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Evaluation of nutraceutical property of extruded breakfast cereal produced from blends of malted finger millet (Eleusine coracana) and watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) seed flour
The aim of this study was to produce breakfast cereal from blends of mated finger millet and watermelon seed flour. The blends of flour from malted...
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Sourdough Lactic Acid Bacteria as Functional Microorganisms for Technological Purposes
Sourdough technology has been used in bread and cereal-based products for years. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and yeasts forms the microbial flora of...
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Ethyl 4-hydroxy-2-oxo-1,2-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylate in the smiles rearrangement reaction: straightforward synthesis of amino acid derived quinolin-2(1H)-one enamines
This paper describes the development of 4-hydroxy-2-oxo-1,2-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylate compound as a heterocyclic enols containing a Michael...
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Antimicrobial activity of D-amino acid in combination with photo-sonoactivated hypericin nanoparticles against Acinetobacter baumannii
BackgroundThe emergence of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strains is increasing worldwide. To overcome these life-threatening...
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Site-Specific Amino Acid Distributions Follow a Universal Shape
In many applications of evolutionary inference, a model of protein evolution needs to be fitted to the amino acid variation at individual sites in a...
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Occurrence of D-amino acids in natural products
Since the identified standard genetic code contains 61 triplet codons of three bases for the 20 L-proteinogenic amino acids (AAs), no D-AA should be...
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Physiology and Biochemistry of Sourdough Lactic Acid Bacteria and Their impact on Bread Quality
In the past decades, studies on the physiology and biochemistry of sourdough lactic acid bacteria provided insight into the microbial ecology of...
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Thermococcus sp. KS-1 PPIase as a fusion partner improving soluble production of aromatic amino acid decarboxylase
Peptidyl-prolyl cis - trans isomerase (PPIase, EC 5.2.1.8) catalyzes the racemization reaction of proline residues on a polypeptide chain. This enzyme...
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Acid-resistant enzymes: the acquisition strategies and applications
AbstractEnzymes have promising applications in chemicals, food, pharmaceuticals, and other variety products because of their high efficiency,...
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Matching amino acids membrane preference profile to improve activity of antimicrobial peptides
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are cationic antibiotics that can kill multidrug-resistant bacteria via membrane insertion. However, their weak...
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Nonprotein Amino Acids—‘Fuel at All?’
Several of the numerous nonprotein amino acids (NPAAs) act as repellents, antinutrients, or antimetabolites for herbivores or omnivores. There are...
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Amino Acid Exporters in Corynebacterium glutamicum
Corynebacterium glutamicum was isolated by Japanese researchers in 1957 as an L-glutamic acid-producing bacterium. L-Glutamate has a distinctive...
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Introducing Antibacterial Property to Silk Fabric by Chemical Grafting of [2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl] Trimethyl Ammonium Chloride (MAETC)
AbstractNatural Kosa silk is one of the textile fibers to be used in apparel application. Since it is proteinous and hygroscopic fiber and gets...
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Patterns of free amino acids in tundra soils reflect mycorrhizal type, shrubification, and warming
The soil nitrogen (N) cycle in cold terrestrial ecosystems is slow and organically bound N is an important source of N for plants in these...
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Characterization of thermostable serine hydroxymethyltransferase for β-hydroxy amino acids synthesis
β-hydroxy amino acids, such as serine, threonine, and phenylserine, are important compounds for medical purposes. To date, there has been only...
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d-Amino acid substituted peptides as potential alternatives of homochiral l-configurations
On the primitive Earth, both l - and d -amino acids would have been present. However, only l -amino acids are essential blocks to construct proteins in...
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Using the local symmetry in amino acids sequences of polypeptides to improve the predictive potential of models of their inhibitor activity
The minimal inhibitory concentrations (pMIC) are a valuable measure of the biological activity of polypeptides. Numerical data on the pMIC are...
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Sustainable production of xylonic acid from acid pre-treated sawdust liquor and subsequent downstream processing
Xylonic acid is a versatile and valuable chemical with a range of industrial and potential health applications. The high demand for renewable energy...
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Chiral secondary amino acids, their importance, and methods of analysis
Naturally occurring secondary amino acids, with proline as the main representative, contain an alpha-imino group in a cycle that is typically four-,...
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Role of Phytohormones in Plant Responses to Acid Rain
Acid rain (AR) is considered one of the major abiotic hazards to agriculture due to rapid economic and industrial growth worldwide. Acid rain hampers...