Structure-activity relationships in ultrashort cationic lipopeptides: the effects of amino acid ring constraint on antibacterial activity.

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

abstract：:3-Hydroxyaspartic acid and its derivatives are found both in the free form and as peptide constituents in various microorganisms and fungi. Considering the biological importance of this amino acid and its potential utility as a multifunctional building block in organic syntheses, we have developed a short-step, asymme...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Khalaf JK,Datta A

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：: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：:Taurine chloramine (TauCl), a product of neutrophil myeloperoxidase - halide system, formed by a reaction of taurine with HOCl, is known as an anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory long-lived oxidant. We previously reported that TauCl inhibits in vitro the production of proinflammatory cytokines (IL-6, IL-8) by RA syno...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kwaśny-Krochin B,Bobek M,Kontny E,Gluszko P,Biedroń R,Chain BM,Maśliński W,Marcinkiewicz J

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：: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：: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：:The extracellular transglutaminases (TGs) in eukaryotes are responsible for the post-translational modification of proteins through different reactions, cross-linking being the best known. In higher plants, extracellular TG appears to be involved in roles similar to those performed by the mammalian counterparties. Sin...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Del Duca S,Verderio E,Serafini-Fracassini D,Iorio R,Cai G

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study was designed to investigate the effects of NMDA receptor agonist on the behavioral activity in rats with experimental hyperammonemia. The experiments were performed on adult male Wistar rats. Experimental hyperammonemia was induced by intraperitoneal injections of tioacetamide (TAA, 200 mg/kg) for three cons...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Fedosiewicz-Wasiluk M,Hoły ZZ,Wiśniewska RJ,Wiśniewski K

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：: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：: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：:The cellular amino acid composition of plant cells was analyzed. The callus of carrot (Daucus carota), leaves of Torenia fournieri and protocomb-like body of Cymbidium, s.p. were examined as examples of plant cells. The cellular amino acid compositions differed in the plant cells, but their basic patterns were quite s...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Sorimachi K,Okayasu T,Akimoto K,Niwa A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The leptin receptor antagonist peptide Allo-aca exhibits picomolar activities in various cellular systems and sub-mg/kg subcutaneous efficacies in animal models making it a prime drug candidate and target validation tool. Here we identified the biochemical basis for its remarkable in vivo activity. Allo-aca decomposed...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Otvos L Jr,Vetter SW,Koladia M,Knappe D,Schmidt R,Ostorhazi E,Kovalszky I,Bionda N,Cudic P,Surmacz E,Wade JD,Hoffmann R

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer susceptibility gene 2 (BRCA2) is an important tumor suppressor, which is participated in repair of damaged DNA by its highly conserved BRC repeat motifs regulating RAD51 protein homologous recombination and thereby preventing cell carcinogenesis. In this study, the BRCA2(1524-1548)-RAD51(241-260) complex...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Li J,Lu K,Lv M,Liu G,Ma L,Qi J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sulfur-containing excitatory amino acid (EAA) L-cysteine sulfinic acid (CSA), a neurotransmitter candidate, is endogenously synthesized from L-cysteine (Cys). Exogenous Cys administration into the brain produces cardiovascular effects; these effects likely occur via synaptic stimulation of central nervous system (...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Takemoto Y

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) transactivator of transcription (TAT) protein, a member of the protein transduction domain (PTD) superfamily, can deliver heterologous proteins across most biomembranes without losing bioactivity. However, there is no report on whether the TAT core domain containing the ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Wu Y,Ren C,Gao Y,Hou B,Chen T,Zhang C

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of the dipeptide gamma-glutamyltaurine (gamma-GT; glutaurine, Litoralon) in the parathyroid in 1980 and later in the brain of mammals gave rise to studies on intrinsic and synthetic taurine peptides of this type. It was suggested that gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT; gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase) in the b...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Bittner S,Win T,Gupta R

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low concentrations of L-homoarginine (hArg) in plasma or serum and urine have recently emerged as a novel cardiovascular risk factor. Previously, we reported gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and GC-tandem MS (GC-MS/MS) methods for the quantitative determination of hArg and Arg in plasma, serum, urine and o...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Hanff E,Kayacelebi AA,Yanchev GR,Maassen N,Haghikia A,Tsikas D

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Pharmacological conotoxins are among the most selective ligands of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors with typical cysteine frameworks. They are characterized by the intercysteine loop and classified into various subfamilies, such as α3/5 and α4/7 conotoxins. A novel α-conotoxin, Pu14a (DCPPHPVPGMHKCVCLKTC), with a d...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Zhang B,Huang F,Du W

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioma is the most common type of brain tumor, and has the worst prognosis in human malignancy. Experimental evidence suggests that the use of high concentrations of various amino acids may perturb neoplastic cell growth. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate whether essential amino acids can alter the growth...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Takeuchi S,Nawashiro H,Wada K,Nomura N,Toyooka T,Otani N,Osada H,Matsuo H,Shinomiya N

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：: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：:Non-invasive detection of prostate cancer or metastases still remains a challenge in the field of molecular imaging. In our recent work of screening arginine- or lysine-rich peptides for intracellular delivery of a therapeutic agent into prostate cancer cells, an arginine-rich cell permeable peptide (NH(2)GR(11)) was ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Hao G,Zhou J,Guo Y,Long MA,Anthony T,Stanfield J,Hsieh JT,Sun X

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunocytochemical investigation of the expression of alpha(1), alpha(6), beta(2/3), gamma(2) and delta subunits was performed on rat cerebellum granule cells in culture by the two photon microscopy technique. The first four subunits appear to be expressed abundantly in these cells, whereas the delta one seems to b...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Merlo F,Balduzzi R,Cupello A,Robello M

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：: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

abstract：:3-Fluorotyrosine fluorescence is quenched effectively by phosphate ions not only by a dynamic but also by a static mechanism owing to H-bond complex formation in ground state. 3-Fluorotyrosine pKa values both in the ground and first excited state (8.3 and 4, respectively) are appreciably lower than those of tyrosine, ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Vdovenko SI,Kolycheva MT,Gerus II,Kukhar VP

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00