The objective of the present work was to determine what impact extremely high nitrogen dosages would have on proline metabolism in order to use this amino acid as a bioindicator of N status of green bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv. Strike). In this effort, we identified the most favourable pathway of proline synthesis under our experimental conditions. The N was applied to the nutrient so...

The direct three component modified Mannich reaction via condensation of aldehydes, 2-naphthol or 2,7-naphthalendiol and piperidine to generate Betti bases has been carried out over L-proline (20 mol%) with high efficiency under solvent free conditions at 70 OC. Also, the reaction of aromatic aldehyde and 4-hydroxycoumarin in the presence of L-proline (20 mol%) in the ethanol under reflux condi...

Some time ago Carter and Neville reported (1) that hydroxy-n-proline yields formaldehyde on oxidation with periodate. In another laboratory, this oxidation was found to produce a considerably lower yield of formaldehyde than we had obtained.’ A further study of this reaction was accordingly undertaken. Oxidation of several new samples of hydroxy-L-proline gave lower yields of formaldehyde than ...

Collagen is one of the most important proteins containing mostly proline hydroxyproline and glycine. In collagen, approximately 33 percent of the amino acid residues are glycine and they occur at every third position, whereas remaining percentage is constituted by mainly proline or hydroxyproline and some part by alanine etc. having no definite positional placement in the chain. Thus, a study o...

The chiral composition of amino acid clusters may be related to the origin of chirality in biological systems. Here, we use ion mobility/mass spectrometry techniques to investigate the gas phase structures of singly charged proline clusters containing two to six monomers. Using deuterated L-proline (L(D7)) and different electrospray solution compositions varying from enantiopure (50:50 L:L(D7))...

A method has been developed for the cloning of plasma membrane transporters by screening yeast transformed with a cDNA library for the accumulation of radiolabelled substrate. The applicability of the method is demonstrated by cloning the amino acid permease AAP1. A yeast mutant defective in proline uptake was transformed with an Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA library and plated on medium supplement...

There is an increasing appreciation that amino acids can act as signaling molecules in the regulation of cellular processes through modulation of intracellular cell signaling pathways. In culture, embryonic stem (ES) cells can be differentiated to a second, pluripotent cell population, early primitive ectoderm-like cells in response to biological activities within the conditioned medium MEDII. ...