Anti-obesity effect of taurine through inhibition of adipogenesis in white fat tissue but not in brown fat tissue in a high-fat diet-induced obese mouse model.

abstract：:The effects of dietary taurine on the experimental colitis induced by dextran sulfate sodium (DSS) in mice were evaluated. C57BL/6 female mice were given 3% DSS in drinking water for 5 d to induce acute colitis. Taurine at 2% was added to the drinking water 5 d before and during the DSS-treatment to investigate its pr...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Zhao Z,Satsu H,Fujisawa M,Hori M,Ishimoto Y,Totsuka M,Nambu A,Kakuta S,Ozaki H,Shimizu M

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:Recovery of amino acid (AA) metabolism and the associated clinical implications in chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients with sustained virological response (SVR) following anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) therapy remains elusive. A prospective cohort study was conducted on 222 CHC patients with SVR. Eighty-two age-matched m...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Chang ML,Cheng ML,Chang SW,Tang HY,Chiu CT,Yeh CT,Shiao MS

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carnosine is found in high concentrations in skeletal muscles, where it is involved in several physiological functions. The muscle carnosine content measured within a population can vary by a factor 4. The aim of this study was to further characterize suggested determinants of the muscle carnosine content (diet, gende...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Everaert I,Mooyaart A,Baguet A,Zutinic A,Baelde H,Achten E,Taes Y,De Heer E,Derave W

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental changes in the levels of the excitatory amino acids L-glutamate (Glu) and L-Aspartate (Asp) and inhibitory amino acids glycine (Gly) and gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA), as well as taurine and its related amino acids L-methionine (Met), L-cysteine (Cys) and L-serine (Ser) in the brain and pectoralis musc...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Sato M,Tomonaga S,Denbow DM,Furuse M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice over-expressing the creatine transporter have elevated myocardial creatine levels [Cr] and are protected against ischaemia/reperfusion injury via improved energy reserve. However, mice with very high [Cr] develop cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction. To investigate these contrasting effects, we applied a non-biase...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Zervou S,Yin X,Nabeebaccus AA,O'Brien BA,Cross RL,McAndrew DJ,Atkinson RA,Eykyn TR,Mayr M,Neubauer S,Lygate CA

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：: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：:The regulation of the expression of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) was studied in cloned murine macrophages (MT2) and microglial (N11) cells. Both cell lines express IDO and inducible nitric oxide synthase activity after interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) stimulation. The regulation of IDO expression appears to differ in...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Alberati-Giani D,Cesura AM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effect of taurine and β-alanine supplementation on muscle function and muscle taurine transporter (TauT) protein expression in mdx mice. Wild-type (WT) and mdx mice (5 months) were supplemented with taurine or β-alanine for 4 weeks, after which in vitro contractile properties, fatigue resis...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Horvath DM,Murphy RM,Mollica JP,Hayes A,Goodman CA

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The translation elongation factor eIF5A is conserved through evolution and is necessary to rescue the ribosome during translation elongation of polyproline-containing proteins. Although the site of eIF5A binding to the ribosome is known, no systematic analysis has been performed so far to determine the important resid...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Barbosa NM,Boldrin PE,Rossi D,Yamamoto PA,Watanabe TF,Serrão VH,Hershey JW,Fraser CS,Valentini SR,Zanelli CF

更新日期：2016-10-01 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 effects of metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) activation were studied in medium spiny neurons and large aspiny (LA) interneurons by means of electrophysiological and optical recordings. DCG-IV and L-SOP, agonists for group II and III mGluRs, respectively, produced a presynaptic inhibitory effect on corticostr...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Pisani A,Bernardi G,Bonsi P,Centonze D,Giacomini P,Calabresi P

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the alterations in metabolic conversion of cysteine into glutathione and taurine in liver of rats treated with ethanol acutely. Ethanol treatment reduced cysteine as well as glutathione levels in liver for 24 h. However, cysteine dioxygenase was up-regulated rapidly, and hypotaurine/taurine levels were s...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Ahn CW,Kwon DY,Jun DS,Lee YM,Kim YC

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to adapt to ever changing environmental conditions, bacteria sense environmental stimuli, and convert them into signals that are transduced intracellularly. Several mechanisms have evolved by which receptors transmit signals across the cytoplasmic membrane. Stimulus perception may trigger receptor dimerizatio...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Tetsch L,Jung K

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spore coat-associated alanine racemase of Bacillus subtilis, which converts L-alanine to D-alanine, that is, the germinant to the competitive inhibitor, to regulate spore germination for survival of the organism under unfavorable growth conditions, was examined. The dormant spores, L-alanine-initiated germination of w...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Kanda-Nambu K,Yasuda Y,Tochikubo K

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Creatine is an amino acid that has a pivotal role in energy metabolism of cells. Creatine acts as an "ATP shuttle", carrying ATP to the sites where it is utilized, through its reversible phosphorylation by creatine kinase. Moreover, the creatine-phosphocreatine system delays ATP depletion during anoxia or ischemia, th...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Garbati P,Salis A,Adriano E,Galatini A,Damonte G,Balestrino M,Millo E

更新日期：2013-10-01 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：: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：:Astrocytes are glial cells in the central nervous system (CNS) that play key roles in brain physiology, controlling processes, such as neurogenesis, brain energy metabolism and synaptic transmission. Recently, immune functions have also been demonstrated in astrocytes, influencing neuronal survival in the course of ne...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Burgos M,Fradejas N,Calvo S,Kang SU,Tranque P,Lubec G

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prior knowledge of protein structural classes can provide useful information about its overall structure, so it is very important for quick and accurate determination of protein structural class with computation method in protein science. One of the key for computation method is accurate protein sample representatio...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Li ZC,Zhou XB,Dai Z,Zou XY

更新日期：2009-07-01 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：:Among the large family of cyclodepsipeptides, the simplest members are the cyclodidepsipeptides which have an ester group and an amide group in the same six-membered ring. To point out the pharmacological potential of this class of compounds, the present article reviews structure, isolation, synthesis and biological p...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Smelcerovic A,Dzodic P,Pavlovic V,Cherneva E,Yancheva D

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One pathogenic mechanism of ethanol-induced liver injury is the excessive production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which may result in alcoholic liver disease (ALD) characterized by cell death due to necrosis and apoptosis. Taurine was proved to protect against liver damage. However, whether taurine attenuates eth...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Wu G,Yang J,Lv H,Jing W,Zhou J,Feng Y,Lin S,Yang Q,Hu J

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germination ofBacillus subtilis spores was initiated by L-Ala and competitively inhibited by D-Ala, suggesting the presence of an alanine receptor. The spores showed alanine racemase activity in the spore coat. To investigate the role of alanine racemase (L → D) on germination, net racemase activity was determined usi...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Yasuda Y,Kanda K,Nishioka S,Tanimoto Y,Kato C,Saito A,Fukuchi S,Nakanishi Y,Tochikubo K

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functionalized collagen-mimetic peptides (CMPs) have been widely used in the preparation of collagen-related biomaterials. Among the reported results, the induced noncovalent interactions between the implanted functional groups or moieties were frequently the key elements to promote the self-assembly of small CMPs. In...

journal_title：Amino acids

authors： Huang PW,Chang JM,Horng JC

更新日期：2016-12-01 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