A comparative study for adsorption of lysozyme from aqueous samples onto Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles using different ionic liquids as modifier.

abstract：:Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) is a methylated form of arginine and an endogenous nitric oxide synthase inhibitor. Renal function decline is associated with increase of plasma ADMA in chronic kidney disease populations. It is yet unknown how isolated renal function impairment affects ADMA homeostasis in healthy hu...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Said MY,Douwes RM,van Londen M,Minović I,Frenay AR,de Borst MH,van den Berg E,Heiner-Fokkema MR,Kayacelebi AA,Bollenbach A,van Goor H,Navis G,Tsikas D,Bakker SJL

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：:D-Aspartate (D-Asp) has important physiological functions, and recent studies have shown that substantial amounts of free D-Asp are present in a wide variety of mammalian tissues and cells. Biosynthesis of D-Asp has been observed in several cultured rat cell lines, and a murine gene (glutamate-oxaloacetate transaminas...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Matsuda S,Katane M,Maeda K,Kaneko Y,Saitoh Y,Miyamoto T,Sekine M,Homma H

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide (ATP-ADP)/nucleoside (adenosine) ratio in the circulation can modulate the processes of vasoconstriction, vasodilatation and platelet aggregation. The main objective of the present study with rat blood serum was to evaluate the possibility of changes in nucleotide hydrolysis by phenylalanine (Phe) and p...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Rücker B,Oses JP,Kirst IB,Berti SL,Bonan CD,Battastini AM,Sarkis JJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) with amphipathic β-hairpin structures have been demonstrated to possess potent antimicrobial activities and great cell selectivities. However, our understanding of β-hairpin antimicrobial peptides lags behind that of α-helices, mainly because it is difficult for short peptides to form rob...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Xu L,Chou S,Wang J,Shao C,Li W,Zhu X,Shan A

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of hydroxypyrroloindoline (Hpi) containing dipeptides along with the corresponding monomeric Hpi-α-amino acid (Hpi-2-carboxylate), were prepared by reacting a series of N α-protected-tryptophans in aqueous or biphasic [water/cyclopentyl methyl ether (CPME)] solutions containing Oxone® (potassium peroxymonosul...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Blanc A,Xia F,Todorovic M,Perrin DM

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:In the absence of exogenous Ca(2+) and Mg(2+) and in the presence of EGTA, which favours the release of endogenous Ca(2+), the polyamine spermine is able to stimulate the activity of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) of energized rat liver mitochondria (RLM). This stimulation exhibits a gradual concentration-depend...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Pezzato E,Battaglia V,Brunati AM,Agostinelli E,Toninello A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-DNA interaction plays an important role in many biological processes. The classical methods and the novel technologies advanced have been developed for the interaction of protein-DNA. Recent developments of these methods and research achievements have been reviewed in this paper. ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Cai YH,Huang H

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the dose as well as duration of exposure-dependent effects of L-alanyl-L-glutamine, arginine or taurine on polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) free alpha-keto acid profiles and, in a parallel study, on PMN immune functions. Exogenous L-alanyl-L-glutamine significantly increa...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Mühling J,Nickolaus KA,Halabi M,Fuchs M,Krüll M,Engel J,Wolff M,Matejec R,Langefeld TW,Welters ID,Menges T,Dehne MG,Sablotzki A,Hempelmann G

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress, an excess of reactive oxygen species (ROS), may lead to oxidative post-translational modifications of proteins resulting in the cleavage of the peptide backbone, known as α-amidation, and formation of fragments such as peptide amides and α-ketoacyl peptides (α-KaP). In this study, we first compared d...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Sajapin J,Hellwig M

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Taurine is found in bone tissue, but its function in skeletal tissue is not fully understood. The present study was undertaken to investigate regulation of gene expression of connective tissue growth factor (CTGF), and the roles of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) in murine osteoblast MC3T3-E1 cells treated w...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Yuan LQ,Lu Y,Luo XH,Xie H,Wu XP,Liao EY

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific function of putative cut2 protein (or CFP25), encoded by the Rv2301 gene from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv, has not been identified yet. The aim of this study was to assess some of CFP25 characteristics and its possible biological role in Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv invasion process to target cel...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ocampo M,Rodríguez DM,Curtidor H,Vanegas M,Patarroyo MA,Patarroyo ME

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How to enhance fruit tolerance to cold stress is an important biological interest. In this paper, we found that mango (Mangifera indica L.) fruit treated with 10 μM brassinolide (BL) showed a higher tolerance to cold temperature of 5 °C. Further, we compared the changes in expression profiles of plasma membrane (PM) p...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Li B,Zhang C,Cao B,Qin G,Wang W,Tian S

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon tau (IFNT) was discovered as the pregnancy recognition signal in ruminants, but is now known to have a plethora of physiological functions in the mammalian uterus. The mammalian uterus includes, from the outer surface to the lumen, the serosa, myometrium and endometrium. The endometrium consists of the lumi...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Bazer FW,Ying W,Wang X,Dunlap KA,Zhou B,Johnson GA,Wu G

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We observed here that acute proline (Pro) administration provoked a decrease (32%) of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity in cerebral cortex and an increase (22%) of butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) activity in the serum of 29-day-old rats. In contrast, chronic administration of Pro did not alter AChE or BuChE activitie...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Delwing D,Chiarani F,Wannmacher CM,Wajner M,Wyse AT

更新日期：2005-05-01 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 supplementation of creatine has shown a marked neuroprotective effect in mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). This has been assigned to the known bioenergetic, anti-apoptotic, anti-excitotoxic and anti-oxidant properties of creatine....

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Klopstock T,Elstner M,Bender A

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofilaments (NFs) are integral constituents of the neuron playing a major role in brain development, maintenance, regeneration and the pattern of expression for NFs suggests their contribution to plasticity of the neuronal cytoskeleton and creating and maintaining neuronal architecture. Using immune-histochemical t...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Bajo M,Yoo BC,Cairns N,Gratzer M,Lubec G

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work deals with the Dakin-West synthesis, starting from the nucleoamino acid 1-thyminyl acetic acid, as well the NMR, ESI MS, and X-ray characterization of a heteroaromatic compound denominated by us T(2)CO, comprising two thymine moieties anchored to a 2-propanonic unit, the spectroscopic properties of which wer...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Roviello GN,Roviello G,Musumeci D,Bucci EM,Pedone C

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：: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：:In a previous study, we elucidated the apoptotic mechanism mediated via Fas/FasL-dependent pathway in mitomycin C-treated cervical carcinoma cells. In this study, 2-D and MALDI-TOF analyses were performed in order to search mitomycin C-induced modulators in cervical carcinoma cells. Some protein spots down- or up-regu...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kang YH,Lee KA,Kim JH,Park SG,Yoon DY

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tryptophan is important both for protein synthesis and as a precursor of niacin, serotonin and other metabolites. Tryptophan is an unusual amino acid because of the complexity of its metabolism, the variety and importance of its metabolites, the number and diversity of the diseases it is involved in, and because of it...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Sainio EL,Pulkki K,Young SN

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00