Glycylsarcosine was found to be very resistant to hydrolysis by brush-border membrane vesicles from rabbit intestine. The dipeptide was transported intact into an osmotically responsive intravesicular space. The initial uptake rate of glycylsarcosine into these vesicles was greater in mannitol medium compared to that in the presence of an inward gradient of either Na+ or other monovalent cation...

Among the four possible stereoisomers of 3,4-dihydroxy-L-proline,2,3-trans-3,4-trans-3,4-dihydroxy-L-proline (IV) had not been found in nature previously. It has now been detected as a component of virotoxins, toxic peptides of Amanita virosa mushrooms. Because periodate failed to effect an oxidative glycol splitting reaction, the two hydroxyl groups in positions 3 and 4 were expected to be in ...

Protonated N'-benzyl-N'-l-prolyl-l-proline hydrazide has been developed as a highly enantioselective catalyst for the asymmetric direct aldol reaction of aromatic aldehydes with ketones.

In a cell-free system from Bacillus subtilis B3, ATP-P1 exchange was catalysed by L-proline at a pH optimum of 7.2. Further stimulation by component amino acids of mycobacillin was inhibited by deprivation from the synthesizing system of even a single amino acid occurring at any point of the cyclic peptide. This inhibition, however, decreased with the distance in the molecule of the given amino...

The multifunctional protein profilin is one of the most abundant proteins in the cytoplasm and is thought to regulate actin assembly and the phosphoinositide signaling pathway. Profilin binds to several different ligands including actin, poly-L-proline, and the head groups of polyphosphoinositides. Knowledge of profilin/ligand interactions is important for understanding the physiology of profil...

information of heavy metal toxicity about physiological aspect of lettuce is limited. therefore an experiment was conducted in crd designed with 7 replications on lettuce (lactuca sativa l.). treatments were cadmium in 3 concentration (0, 2 and 4 mg/l) added to hoagland solution. results were shown that increasing in cadmium of nutrient solution caused increasing in sod, pod antioxidant and pro...

Freezing injury is an important limiting factor in the production of pomegranate in Iran.The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of paclobutrazol (PBZ) on cold hardiness of pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) cv. ‘Malas Saveh’. Different concentrations of PBZ including 0 (control), 31, 62, 125 or 250 mg L–1 were sprayed on one-year-old plants in August and the electrolyte leakage o...

Afforestation of contaminated areas is considered as a possible strategy for reduction of contaminations. In the present study, the effects of lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) were investigated on chlorophyll fluorescence parameters (Fv/Fm, Fo, and Fm), photosynthetic pigments (chlorophyll a, b, and total chlorophyll), and proline in one-year-old seedlings of Celtis caucasica and Robinia pseudoacacia...

The effects of wilting on the fate of proline and on the rates of nonprotein proline formation and utilization have been determined in excised bean leaves. Wilting did not alter the fate of exogenously added (14)C-l-proline (2 mm) in either non-starved leaves (from plants previously in the light) or starved leaves (from plants previously in the dark). The fate of proline in nonstarved leaves wa...

67 Abstract: The effect of ultraviolet light on the growth and proline contents of four wheat cultivars (Triticum aestivum L., cvs. Bezostoja-1, Doğu-88, Turkey-13, Yayla-305) was investigated. Ultraviolet light inhibited the growth of all of the four wheat cultivars and increased the daily proline contents of both the radicle and coleoptile. Ultraviolet light is a stress factor in the growth o...