Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L.) has two major products: alkaloids in the capsules and the seeds.  The seed contains oil, protein, carbohydrate, moisture and mineral matters. The seed oil is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, particularly linoleic and oleic acid. Remaining meals after oil extraction are the important source for animal diets. The United Nations recognize Turkey and India as tra...

We have determined the primary structure of human liver fatty acid binding protein from an analysis of a full length cDNA. This 127-residue 14,178-Da protein exhibits a high degree of sequence conservation when compared to its orthologous homologue, rat liver fatty acid binding protein. It appears likely that this polypeptide arose from two intragenic duplication events. Using a variety of comp...

Pistachio nut has high nutritional value. The fat and protein are the common part of pistachio. Major part (about 88%) of the fat content of pistachio includes unsaturated fatty acids. Unsaturated fatty acids are known to have positive effects on human health like preventing to heart diseases. This research has evaluated protein, fat and fatty acids content of some commercial pistachio cultivar...

Fatty acid oxidation is highly regulated in skeletal muscle and involves several sites of regulation, including the transport of fatty acids across both the plasma and mitochondrial membranes. Transport across these membranes is recognized to be primarily protein mediated, limited by the abundance of fatty acid transport proteins on the respective membranes. In recent years, evidence has shown ...

It was established previously that the 15-kDa protein phosphorylated in 3T3-L1 adipocytes treated with insulin and phenylarsine oxide is O-phospho-Tyr19 422(aP2) protein, a fatty acid-binding protein. To assess its capacity to serve as substrate of the insulin receptor tyrosine kinase in vitro, native 422(aP2) protein was isolated from 3T3-L1 adipocytes and purified to homogeneity. Receptor-cat...