• Proteins are made up of amino acid chains that are connected to one another by peptide bonds. (herbs2000.com)
  • Posttranslational linkage of a thiol to the alpha-carbon of an amino acid residue is unprecedented in ribosomally synthesized peptides or proteins, and very rare in secondary metabolites. (rcsb.org)
  • Asparaginyl endopeptidases (AEPs) are versatile enzymes that in biological systems are involved in producing three different catalytic outcomes for proteins, namely (i) routine cleavage by bond hydrolysis, (ii) peptide maturation, including macrocyclisation by a cleavage-coupled intramolecular transpeptidation and (iii) circular permutation involving separate cleavage and transpeptidation reactions resulting in a major reshuffling of protein sequence. (silverchair.com)
  • The aim of this course is to provide students with a knowledge of the chemicals of life (carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, proteins, nucleic acids etc.): their structures, characteristics, chemical reactions and functions in the body and an ability for their qualitative and quantitative analysis. (yeditepe.edu.tr)
  • Yet there was no trace of proteins and especially of RNA (ribonucleic acids), the molecules capable to write DNA (deoxyribonucleic acids) molecules. (brussels-scientific.com)
  • A method for esters of amino acids from their mixtures, formed by the hydrolysis of proteins, as well as methods of separation of reaction products. (rin.ru)
  • In the nervous tissue nucleic acids provide the storage and transmission of genetic information and its implementation in the synthesis of cellular proteins. (doclecture.net)
  • It creates bonds not only between separate gliadin proteins, but between distant amino acids in a single gliadin protein as well. (traditionalcookingschool.com)
  • For example , large molecules such as polysaccharides , nucleic acids , and proteins are broken down into smaller units such as monosaccharides, nucleotides , and amino acids , respectively . (biologyonline.com)
  • For this reason, we prepared eight derivatives of lignite humic acids using either water-soluble N-Ethyl-N′-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide (EDC) or water-insoluble N,N′-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC) under various conditions. (researchgate.net)
  • Syntheses and stereochemistry of hydroxy-substituted alicyclic β-amino acid derivatives. (u-szeged.hu)
  • Model amino acid derivatives bearing a sulfide moiety at the alpha-carbon were synthesized by reaction of the corresponding alpha-alkoxy compounds with benzyl thiol and SnCl(4). (rcsb.org)
  • So it is assumed that the native activity of PON1 may be lactonase activity and that physiological substrate may be some lactones which are consumed as food ingredients, drug metabolites (statins, spironolactone and glucocorticoid γ-lactones) and derivatives of fatty acid oxidation process such as 5-hydroxy6E,8Z,11Z,14Z-eicosatetraenoic acid (5-HETE) lactone that resides in HDL (13). (biochemia-medica.com)
  • PDE 5 comprises an enzyme superfamily with 11 subfamilies that hydrolyse the phosphodiester bond of cGMP and cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) to form the inactive 5'-GMP and 5'-AMP. (ecrjournal.com)
  • Fertel and Weiss, 1976) therefore preventing the inactivation of the intracellular second messengers cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) by the respective PDE subtype(s). (biomedjournal.com)
  • Inhibitors of phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE 5 ) are a class of drug that were originally developed as anti-ischaemic agents based on their ability to overexpress the nitric oxide (NO) pathway pursued via cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) signalling. (ecrjournal.com)
  • In addition to cleavage of NAD + to Nam and ADP-ribose, NADases found in animals act as ADP-ribosylcyclases, generating cyclic ADP-ribose (cADPR), a potent intracellular Ca 2+ mobilizing agent 7 . (nature.com)
  • Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases (PDEs) play a role in signal transduction by regulating intracellular cyclic nucleotide concentrations through hydrolysis of cAMP and/or cGMP to their respective nucleoside 5-prime monophosphates. (thermofisher.com)
  • 2 The substrate specificities include enzymes that are specific for cyclic AMP hydrolysis, enzymes for cyclic GMP hydrolysis 3 and those that hydrolyse both. (ecrjournal.com)
  • 2001). The substrate specificities include the enzymes which are specific for cAMP hydrolysis, those for cyclic GMP hydrolysis (Mehats et al. (biomedjournal.com)
  • The biosynthetic shikimate pathway consists of seven enzymes that catalyze sequential reactions to generate chorismate, a critical branch point in the synthesis of the aromatic amino acids. (rcsb.org)
  • Enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of cyclic GMP to yield guanosine-5'-phosphate. (umassmed.edu)
  • Partial breakdown into lactic acid or ethanol and CO2 Note: Bacteria have many different pathways for carbohydrate metabolism based on the enzymes they are able to produce. (studylib.net)
  • In glutenin's case, enzymes cleave its long chains into oligopeptides, then into tripeptides, dipeptides, and free amino acids ( source ). (traditionalcookingschool.com)
  • Endopeptidase, also known as endoproteinase, is basically proteolytic peptidases that split peptide bonds in the molecules of non-terminal amino acids. (herbs2000.com)
  • It is just the opposite of exopeptidases that split peptide bonds from the terminal amino acid end pieces. (herbs2000.com)
  • Endopeptidases break the amino acids' peptide bonds inside protein molecules. (herbs2000.com)
  • However, desulfurization of subtilosin A to cyclic peptide 14, which is inactive as an antimicrobial agent, occurs with inversion of stereochemistry at the alpha-carbons of Phe22 and Thr28 and with 4:1 retention at Phe31. (rcsb.org)
  • Synthetic peptide corresponding to unique amino acid sequence within amino acid region 51-101 on PDE1A protein. (thermofisher.com)
  • The protein encoded by this gene is a cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) that catalyzes the hydrolysis of the second messenger cAMP. (creativebiomart.net)
  • Belongs to the cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase family. (creativebiomart.net)
  • There is about 70% of identity in nucleotide sequences and about 60% of identity in amino acid sequences between these three genes. (biochemia-medica.com)
  • The side chains of the lysine residues have been modified by appending the CD40L-derived sequence 143Lys-Gly-Tyr-Tyr146 via a 6-aminohexanoic acid residue as a spacer. (cnrs.fr)
  • One conformation of His-143 positions the residue for the formation/hydrolysis of the covalent Schiff base intermediates, whereas the other conformation positions the residue for a role in the catalytic dehydration event. (rcsb.org)
  • It reflects the relative molecular mass or aromatic condensation degree of humic acid. (researchgate.net)
  • In addition, PON1 hydrolyzes aromatic esters like phenylacetate, thiophenylacetate and 2-naphthylacetate and different aromatic and aliphatic lactones as well as cyclic carbonates like homogentisic acid lactone, dihydrocoumarin, γ-butyrolactone and homocysteine thiolactone. (biochemia-medica.com)
  • Cyclic anhydrides, select diones, and aromatic aldehydes proved to be false negatives in this assay. (cdc.gov)
  • One family, designated nylon-XY, is derived from dicarboxylic acids and diamines of carbon chain lengths X and Y, respectively. (wikipedia.org)
  • Optically active polyhydroxy aldehydes (aldcses) or ketones (ketoses) or compounds which on hydrolysis give these units are known as carbohydrates. (aglasem.com)
  • Opened (1906) obtaining the reaction of Alpha-amino acids from aldehydes or ketones action of a mixture of potassium cyanide with ammonium chloride and subsequent hydrolysis produced Alfa-aminonitrilov. (rin.ru)
  • The content of free fatty acids is very low in the brain. (doclecture.net)
  • Serum provides an able components such as fatty acids, vitamins, optimum cell culture environment by providing electrolytes and metabolites essential for cell growth, albumin, steroids, cytokines and growth factors. (sagepub.com)
  • 3',5'-Cyclic-GMP Phosphodiesterases" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) . (umassmed.edu)
  • This graph shows the total number of publications written about "3',5'-Cyclic-GMP Phosphodiesterases" by people in this website by year, and whether "3',5'-Cyclic-GMP Phosphodiesterases" was a major or minor topic of these publications. (umassmed.edu)
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  • The stereochemistry of all residues in 1 except for the three modified ones was confirmed to be L by complete desulfurization with nickel boride, acid hydrolysis to the constituent amino acids, and conversion of these to the corresponding pentafluoropropanamide isopropyl esters for chiral GC MS analysis. (rcsb.org)
  • The structure bound to the substrate analogue along with mutagenesis of predicted critical amino acid residues led us to suggest a reaction mechanism distinct from all known NADases. (nature.com)
  • PON1 is a glycosylated protein consisted of 354 amino acid residues with an apparent mass of 43-47 kDa. (biochemia-medica.com)
  • This method was previously developed for the characterization of water in polysaccharides 41−43 and also tested for humic acids. (researchgate.net)
  • Not long after NAD + was discovered, enzymatic hydrolysis of the dinucleotide was detected. (nature.com)
  • This is due to its low surface area and specific amino acid sequences that inhibit enzymatic activity ( source ). (traditionalcookingschool.com)
  • One such example of the growing medical interest is prolyl endopeptidase, which especially cleaves after the amino acid called proline . (herbs2000.com)
  • It contains proline as one of its major amino acids, which exhibits a potent significance in inhibiting ACE. (bvsalud.org)
  • On hydrolysis, they generally give two to nine monosaccharides (same or different) and are further classified as disaccharides, e.g., sucrose, maltose, lactose, trisaccharides and so on. (aglasem.com)
  • Sucrose is most abundant in plants and known as cane sugar or table sugar or invert sugar as equimolar mixture of glucose and fructose is obtained by hydrolysis of sucrose. (aglasem.com)
  • Oligomers of cyclic beta-aminoacids possess a high resistance to peptidase-catalyzed hydrolysis and display a high intrinsic tendency to adopt regular secondary structures. (unimi.it)
  • The duration of the signal is determined by the intrinsic GTP hydrolysis rate of the a subunit followed by reassociation of αGDP with βγ. (sigmaaldrich.com)
  • Polar and apolar moieties of humic acids are spatially separated forming domains of different polarity. (researchgate.net)
  • However, cyclic-betapeptides often show limited solubility in water and cannot be conjugated to biologically relevant fragments, such as oligosaccharides, which are often essential for full biololgical activity of natural alfapeptides. (unimi.it)
  • PON1 also catalyzes the reverse reaction, lactonization, of γ- and δ-hydroxy-carboxylic acids. (biochemia-medica.com)
  • Improvement of the solubility and dissolution rate of nifluminic acid to achieve rapid drug release. (u-szeged.hu)
  • Nevertheless, it was shown earlier in the text that PON1 catalyzes the formation and hydrolysis of different kinds of lactones. (biochemia-medica.com)
  • For instance, one family of endopeptide belongs to the serine family, which contain an amino acid called serine at the protease's active site. (herbs2000.com)
  • Another family, designated nylon-Z, is derived from aminocarboxylic acids of with carbon chain length Z. An example is nylon-[6]. (wikipedia.org)
  • Finally, the acetyl group of the CoA is oxidized to water and carbon dioxide in the citric acid cycle and electron transport chain . (biologyonline.com)
  • Nateglinide is an amino acid derivative that stimulates insulin secretion from the pancreas (within 20 minutes of oral administration), which, in turn, reduces blood glucose levels. (medscape.com)
  • Acrolein is used largely as an unisolated intermediate in the manufacture of acrylic acid, most of which is converted to its lower alkyl esters. (cdc.gov)
  • The type III mGluR agonist l -2-amino-4-phosphonobutyrate consistently inhibited 5HT-evoked calcium rises, whereas in a smaller number of cells quisqualate and L-CCG-I showed both inhibitory and additive effects. (jneurosci.org)
  • Furthermore, PON1 participates in metabolism of some drugs which contain lactone and cyclic carbonates. (biochemia-medica.com)
  • Synthesized hard naphthenic acid and alcohol. (rin.ru)
  • Higher moisture uptake and water holding capacity were observed in humic acids, which were pre-wetted prior to crosslinking for at least 24 h. (researchgate.net)
  • The results suggested that water holding capacity, swelling kinetics and moisture uptake of humic acids were not influenced significantly by the amount of polar groups, but also by their spatial arrangement and distribution. (researchgate.net)
  • The results show that mechanochemical the method can improve the extraction rate of humic acid and fulvic acid in peat. (researchgate.net)
  • In this work, we tested the procedures to crosslink functional groups in polar domains of humic acids by using carbodiimide coupling and analyzed to which extent influenced the modification their hydration properties and stability. (researchgate.net)
  • Background: The general consensus is that interstitial collagens are digested by collagenases and denatured collagen by gelatinases, although processing of fibrillar and acetic-acid-soluble collagen by gelatinase A has also been reported. (uni-bielefeld.de)