Structural Analysis of Amylin and Amyloid β Peptide Signaling in Alzheimer’s Disease by Longsheng Xie, Christopher Lockhart, Steven R. Bowers, Dmitri K. Klimov, Mohsin Saleet Jafri

“…Replica exchange molecular dynamics simulation machine learning, as well as other computational analyses, were applied to improve the understanding of the amino acid residues in these amylin-based peptides. …”
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Determinants of the Sensory Quality of Półgęsek in Relation to Volatile Compounds and Chemical Composition by Nowicka Katarzyna, Jaworska Danuta, Przybylski Wiesław, Górska Ewa, Tambor Krzysztof, Półtorak Andrzej

“…The typical decomposition products derived from lipid oxidation, amino acid degradation, carbohydrate fermentation and microbial esterification were the main volatiles detected in all the samples. …”
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Structural Features and Transcriptional Activity of Chicken PPARs (α, β, and γ) by Ichiro Takada, Mime Kobayashi

“…This ligand selectivity relies on one amino acid residue (chicken: Val419, human: Met444). …”
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Solid Lipid Nanoparticles Based on L-Cysteine for Progesterone Intravaginal Delivery by Roberta Cassano, Sonia Trombino

“…In particular, the hydroxyl group less sterically encumbered was functionalized with a thiol group, in a coupling reaction, with the amino acid L-cysteine. The obtained compound was characterized by FT-IR spectrometry and 1H-NMR. …”
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Application of Metabolomics to Study Effects of Bariatric Surgery by Paulina Samczuk, Michal Ciborowski, Adam Kretowski

“…Detected changes pertain to amino acid, lipids, carbohydrates, or gut microbiota alterations. …”
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Promising role of voxelotor in managing sickle cell disease in children: a narrative review by Amit Agrawal, Gaurav Jadon, Japna Singh, Dalwinder Janjua

“…To date, 4 disease-modifying drugs have been approved for the treatment of SCD: hydroxyurea (an S-phase inhibitor), L-glutamine (an amino acid), crizanlizumab (a P-selectin inhibitor), and voxelotor (a hemoglobin S polymerization inhibitor). …”
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Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2: The First Decade by Nicola E. Clarke, Anthony J. Turner

“…Moreover, investigations focusing on ACE2 have revealed a variety of roles not just catalytic but also as a viral receptor and amino acid transporter. This paper focuses on what is known about ACE2 and its biological roles, paying particular attention to the regulation of ACE2 expression. …”
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Rapid and Nondestructive Detection of Proline in Serum Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Partial Least Squares by Kejing Zhu, Shengsheng Zhang, Keyu Yue, Yaming Zuo, Yulin Niu, Qing Wu, Wei Pan

“…Proline is an important amino acid that widely affects life activities. It plays an important role in the occurrence and development of diseases. …”
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False morel poisoning in a cat by Erdem Gülersoy, Tuğçe Manolya Baş, Mahmut Ok

“…As a treatment, 0.9% isotonic NaCl (Polyplex, Polifarma®) solutions 40 ml/kg via IV, maropitant (Cerenia, Zoetis®) 1 mg/kg as an antiemetic and to reduce visceral pain via SC, N-acetylcystein (Nacosel, Haver Farma®) 140 mg/kg via IV, vitamins and amino acid supplementation (Duphalyte, Zoetis®) via IV are administered. …”
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Arsenic efflux and bioremediation potential of Klebsiella oxytoca via the arsB gene. by Sana Waqar, Aamira Tariq, Ubaid Ullah, Hira Haleem, Hadiqa Aimen, Sadia Sattar, Nazish Bostan

“…Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis confirmed interaction of arsenate and arsenite with functional groups (aromatic amino acid residues) on the cell surface leading to characteristic peak shifts. …”
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Rare Suprasellar Chordoid Meningioma with INI1 Gene Mutation by Imad Fadl-Elmula, Rania Giha, Sawsan AH Deaf, Lamyaa Ahmed El Hassan, Ahmed M. Hassan, Mohamed AR Arbab

“…DNA sequencing showedheterozygosity C­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­-T mutation in exon 9 of INI1 gene leading to change of amino acid serine to phenylalanine at (codon 63). The details of this case are presented with a review of the literature.…”
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Homocysteine and Hypertension in Diabetes: Does PPARγ Have a Regulatory Role? by Utpal Sen, Suresh C. Tyagi

“…Homocysteine, which is a nonprotein amino acid, at elevated levels is an independent cardio-renovascular risk factor. …”
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Influence of proteinoids on calcium carbonate polymorphs precipitation in supersaturated solutions by Panagiotis Mougkogiannis, Andrew Adamatzky

“…Proteinoids, or thermal proteins, are amino acid polymers formed at high temperatures by non-biological processes. …”
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Micellization Studies on Binary Mixture of Methionine with Polyoxyethylene (10) Cetyl Ether (Brij-56) and Polyoxyethylene (20) Cetyl Ether (Brij-58) by B. S. Bhadane, T. J. Patil

“…This is mainly due to increased micelle concentrations. The influence of amino acid on the cloud point of Brij-56 and Brij-58 is a clear indication that the phenomenon of clouding is associated with the different micelles coalescing. …”
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Cloning and sequencing of VP19-encoding gene of white spot syndrome virus from Situbondo’s isolate by Sahrul Alim, Dinamella Wahjuningrum, Muhamad Ali

“…However, the sequence result shows that there are some differences on bases and amino acid. However, the result of sequencing shows there are difference of five base and three amino acid arranged VP19 sequence the Situbondo isolate with isolate from several countries. …”
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Origins and Evolution of WUSCHEL-Related Homeobox Protein Family in Plant Kingdom by Gaibin Lian, Zhiwen Ding, Qin Wang, Dabing Zhang, Jie Xu

“…Linkage analysis of WOX protein sequences demonstrated that amino acid residues 141–145 and 153–160 located in the homeodomain are possibly associated with the function of WOXs during the evolution. …”
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BAC-browser: the tool for synthetic biology by Tatiana A. Semashko, Gleb Y. Fisunov, Georgiy Y. Shevelev, Vadim M. Govorun

“…It helps to design nucleotide sequences and features the following tools: generate nucleotide sequence from amino acid sequences using a codon frequency table for a specific organism, as well as visualization of restriction sites, GC composition, GC skew and secondary structure. …”
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Ammonia-Assimilating Bacteria Promote Wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i>) Growth and Nitrogen Utilization by Yuqian Gao, Qi Zhang, Yuannan Chen, Yanqing Yang, Chenxiao Zhou, Jiayang Yu, Yanan Li, Liyou Qiu

“…The results suggest that the ammonia-assimilating bacterium promotes wheat growth, nitrogen accumulation, and soil nitrogen immobilization by establishing an ammonia and amino acid exchange with roots and enhancing root antioxidant capacity, making it a potential plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR).…”
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Microwave Irradiation Enhances the Germination Rate of Tartary Buckwheat and Content of Some Compounds in Its Sprouts by Wang Shunmin, Wang Jianfei, Guo Yubao

“…The exposure at 600 W for 30 s stimulated the total flavones content, reduced the sugar and soluble protein contents, and increased the 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging activity. The highest free amino acid content (11 mg/g) was observed in 5-day sprouts exposed to 800 W for 10 s. …”
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Study on Effect of Producing Region on the Metabolome Composition of Rice by LIU Fu-ying, CHEN Xue-feng, WANG Xin, CHEN Guo-yan, GUO Ying, SUN Jing-han, YANG Shui-yan, NIE Xu-heng

“…By principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least square discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA), the results showed that the numbers of differential metabolites between the comparison groups (GJYH290 vs MLYH290, MZYH290 vs GJYH290, MZYH290 vs MLYH290) were 130, 180, and 192, respectively, only 6 different metabolites were common to all three comparison groups, with the main metabolic pathways involving amino acid metabolism and flavonoid metabolism. The top 10 most significantly upregulated and downregulated metabolites with the largest fold changes in the 3 comparison groups were mainly flavonoids, phenolic acids, nucleotides and their derivatives. …”
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