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serine, etc ; Maillard reaction; aromatic compounds; food chemistry; fructose; furfural; glucose; heat treatment; juice quality; sugarcane juice; Show all 10 Subjects
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... As a potent aromatic compound, furfural may have adverse effects on sugarcane juice quality. In this study, simplified sugarcane juice models containing glucose, fructose and amino acids were used to explore the potential precursors and formation pathways of furfural. The changes of precursors and intermediates involved in furfural formation were quantified. The results indicated that fructose con ...
non-specific serine/threonine protein kinase, etc ; Nauphoeta cinerea; biomedical research; brain; glucose; hyperglycemia; insects; metabolism; peptides; ribosomal proteins; sequence analysis; streptozotocin; transcription (genetics); Show all 13 Subjects
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... The use of insects to model molecular events that characterize degenerative conditions was originally met with scepticism. However, the discovery of insect insulin-like peptides in the 1970's and the demonstration of evolutionary conservation of insulin-related signalling from insects to mammals have highlighted the importance and reduced cost of insect models in biomedical research. Here, we expa ...
non-specific serine/threonine protein kinase, etc ; Atractylodes lancea; Magnolia officinalis; Oriental traditional medicine; Western blotting; adiponectin receptors; agonists; animal models; diet; fluorescent antibody technique; fructose; humans; insulin; insulin resistance; kidneys; liquid chromatography; pharmacology; rats; tandem mass spectrometry; therapeutics; thermosensitivity; Show all 21 Subjects
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... In traditional Chinese medicine, a long term of improper diet causes the Dampness and disturbs Zang-Fu's functions including Kidney deficiency. Atractylodes lancea (Atr) and Magnolia officinalis (Mag) as a famous herb pair are commonly used to transform Dampness, with kidney protection. To explore how Atr and Mag protected against insulin signaling impairment in glomerular podocytes induced by hig ...
Zahraa S. Al-Taie; Barbara Bartholomew; Simon J. Coles; Daniel M. Evans; Jackie Hollinshead; Leigh F. Jones; Rolf Kraehenbuehl; Patrick J. Murphy; Robert J. Nash; Yana B. Penkova; Graham J. Tizzard
... Novel cyclic guanidine containing amino acids (S)-1, 2 and 3 were prepared from l-serine 5. (S)-2-Imino-3-methylimidazolidine-4-carboxylic acid hydrochloride salt 2. HCl and (3S, 6S)-3,6-bis(hydroxymethyl)-1,4-dimethylpiperazine-2,5-dione 15 showed in vitro promotion of the enzyme glucocerebrosidase. ...
... Understanding how HAI‐1 and HAI‐2 regulate the epithelial serine protease matriptase may hold the key to curing epithelial‐derived cancer. HAIs are serine protease inhibitors that inhibit matriptase and have a poorly understood effect on the presence of matriptase protein in cells. In this issue of The FEBS Journal, Yamashita et al. provide much‐needed new insights into this effect, describing it ...
serine; serine O-acetyltransferase, etc ; Entamoeba histolytica; acetylation; active sites; crystal structure; cysteine; sulfur; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Serine acetyltransferase (SAT) catalyzes the acetylation of l-serine in the first step of the two-step pathway to synthesize L-cysteine in bacteria, protozoans and plants. L-cysteine is known to be involved in feedback regulation of SAT. However, in E. histolytica, SAT exists in three isoforms where third isoform SAT3 is nearly insensitive to feedback inhibition. Here, we explored the previously u ...
serine; serine proteinases, etc ; active sites; aspartic acid; biopolymers; calorimetry; dipeptides; genetic code; metabolism; mutation; nitrogen; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Cyanophycinases are serine protease family enzymes which are required for the metabolism of cyanophycin, the natural polymer multi-L-arginyl-poly(L-aspartic acid). Cyanophycinases degrade cyanophycin to β-Asp-Arg dipeptides, which enables use of this important store of fixed nitrogen. We used genetic code expansion to incorporate diaminopropionic acid into cyanophycinase in place of the active sit ...
... Extremophilic microbial proteases are well acknowledged as a valuable source of detergent additives. Both halophilic serine and metalloprotease are intriguing and industrially competent sources of salt-stable alkaline proteases, as per scientific literature. The public domain of the MEROPS peptidase database repository gave a clear understanding of enzyme classification and helped to classify the ...
non-specific serine/threonine protein kinase; serine, etc ; abscisic acid; environment; mutation; phosphorylation; plant establishment; plant growth; ubiquitination; Show all 9 Subjects
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... The FYVE domain protein required for endosomal sorting 1 (FREE1), which was previously identified as a plant‐specific component of the endosomal sorting complex required for transport machinery, plays an essential role in endosomal trafficking. Moreover, FREE1 also functions as an important negative regulator in abscisic acid (ABA) signalling. Multiple phosphorylations and ubiquitination sites hav ...
serine; serine proteinases, etc ; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; active sites; crystal structure; drug design; drugs; fluorides; lipids; pathogenesis; proteinase inhibitors; research; therapeutics; Show all 13 Subjects
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... The 2.6 Å crystal structure of the apo form of Hip1 (hydrolase important for pathogenesis) has been previously reported. However, very little is known about the active site architecture of this M. tuberculosis (Mtb), serine hydrolase drug target. To begin mapping the active site of Hip1, we cocrystallized Hip1 with the irreversible serine protease inhibitor, 4-(2-aminoethyl)-benzenesulfonylfluorid ...
serine, etc ; cell viability; humans; llamas; phosphorylation; therapeutics; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Twist1 promote the bypass of p53 response by interacting with p53 and facilitating its MDM2-mediated degradation. We reasoned that reagents able to interfere with the p53:Twist1 complex might alleviate Twist1 inhibitory effect over p53, thus representing potential therapeutic tools in p53 wild type tumors. From a pre-immune library of llama nanobodies (VHH), we isolated binders targeting the p53 C ...
serine; serine racemase, etc ; D-amino-acid oxidase; D-aspartate oxidase; aspartic acid; catabolism; cerebral cortex; deamination; enantiomers; protein synthesis; rats; saliva; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Free d-amino acids, which are enantiomers of l-amino acids, are found in mammals, including humans, and play an important role in a range of physiological functions in the central nervous system and peripheral tissues. Several d-amino acids have been observed in saliva, but their origin and the enzymes involved in their metabolism and catabolism remain to be clarified. In the present study, large ...
serine proteinases, etc ; adipocytes; blood serum; complement; humans; lectins; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Factor D (also known as adipsin) is a serine protease and part of the complement system, involved in innate immune responses and effector functions of antibodies. Factor D cleaves factor B complexed with C3b, leading to the C3 convertase C3bBb. This C3 convertase is central in the alternative activation pathway and the amplification loop, which amplifies the two other complement activation pathway ...
serine, etc ; cysteine; deprotonation; diastereoselectivity; drugs; enantiomers; selenocysteine; thiols; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Efficient methodologies for synthesizing enantiopure α-deuterated derivatives of serine, cysteine, selenocysteine, and 2,3-diaminopropanoic acid have been developed. H/D exchange was achieved by deprotonation of a chiral bicyclic serine equivalent followed by selective deuteration. Additionally, diastereoselective additions of thiols, selenols, and amines to a chiral bicyclic dehydroalanine in deu ...
serine, etc ; cytotoxicity; food chemistry; formaldehyde; imidazole; pH; potatoes; Show all 7 Subjects
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... l-glycine and l-serine are the building blocks of proteins and exhibit various biological activities. This work found that l-glycine and l-serine show low scavenging capacity for methylglyoxal at moderate conditions (pH 7.0, 37 °C). However, they efficiently eliminate methylglyoxal and formaldehyde when the two aldehydes co-exist, via generation of imidazole salt, a compound formed by one molecule ...
non-specific serine/threonine protein kinase, etc ; capsid; interferons; Show all 3 Subjects
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... Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) protein ORF45 is a virion-associated tegument protein that is unique to the gammaherpesvirus family. Generation of KSHV ORF45-knockout mutants and their subsequent functional analyses have permitted a better understanding of ORF45 and its context-specific and vital role in the KSHV lytic cycle. ORF45 is a multifaceted protein that promotes infection a ...
... High temperature requirement A2 (HtrA2) contributes to regulating mitochondrial quality control and maintaining the balance between the death and survival of cells and living organisms. However, the molecular mechanism of HtrA2 in physiological and pathophysiological processes remains unclear. HtrA2 exhibits multifaceted characteristics according to the expression levels and acts opposite function ...
... An undescribed tricyclic spiroketal compound clathriketal was purified from the solvent extract of the Microcionidae sponge Clathria prolifera, and was characterised as 7-(hydroxymethyl)-13-methoxy-3,11-dimethyl-4-oxo-octahydrospiro[chromene-9,13-pyran]-11-yl propionate by spectroscopic experiments. Clathriketal exhibited significant anti-hyperglycemic property by attenuating serine protease dipep ...
serine; serine proteinases, etc ; Ctenopharyngodon idella; Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; ammonium sulfate; chemical analysis; collagen; digestion; electrophoresis; fish; gelatin; glycosaminoglycans; hydroxyproline; muscles; proteoglycans; thermal stability; Show all 16 Subjects
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... Softening, causing by the degradation of collagen, leads to serious quality deterioration of fish fillets during post-mortem storage. In order to study the role of endogenous enzymes in softening of fish muscle, collagen fibers from grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) were degraded by serine proteinase. The structural and biochemical changes of collagen fibers with serine proteinase digestion we ...
serine, etc ; adhesion; drug design; drugs; hydrogen; integrins; nitrogen; therapeutics; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Integrins are validated drug targets with six approved therapeutics. However, small-molecule inhibitors to three integrins failed in late-stage clinical trials for chronic indications. Such unfavorable outcomes may in part be caused by partial agonism, i.e., the stabilization of the high-affinity, extended-open integrin conformation. Here, we show that the failed, small-molecule inhibitors of inte ...