UNLABELLED Dihedral angles of amino acids are of considerable importance in protein tertiary structure prediction as they define the backbone of a protein and hence almost define the protein's entire conformation. Most ab initio protein structure prediction methods predict the secondary structure of a protein before predicting the tertiary structure because three-dimensional fold consists of re...

Identification and characterization of the cDNA encoding rat neuropeptide Y revealed the nucleotide sequence coding for a 98-amino acid precursor. The deduced amino acid sequence for rat neuropeptide Y is identical to the human peptide and is highly homologous to avian pancreatic polypeptide. The tertiary structure of avian pancreatic polypeptide has been previously derived from crystallographi...

background: addition of amino acids to the culture medium is beneficial for embryonic development in many species. objective: the objective of this study was to investigate the effects of amino acids on the in vitro maturation and embryonic development of the bovine oocyte. materials and methods: bovine ovaries were collected from a local abattoir and brought into laboratory. cumulus-oocyte com...

Accurate prediction of protein stability changes resulting from single amino acid mutations is important for understanding protein structures and designing new proteins. We use support vector machines to predict protein stability changes for single amino acid mutations leveraging both sequence and structural information. We evaluate our approach using cross-validation methods on a large dataset...

Synthesis on solid phase is one of modern methodologies especially useful in parallel and combinatorial syntheses. Tertiary amine functionalities are found in many important classes of catalysts, reagents and biologically active compounds. The tertiary N-methyl group is also present in structures of tropane alkaloids and majority of synthetic tropane derivatives with potential biological activi...

Proteins are polypeptide chains consisting of a large number of amino acid residues that are covalently linked together via amide bonds. The order in which the 20 different amino acids are arranged in a protein chain is also called the primary structure of the protein. The polypeptide backbones of proteins exist in particular conformations known as the secondary structures. The secondary struct...

A collection of homologous monodisperse facial amphiphiles consisting of an α-, β- or γ-cyclodextrin (α, β or γCD) platform exposing a multivalent display of cationic groups at the primary rim and bearing hexanoyl chains at the secondary hydroxyls have been prepared to assess the influence of the cyclooligosaccharide core size in their ability to complex, compact and protect pDNA and in the eff...

A new biological active hexapeptide of C-terminal of nocistatin, contains Glu-Gln-Lys-Gln-Leu-Gln sequence was synthesized according to solid phase peptide synthesis on the surface of 2-chloro tritylchloride resin and using fmoc-protected amino acids in the presence of TBTU (O-(Benzotriazol-1-yl)-N,N,N',N'-tetramethyl uranium tetrafluoroborate) as a coupling reagent. Then, amidation of the C-te...

Thiophosgene and 1-chloroethyl chlorothionoformate react readily with tertiary amines, and give the dialkylamine hydrochloride after hydrolysis of the initial product with water. Benzyl and allyl groups are cleaved in preference to methyl and other alkyl groups. The rection with the isoquinoline alkaloid narcotine occurs particularly easily.

BOTJLANGER and BISERrE (1) used a solution of acid acetone for the extraction of amino acids in biologic material. The separation of amino acids on buffered papers described by Ryb#{225}r, Touek, and Hais, (2) and Hais and Hordovs/q (3) used the combination of tertiary butanolborate buffer system (pH 8.5) for separation of amino acids on paper. In our laboratories we have developed a chromatogr...