Applied and environmental microbiology, 79(7), 2201-2208 (2013-01-29)
L-Homophenylalanine (L-Hph) is a useful chiral building block for synthesis of several drugs, including angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and the novel proteasome inhibitor carfilzomib. While the chemoenzymatic route of synthesis is fully developed, we investigated microbial production of L-Hph to explore
Journal of plant physiology, 166(10), 1069-1076 (2009-02-17)
Germination negatively affects adventitious shoot formation induced by cytokinins in pine cotyledons. To investigate the causes of this decrease in the organogenic response, uptake and metabolism of benzyladenine (BA) were studied in stone pine cotyledons (Pinus pinea) isolated from in
The journal of peptide research : official journal of the American Peptide Society, 65(4), 465-471 (2005-04-09)
In continuation of our efforts to elucidate the role of positions 2 and 3 in arginine vasopressin (AVP) and its analogues, we designed and synthesized peptides modified in these positions with l-beta-homophenylalanine (beta-Hph). Two of them had just this single
The journal of physical chemistry. B, 115(30), 9401-9409 (2011-06-18)
Calorimetric measurements are expected to provide useful data regarding the relative stability of α- versus β-amino acid isomers, which, in turn, may help us to understand why nature chose α- instead of β-amino acids for the formation of the biomolecules
Journal of plant physiology, 163(11), 1135-1149 (2006-05-24)
Calcium-dependent protein kinases (CPKs) play important roles in multiple signal transduction pathways but the precise role of individual CPK is largely unknown. We isolated two cDNAs encoding two CPK isoforms (Cicer arietinum CPKs-CaCPK1 and CaCPK2) of chickpea. Their expression in
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