in early embryogenesis in a South African clawed toad Xenopus laevis, especially during the period of midblastula transition (MBT), or the transition from the phase of active cell division (cleavage stage) to the phase of extensive morphogenesis (post-blastul...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Shiokawa K,Aso M,Kondo T,Takai J,Yoshida J,Mishina T,Fuchimukai K,Ogasawara T,Kariya T,Tashiro K,Igarashi K

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N, N'-Ethylene-bridged bis-(S)-methionine[(2S, 7S)-2, 7-bis(2-methyl-thioethyl)-3,6-diazaoctanedioic acid] derived from (S)-methionine and 1,2-dibromoethane was cyclized and esterified simultaneously in boiling ethanol in the presence of an appropriate amount of strong acid such asp-toluenesulfonic acid, affording a c...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Yamashita T,Takenaka H,Kojima Y

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular peptide ligand binding sites, which bind the N-termini of angiotensin II (AngII) and bradykinin (BK) peptides, are located on the N-terminal and extracellular loop 3 regions of the AT(1)R and BKRB(1) or BKRB(2) G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Here we synthesized peptides P15 and P13 corresponding to...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Lopes DD,Vieira RF,Malavolta L,Poletti EF,Shimuta SI,Paiva AC,Schreier S,Oliveira L,Nakaie CR

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：: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：: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：:Chemically defined amino acid diets have been developed for most laboratory and meat-producing animal species as well as for humans. In many cases, growth performance of animals fed these diets equals that obtained with standard intact-protein diets. The pattern of both essential and nonessential amino acids is critic...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Baker DH

更新日期：1992-02-01 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 large series of plasma albumin (ALB, g/dl) and simultaneous blood and clinical measurements were prospectively performed on 92 liver resection patients, and processed to assess the correlations between ALB, other plasma proteins, additional variables and clinical events. The measurements were performed preoperativel...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Giovannini I,Chiarla C,Giuliante F,Vellone M,Ardito F,Nuzzo G

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular ischemia resulting from perfusion disturbances may play a major role in initiation of glaucoma. Possibly secondary to ischemia autoimmunogenic events are activated in glaucoma patients with increased prevalence of systemic autoimmune diseases. The determination of potential molecular markers in blood leukocytes...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Golubnitschaja O,Wunderlich K,Decker C,Mönkemann H,Schild HH,Flammer J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective removal of protecting groups under different cleavage mechanisms could be an asset in peptide synthesis, since it provides the feasibility to incorporate different functional groups in similar reactive centres. However, selective protection/deprotection of orthogonal protecting groups in peptides is still ch...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Stathopoulos P,Papas S,Sakka M,Tzakos AG,Tsikaris V

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased protein requirement of endurance athletes may be related to the need to replace exercise-induced oxidative losses, especially of the branched-chain amino acids (BCAA). However, it is unknown if non-essential amino acids (NEAA) influence the requirement for essential amino acids (EAA) during post-exercise...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kato H,Volterman KA,West DWD,Suzuki K,Moore DR

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recovery of amino acid (AA) metabolism and the associated clinical implications in chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients with sustained virological response (SVR) following anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) therapy remains elusive. A prospective cohort study was conducted on 222 CHC patients with SVR. Eighty-two age-matched m...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Chang ML,Cheng ML,Chang SW,Tang HY,Chiu CT,Yeh CT,Shiao MS

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early evaluation of cancer response to a therapeutic regimen can help increase the effectiveness of treatment schemes and, by enabling early termination of ineffective treatments, minimize toxicity, and reduce expenses. Biomarkers that provide early indication of tumor therapy response are urgently needed. Solid tumor...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Cao Q,Liu S,Niu G,Chen K,Yan Y,Liu Z,Chen X

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00