Relationship between Phenolic Compounds and Antioxidant Activity of Some Moroccan Date Palm Fruit Varieties ( L.): A Two-Year Study.

In Morocco, the abundance of low-value varieties in the oases may provide an opportunity to capitalize on this richness to create new nutraceutical food products. In this context, the phenolic profile and antioxidant capacity of four Moroccan date varieties were analyzed. Our results indicate that the levels of total polyphenols, total flavonoids and total condensed tannins vary, respectively, from 91.

The transcription factor, NFI/CTF plays a positive regulatory role in expression of the hSMUG1 gene.

SMUG1 is a recently discovered uracil-DNA glycosylase with the ability to remove uracil from single-stranded as well as double-stranded DNA. SMUG1 also has the capacity to excise oxidized pyrimidine bases such as 5-hydroxymethyluracil and 5-formyluracil from DNA. Very little is known about the regulation of this enzyme.

hSMUG1 can functionally compensate for Ung1 in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

There are at least four distinct families of enzymes that recognize and remove uracil from DNA. Family-3 (SMUG1) enzymes have recently been identified and have a preference for uracil in single-stranded DNA when assayed in vitro. Here we investigate the in vivo function of SMUG1 using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model system.