Asymmetric synthesis of α-amino acids via homologation of Ni(II) complexes of glycine Schiff bases. Part 3: Michael addition reactions and miscellaneous transformations.

abstract：:Seryl-histidine dipeptide (Ser-His) has been recognized as the shortest peptide with hydrolysis cleavage activity; however, its protein cleavage spectrum has not yet been fully explored. Here, four differently folded proteins were treated with Ser-His, and the digestion products were evaluated with high-resolution mas...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Liu Y,Li YB,Gao X,Yu YF,Liu XX,Ji ZL,Ma Y,Li YM,Zhao YF

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, implicated in various neurodegenerative processes, increases the level of intracellular Ca(2+) and leads to activation of calpain, a Ca(2+)-dependent cysteine protease. We have shown previously that S-allyl-L-cysteine (SAC) in aged garlic extracts significantly protects cultured rat ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Imai T,Kosuge Y,Endo-Umeda K,Miyagishi H,Ishige K,Makishima M,Ito Y

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taurine (TAU) has been shown to improve exercise time to exhaustion and 3-km running performance; however, no studies have considered the effect of acute TAU ingestion on short duration cycling time trial (TT) performance. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of a single oral acute dose of 1000 mg of TAU...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ward R,Bridge CA,McNaughton LR,Sparks SA

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:Numerous indolyl amino acids and their derivatives inhibited arginase activity. The inhibition was found to be non-competitive, - at least partly - allosteric, and independent on manganese ions in the active site, and it cannot be explained by the dissociation of arginase homotrimers. Indole alone is weakly inhibitory...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Hrabák A,Bajor T,Mészáros G

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide is a small potentially toxic molecule and a diatomic free radical. We report the interaction of L-arginine, oxygen and calcium with the synthesis of nitric oxide in heart mitochondria. Nitric oxide synthesis is increased in broken rat heart mitochondria compared with intact and permeabilized mitochondria....

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Saavedra-Molina A,Ramírez-Emiliano J,Clemente-Guerrero M,Pérez-Vázquez V,Aguilera-Aguirre L,González-Hernández JC

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:High-protein diets have been shown to alleviate detrimental effects of high-fat diets and this effect can be partially mimicked by dietary L-leucine supplementation. Here, we aimed to elucidate the early mechanisms and the specificity of leucine effects. We performed a 1-week trial with male C57BL/6 mice fed ad libitu...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Freudenberg A,Petzke KJ,Klaus S

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agmatine, a natural polyamine produced from arginine by arginine decarboxylase, was first discovered in 1910, but its physiological significance was disregarded for a century. The recent rediscovery of agmatine as an endogenous ligand for α2-adrenergic and imidazoline receptors in the mammalian brain suggests that thi...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Akasaka N,Fujiwara S

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular imaging of human epidermal growth factor receptor type 2 (HER2) expression has drawn significant attention because of the unique role of the HER2 gene in diagnosis, therapy and prognosis of human breast cancer. In our previous research, a novel cyclic 2-helix small protein, MUT-DS, was discovered as an anti-...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ren G,Webster JM,Liu Z,Zhang R,Miao Z,Liu H,Gambhir SS,Syud FA,Cheng Z

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taurine is a β-amino acid found in high concentrations in excitable tissues, including the heart. A significant reduction in myocardial taurine content leads to the development of a unique dilated, atrophic cardiomyopathy. One of the major functions of taurine in the heart is the regulation of the respiratory chain. H...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Schaffer SW,Shimada-Takaura K,Jong CJ,Ito T,Takahashi K

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamine is the most abundant amino acid in the body. It is an important fuel for some key cells of the immune system. Both the plasma concentration of glutamine and the functional ability of immune cells in the blood are decreased after prolonged, exhaustive exercise. Glutamine feeding has had beneficial effects in ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Castell LM,Newsholme EA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of enantiomerically pure 2-aminocyclobutanecarboxylic acids has been refined to improve both the efficiency and the simplicity. These improvements provide a shorter and easier access to the racemic cis-cyclobutane β-amino acid core. Derivatization of this material with a chiral non-racemic oxazolidin-2-o...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Declerck V,Aitken DJ

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary theoretical models used in describing electrostatic properties of amino acids in polypeptides rely usually on atomic point charges. Recently noted defects of such models in reproducing protein folding originate from the inadequate representation of the electrostatic term, in particular inability of atomic...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Sokalski W

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of an enzyme activity which hydrolyzes glycyl-D-aspartate was found in the homogenates of pig kidney cortex. The activity was inhibited by metal chelating agents and cilastatin, suggesting that the enzyme was a cilastatin-sensitive metallo-peptidase. Of the two hydrolysis products,D-aspartate was found to...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kera Y,Funabashi K,Matsumoto T,Watanabe T,Nagasaki H,Yamada R

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:This study was conducted to evaluate the anti-obesity effects of long-term taurine supplementation in a mild obese ICR mouse model and to study the mechanism by which taurine induces weight loss. Three groups of male ICR mice were fed a normal chow diet, a high-fat diet (HFD), or an HFD supplemented with 2% taurine in...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kim KS,Jang MJ,Fang S,Yoon SG,Kim IY,Seong JK,Yang HI,Hahm DH

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage, disease, or trauma. Until now, there are no successful medications on the drug market available to treat amnesia. Short analogs and mimetics of human urocortin 3 (Ucn 3) tripeptide were synthetized and tested for their action against amnesia induced by eletroconvu...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Telegdy G,Kovács AK,Rákosi K,Zarándi M,Tóth GK

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, nanoparticles of Fe3O4 as well as their modified forms with different ionic liquids (IL-Fe3O4) were prepared and used for adsorption of lysozyme. The mean size and the surface morphology of the nanoparticles were characterized by TEM, XRD and FTIR techniques. Adsorption studies of lysozyme were performe...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kamran S,Absalan G,Asadi M

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is controversial whether homocysteic acid or other homocysteine derivatives show growth promoting effects. In a clonogenic assay we could show that homocysteine thiolactone and its alpha alkylated derivative increased colony formation significantly. Our work favorizes previous observations showing growth promoting ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Lubec B,Szekeres T

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated hepatocytes from rat liver in primary culture rapidly lost viability under hypoxic conditions. In the presence of glycine, L-alanine or L-serine loss of viability under hypoxic conditions was greatly retarded. Glycine and L-serine already showed significant protection from hypoxic injury at a concentration of...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Brecht M,de Groot H

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The streptococcal enzyme that catalyzes the last step in proline biosynthesis was heterologously expressed and the recombinant protein was purified to electrophoretic homogeneity and characterized thoroughly. As for δ1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductases from other sources, it was able to use either NADH or NADPH as th...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Petrollino D,Forlani G

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a globally widespread disease of increasing clinical significance. The pathological progression of the disease from simple steatosis to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) has been well defined, however, the contribution of altered branched chain amino acid metabolomic profi...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Lake AD,Novak P,Shipkova P,Aranibar N,Robertson DG,Reily MD,Lehman-McKeeman LD,Vaillancourt RR,Cherrington NJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging evidence from laboratory researches has highlighted the bioactivity of food melanoidins and melanoproteins. Whilst such studies have been carried out with different in vitro systems, information about melanoidins absorption and bio-availability are scarce. However, they are generally considered as poorly abso...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Tagliazucchi D,Bellesia A

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IEF is often used in multidimensional shotgun proteomics and the narrow range of 3.5-4.5 is the recommended pH interval for the fractionation of tryptic peptides. Usually, even if IEF is performed in IPG strip with a narrow range pH, the entire sample must be loaded onto the strip, including the "out of IPG range" pep...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Iori E,Rattazzi M,Millioni R

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine is a precursor of proteins and employed in urea synthesis. It is also the precursor of many other compounds, such as creatine, nitric oxide, polyamines, agmatine, proline. In this review, its transport and that of other basic amino acids are examined, along with its transformation into nitric oxide, agmatine ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Grillo MA,Colombatto S

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial branched chain aminotransferase-deficient mouse model (BCATm KO), which exhibits elevated plasma and tissue branched chain amino acids (BCAAs), was used to study the effect of BCAAs on mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) regulation of organ size. BCATm is the first enzyme in the BCAA cat...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Neishabouri SH,Hutson SM,Davoodi J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the formulation of the concept of "proteomics" in 1995, a plethora of proteomic technologies have been developed in order to study proteomes of tissues, cells and organelles. The powerful new technologies enabled by proteomic approaches have lead to the application of these methods to an exponentially increasing...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Vercauteren FG,Arckens L,Quirion R

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A species of the poorly studied order Embioptera, the webspinner Oligotoma saundersii, is investigated for its complement of neuropeptides of the adipokinetic hormone (AKH) family. A methanolic extract of its corpora cardiaca (CC) is able to effect carbohydrate mobilization in the cockroach, Periplaneta americana, and...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Gäde G,Šimek P,Marco HG

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00