Oxidative degradation of N(ε)-fructosylamine-substituted peptides in heated aqueous systems.

abstract：:Metformin, the drug of first choice in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), reduces cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality in part independently of improved glycemic control and changes in traditional risk factors. However, there are discordant reports on the effects of metformin on endothelial function in T2DM. Our ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kruszelnicka O,Chyrchel B,Golay A,Surdacki A

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:Sensitivity to pharmacological challenges has been reported in patients with panic disorder. We have previously validated transgenic mice overexpressing the neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) receptor, TrkC (TgNTRK3), as an engineered murine model of panic disorder. We could determine that TgNTRK3 mice presented increased cellular...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Sahún I,Gallego X,Gratacòs M,Murtra P,Trullás R,Maldonado R,Estivill X,Dierssen M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protooncogenes (PO) play a crucial role for brain biology and pathology. Only the concerted action of protooncogenes enables normal brain development. The reliable and sensitive quantification of brain PO is still holding centre stage in neurobiological research. The aim of our study was therefore the determination of...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Schatzmann-Turhani D,Greber-Platzer S,Cairns N,Lubec G

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies we characterized arginine transporter genes from Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania donovani, the etiological agents of chagas disease and kala azar, respectively, both fatal diseases in humans. Unlike arginine transporters in higher eukaryotes that transport also lysine, these parasite transporters ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Inbar E,Canepa GE,Carrillo C,Glaser F,Suter Grotemeyer M,Rentsch D,Zilberstein D,Pereira CA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of lysine decarboxylase was studied in 3-day-old soybean (Glycine max (L.) Meer cv. Sakai) seedlings also in relation to light conditions. Lysine decarboxylase activity was mainly localized in the roots and to a lesser extent in the hypocotyls and was detectable in both the soluble and particulate fractio...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ohe M,Scoccianti V,Bagni N,Tassoni A,Matsuzaki S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An aromatic chiral diacid monomer, 5-[4-(2-phthalimidiylpropanoylamino)-benzoylamino]isophthalic acid was synthesized in five steps under conventional heating in high yield and purity. A series of soluble, thermally stable and optically active polyamides (PA)s containing pendent groups made of phthalimide, flexible L:...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Mallakpour S,Rafiee Z

更新日期：2009-10-01 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

abstract：:To evaluate the response of soybean to salt stress, the related changes in protein expression were investigated using the proteomic approach. Soybean plants were exposed to 0, 50, 100, and 200 mM NaCl. Especially at 200 mM, the length and fresh weight of the hypocotyl and root reduced under salt stress, while the prol...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Aghaei K,Ehsanpour AA,Shah AH,Komatsu S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports on nucleobase-containing chiral peptides (both natural and artificial) and achiral pseudopeptides are reviewed. Their synthesis, structural features, DNA and RNA-binding ability, as well as some other interesting applications which make them promising diagnostic/therapeutic agents of great importance in many a...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Roviello GN,Benedetti E,Pedone C,Bucci EM

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis and properties of a new fluorescent/fluorogenic substrate Ac-DEVD-AMAC for caspase-3 are reported. The substrate is obtained by conventional Fmoc-based solid phase peptide synthesis and its properties are investigated with regard to fluorescence, sensitivity, applicability and kinetic constants. A non-tradit...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Lozanov V,Ivanov IP,Benkova B,Mitev V

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of antitumor drug, cisplatin (cis-[PtCl2(NH3)2], CDDP) with insulin from porcine pancreas has been investigated by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry and high resolution hybrid ion trap/time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALIDI-TOF/TOF-MS and ESI-IT/TOF MS). The...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Li J,Yue L,Liu Y,Yin X,Yin Q,Pan Y,Yang L

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolated single organotypic slice model allows to investigate the effects of drugs and toxins on the expression of transcription factors in the striatum without dopaminergic and glutamatergic interactions. In this study the effects of margatoxin and iberiotoxin on the expression of c-fos mRNA by in situ hybridizat...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Saria A,Fischer HS,Humpel C,Pfattner A,Schatz DS,Schuligoi R

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:O-linked β-N-actylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) is a carbohydrate post-translational modification on hydroxyl groups of serine and/or threonine residues of cytosolic and nuclear proteins. Analogous to phosphorylation, O-GlcNAcylation plays crucial regulatory roles in a variety of cellular processes. O-GlcNAc was termed a nut...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ma Z,Vosseller K

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we report the complete separation of amino acids as DABS-derivatives using a 3µm Supelcosil LC-18 (25 cm × 2.1 mm I.D.) narrowbore column. The system described makes it possible to perform the analysis of DABS-amino acids with a sensitivity to the femtomole level. We have also studied the conditions nece...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Stocchi V,Palma F,Piccoli G,Biagiarelli B,Magnani M,Masat L,Cucchiarini L

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydocin is a powerfulin vitro antitumoral agent, quickly inactivatedin vivo. A series of cyclic tetrapeptides related to chlamydocin or HC toxin and bearing a bioactive alkylating group on anε-amino-lysyl function have been examined for their antitumoral activity on L1210 and P388 murine leukemia cell lines. One a...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Bernardi E,Fauchère JL,Atassi G,Viallefont P,Lazaro R

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to test L-methioinine as a possible immune supportive supplement in HIV infected patients by means of a clinical study. A double-blind, placebo-controlled study was designed. The patients (n = 253) from four different trial centres were randomly divided into two groups, active and placeb...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Van Brummelen R,du Toit D

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc exhibits antidepressant-like activity in preclinical tests/models. Moreover, zinc homeostasis is implicated in the pathophysiology of affective disorders. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of chronic zinc, citalopram and imipramine intraperitoneal administration on the presynaptic and extrace...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Sowa-Kućma M,Kowalska M,Szlósarczyk M,Gołembiowska K,Opoka W,Baś B,Pilc A,Nowak G

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:This study determined whether N-acetylcysteine (NAC) could affect intestinal redox status, proinflammatory cytokines, epidermal growth factor (EGF), EGF receptor (EGFR), Toll-like receptor-4 (TLR4), and aquaporin-8 in a lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-challenged piglet model. Eighteen piglets (35-day-old) were randomly alloc...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Hou Y,Wang L,Yi D,Ding B,Yang Z,Li J,Chen X,Qiu Y,Wu G

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate is stored in synaptic vesicles in presynaptic neurons. It is released into the synaptic cleft to provide signalling to postsynaptic neurons. Normally, the astroglial glutamate transporters GLT-1 and GLAST take up glutamate to mediate a high signal-to-noise ratio in the synaptic signalling, and also to preven...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Persson M,Rönnbäck L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our observations on the growth stimulatory nature of mimosine, (beta-(3-hydroxy-4-pyridon-1-yl)-L-alanine), the toxic non-protein plant amino acid, in some model experimental systems, warranted sensitive and selective routine estimations. For the determination of both mimosine and DHP, an indirect spectrophotometric m...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Lalitha K,Rajendra Kulothungan S

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：: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：:Until now information about the influence of puberty on gingival tissue responses to Ni-Ti alloy haven't been available. Since our previous researches have demonstrated that Ni-Ti appliances have an influence on hyperplastic gingivopathy and data has pointed out a possible hormonal influence on the susceptibility of g...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Venza M,Visalli M,Ruggeri P,Cicciù D,Teti D

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D: -Amino acid oxidase (DAAO) in mammal kidney regulates the renal reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels directly and plays a leading role in the development of ROS-mediated renal pathologic damages based on its crucial role in the oxidative deamination of D: -amino acids and the consequent generation of H(2)O(2). Quan...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Zhang H,Qi L,Lin Y,Mao L,Chen Y

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity, type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) are the most common preventable causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. They represent major public health threat to our society. Increasing prevalence of obesity and T2DM contributes to escalating morbidity and mortality from CVD and stroke. Carnos...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Baye E,Ukropcova B,Ukropec J,Hipkiss A,Aldini G,de Courten B

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：:Protein and peptide oxidation is a key feature in the progression of a variety of disease states and in the poor performance of protein-based products. The present work demonstrates a mass spectrometry-based approach to profiling degradation at the amino acid residue level. Synthetic peptides containing the photosensi...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Grosvenor AJ,Morton JD,Dyer JM

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00