Exogenous Application of Thidiazuron, Carbaryl, Ethephon, and Lime Sulphur Promotes Flower Abscission and Suppresses Tea Pests in the Tea Plant <i>Camellia sinensis</i> (L.) O. Kun... by Meina Jin, Xiaoyue Lun, Ruirui Zhang, Yu Zhang, Xiangzhi Zhang, Feiyu Guan, Liping Wang, Yiheng Ying, Zhengqun Zhang, Xiuxiu Xu

“…Thidiazuron notably increased the concentrations of total amino acids, caffeine, catechin, and soluble sugar in tea leaves while reducing leaf electrical conductivity to some extent. …”
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Influence of Drying Methods on the Morphological Features, Microstructural Properties, and Antioxidant Performance of <i>Floccularia luteovirens</i>: A Metabolomic Analysis by Mengjun Xiao, Tao Wang, Chuyu Tang, Min He, Xiaojian Pu, Tingjing Zhao, Yuling Li

“…Furthermore, KEGG enrichment analysis highlighted 20 pathways, indicating that the metabolism of amino acids could be significantly involved in the metabolic processes linked to the drying of <i>F. luteovirens</i>. …”
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Optimization of the "Loose Tea Blooming" Process for Guizhou Green Tea and Analysis of Characteristic Volatile Compounds by Linyao SONG, Hui XU, Siyao WU, Fengwei MA, Qiang FEI, Junyi DENG, Dajuan SHI, Yuze LIU, Yichen ZHAO, Xuan DONG, Su XU

“…The sensory quality and functional indicators, including water extracts, tea polyphenols and free amino acids of the fermented tea, were combined to form comprehensive evaluation indices. …”
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Resourceful and economical designing of fermentation medium for lab and commercial strains of yeast from alternative feedstock: ‘transgenic oilcane’ by Shraddha Maitra, Bruce Dien, Kristen Eilts, Nurzhan Kuanyshev, Yoel R. Cortes-Pena, Yong-Su Jin, Jeremy S. Guest, Vijay Singh

“…Conclusions The addition of transgenic oilcane juice, which is inedible and rich in amino acids, to the hydrolysate averted the need for expensive nutrient supplementation and detoxification steps of hydrolysate. …”
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Synergistic mixture of Parthenium hysterophorus L. extract and potassium iodide as a novel efficient composite inhibitor on steel corrosion in sulfuric acid by Hao Wu, Shuduan Deng, Dandan Shao, Gaofei Wei, Juan Xu, Xianghong Li

“…(PHLE), derived from the invasive weed, contains flavonoids, phenylpropanoids, alkaloids, and amino acids. Weight loss tests demonstrated that PHLE moderately inhibited corrosion of cold rolled steel (CRS) in 0.50 M H2SO4, with a maximum efficiency of 74.45%. …”
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富硒生物活性肽的制备、生物活性及构效关系研究进展 "Progress on the preparation, bioactivity and structure-activity relationship of selenium-enriched bioactive peptides"... by 侯春艳，杨趁仙 HOU Chunyan, YANG Chenxian

“…The bioactivities of selenium-enriched bioactive peptides are the results of the joint action of selenium and peptides, which are closely related to the sequence, spatial structure and interaction force of amino acids, but their structure-activity relationships need to be further studied. …”
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A variant in GRN of Spanish origin presenting with heterogeneous phenotypes by M. Menéndez-González, A. García-Martínez, I. Fernández-Vega, A. Pitiot, V. Álvarez

“…Ex vivo splicing assays confirmed that the mutation c.1414-1G>T affects the splicing of the exon, causing a loss of 20 amino acids in exon 11. Conclusions: We conclude that variant c.1414-1G>T of the GRN gene is pathogenic, can lead to a variety of clinical presentations and to gene dosage effect, and probably has a Spanish founder effect. …”
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Bp-13 PLA2: Purification and Neuromuscular Activity of a New Asp49 Toxin Isolated from Bothrops pauloensis Snake Venom by Georgina Sucasaca-Monzón, Priscila Randazzo-Moura, Thalita Rocha, Frank Denis Torres-Huaco, Augusto Vilca-Quispe, Luis Alberto Ponce-Soto, Sérgio Marangoni, Maria Alice da Cruz-Höfling, Léa Rodrigues-Simioni

“…A new PLA2 (Bp-13) was purified from Bothrops pauloensis snake venom after a single chromatographic step of RP-HPLC on μ-Bondapak C-18. Amino acid analysis showed a high content of hydrophobic and basic amino acids and 14 half-cysteine residues. …”
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Nano‐silicon fertiliser increases the yield and quality of cherry radish by Xinxin Xu, Yaozu Guo, Yi Hao, Zeyu Cai, Yini Cao, Wanzhen Fang, Bangyin Zhao, Christy L. Haynes, Jason C. White, Chuanxin Ma

“…., α‐D‐glucose, acetylgalactosamine, lactose, fructose, etc.) and amino acids (e.g., asparagine, glutamic acid, glutamine, valine, arginine, etc.), subsequently improving overall nutritional values. …”
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Virus adaptation to heparan sulfate comes with capsid stability tradeoff by Han Kang Tee, Simon Crouzet, Arunima Muliyil, Gregory Mathez, Valeria Cagno, Matteo Dal Peraro, Aleksandar Antanasijevic, Sophie Clément, Caroline Tapparel

“…When propagated in cell lines, certain viruses acquire positively charged amino acids on their surface proteins, enabling them to utilize negatively charged heparan sulfate (HS) as an attachment receptor. …”
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Synthetic peptides as valuable and versatile tools for research: our 20 year journey in Chile by Constanza Cárdenas, Paula Santana, Claudio Álvarez, Luis Mercado, Sergio Marshall, Fernando Albericio, Fanny Guzmán

“…According to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), peptides are small proteins with a size between 2 and 50 amino acids residues. They are ubiquitous across the evolutionary scale, fulfilling a wide variety of functions, from immune system effectors in simple organisms to signaling or neuromodulating agents in high vertebrates. …”
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Anticarcinogenic cationic peptides derived from tryptic hydrolysis of β-lactoglobulin by Eman Ibrahem, Ali Osman, Hefnawy Taha, Mohamed F. Abo El-Maati, Basel Sitohy, Basel Sitohy, Mahmoud Sitohy

“…IntroductionThis study investigated the tryptic hydrolysis of β-lactoglobulin (BLG) for 30, 60, 90, and 120 min at 1/200 E/S (enzyme/substrate ratio, w/w) to prepare potentially anticarcinogenic peptides.MethodsThe properties of hydrolysates were characterized, including degree of hydrolysis, free amino acids, SDS-PAGE, FTIR, and antioxidant activity employing DPPH-assay, β-carotene/linoleic acid, and FRAP assay.ResultsBLG tryptic hydrolysate produced after 60 min hydrolysis recorded the highest antioxidant activity, and LCMS analysis revealed 162 peptides of molecular masses ranging from 800 to 5671Da, most of them are of hydrophobic nature. …”
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Metabolite profiling in assessing ulcerative colitis activity: A systematic review by Danyang Cui, Xu Han, Jiazhu Jin, Yanhong Wang, Zijia Chen, Yang Gong, Miao Jiang

“…In the active period of UC, metabolites such as lipids, Amino acids showed a certain trend of change. Arachidonic acid showed specific upregulation in both serum and mucosal samples during the active stage in patients with UC. …”
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Creatine monohydrate administration delayed muscle glycolysis of antemortem-stressed broilers by enhancing muscle energy status, increasing antioxidant capacity and regulating musc... by Ning Liu, Qingzhen Zhong, Zewei Sun, Bolin Zhang

“…Additionally, the contents of Cr and ATP were positively correlated with branched amino acids (L-valine and l-leucine), l-asparagine, inosine, PCr and d-ribose by metabolomics analysis. …”
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Wheat Leaf Rust Effector Pt48115 Localized in the Chloroplasts and Suppressed Wheat Immunity by Lulu Song, Liping Cui, Hao Li, Na Zhang, Wenxiang Yang

“…Pt48115 contains a signal peptide with a secretory function and a transit peptide that can translocate Pt48115 to the host chloroplasts. The amino acid sequence polymorphism analysis of Pt48115 in seven different leaf rust races showed that it was highly conserved. …”
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Mass‐Guided Single‐Cell MALDI Imaging of Low‐Mass Metabolites Reveals Cellular Activation Markers by James L. Cairns, Johanna Huber, Andrea Lewen, Jessica Jung, Stefan J. Maurer, Tobias Bausbacher, Stefan Schmidt, Pavel A. Levkin, Daniel Sevin, Kerstin Göpfrich, Philipp Koch, Oliver Kann, Carsten Hopf

“…In conjunction with giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) as MSI ground truth for cell‐sized objects and Monte Carlo reference‐based consensus clustering for data‐dependent identification of cell subpopulations, PRISM‐MS enables MSI and on‐cell MS2‐based identification of low‐mass metabolites like amino acids or Krebs cycle intermediates involved in stimulus‐dependent cell activation. …”
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Revealing novel protein interaction partners of glyphosate in Escherichia coli by Alix Sarah Aldehoff, Dominique Türkowsky, Patrick Lohmann, Masun Nabhan Homsi, Ulrike Rolle–Kampczyk, Elke Ueberham, Jörg Lehmann, Martin von Bergen, Nico Jehmlich, Sven–Bastiaan Haange

“…Glyphosate exposure significantly altered amino acid synthesizing pathways. The abundance of shikimate pathway proteins was increased, suggesting a compensatory mechanism. …”
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Discovery of a novel highly specific, fully human PSCA antibody and its application as an antibody-drug conjugate in prostate cancer by Xiaojie Chu, Seungmin Shin, Du-San Baek, Liyong Zhang, Alex Conard, Megan Shi, Ye-Jin Kim, Cynthia Adams, Maggie Hines, Xianglei Liu, Chuan Chen, Zehua Sun, Dontcho V. Jelev, John W. Mellors, Dimiter S. Dimitrov, Wei Li

“…The structure-based affinity maturation yielded a high-affinity binder, F12, which is highly specific and does not bind to 6,000 human membrane proteins based on a membrane proteome array assay. F12 targets PSCA amino acids 63–69 as tested by the peptide scanning microarray, and it cross-reacts with the murine PSCA. …”
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Low Frequency of MKRN3 and DLK1 Variants in Chinese Children with Central Precocious Puberty by Ting Chen, Linqi Chen, Haiying Wu, Rongrong Xie, Fengyun Wang, Xiuli Chen, Hui Sun, Fei Xiao

“…Per Glu380Lys, Glu with negative charges has been changed into Lys with positive charges, which may affect the hydrogen bond formation between amino acids and the stability of the local structure, thus affecting the binding of zinc iron to MKRN3 protein. …”
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A novel platform for engineered AAV-based vaccines by Sabrina Babutzka, Miranda Gehrke, Anastasia Papadopoulou, Maria Diedrichs-Möhring, Maria Giannaki, Lena Hennis, Bastian Föhr, Cale Kooyman, Andreas Osterman, Evangelia Yannaki, Gerhild Wildner, Hermann Ammer, Stylianos Michalakis

“…Using SARS-CoV-2 as a model pathogen, we introduced ∼200 amino acids of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain (RBD) into a surface-exposed variable loop region of AAV2 and AAV9, resulting in AAV2.RBD and AAV9.RBD capsids (AAV.RBDs). …”
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