Search results for "carbohydrate"

Enhanced fermentative capacity of yeasts engineered in storage carbohydrate metabolism.

2014

During yeast biomass production, cells are grown through several batch and fed-batch cultures on molasses. This industrial process produces several types of stresses along the process, including thermic, osmotic, starvation, and oxidative stress. It has been shown that Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains with enhanced stress resistance present enhanced fermentative capacity of yeast biomass produced. On the other hand, storage carbohydrates have been related to several types of stress resistance in S. cerevisiae. Here we have engineered industrial strains in storage carbohydrate metabolism by overexpressing the GSY2 gene, that encodes the glycogen synthase enzyme, and deleting NTH1 gene, that …

Chemoselektive Fluoreszenzstudien am Subtilisin und “Thiosubtilisin”

1985

Chemoselective Fluorescence Studies with Subtilisin and “Thiosubtilisin” The serine hydroxy group in the active site of subtilisin is selectively “phosphylated”3). This is demonstrated using the fluorescent phosphinic fluoride 1. “Thiosubtilisin” does not react with 1 but with the SH-selective and fluorescent vinyl sulfone 2.

<p>Exercise Training and Fasting: Current Insights</p>

2020

Fasting is defined as the abstinence from consuming food and/or beverages for different periods of time. Both traditional and modern healthcare systems recommend fasting as a therapeutic intervention for the management of several chronic, non-infectious diseases. Exercising during a fasting state increases lipolysis in adipose tissue while also stimulating peripheral fat oxidation, resulting in increased fat utilization and weight loss. A key focus of this review is to assess whether endurance training performed while fasting induces specific training adaptations, where increased fat oxidation improves long-term endurance levels. Fasting decreases body weight, lean body and fat content in b…

Lack of association betweenMDM2promoter SNP309 and clinical outcome in patients with neuroblastoma

2014

While a polymorphism located within the promoter region of the MDM2 proto-oncogene, SNP309 (T > G), has previously been associated with increased risk and aggressiveness of neuroblastoma and other tumor entities, a protective effect has also been reported in certain other cancers. In this study, we evaluated the association of MDM2 SNP309 with outcome in 496 patients with neuroblastoma and its effect on MDM2 expression. No significant difference in overall or event-free survival was observed among patients with neuroblastoma with or without MDM2 SNP309. The presence of SNP309 does not affect MDM2 expression in neuroblastoma. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2014; 61:1867–1870. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals,…

The contribution of P. acidilactici, L. plantarum, and L. curvatus starters and L-(+)-lactic acid to the acrylamide content and quality parameters of…

2017

Abstract Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) from spontaneous rye sourdough were isolated, identified, and characterized by their growth, acidification rate, and carbohydrate metabolism. The isolated LAB were used for production of rye sourdough, and the influence of sourdough on mixed rye - wheat bread quality and acrylamide formation was evaluated. In addition, comparative studies by using acidification with L-(+)-lactic acid for mixed rye – wheat bread production were performed. Isolated LAB (P. acidilactici, L. plantarum, L. curvatus) demonstrated versatile carbohydrate metabolism, grown at 30 °C and 37 °C, and acidic tolerance. When the isolated strains were used for rye sourdough production, t…

Organometallic complexes with biological molecules: XIII. Organotin(IV)[meso-tetra (4-carboxyphenyl)porphinate]s and the cell cycle: a flow-cytometri…

1999

The cytotoxic derivatives diorganotin(IV) and triorganotin(IV) [meso-tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphinates, with stoichiometries [R2Sn]2TPPC and [R3Sn]4TPPC [R = Me, Bu, Ph; TPPC4−­= meso-tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphinate4−], namely bis[dimethyltin(IV)], bis[dibutyltin(IV)], bis[diphenyltin(IV)], tetra[trimethyltin(IV)], tetra[tributyltin(IV)] and tetra[triphenyltin(IV)] [meso-tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphinate]s, have been used to investigate their effects on the cultured human kidney cell cycle in order to understand further the origin of cell-growth inhibition induced by the above-mentioned chemicals. The cell-cycle-dependent DNA content distribution of cultured cells exposed to these compounds…

A perspective analysis: microRNAs, glucose metabolism, and drug resistance in colon cancer stem cells

2021

Metabolism sustains the stemness of Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs), affecting, in turn, tumor heterogeneity, metastatic potential, and therapy resistance. Therefore, it is appealing to target CSCs metabolism as a new therapeutic approach. Consequently, we paid considerable attention to the anti-apoptotic microRNA miR-483-3p, that we reported being regulated by glucose metabolism in liver cancer cells. We investigated the therapeutic potential of targeting miR-483-3p by using the anti-glucose metabolism 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) molecule in tumor Xenograft mouse model originating from two different Colon-Cancer Stem Cell lines (CCSC lines). We show that 2-DG treatment does not affect CCSCs during tumo…

Stereoselective synthesis of oligosaccharides by de novo saccharide welding

2012

Effects of the silencing of sorbitol dehydrogenase on sugar partitioning in vegetative sinks in apple

2011

N-glycosylation efficiency is determined by the distance to the C-terminus and the amino acid preceding an Asn-Ser-Thr sequon

2011

N-glycosylation is the most common and versatile protein modification. In eukaryotic cells, this modification is catalyzed cotranslationally by the enzyme oligosaccharyltransferase, which targets the β-amide of the asparagine in an Asn-Xaa-Ser/Thr consensus sequon (where Xaa is any amino acid but proline) in nascent proteins as they enter the endoplasmic reticulum. Because modification of the glycosylation acceptor site on membrane proteins occurs in a compartment-specific manner, the presence of glycosylation is used to indicate membrane protein topology. Moreover, glycosylation sites can be added to gain topological information. In this study, we explored the determinants of N-glycosylati…