The effects of various factors, including the extraction time, temperature, solvent/material ratio, the ultrasonic intensity and duty cycle of ultrasonic irradiation on the extraction yield of all-trans-lycopene from red grapefruit by ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) were investigated. In co...

In the present study, the effect of equivalent thermal and high pressure processes at pasteurization and sterilization intensities on some health related properties of high pressure homogenized tomato puree containing oil were investigated. Total lycopene concentration, cis-lycopene content and ...

Momordica cochinchinensis (gac) is a plant rich in lycopene. This pigment tends to solubilize in oil and get damaged during extraction. The impact of heating on cis-isomerization of oil-free lycopene in hexane was studied at 50 and 80 °C during 240 min with UV–Vis spectrometry, DAD–HPLC and T...

The structure of torilin (1), C22H32O5, isolated from the seeds of Torilis japonica DC, has been established as a sesquiterpene ester of the guaiane series.

Advancements in rheumatoid-arthritis-(RA) therapies have shown considerable progresses in the comprehension of disease. However, the development of new potential agents with relative safety and efficacy continues and natural compounds have been considered as alternatives to identify new entities...

A comparative study on the triplet photoreactivity of a series of β,γ,δ,ɛ-unsaturated aldehydes 14a–f and 15, using 3-methoxyacetophenone and 4-phenylbenzophenone as sensitizers, has been carried out. When 3-methoxyacetophenone is used as the triplet sensitizer, the aldehydes undergo oxa-di-...

This review covering literature reports from the beginning of this century to 2016 describes the synthetic pathways, the antitumor activity, the structure-activity relationship and, whenever reported, the possible mechanism of action of 1,3,5-triazine derivatives as well as of their hetero-fused...

Adenylate kinase (AK) is a ubiquitous and abundant enzyme catalyzing the phosphoryl transfer between two adenosine diphosphate (ADP) molecules to yield adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and adenosine monophosphate (AMP). The enzyme has gained much attention recently because it can be used as a cell m...

Treatment of calf thymus chromatin with acetyl adenylate under appropriate conditions produces acetylation of histones. The pattern of histone acetylation obtained is similar to that produced invivo. The acetylated chromatin shows increased sensitivity to DNAase I but no increased sensitivity to...

Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) is a highly pleiotropic hormone with antioxidant, antiproliferative, oncolytic and neuroprotective properties. Here, we present evidence that the N-acetyl side chain plays a key role in melatonin’s antiproliferative effect in HT22 and sw-1353 cells, but ...

Recent concerns over the sustainability of petrochemical-based processes for production of desired chemicals have fueled research into alternative modes of production. Metabolic engineering of microbial cell factories such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Escherichia coli offers a sustainable and...

Acetyl-CoA synthetase (ACS) catalyzes the formation of AcCoA from acetate, ATP and Coenzyme A, allowing the organism to grow on acetate as the sole carbon source. ACS was the first enzyme in Mycobacterium tuberculosis shown to be regulated by posttranslational acetylation by the cAMP-dependent p...

Soluble adenylate cyclase (sAC) is a non-plasma membrane-bound isoform of the adenylate cyclases signaling via the canonical second messenger, 3′,5′-cyclic AMP (cAMP). sAC is involved in key physiological processes such as insulin release, sperm motility, and energy metabolism. Thus, sAC has a...

ObjectiveThis study is designed to investigate whether curcumin reduces excessive hepatic glucose production (HGP) via regulation of second messenger cAMP.

The substrate selectivity of the Trp416Gly mutant of Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus acetyl-CoA synthetase (Trp416Gly MT-ACS1) was explored. The goal was to identify its substrate range, particularly for functionalized carboxylic acid substrates that would allow post-synthesis functionali...

The superfamily of adenylate-forming enzymes all share a common chemistry. They activate a carboxylate group, on a specific substrate, by catalyzing the formation of a high energy mixed phosphoanhydride-linked nucleoside intermediate. Members of this diverse enzymatic family play key roles in a ...

BackgroundThe superfamily of adenylating enzymes is a large family of enzymes broadly distributed from bacteria to humans. Acetyl-CoA synthetase (Acs), member of this family, is a metabolic enzyme with an essential role in Escherichia coli (E. coli) acetate metabolism, whose catalytic activity i...

Linoleate hydroperoxides undergo rearrangement leading to their isomerisation in which the OOH group is relocated or the stereochemistry of a double bond changed, or both. The reaction was studied mainly with pure isomers of methyl hydroperoxylinoleates since conditions could be found in which r...

In this work, esterification of fatty acids (oleic, linoleic and stearic acid) with a commercial zinc carboxylate (a layered compound formed by simultaneous intercalation of stearate and palmitate anions) was performed. Kinetic modeling using a quasi-homogeneous approach successfully fitted expe...

From the reaction of ZnCl2 with the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug diflunisal (Hdifl), complex [Zn(difl-O)2(MeOH)4], 1 was formed, while in the presence of a N,N′-donor heterocyclic ligand 2,2′-bipyridylamine (bipyam), 2,2′-bipyridine (bipy), 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) and 2,2′-dipyrid...