A library of N-thiocarboxyanhydrides (NTAs) derived from natural amino acids with benign byproducts and controlled H2S-release kinetics is reported. Minimal acute in vitro toxicity was observed in multiple cell lines, while longer-term toxicity in cancer cells was observed, with slow-releasing donors exhibiting the greatest cytotoxic effects.
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January 2025
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208016, India.
Herein we present a series of luminescent Tb(III)-probes ([Tb-Ltrp], [Tb-Ltyr], and [Tb-Lphe]) for sensing and discriminating purine nucleoside polyphosphates (NPP) based on a modified DTTA chelator appended to aromatic amino acids (Laa). The optically most effective luminescent [Tb-Ltrp] probe preferentially discriminates the guanine-NPPs over the adenine-NPPs PeT-based modulation of Tb(III) luminescence within the biological concentration range.
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December 2024
Key Laboratory of Breeding Biotechnology and Sustainable Aquaculture (CAS), Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266000, China.
Marine microalgae are a rich source of natural products, and their amino acid-based antimicrobial agents are usually obtained by enzymatic hydrolysis, which is inefficient and limits the research on antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) from microalgae. In this study, is used as a model to predict antimicrobial peptides through high-throughput methods, and 471 putative peptides are identified based on the de novo transcriptome technique. Among them, three short peptides, P1, P6, and P7 were found to have antimicrobial activity against , , , and yeast , and they showed no hemolytic activity even at higher concentrations up to 10 mg/mL.
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November 2024
Department of Ophthalmology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Amino acids are basic building blocks of structural proteins and enzymes. They also act as signaling molecules and as fuel. They are characterized as essential if sufficient quantities must be supplied exogenously or as non-essential if they can be endogenously synthesized.
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January 2025
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721 302, India.
Gastroenterol Rep (Oxf)
December 2024
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/gastro/goad072.].
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