Imidazol dipeptides

Intestinal Transport of Dipeptides

A 30 cm segment of the duodenum, jejunum, or ileum of normal human volunteers was perfused, on separate occasions, with test solutions containing either glycylglycine, free glycine, glycylleucine, or equimolar amounts of free glycine and free leucine. Luminal fluid contained no hydrolytic activity against glycylglycine and minimal activity against glycylleucine. In each intestinal segment, amin...

Frequency of dipeptides and antidipeptides

Although it is reasonable to expect that the frequency of a generic dipeptide XY in proteins is the same of its counterpart YX, on the basis of an accurate statistical analysis of a large number of protein sequences, it appears that some dipeptides XY are considerably more frequent than their mirror images YX, referred to as antidipeptides. Given that it has been verified that this unexpected a...

Peptide nanostructures: Aromatic dipeptides light up.

Preferential utilization of dipeptides by Porphyromonas gingivalis.

Although Porphyromonas gingivalis is known to utilize peptides preferentially, instead of free amino acids, as the source of energy and cell material, there is only limited information on what sizes and kinds of peptide this bacterium preferentially utilizes. In this study, therefore, we tested aspartate or glutamate monopolymers consisting of from 2 to 100 amino acids as metabolic substrates f...

Water molecule adsorption on protonated dipeptides.

Equilibrium constants for the adsorption of the first water molecule on six protonated dipeptides (Gly-Gly+H(+), Gly-Ala+H(+), Ala-Gly+H(+), Ala-Ala+H(+), Pro-Gly+H(+), and Gly-Trp+H(+)) have been measured as a function of temperature, and DeltaH(o) and DeltaS(o) determined. Density functional theory calculations were performed for both the unsolvated peptides and the peptide water complexes at...