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Okolo BN, Ezeogu LI. DURATION OF FINAL WARM STEEP AS A CRUCIAL FACTOR IN PROTEIN MODIFICATION IN SORGHUM MALTS. JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF BREWING 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/j.2050-0416.1996.tb00905.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Lähdesmäki P, Siltaloppi E. Peptide Biosynthesis and Changes in free Amino Acid Composition in Developing Bean Seedlings(Phaseolus vulgaris). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1080/01483918508067059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Davy A, Thomsen KK, Juliano MA, Alves LC, Svendsen I, Simpson DJ. Purification and characterization of barley dipeptidyl peptidase IV. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2000; 122:425-432. [PMID: 10677435 PMCID: PMC58879 DOI: 10.1104/pp.122.2.425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/1999] [Accepted: 10/13/1999] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) storage proteins, which have a high content of proline (Pro) and glutamine, are cleaved by cysteine endoproteases to yield peptides with a Pro next to the N-terminal and/or C-terminal amino acid residues. A peptidase cleaving after Xaa-Pro- at the N terminus of peptides was purified from green barley malt. It was identified as a serine-type dipeptidyl peptidase (DPP), based on inhibitor studies, and the nature of the cleavage product. It is a monomeric glycoprotein with an apparent molecular mass of 105 kD (85 kD after deglycosylation), with a pI of 3.55 and a pH optimum at 7.2. Substrate specificity was determined with a series of fluorogenic peptide substrates with the general formula Xaa-Pro-AMC, where Xaa is an unspecified amino acid and AMC is 7-amino-4-methylcoumarin. The best substrates were Xaa = lysine and arginine, while the poorest were Xaa = aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and glutamic acid. The K(m) values ranged from 0.071 to 8.9 microM, compared with values of 9 to 130 microM reported for mammalian DPP IVs. We discuss the possible role of DPP IV in the degradation of small Pro-containing peptides transported from the endosperm to the embryo of the germinating barley grain.
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- A Davy
- Carlsberg Research Laboratory, Carlsberg Laboratory, Gamle Carlsbergvej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark
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Kramer W, Dürckheimer W, Girbig F, Gutjahr U, Leipe I, Oekonomopulos R. Influence of amino acid side-chain modification on the uptake system for beta-lactam antibiotics and dipeptides from rabbit small intestine. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1990; 1028:174-82. [PMID: 2223791 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(90)90152-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The influence of chemical modification of functional amino acid side-chains in proteins on the H(+)-dependent uptake system for orally active alpha-amino-beta-lactam antibiotics and small peptides was investigated in brush-border membrane vesicles from rabbit small intestine. Neither a modification of cysteine residues by HgCl2, NEM, DTNB or PHMB and of vicinal thiol groups by PAO nor a modification of disulfide bonds by DTT showed any inhibition on the uptake of cephalexin, a substrate of the intestinal peptide transporter. In contrast, the Na(+)-dependent uptake systems for D-glucose and L-alanine were greatly inhibited by the thiol-modifying agents. With reagents for hydroxyl groups, carboxyl groups or arginine the transport activity for beta-lactam antibiotics also remained unchanged, whereas the uptake of D-glucose and L-alanine was inhibited by the carboxyl specific reagent DCCD. A modification of tyrosine residues with N-acetylimidazole inhibited the peptide transport system and did not affect the uptake systems for D-glucose and L-alanine. The involvement of histidine residues in the transport of orally active alpha-amino-beta-lactam antibiotics and small peptides (Kramer, W. et al. (1988) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 943, 288-296) was further substantiated by photoaffinity labeling studies using a new photoreactive derivative of the orally active cephalosporin cephalexin, 3-[phenyl-4-3H]azidocephalexin, which still carries the alpha-amino group being essential for oral activity. 3-Azidocephalexin competitively inhibited the uptake of cephalexin into brush-border membrane vesicles. The photoaffinity labeling of the 127 kDa binding protein for beta-lactam antibiotics with this photoprobe was decreased by the presence of cephalexin, benzylpenicillin or dipeptides. A modification of histidine residues in brush-border membrane vesicles with DEP led to a decreased labeling of the putative peptide transporter of Mr 127,000 compared to controls. This indicates a decrease in the affinity of the peptide transporter for alpha-amino-beta-lactam antibiotics by modification of histidine residues. The data presented demonstrate an involvement of tyrosine and histidine residues in the transport of orally active alpha-amino-beta-lactam antibiotics across the enterocyte brush-border membrane.
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- W Kramer
- Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, F.R.G
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Douen AG, Jones MN. The role of insulin receptor sulphydryl groups in insulin binding and cellular response in rat adipocytes. JOURNAL OF RECEPTOR RESEARCH 1990; 10:45-59. [PMID: 2262933 DOI: 10.3109/10799899009064657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Phenylarsine oxide (PAO), an agent which reacts with vicinal sulphydryl groups and dithiothreitol (DTT), a disulphide reducing agent, inhibited insulin binding to intact adipocytes with half maximal inhibition occurring at 28 microM and 340 microM, respectively. Pretreatment of adipocytes with DTT (2mM) prevented insulin stimulation of glucose uptake by approximately 50%. The marked inhibition of insulin binding to adipocytes by PAO and DTT is consistent with the involvement of the receptor cysteine-rich region of hormone binding. Furthermore, DTT inhibition of insulin binding suggests that the integrity of disulphide bridges is critical for insulin binding. The inhibitory effect of DTT and PAO on insulin binding were not additive, instead addition of DTT to PAO-treated adipocytes effected 15% reversal of binding inhibition. The marked inhibition of insulin binding by addition of low concentrations of DTT (0.2-2.0mM) to intact adipocytes is in contrast to the previously reported biphasic response for the effect of DTT on insulin binding to isolated plasma membranes from rat adipocytes (Schweitzer et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 77, 4692-4696, 1980). Scatchard plots for 125I-iodoinsulin binding to adipocytes in the basal state were linear. In contrast, Scatchard analysis of insulin binding to plasma membranes prepared from both basal and insulin-stimulated adipocytes yielded severely curvilinear plots. The data suggests that (i) fundamental differences exist between the receptor state in intact cells and isolated plasma membranes and (ii) that a disulphide-rich region within the insulin receptor, other than the previously reported class I and class II disulphide bridges, is critical for insulin binding and cellular response.
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- A G Douen
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, U.K
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Nobile S, Deshusses J. Evidence for a role of a vicinal dithiol in the transport of gamma-butyrobetaine in Agrobacterium sp. Biochimie 1988; 70:1411-6. [PMID: 3148329 DOI: 10.1016/0300-9084(88)90013-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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An Agrobacterium sp. isolated from soil is able to use gamma-butyrobetaine as its sole source of carbon and nitrogen. The involvement of thiol groups for active transport of gamma-butyrobetaine was investigated by use of the thiol alkylating reagent N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) and the dithiol specific reagent phenylarsine oxide (PAO). Both reagents strongly inhibited gamma-butyrobetaine uptake, but also induced the release of the accumulated substrate, suggesting that the transport system either contains a dithiol-dependent protein or that a small thiol-containing molecule is implicated in the uptake phenomenon.
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- S Nobile
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Payne JW, Walker-Smith DJ. Isolation and identification of proteins from the peptide-transport carrier in the scutellum of germinating barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) embryos. PLANTA 1987; 170:263-271. [PMID: 24232887 DOI: 10.1007/bf00397897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/1986] [Accepted: 10/23/1986] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Peptide-transport proteins, intrinsic to the epithelial plasmalemmae of the scutella of germinating barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) embryos, have been selectively labelled with p-chloro-[(203)Hg]mercuribenzenesulphonate using both a substrate-screening technique and a procedure developed to label exclusively vicinal dithiol groups, which were shown previously (Walker-Smith and Payne, 1983, FEBS Lett. 160, 25-30) to be essential components of the peptide-transport system. After radioactive labelling, proteins from the scutellar membranes have been solubilised with lithium diiodosalicylate plus sodium dodecyl sulphate and separated by using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Fluorography and silver staining of these gels has for the first time allowed identification of two presumptive components of the peptide-transport system. These components only become detectable in an extract of the scutellar epithelia after 15 h imbibition, concomitant with a dramatic increase in peptide-transport activity, and they remain present at least 3 d after the onset of germination. [(35)] Methionine was shown to be incorporated into these proteins between 15-20 h after imbibition, but its incorporation during a similar 5 h period into scutella isolated after 3 d was undetectable, implying a slow turnover of these proteins during the later stages of germination.
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- J W Payne
- Department of Biochemistry and Soil Science, University College of North Wales, LL57 2UW, Bangor, Gwynedd, UK
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Miyamoto Y, Ganapathy V, Leibach FH. Identification of histidyl and thiol groups at the active site of rabbit renal dipeptide transporter. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)66688-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Walker-Smith DJ, Payne JW. Synthesis of the peptide-transport carrier of barley scutellum during the early stages of germination. PLANTA 1985; 164:550-556. [PMID: 24248231 DOI: 10.1007/bf00395974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/1984] [Accepted: 11/21/1984] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Development of peptide-transport activity in the scutella of isolated barley (Hordeum vulgare l. cv. Maris Otter, Winter) embryos is shown to increase rapidly after about 15 h of imbibition, with the bulk of the transport activity being expressed by 24 h. This development is prevented by treatment of 15 h embryos with cycloheximide. Protein synthesis is found to increase in a closely related manner and also to be abolished by cycloheximide. Measurement of the incorporation of bound [(35)S]methionine by 15 to 21-h embryos indicates that de-novo protein synthesis during this period is greater in the scutellum than in the embryonic axis. Previous studies have shown that the peptide-transport system possesses essential dithiol groups, probably located at the substrate-binding site (Walker-Smith and Payne 1983 b, 1984b). Treatment of 15-h embryos with the non-penetrant thiol reagent p-chloromercuribenzene sulphonic acid did not affect development of peptide-transport activity during the following 6 h, whereas with 3-d embryos identical treatment inhibited uptake almost completely during a subsequent 6-h period. Radioautography revealed that amongst the proteins synthesised during this early phase of germination and labelled in vitro with [(35)S]methionine some are found within the epithelial plasmalemmae of the scutellum, which is the location of the peptide-transport carrier identified previously by externally labelling with a radioactive thiol reagent. The results provide evidence that protein(s) of the peptide-transport system are synthesised and inserted into the scutellum during early germination, allowing the system to play a major role in the nitrogen nutrition of the embryo.
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- D J Walker-Smith
- Department of Botany, Science Laboratories, University of Durham, South Road, DH1 3LE, Durham, UK
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Walker-Smith DJ, Payne JW. Characteristics of the protein carrier of the peptide-transport system in the scutellum of germinating barley embryos. PLANTA 1984; 162:166-173. [PMID: 24254052 DOI: 10.1007/bf00410214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/1984] [Accepted: 04/26/1984] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Through the use of the protein reagents N-ethylmaleimide, p-chloromercuribenzenesulphonic acid and phenylarsine oxide, it is shown that in the scutellum of the germinating barley embryo, the transport of peptides, but not the transport of amino acids or glucose is specifically thiol-dependent. Furthermore, these essential thiol groups are shown to exist as redox-sensitive, vicinal-dithiols that lie at the substrate-binding sites of the peptide-transport proteins. The binding of N-ethylmaleimide to these dithiols is shown to be very fast, matching the kinetics of inhibition of peptide transport by this reagent. A technique for the specific labelling of the dithiols with N-ethyl[2,3-(14)C]maleimide is described, which allows the carrier proteins to be visualized at the scutellar epithelium using radioautography and permits calculation of the approximate amount of peptide-transport protein present per scutellum. In related studies, the importance of arginyl and histidyl residues to both amino-acid and peptide transport is shown, although other residues, e.g. carboxyl ligands do not seem to be critically involved.
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- D J Walker-Smith
- Department of Botany, Science Laboratories, University of Durham, South Road, DH1 3LE, Durham, UK
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Walker-Smith DJ, Payne JW. Characteristics of the active transport of peptides and amino acids by germinating barley embryos. PLANTA 1984; 162:159-65. [PMID: 24254051 DOI: 10.1007/bf00410213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/1984] [Accepted: 04/05/1984] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Use of two different assays involving either radioactively labelled substrates or a fluorescent-labelling procedure, gave good agreement for the rates of transport of peptides and amino acids into the scutellum of germinating grains of barley (Hordeum vulgare cv. Maris Otter, Winter). However, evidence was obtained for the enzymic decarboxylation of transpored substrate, which can cause underestimates of transport rates when using radioactively labelled substrates. The peptide Gly-Phe, was shown to be rapidly hydrolysed after uptake, and autoradiography of transported Gly-[U-(14)C]Phe indicated a rapid distribution of tracer, i.e. [U-(14)C] phenylalanine into the epithelium and sub-epithelial layers of the scutellum. The developmental patterns of transport activity indicate that peptide transport is more important nutritionally during the early stages of germination (1-3 d) whereas amino acids become relatively more important later (4-6 d). A range of amino acids is shown to be actively transported and several compete for uptake. At physiological concentrations, e.g. 2mM, transport of peptides and amino acids is inhibited about 80% by protonophore uncouplers, but at higher concentrations (10-100 mM) passive uptake predominates.
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- D J Walker-Smith
- Department of Botany, Science Laboratories, University of Durham, South Road, DH1 3LE, Durham, UK
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