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Sázelová P, Šolínová V, Schimperková T, Jiráček J, Kašička V. Chiral analysis of ‐alanyl‐
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‐tyrosine and its derivatives and estimation of binding constants of their complexes with 2‐hydroxypropyl‐β‐cyclodextrin by capillary electrophoresisS. J Sep Sci 2022; 45:3328-3338. [DOI: 10.1002/jssc.202200158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2022] [Revised: 04/02/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Petra Sázelová
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences Flemingovo nam. 542/2, 166 10 Prague 6 Czechia
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences Flemingovo nam. 542/2, 166 10 Prague 6 Czechia
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences Flemingovo nam. 542/2, 166 10 Prague 6 Czechia
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences Flemingovo nam. 542/2, 166 10 Prague 6 Czechia
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences Flemingovo nam. 542/2, 166 10 Prague 6 Czechia
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Biswas S, Datta LP, Kumar Das T. A bioinspired stimuli-responsive amino acid-based antibacterial drug delivery system in cancer therapy. NEW J CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2nj00815g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Design of tyrosine based stimuli responsive antibacterial drug delivery system with potential application in cancer therapy.
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- Subharanjan Biswas
- Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia - 741235, Nadia, West Bengal, India
- Institut Lavoisier de Versailles, UMR CNRS 8180, Université de Versailles St Quentin en Yvelines, Université Paris Saclay, 45 avenue des Etats-Unis, Versailles 78035, France
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- Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia - 741235, Nadia, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia - 741235, Nadia, West Bengal, India
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Šolínová V, Sázelová P, Mášová A, Jiráček J, Kašička V. Application of Capillary and Free-Flow Zone Electrophoresis for Analysis and Purification of Antimicrobial β-Alanyl-Tyrosine from Hemolymph of Fleshfly Neobellieria bullata. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26185636. [PMID: 34577107 PMCID: PMC8469924 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26185636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Revised: 09/14/2021] [Accepted: 09/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The problem of a growing resistance of bacteria and other microorganisms to conventional antibiotics gave rise to a search for new potent antimicrobial agents. Insect antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) seem to be promising novel potential anti-infective therapeutics. The dipeptide β-alanyl-tyrosine (β-Ala-Tyr) is one of the endogenous insect toxins exhibiting antibacterial activity against both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. Prior to testing its other antimicrobial activities, it has to be prepared in a pure form. In this study, we have developed a capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) method for analysis of β-Ala-Tyr isolated from the extract of the hemolymph of larvae of the fleshfly Neobellieria bullata by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC). Based on our previously described correlation between CZE and free-flow zone electrophoresis (FFZE), analytical CZE separation of β-Ala-Tyr and its admixtures have been converted into preparative purification of β-Ala-Tyr by FFZE with preparative capacity of 45.5 mg per hour. The high purity degree of the β-Ala-Tyr obtained by FFZE fractionation was confirmed by its subsequent CZE analysis.
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Macurkova A, Neubauerova T, Poncova K, Jezek R, Lovecka P, Spiwok V, Mackova M, Macek T. Effect of chain elongation on biological properties of the toxin paralysin β-alanyl-tyrosine. Chem Biol Drug Des 2013; 83:418-26. [PMID: 24168419 DOI: 10.1111/cbdd.12257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2013] [Revised: 10/08/2013] [Accepted: 10/17/2013] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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In hemolymph of insect species, compounds with remarkable properties for pharmaceutical industry are present. At the first line, there were found compounds of low molecular mass, less than 1 kDa. One of such compounds, β-alanyl-tyrosine (252 Da), was isolated from larval hemolymph of some species of holometabolous insects (e.g. Neobellieria bullata). Its paralytic activity and antimicrobial properties were described until now. In this study, we present the effect of elongation of β-alanyl-tyrosine by repeating of this motive on the biological and physical properties of prepared analogues. For assessment of antimicrobial properties of these new compounds strains of Gram-positive, Gram-negative bacteria and fungi were used, we also followed the haemolytic activity and toxic effect on human cell culture HepG2. On the base of ECD spectroscopy measurement, subsequent molecular modelling and known secondary structure of original β-alanyl-tyrosine dipeptide, the secondary structures of repeating sequences of β-AY were specified. The repeating structures of β-alanyl-tyrosine show increase in antimicrobial activity; for Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, minimal inhibitory concentration was decreased from 30 to 15 mM for 2xβ-AY, 0.4 mM for 4xβ-AY and 0.25 mM for 6xβ-AY.
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- Anna Macurkova
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology, Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Technicka 3, 166 28, Prague, Czech Republic
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Moreno-García M, Córdoba-Aguilar A, Condé R, Lanz-Mendoza H. Current immunity markers in insect ecological immunology: assumed trade-offs and methodological issues. BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2013; 103:127-139. [PMID: 22929006 DOI: 10.1017/s000748531200048x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The field of ecological immunology currently relies on using a number of immune effectors or markers. These markers are usually used to infer ecological trade-offs (via conflicts in resource allocation), though physiological nature of these markers remains elusive. Here, we review markers frequently used in insect evolutionary ecology research: cuticle darkening, haemocyte density, nodule/capsule formation, phagocytosis and encapsulation/melanization via use of nylon filaments and beads, phenoloxidase activity, nitric oxide production, lysozyme and antimicrobial peptide production. We also provide physiologically based information that may shed light on the probable trade-offs inferred when these markers are used. In addition, we provide a number of methodological suggestions to improve immune marker assessment.
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- M Moreno-García
- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
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Ciencialová A, Neubauerová T, Šanda M, Šindelka R, Cvačka J, Voburka Z, Buděšínský M, Kašička V, Sázelová P, Šolínová V, Macková M, Koutek B, Jiráček J. Mapping the peptide and protein immune response in the larvae of the fleshflySarcophaga bullata. J Pept Sci 2008; 14:670-82. [DOI: 10.1002/psc.967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Law JH, Dunn PE, Kramer KJ. Insect proteases and peptidases. ADVANCES IN ENZYMOLOGY AND RELATED AREAS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 45:389-425. [PMID: 335821 DOI: 10.1002/9780470122907.ch5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Kyrikou I, Grdadolnik SG, Tatari M, Poulos C, Mavromoustakos T. Structural elucidation and conformational properties of the toxin paralysin beta-Ala-Tyr. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2003; 31:713-21. [PMID: 12644198 DOI: 10.1016/s0731-7085(02)00688-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Larval extracts of the homotetabolous insects (i.e., Neobelleria Bullata-Insecta Diptera), cause paralysis followed by death when injected into adult flesh flies. The reason for causing these lethal effects is because the extracts contain endogenous toxins widely spread over the class of insects. Since their major effect is the paralysis they are called paralysins and are present through all the development stages. Their concentration gradually increases from larvae stage over pupation to late pharate adults indicating that paralysins have an active role in the metamorphosis. The prototype pharmacologically important dipeptide beta-alanine-tyrosine was synthesized and submitted to conformational analysis studies in hydrophilic and amphoteric environments in order to reveal the stereoelectronic properties responsible for its activity.
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- Ioanna Kyrikou
- Institute of Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Vas. Constantinou 48, 11635, Athens, Greece
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Chiou SJ, Kotanen S, Cerstiaens A, Daloze D, Pasteels JM, Lesage A, Drijfhout JW, Verhaert P, Dillen L, Claeys M, De Meulemeester H, Nuttin B, De Loof A, Schoofs L. Purification of toxic compounds from larvae of the gray fleshfly: the identification of paralysins. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1998; 246:457-62. [PMID: 9610383 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.8644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Larval haemolymph of Neobellieria bullata (Insecta, Diptera) is highly toxic to adults of the same species: injection causes instant paralysis to death. Referring to their dramatic effect in adult insects the responsible compounds were designated paralysins. Two paralysins, soluble in organic solvents and heat stable, were chromatographically purified to homogeneity. They were identified by use of mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance respectively as beta-alanine-tyrosine (beta-Ala-Tyr) and as 3-hydroxy-kynurenine (3-HK). The quantities of beta-Ala-Tyr and 3-HK in the insect appear to increase steadily during larval development, with peak values prior to the pupal stage. These findings may contribute to a better understanding of some aspects of the process of insect metamorphosis. Orienting experiments in mammals suggest that both compounds, when injected intraspinally, are also neurotoxic to rats. In addition, cytotoxicity tests revealed that 3-HK, but not beta-Ala-Tyr is toxic to human neuroblastoma cells, rat primary cortex neurons as well as to rat glial cells.
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- S J Chiou
- Zoological Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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Munkirs DD, Christensen BM, Tracy JW. High-pressure liquid chromatographic analysis of hemolymph plasma catecholamines in immune-reactive Aedes aegypti. J Invertebr Pathol 1990; 56:267-79. [PMID: 2273291 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2011(90)90110-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Tyrosine and catecholamines have been implicated as substrates for the encapsulation reactions involved in the immune response of mosquitoes to microfilariae (mff). Identification and quantitation of tyrosine and catecholamines present in Aedes aegypti hemolymph plasma were accomplished by ion-pair high-pressure liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection at either +650 or +850 mV vs Ag/AgCl. Tyrosine, dopamine, and N-beta-alanyldopamine were detected in the hemolymph plasma of naive A. aegypti. Although no differences in these compounds were observed in hemolymph plasma from A. aegypti inoculated with Dirofilaria immitis mff, the chromatogram showed a single major peak (PI) (65 microM, expressed as dopamine equivalents) that was not present in naive hemolymph plasma. Saline-inoculated controls contained only 5% of the PI in immune reactive hemolymph plasma. A high concentration of PI (127 +/- 39 microM) was also detected after treatment of hemolymph plasma with mild alkaline conditions (pH 9.0), indicating that it is normally present as an electrochemically inert form in naive mosquitoes. High concentrations of PI were also detected in the naive hemolymph plasma from three other mosquito species, but no PI was found in A. trivittatus under any conditions. PI did not cochromatograph with any of the catecholamines commonly thought to be involved in immune responses of dipterans against metazoan parasites, suggesting that it may be a unique substrate for these reactions. The biological relevance of PI was evidenced by its appearance in the hemolymph plasma of two strains of D. immitis-inoculated A. aegypti.
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- D D Munkirs
- Department of Veterinary Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706
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The mode of sclerotization of Aedes aegypti pupal and adult cuticle was examined by employing biochemical and radioactive techniques. During larval-pupal metamorphosis, tyrosine is converted to tanning precursors and is incorporated into aryl-amino adducts and beta-crosslinks. The major hydrolysis product of beta-crosslinks in pupal cases is identified to be arterenone. Examination of tanning modes in five different mosquito species shows that the ratio of quinone to beta-sclerotization not only differs within the life stages of the insects, but also differs between species.
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Amino Acid and Protein Metabolism. Biochemistry 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-08-030811-1.50012-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Comparative composition of free, peptide and protein amino acids in symbiotic and aposymbiotic Sitophilus oryzae (coleoptera, curculionidae). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(85)90067-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Psarianos CG, Marmaras VJ, Vournakis JN. Tyrosine-4-O-β-glucoside in the mediterranean fruit-fly Ceratitis capitata. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(85)90053-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Tyrosine glucoside hydrolase activity in tissues of Manduca sexta (L.): Effect of 20-hydroxyecdysone. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(83)90038-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The watery vacuoles first described from larval insect fat body (Chironomus, Voinov, 1927; Aedes, Wigglesworth, 1942; Rhodnius, Wigglesworth, 1967) have been studied in 4th and 5th stage Calpodes larvae. The vacuoles arise at the beginning (E + 6-24 hr) of the 4th stadium from plasma membrane infolds that separate from the cell surface as provacuoles less than 1 micron in diameter. These provacuoles grow and fuse with one another through the intermolt until about half the volume of each fat body cell is occupied by a single, large vacuole. The vacuoles begin to disappear at molting. Their membrane is either incorporated into the plasma membrane by exocytosis or fragmented into vesicles that fuse to become lamellar bodies where the membranes are presumably digested. All the vacuoles have gone by a few hours after ecdysis. The tyrosine content of the fat body increases and decreases in proportion to the size of the vacuoles. As the vacuoles decrease at molting the titre of tyrosine in the hemolymph is transiently elevated at the time when there is most demand for phenolics for cuticle stabilization. Crystals having the form of tyrosine crystallize out from vacuoles separated from the fat body. In fat body extracts separated by thin layer chromatography, similar crystals occur only in the eluates from spots corresponding to tyrosine. The vacuoles are therefore presumed to be tyrosine stores used in cuticle stabilization at molting. They correspond to a type of aqueous storage compartment that is well known in plants but hitherto little recognized in animal cells.
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Ahmed R, Hopkins T, Kramer K. Tyrosine and tyrosine glucoside titres in whole animals and tissues during development of the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta (L.). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(83)90019-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Maxwell GD, Moore MM, Hildebrand JG. Metabolism of tyramine in the central nervous system of the moth Manduca sexta. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1980. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(80)90055-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Umebachi Y, Yamashita H. Clear evidence for the presence of beta-alanine as a constituent of papiliochrome II. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. B, COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1976; 54:55-62. [PMID: 1269239 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(76)90057-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Koeppe JK, Mills RR. Metabolism of noradrenalin and dopamine during ecdysis by the American cockroach. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1975. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(75)90051-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Further studies on the dopamine derivative, SN-1 derived from the yellow pigments of Papilio xuthus. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1975. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(75)90009-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Tobe SS, Davey KG, Huebner E. Nutrient transfer during the reproductive cycle in Glossina austeni Newst.: histology and histochemistry of the milk gland, fat body, and oenocytes. Tissue Cell 1973; 5:633-50. [PMID: 4129183 DOI: 10.1016/s0040-8166(73)80050-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Bodnaryk RP. N-Terminal β-alanine in the puparium of the fly Sarcophaga bullata: Evidence from kinetic studies of its release by partial acid hydrolysis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1971. [DOI: 10.1016/0020-1790(71)90075-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bodnaryk RP. Effect of exogenous molting hormone (ecdysterone) on beta-alanyl-L-tyrosine metabolism in the larva of the fly Sarcophage bullata Parker. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1971; 16:363-8. [PMID: 5550933 DOI: 10.1016/0016-6480(71)90048-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Bodnaryk RP. Effect of dopa-decarboxylase inhibition on the metabolism of β-alanyl-l-tyrosine during puparium formation in the fleshfly Sarcophaga bullata parker. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1970. [DOI: 10.1016/0010-406x(70)90924-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Crush KG. Carnosine and related substances in animal tissues. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY 1970; 34:3-30. [PMID: 4988625 DOI: 10.1016/0010-406x(70)90049-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 289] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Bodnaryk RP, Levenbook L. The role of beta-alanyl-L-tyrosine (sarcophagine) in puparium formation in the fleshfly Sarcophaga bullata. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY 1969; 30:909-21. [PMID: 5347606 DOI: 10.1016/0010-406x(69)90046-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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