The chelating tendencies of the alpha amino acids with platinum group metal ions are well known; with the dibasic acids, complexes have been reported involving palladium(II) and platinum (II) with both aspartic and glutamic acids. There is no mention of the successful synthesis of complexes between these acids and rhodium (III), however. This communication reports a method of preparation for th...

Two radioactive glycopeptides (Glycopeptides I and II) were isolated from the deoxycholate-soluble fraction of rat liver microsomes 90 min after injection of glucosamine-l-14C. These two glycopeptides were rich in mannose and N-acetylglucosamine but relatively poor in galactose and sialic acid. Glycopeptide I contained sialic acid, galactose, N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, aspartic acid, serine,...

Polycarboxylate molecules and oligomers have been investigated as growth modifiers during seeded calcite precipitation. To better understand possible molecular interactions and kinetic effects, additives with different structures and molecular weights have been investigated in this work. All additives show growth modifying effects, albeit less strongly for succinic acid and glutaric acid. This ...

Vishnu Menon and Mala Rao. II Classification and mechanism of proteases. III Protease.Aspartic proteases are a catalytic type of protease enzymes that use an activated water molecule bound to one or more aspartate residues for catalysis of their.response systems, to regulate cell growth, tissue homeostasis, remodeling, and j3. Aspartic Acid Proteases as Therapeutic Targets. Ghosh.cases. The gas...

y-Cyano-cr-L-aminobutyric acid is identified for the first time as a biological substance. This amino acid nitrile accumulates when inorganic cyanide is administered to young cultures of Chromobacferium violaceum strain D 341. Cyanide supplies the cyano group, and aspartic acid supplies carbon atoms 1 to 4. Biosynthesis of P-cyanoalanine also takes place and appears to be controlled by aspartic...

Heterotrophic conversion of l-aspartic acid to nitrification products by Aspergillus flavus was studied in a replacement incubation system. Numerous amino acids supported nitrification; aspartate and glutamate were about equivalent as the best sources of nitrate. Addition of sodium bicarbonate to the incubation system substantially enhanced nitrate formation for all nitrifiable amino acids exce...

The acidic amino acid residue required for the catalytic activity of rat pancreatic cholesterol esterase has been identified in this study by sequence comparison with other serine esterases and by site-directed mutagenesis experiments. The sequence comparison studies identified 3 acidic residues in homologous domains between cholesterol esterase, acetylcholinesterase, cholinesterase, and Geotri...

Synthetic materials designed for improved biomimicry of the extracellular matrix must contain fibrous, bioactive, and mechanical cues. Self-assembly low molecular weight gelator (LMWG) peptides Fmoc-DIKVAV (Fmoc-aspartic acid-isoleucine-lysine-valine-alanine-valine) Fmoc-FRGDF (Fmoc-phenylalanine-arginine-glycine-aspartic acid-phenylalanine) creates fibrous bioactive hydrogels. Polysaccharides ...

We have determined the DNA sequence of the oxi-3 gene and its 5' flanking region in the extranuclear [mi-3] mutant of Neurospora crassa. The oxi-3 gene encodes subunit 1 of cytochrome c oxidase, a protein known to be altered in the [mi-3] mutant (Bertrand, H., and Werner, S. (1979) Eur. J. Biochem. 98, 9-18). When the sequence from [mi-3] was compared to previously published sequences of the sa...