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Molecules
September 2020
Laboratorio de Simulaciones Computacionales Moleculares, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla 72592, Mexico.
Neuraminidase (NA) of influenza viruses enables the virus to access the cell membrane. It degrades the sialic acid contained in extracellular mucin. Later, it is responsible for releasing newly formed virions from the membrane of infected cells.
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July 2016
Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.
The intracellular recycling of ascorbic acid from dehydroascorbic acid by the glutathione-glutathione reductase system has been well-characterized. We propose that extracellular recycling of ascorbic acid is performed in a similar manner by cysteine-rich, glutathione-like regions of the first and second extracellular loops of some aminergic receptors including adrenergic, histaminergic, and dopaminergic receptors. Previous research in our laboratory demonstrated that ascorbic acid binds to these receptors at a site on their first or second extracellular loops, significantly enhancing ligand activity, and apparently recycling hundreds of times their own concentration of ascorbate in an enzymatic fashion.
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May 2011
Department of Organic Chemistry A. Mangini, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Ascorbic acid (vit. C) is a cofactor whose reactivity toward peroxyl and other radical species has a key-role in its biological function. At physiological pH it is dissociated to the corresponding anion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Microbiol
February 2011
Department of Biochemistry, Research Center for Aging and Geriatrics, Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, 501-190, Republic of Korea.
Vegetative mycelia of Pleurotus ostreatus were differentiated into primordia and subsequently into fruit bodies in synthetic sucrose-asparagine medium when exposed to light at low temperature. During photo-morphogenesis, L-ascorbic acid-like substances called reductones were produced. L-ascorbic acid, D-erythroascorbic acid, 5-O-(α-D-glucopyranosyl)-D-erythroascorbic acid, 5-O-(α-D-xylopyranosyl)-D-erythroascorbic acid, 5-methyl-5-O-(α-D-glucopyranosyl)-D-erythroascorbic acid and 5-methyl-5-O-(α-D-xylopyranosyl)-D-erythroascorbic acid were accumulated initially in the illuminated mycelia before the initiation of fruiting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGerontology
July 2008
Department of Physiology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA.
Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) has become one of the major health problems of the developed world. Previous studies have shown that oxidant-induced changes occur in cerebral tissue in AD and in late-onset amnestic mild cognitive impairment. The oxidative damage begins early and involves free radical-mediated effects that cause lipid peroxidations and oxidative protein and nucleic acid damages which begin before the cardinal neuropathologic manifestations.
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