The dehydrogenative coupling of aromatic amides with dimethyl itaconate proceeds smoothly under rhodium catalysis through ortho C−H bond cleavage directed by their amide group to produce benzylidenesuccinates. Aromatic carboxylic acids including benzoic and phthalic also couple the give 1 : 2 products predominantly. Benzylidenesuccinic acid derivatives have been known show various biological ac...

This study is devoted to investigating the effect of NF-κB and Nrf2 transcription factor modulators on oxidative-nitrosative stress indicators in tissues small intestine rats after abdominal surgical trauma (laparotomy) under lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced systemic inflammatory response (SIR). The was performed 35 Wister white male weighing 220-250 g, divided into 5 groups: 1st (control) grou...

A library of 20 monodentate phosphoramidite ligands has been prepared and applied in rhodium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation. This resulted in the identification of two ligands, PipPhos and MorfPhos, that afford excellent and in several cases unprecedented enantioselectivities in the hydrogenation of N-acyldehydroamino acid esters, dimethyl itaconate, acyclic N-acylenamides, and cyclic N-acy...

Some smut fungi of the family Ustilaginaceae produce itaconate from glucose. De novo genome sequencing of nine itaconate-producing Ustilaginaceae revealed genome sizes between 19 and 25 Mbp. Comparison to the itaconate cluster of U. maydis MB215 revealed all essential genes for itaconate production contributing to metabolic engineering for improving itaconate production.

background : propylene glycol (1,2-propanediol, pg) is a commonly used solvent for oral, intravenous, as well as topical pharmaceutical preparations. while pg is generally considered to be safe, it has been known that large intravenous doses given over a short period of time can be toxic. objective: to evaluate the effect of pg in sepsis induced by the bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (lp...

the inhibition of the inducible nitric oxide synthase (inos), cyclooxygenase 2 (cox-2) and nuclear factor-κb (nf-κb) production are research targets of attract in the field of anti-inflammatory drug development. therefore, this study was designed to investigate the anti-inflammatory effects of novel thiazolidinone derivatives using a cellular model of lipopolysaccharide (lps)-stimulated murine ...

An impaired uterine environment triggered by the incidence of subclinical endometritis often compromises fertility in the bovine. The uterus is a dynamic organ with tight regulation of specific genes at the transcriptional and translational levels. Herein, we hypothesised that subclinical endometritis alters the expression of uterine microRNAs (miRNAs), which may result in the dysregulation of ...

A multi-component acrylate-based copolymer system especially designed for application as ocular lenses is developed through free-radical, bulk polymerization of a system containing hydroxyethyl methacrylate, methyl methacrylate, triethylene glycol dimethacrylate, dimethyl itaconate, 3-(trimethoxysilyl) propylmethacrylate, Polyhedraloligomeric silsesquioxane-acrylate (POSS-acrylate) and AIBN as ...

our prior study found  that transforming growth factor  beta-induced (tgfbi) is  an important negative regulator in tlr-induced inflammation. however, whether tgfbi may affect inflammation during lipopolysaccharide (lps)-induced endotoxin tolerance (et) is still unclear.this study aimed to investigate whether tgfbi was involved in the mechanisms of et in human through dampening nuclear factor-k...

The preparation of hybrid transition metalloproteins by thiol-selective incorporation of organometallic rhodium- and ruthenium complexes is described. Phosphine ligands and two rhodium-diphosphine complexes bearing a carboxylic acid group were coupled to the cysteine of PYP R52G, yielding a metalloenzyme active in the rhodium catalyzed hydrogenation of dimethyl itaconate. The successful couplin...