Starch-converting α-glucanotransferases of glycoside hydrolase family 70 (GH70) are promising enzymatic tools for the production of diverse α-glucans with (potential) commercial applications in food and health and as biomaterials. In this study, a novel GtfB enzyme from MBF8-1 was screened in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) nonredundant protein database. The enzyme (named WcMBF8-1 GtfB) displayed high conservation in motifs I-IV with other GtfB enzymes but possessed unique variations in several substrate-binding residues. Structural characterizations of its α-glucan products revealed that WcMBF8-1 GtfB exhibited an atypical 4,6-α-glucanotransferase activity and was capable of catalyzing, by cleaving off (α1 → 4)-linkages in starch-like substrates and the synthesis of linear (α1 → 6) linkages and (α1 → 4,6) branching points. The product specificity enlarges the diversity of α-glucans and facilitates recognition of the determinants of the linkage specificity in GtfB enzymes. Furthermore, the contents of slowly digestible starch and resistant starch of granular corn starches, modified by WcMBF8-1 GtfB, increased by 6.7%, which suggested the potential value for the utilization of WcMBF8-1 GtfB to prepare "clean-label" starch ingredients with improved functional attributes.
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Math Biosci Eng
February 2022
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, College of Science, Taif University, P. O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia.
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October 2015
Oriflame Skin Research Institute, Mäster Samuelsgatan 56, Stockholm, 11121, Sweden.
Objective: Acetyl aspartic acid (A-A-A) was discovered through gene array analysis with corresponding Cmap analysis. We found that A-A-A increased keratinocyte regeneration, inhibited dermal matrix metalloprotease (MMP) expression and relieved fibroblast stiffness through reduction of the fibroblast stiffness marker F-actin. Dermal absorption studies showed successful delivery to both the epidermal and dermal regions, and in-use trial demonstrated that 1% A-A-A was well tolerated.
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February 2015
Laboratorio de Biomedicina Molecular, Unidad Académica de Ciencias Químico Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, Chilpancingo, Guerrero, México.
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September 2007
Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, 24-29 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3LB, United Kingdom.
We consider the shadow system of the Gierer-Meinhardt system in a smooth bounded domain Omega subset R(N),A(t)=epsilon(2)DeltaA-A+A(p)/xi(q),x is element of Omega, t>0, tau/Omega/xi(t)=-/Omega/xi+1/xi(s) integral(Omega)A(r)dx, t>0 with the Robin boundary condition epsilon partial differentialA/partial differentialnu+a(A)A=0, x is element of partial differentialOmega, where a(A)>0, the reaction rates (p,q,r,s) satisfy 1
0, r>0, s>or=0, 1 1 and tau sufficiently small the interior spike is stable. (ii) For N=1 if r=2 and 1
Kyobu Geka
July 2003
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
Background: In patients having a combination of severe coronary artery disease (CAD) and expanding abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), one-stage operation of simultaneous coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and AAA repair has been recommended.
Methods And Results: Of 96 patients (94 men, average 65 year) with AAA and CAD, 21 patients underwent one-stage operation of simultaneous CABG and AAA repair (Group A-1: off-pump CABG in 10 and on-pump in 11), and 75 underwent two-stage operation of CABG followed by AAA with an interval of less than 6 months in 23 patients (Group A-2) and more than 6 months in 52 patients (Group B). Baseline characteristics were similar between the one-stage and two-stage groups, and off-pump and on-pump subgroups, except the proportion of single vessel disease.
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