The effect of lysine deprivation on leukemic blood.

abstract：:We report the solid phase synthesis and some pharmacological properties of 24 oxytocin (OT) analogues. Basic modifications at position 9 (introduction of L- or D-beta-(2-thienyl)-alanine [L- or D-Thi], or L- or D-3-Pyridylalanine [L- or D-3-Pal]) were combined with D-tyrosine(OEthyl) [D-Tyr(Et)] or D-1-naphthylalanine...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Magafa V,Borovicková L,Slaninová J,Cordopatis P

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The enhancing effect on the water structure has been confirmed for most of the osmolytes exhibiting both stabilizing and destabilizing properties in regard to proteins. The presented work concerns osmolytes, which should be classified as "structure breaking" solutes: taurine and N,N,N-trimethyltaurine (TMT). Here, we ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Bruździak P,Panuszko A,Kaczkowska E,Piotrowski B,Daghir A,Demkowicz S,Stangret J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:M33 is a branched peptide currently under preclinical characterization for the development of a new antibacterial drug against gram-negative bacteria. Here, we report its pegylation at the C-terminus of the three-lysine-branching core and the resulting increase in stability to Pseudomonas aeruginosa elastase. This pro...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Falciani C,Lozzi L,Scali S,Brunetti J,Bracci L,Pini A

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on ubiquitous presence of large ionic motifs and clusters in proteins involved in gene transcription and protein synthesis, we analyzed the distribution of ionizable sidechains in a broad selection of proteins with regulatory, metabolic, structural and adhesive functions, in agonist, antagonist, toxin and antimi...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Parker MS,Balasubramaniam A,Parker SL

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, two major routes exist for the metabolic conversion of L-glutamine to α-ketoglutarate. The most widely studied pathway involves the hydrolysis of L-glutamine to L-glutamate catalyzed by glutaminases, followed by the conversion of L-glutamate to α-ketoglutarate by the action of an L-glutamate-linked aminotr...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Cooper AJ,Shurubor YI,Dorai T,Pinto JT,Isakova EP,Deryabina YI,Denton TT,Krasnikov BF

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of up-regulation of putrescine (Put) production by genetic manipulation on the turnover of spermidine (Spd) and spermine (Spm) was investigated in transgenic cells of poplar (Populus nigra × maximowiczii) and seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana. Several-fold increase in Put production was achieved by expressi...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Shao L,Bhatnagar P,Majumdar R,Minocha R,Minocha SC

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulated proteolysis plays important roles in cell biology and pathological conditions. A crosstalk exists between apoptosis and the ubiquitin-proteasome system, two pathways responsible for regulated proteolysis executed by different proteases. To investigate whether the apoptotic process also affects the 20S protea...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Schmidt F,Dahlmann B,Hustoft HK,Koehler CJ,Strozynski M,Kloss A,Zimny-Arndt U,Jungblut PR,Thiede B

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anticancer peptides (ACPs) are biologically anticancer active molecules that are produced by mammals, plants, insects and microorganisms. Here, a new peptide (TC22) with the amino acid sequence MTVVLLLIVLPLLGGVHSSGIL was identified and characterized from the beetle Tribolium castaneum. We found it inhibited the growth...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Liu XD,Zhang FX,Qin ZH,Shan H

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On a biochemical level, conventional antidepressants have been shown to modulate synaptic levels of biogenic amines (i.e., serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine), most often by interfering with reuptake processes or inhibiting metabolism. Strategies directed at modulating glutamatergic transmission may overcome the ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Skolnick P

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agmatine, a metabolite generated by arginine decarboxylation, has been reported as neuromodulator and neuroactive substance. Several findings suggest that agmatine displays neuroprotective effects in several models of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease (PD). It has been hypothesized that biogenic...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ferlazzo N,Currò M,Giunta ML,Longo D,Rizzo V,Caccamo D,Ientile R

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：: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：: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

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：:Polyamines, oxidized by serum amine oxidase, yield aminoaldehydes and hydrogen peroxide. Acrolein may be formed from the aminoaldehydes by a spontaneous beta-elimination process. These oxidation products "oxidized polyamines" inhibit bacterial growth and exhibit anticancer activity. The antimicrobial activity of oxidi...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Bachrach U

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present research has been carried out to elicit the mechanism of antiangiogenic activity of a fusion peptide P2. Peptide P2 was designed by the connection of a heptapeptide MMP inhibitor to ES-2, a fragment of Endostatin. In a previous study, P2 demonstrated strong antiangiogenic and antitumor effect, and the curr...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Xu Y,Qiang X,Xing L,Wang H,Zhang J,Zhang F,Caliskan B,Wang M,Qiu Z

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-Asp-containing proteins have been implicated in many aging-related diseases. To clarify the role of D-Asp-containing proteins in such diseases, we developed a screening system for these proteins using a D-aspartyl endopeptidase that specifically cleaves the proteins at the C-terminus. The digested proteins were dete...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Sakai-Kato K,Kinouchi T,Fujii N,Imai K,Utsunomiya-Tate N

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary supplementation with Astragalus polysaccharide (APS) on growth performance, apparent ileal digestibilities (AID) of amino acids (AA), and their serum concentrations in early weaned piglets. In Exp. 1, 60 pigs were weaned at 21 days of age (BW 7.35 +/- 0...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Yin FG,Liu YL,Yin YL,Kong XF,Huang RL,Li TJ,Wu GY,Hou Y

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyridoxamine (PM) has long been known to inhibit protein glycation via various mechanisms of action. One such mechanism involves the scavenging of carbonyl compounds with glycating ability. Despite the abundant literature on this topic, few quantitative kinetic studies on the processes involved have been reported. In ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Adrover M,Vilanova B,Frau J,Muñoz F,Donoso J

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated plasma concentrations of asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) and symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) were found in various clinical settings including coronary heart disease. To assess ADMA and SDMA diagnostic validity in patients with different stages of ischemic heart disease, we studied these markers in patie...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Djordjević BV,Pavlović R,Ćosić V,Deljanin-Ilić M,Ristić T,Krstić N,Jevtović-Stoimenov T

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition are biologic processes responsible for conversion of epithelial cells into a mesenchymal phenotype or viceversa, respectively. They occur during embryo- and foetal-development and, in adult organisms, are involved in wound healing, in the ge...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Compagnone A,Bandino A,Meli F,Bravoco V,Cravanzola C,Parola M,Colombatto S

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00