Protein quality of four indigenous edible insect species in Nigeria by Florence Inje Oibiokpa, Helmina Olufunmilayo Akanya, Ali Audu Jigam, Abubakar Ndaman Abubakar, Evans Chidi Egwim

“…Cricket was found to have the highest amino acid score (0.91), protein efficiency ratio (1.78), net protein ratio (3.04) biological value (93.02%) and protein digestibility corrected for amino acid score (0.73) as compared to other insect proteins analysed. …”
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Effects of Different Carbohydrate Levels in Diets on Growth Performance and Muscle Nutritive Value of Ying Carp and Scattered-Scaled Mirror Carp (Cyprinus carpio) by Pengfei Xiao, Yunya Wu, Hang Sha, Xiangzhong Luo, Guiwei Zou, Hongwei Liang

“…As the carbohydrate levels in the feed increased, the essential amino acid (EAA) and total amino acid (TAA) content in the muscle of both carp varieties significantly increased, while the content of unsaturated fatty acids in the muscle significantly decreased (p<0.05). …”
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Comparing the difference in enhancement of kokumi-tasting γ-glutamyl peptides on basic taste via molecular modeling approaches and sensory evaluation by Juan Yang, Jing Guo, Ruijie Mai, Hao Dong, Chun Cui, Xiaofang Zeng, Weidong Bai

“…These peptides showed affinity for the two receptors, but a higher affinity scores and more binding amino acid residues for the T1R1-MSG receptor, implying that they may exhibit a higher umami-enhancing effect. …”
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Gut microbiota modulation in cardiac cell therapy with immunosuppression in a nonhuman primate ischemia/reperfusion model by Hung-Chih Chen, Yu-Che Cheng, Marvin L. Hsieh, Po-Ju Lin, Emily F. Wissel, Theodore Steward, Cindy M. C. Chang, Jennifer Coonen, Timothy A. Hacker, Timothy J. Kamp, Patrick C. H. Hsieh

“…Immunosuppression promoted anaerobes, such as Faecalibacterium, Streptococcus, Anaerovibrio and Dialister, and altered amino acid metabolism and nucleosides/nucleotides biosynthesis in host plasma. …”
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Current Overview of Allergens of Plant Pathogenesis Related Protein Families by Mau Sinha, Rashmi Prabha Singh, Gajraj Singh Kushwaha, Naseer Iqbal, Avinash Singh, Sanket Kaushik, Punit Kaur, Sujata Sharma, Tej P. Singh

“…Proteins having similar amino acid sequences among the members of PR proteins may be responsible for cross-reactivity among allergens from diverse plants. …”
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An Overview of the Intrinsic Role of Citrullination in Autoimmune Disorders by Mohammed Alghamdi, Doaa Alasmari, Amjad Assiri, Ehab Mattar, Abdullah A. Aljaddawi, Sana G. Alattas, Elrashdy M. Redwan

“…Citrullination is one of these modifications, where an arginine amino acid is converted to a citrulline amino acid. …”
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Immunoinformatic Analysis of Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinase 7 (CDPK7) Showed Potential Targets for Toxoplasma gondii Vaccine by Ali Taghipour, Sanaz Tavakoli, Mohamad Sabaghan, Masoud Foroutan, Hamidreza Majidiani, Shahrzad Soltani, Milad Badri, Ali Dalir Ghaffari, Sheyda Soltani

“…The findings showed that CDPK7 protein has 2133 amino acid residues with an average molecular weight (MW) of 219085.79 D. …”
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Modify possibilities of the secondary structures prediction method by Alvydas Špokas, Albertas Timinskas

“…In essence new modification has expanded informational parameter set by taking into account secondary structure of neighboring amino acid. The accuracy of the method with this modification increases almost for 1 percent. …”
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The nutritional content of bilih fish (Mystacoleucus padangensis blkr) eggs waste as source of fish feed material by Hafrijal Syandri

“…Parameters observed were proximate (protein, fat, moisture and ash), minerals (mangan and zinc), amino acid total, fatty acid, and vitamins (A, C and E) levels. …”
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SLC1A4 Promotes Malignant Transformation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Activating the AKT Signaling by Jiaoyun Zheng, Jian Gong

“…SLC1A4 is a neutral amino acid transporter, but its regulatory role and mechanism in HCC are still unclear. …”
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Effect of Inoculated Fermentation with Lactic Acid Bacteria on the Quality of Fermented Beef-Soybean Paste by ZOU Jinhao, SHEN Hongyun, LONG Zhengyu, YANG Huaigu, TANG Daobang

“…The results showed that compared with natural fermentation, inoculated fermentation with lactic acid bacteria decreased the pH, amino nitrogen and total free amino acid contents, and increased the total acid and reducing sugar contents as well as the number and amount of volatile flavor substances in the paste. …”
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DELLA MUTATIONS IN PLANTS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON WHEAT by G. A. Chebotar, S. V. Chebotar, Yu. M. Sivolap

“…We have performed nucleotide and amino acid sequence search and alignment of the Rht-D1 wheat dwarfing gene and DELLA-encoding genes of other plant species with BLAST and MUSCLE software. …”
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AdipoRon mitigates liver fibrosis by suppressing serine/glycine biosynthesis through ATF4-dependent glutaminolysis by Xiangting Zhang, Yuan Zeng, Huiya Ying, Yiwen Hong, Jun Xu, Rong Lin, Yuhao Chen, Xiao Wu, Weimin Cai, Ziqiang Xia, Qian Zhao, Yixiao Wang, Ruoru Zhou, Dandan Zhu, Fujun Yu

“…Activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4) serves as a pivotal transcriptional regulator in amino acid metabolism. Therefore, our objective is to explore the impact of AdipoRon on ATF4-mediated endoplasmic reticulum stress and amino acid metabolism in HSCs. …”
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Conserved pattern-based classification of human odorant receptor multigene family by Sang Eun Ryu, Jisub Bae, Tammy Shim, Won-Cheol Kim, Kwangsu Kim, Cheil Moon

“…In this study, we propose a new approach called conserved motif-based classification (CMC) for classifying ORs based on amino acid sequence similarities within conserved motifs. …”
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A Comparative Genomic Study in Schizophrenic and in Bipolar Disorder Patients, Based on Microarray Expression Profiling Meta-Analysis by Marianthi Logotheti, Olga Papadodima, Nikolaos Venizelos, Aristotelis Chatziioannou, Fragiskos Kolisis

“…The aim of the study was to perform and interpret the results of a comparative genomic profiling study in schizophrenic patients as well as in healthy controls and in patients with bipolar disorder and try to relate and integrate our results with an aberrant amino acid transport through cell membranes. In particular we have focused on genes and mechanisms involved in amino acid transport through cell membranes from whole genome expression profiling data. …”
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Genome analysis and prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Indonesian variants and the correlation with the outbreak timeline by Maria Prevyolita Indra Muliawan, Timotius Christopher Tantokusumo, Amalda Siti Anisa, Kholis Abdurachim Audah

“…Results: Our analysis identified nine amino acid changes in the alpha, beta, and delta variants, and three in the gamma variant, compared to the wild type. …”
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Adaptive evolution of SARS-CoV-2 during a persistent infection for 521 days in an immunocompromised patient by Hanno Schmidt, Lea Schick, Jürgen Podlech, Angélique Renzaho, Bettina Lieb, Stefan Diederich, Thomas Hankeln, Bodo Plachter, Oliver Kriege

“…Between the first detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection and its clearance, the patient’s virus population acquired 34 amino acid substitutions and 8 deletions in coding regions. …”
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Acylcarnitine Profiles in Plasma and Tissues of Hyperglycemic NZO Mice Correlate with Metabolite Changes of Human Diabetes by Anna Weiser, Pieter Giesbertz, Hannelore Daniel, Britta Spanier

“…By using LC-MS/MS, we here examine the suitability of this model to mirror tissue-specific changes in acylcarnitine (AC) and amino acid (AA) species preceding T2DM which may reflect patterns investigated in human metabolism. …”
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Aspects of improving metrological characteristics of a sensor based on palladium nanoparticles for methionine determination by Eduard V. Gorchakov, Darya O. Perevezentseva, Elena A. Vaitulevich, Oksana V. Dubinina

“…Methionine is commonly used as an amino acid supplement in poultry and cattle feed, as well as in sports nutrition and medicine. …”
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Smad1 Promotes Tumorigenicity and Chemoresistance of Glioblastoma by Sequestering p300 From p53 by Lingli Gong, Daxing Xu, Kaixiang Ni, Jie Li, Wei Mao, Bo Zhang, Zhening Pu, Xiangming Fang, Ying Yin, Li Ji, Jingjing Wang, Yaling Hu, Jiao Meng, Rui Zhang, Jiantong Jiao, Jian Zou

“…Through molecular docking, it is discovered that Smad1 and p53 both interact with the acetyltransferase domain of p300, but at different amino acid sites. Disturbing the interface of Smad1 through amino acid mutations abolishes the Smad1‐p300 complex and promotes p53 acetylation. …”
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