Structure-based design, synthesis and anticancer effect of cyclic Smac-polyarginine peptides.

abstract：:D-Aspartic acid (D-Asp) is an endogenous amino acid present in neuroendocrine systems. Here, we report evidence that D-Asp in the rat is involved in learning and memory processes. Oral administration of sodium D-aspartate (40 mM) for 12-16 days improved the rats' cognitive capability to find a hidden platform in the M...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Topo E,Soricelli A,Di Maio A,D'Aniello E,Di Fiore MM,D'Aniello A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New bioinorganic complexes of the aspartic acid with the antimony or bismuth triiodide were synthesized by a direct solid-solid reaction at room temperature. The formula of the complex is MI(3)[OOCCH(2)CH(NH(2))CO](2.5) x 2.5H(2)O (M = Sb, Bi). The complex may be a dimer with bridge structure. The crystal structure of...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Jia RR,Wu CP,Wu S,Yang YX,Chen YR,Jia YQ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-adenosylmethionine (SAM), a major substrate in 1-C metabolism is a common precursor in the biosynthetic pathways of polyamines and ethylene, two important plant growth regulators, which exhibit opposing developmental effects, especially during fruit ripening. However, the flux of various substrates including SAM int...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Lasanajak Y,Minocha R,Minocha SC,Goyal R,Fatima T,Handa AK,Mattoo AK

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the population of elderly people is growing rapidly, the number of individuals with dementia and cognitive impairment is also increasing. One of the preventive measures against cognitive decline is diet and different dietary factors have already been investigated. This review provides an overview of studies on diet...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： van de Rest O,van der Zwaluw NL,de Groot LC

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we report the synthesis and biological evaluation of a series of new non-peptide PAR(1) mimetic receptor antagonists, based on conformational analysis of the S(42)FLLR(46) tethered ligand (TL) sequence of PAR(1). These compounds incorporate the key pharmacophore groups in the TL sequence, guanidy...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Androutsou ME,Saifeddine M,Hollenberg MD,Matsoukas J,Agelis G

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：: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：:N-Acetyl-AA(amino acid)-NHtBu derivatives of all 20 naturally occurring amino acids have been synthesized. Syntheses were performed via solution-phase methodology with yields that allow for access to gram quantities of substrates, in most cases. Syntheses include the coupling of a hindered amine, tert-butylamine, with...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ekkati AR,Campanali AA,Abouelatta AI,Shamoun M,Kalapugama S,Kelley M,Kodanko JJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, an optically active diamine, N,N'-(pyromellitoyl)-bis{N-[4(4-aminophenoxy)phenyl]-2-(4-methyl)pentanamide} (1) containing amino acid L-leucine was prepared in three steps. The step-growth polymerization of this chiral diamine with several diisocyanates in room temperature ionic liquid (IL), 1,3-dipropyl...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Mallakpour S

更新日期：2011-02-01 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

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：:Arginine (Arg) and glutamine (Gln) utilization is greatly increased during catabolic stress. While the supply of both amino acids has been advocated in this situation, arginine administration is possibly associated with deleterious effects. From a metabolic point of view, these two amino acids are reciprocal precursor...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ventura G,Moinard C,Segaud F,Le Plenier S,Cynober L,De Bandt JP

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No systematic approach to detect expression of differentiation-related elements was published so far. The undifferentiated N1E-115 neuroblastoma cell line was switched into a neuronal phenotype by DMSO treatment and used for proteomic experiments. We used two-dimensional gel electrophoresis followed by unambiguous mas...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Oh JE,Karlmark Raja K,Shin JH,Pollak A,Hengstschläger M,Lubec G

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:Hyperhomocysteinemia is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (ischemic disease, such as stroke and myocardial infarction, and arterial and venous thrombotic events) in the general population. We can assume that the association is causal, based on the example of homocystinuria, and on the evidence put ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Perna AF,Ingrosso D,De Santo NG

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lysine catabolism pathway differs in adult mammalian brain from that in extracerebral tissues. The saccharopine pathway is the predominant lysine degradative pathway in extracerebral tissues, whereas the pipecolate pathway predominates in adult brain. The two pathways converge at the level of ∆(1)-piperideine-6-ca...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Hallen A,Jamie JF,Cooper AJ

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopa and related catecholamines and their degradation products have been demonstrated to have neurotoxic potential in a number of cellular and in vivo experiments. Several mechanisms have been hypothesized to be involved including generation of prooxidant products that subsequently oxidize membrane lipids and exposed ...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： VonVoigtlander PF,Fici GJ,Althaus JS

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two novel cyclic hexapeptides, designated NW-G10 (1) and NW-G11 (2), were isolated from the fermentation broth of Streptomyces alboflavus 313. Their relative structures were elucidated on the basis of extensive spectroscopic analysis, and the absolute configurations of several constituent amino acids were determined b...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Wei S,Fan L,Wu W,Ji Z

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A well preserved nutritional status is beneficial in chronically uremic patients for slowing the pace of deterioration of renal function, and delaying the need for dialysis therapy. The purpose of this study was to assess the nutritional profile of 10 patients in a steady state of advanced CRF, and of 15 patients with...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Troupel S,Le Moel G,Bouten A,Fessi H,Boukhalfa Z,Stamatakis G,Lecon V,Mery J,Agneray J,Jacobs C

更新日期：1992-02-01 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：: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：: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：:Effects of taurine on the delayed rectifier K(+) channel in isolated 10-day-old embryonic chick ventricular cardiomyocytes were examined at different intracellular Ca(2+) concentrations ([Ca]i), using whole-cell voltage and current clamp techniques. Experiments were performed at room temperature (22°C). Test pulses we...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Satoh H

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes are the most versatile molecules in the biological world. These amazing molecules play an integral role in the regulation of various metabolic pathways and physiology subsequently. Promiscuity of an enzyme is the capacity to catalyze additional biochemical reactions besides their native one. Catalytic promiscu...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Verma MK,Pulicherla KK

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the subcellular location of a protein provides valuable information about its function, possible interaction with other proteins and drug targetability, among other things. The experimental determination of a protein's location in the cell is expensive, time consuming and open to human error. Fast and acc...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Mooney C,Cessieux A,Shields DC,Pollastri G

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article traces the development of research on the naturally occurring amino acid L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-dopa), from the first synthesis of its D,L racemate in 1911, and the isolation of its L-isomer from seedling of Vicia faba beans to the amino acid's successful application, from 1961 onward, as the most...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Hornykiewicz O

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:Using the olfactory bulbectomy model of depression, we examined the antidepressant-like activity of 2-methyl-6-(phenylethynyl)-pyridine (MPEP) in rats. Bulbectomized rats required a significantly greater number of trials to acquire the response similar to sham-operated controls in the passive avoidance model. Both the...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Wieronska JM,Szewczyk B,Branski P,Palucha A,Pilc A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) gene is involved in vulnerability to neuropsychiatric disorders. Naples high-excitability (NHE) rat model neuropsychiatric problems characterized by an unbalanced mesocortical dopamine system. Here, we assessed behavioral and neurochemical effects of immunization against multim...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ruocco LA,Treno C,Gironi Carnevale UA,Arra C,Boatto G,Pagano C,Tino A,Nieddu M,Michel M,Prikulis I,Carboni E,de Souza Silva MA,Huston JP,Sadile AG,Korth C

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid and glucosinolate biosynthesis are two interdependent pathways; amino acid synthesis as a part of primary metabolism provides the precursors for glucosinolate biosynthesis in secondary metabolism. In our previous studies, the combination of coexpression analysis and metabolite profiling led to the identific...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Albinsky D,Sawada Y,Kuwahara A,Nagano M,Hirai A,Saito K,Hirai MY

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00