The substrate-binding site of a protein with multiple specificity should satisfy geometric and energetic complementarity for several different substrates. The structural basis of the multiple ligand specificity of the periplasmic lysine-, arginine-, ornithine-binding protein (LAO) was investigated by determining and analyzing the structures of the protein unliganded and liganded with each of th...

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae amino acid transceptor Gap1 functions as receptor for signalling to the PKA pathway and concomitantly undergoes substrate-induced oligo-ubiquitination and endocytosis. We have identified specific amino acids and analogues that uncouple to certain extent signalling, transport, oligo-ubiquitination and endocytosis. L-lysine, L-histidine and L-tryptophan are transporte...

The substitution of 1-methyl-l-histidine for the histidine heme ligands in a de novo designed four-alpha-helix bundle scaffold results in conversion of a six-coordinate cytochrome maquette into a self-assembled five-coordinate mono-(1-methyl-histidine)-ligated heme as an initial maquette for the dioxygen carrier protein myoglobin. UV-vis, magnetic circular dichroism, and resonance Raman spectro...

In this research, Quantum-mechanical calculations were performed at the HF method with the 6-31+G*basis set and at the B3LYP method with the 6-31+G* basis set in the gas phase and five solvents such as water, DMSO, methanol, ethanol and dichloromethane at six temperatures. According to these theoretical results of IR, we extracted thermo chemical parameters such as enthalpy (∆H Kcal/mol), Gibbs...

l-Carnosine (β-alanyl-l-histidine), a dipeptide of the amino acids β-alanine and histidine, is found in mammalian tissues including those in the central nervous system and in skeletal muscles. In the present study, we examined the effects of intraduodenal (ID) injection of l-carnosine on splenic sympathetic nerve activity (splenic-SNA) in urethane-anesthetized rats and found that ID injection o...

The amino-acid sequence of the hemebinding region of bakers' yeast cytochrome b(2) [L-(+)-lactate dehydrogenase, EC 1.1.2.3] has been determined. It shows a strong similarity with the sequence of microsomal cytochrome b(5), and appears to be compatible with the same kind of peptide-chain folding, in agreement with data obtained previously by various physiochemical methods. The comparison shows ...

Dog bone marrow nucleated cells were incubated in media containing labeled L-amino acids, and the cellular accumulation of radioactivity as a function of time was measured and analyzed according to a three-compartment model.(a) The turnover half-time of intracellular histidine arising from extracellular sources was 6.0 +/-0.7 (SEM) min. Similar turnover half-time for serine was 10 +/-2 (SEM) mi...

Our previous results show that leptin, as well as nitric oxide (NO) and some antioxidants (histidine dipeptides - HDP) change the secretion of gonadotrophins from ovine adenohypophysis cells in vitro. NO and HDP are produced by pituitary and can modulate gonadotropin secretion by autocrine action. It is possible that these compounds mediate leptin influence on gonadotropin secretion. Therefore,...

The origin of histamine bound in certain mammalian tissues, in which it is available for release in such conditions as tissue damage and anaphylactic shock, has not been conclusively demonstrated. It has been postulated that it arises either from dietary histidine or from exogenous histamine formed in the intestine or in tissues high in histidine decarboxylase (1). Increases, of brief duration,...