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Biomolecules
January 2024
Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA Leiden, The Netherlands.
Recombinant human erythropoietin (EPO) is a biopharmaceutical frequently used in the treatment of anemia. It is a heavily glycosylated protein with a diverse and complex glycome. EPO -glycosylation influences important pharmacological parameters, prominently serum half-life.
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September 2023
Division of Biochemistry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, 20910, USA. Electronic address:
Butyrylcholinesterase purified from human plasma (Hu BChE) as well as recombinant (r) Hu BChE are candidate enzymes that can protect humans from toxicity of organophosphorus compounds (OPs). Domestic animals such as cows, pigs, sheep, and goats have been used for the transgenic expression of a variety of valuable therapeutic proteins. Indeed, rHu BChE was successfully expressed in the milk of transgenic goats, but the presence of any endogenous cholinesterases (ChE) in milk would interfere with the isolation of expressed rHu BChE.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc
December 2023
Department of Chemistry, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia; Interdisciplinary Research Center for Refining and Advanced Chemicals, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address:
Triangle-shaped silver nanoprisms (AgNPMs) were prepared by a photo-induced method through a seed-mediated growth process and were successfully employed as an ultra-sensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate for the detection of the chemotherapeutic N-acetyl procainamide (NAPA) compound. The transformation of the morphology of the nanoprisms substrate could be noted with a remarkable change in color, possessing an average size of 95 nm. The shape-modified AgNPMs exhibited interesting optical characteristics owing to the truncated dual edges, which led to a pronounced longitudinal localized surface plasmonic resonance (LLSPR) behavior.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci
January 2023
Biotherapeutics and Glycomics Laboratory, College of Pharmacy, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea; Department of Global Innovative Drugs, Graduate School of Chung-Ang University, 84, Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea. Electronic address:
Background: N-glycans in glycoproteins can affect physicochemical properties of proteins; however, some reported N-glycan structures are inconsistent depending on the type of glycoprotein or the preparation methods.
Objective: To obtain consistent results for qualitative and quantitative analyses of N-glycans, N-glycans obtained by different preparation methods were compared for two types of mammalian glycoproteins.
Methods: N-glycans are released by peptide-N-glycosidase F (PF) or A (PA) from two model mammalian glycoproteins, bovine fetuin (with three glycosylation sites) and human IgG (with a single glycosylation site), and labeled with a fluorescent tag [2-aminobenzamide (AB) or procainamide (ProA)].
Pharmaceutics
July 2021
College of Pharmacy, Gachon University, Incheon 21936, Korea.
In this study, possible changes in the expression of rat organic cationic transporters (rOCTs) and rat multidrug and toxin extrusion proteins (rMATEs) following treatment with 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25(OH)D) were investigated. Rats received intraperitoneal administrations of 1,25(OH)D for four consecutive days, and the tissues of interest were collected. The mRNA expression of rOCT1 in the kidneys was significantly increased in 1,25(OH)D-treated rats compared with the control rats, while the mRNA expressions of rOCT2 and rMATE1 in the kidneys, rOCT1 and N-acetyltransferase-II (NAT-II) in the liver, and rOCT3 in the heart were significantly decreased.
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