Recent evidence suggests that oxidative stress (OS) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of congenital heart defect (CHD). The aim this study is to evaluate protein OS biomarkers amniotic fluid fetuses with isolated major CHD. This a retrospective including 92 samples, 50 cases diagnosis CHD and 42 controls (fetuses high risk genetic anomaly or extracardiac malformations, excluding CNS r...

Many cellular processes including proliferation, differentiation, motility and the outgrowth of processes are regulated by tyrosine phosphorylation of critical substrates. The catalytically opposed activities of proteintyrosine kinases and protein-tyrosine phosphatases maintain an essential balance of phosphorylation levels. In general, tyrosine phosphatases have higher constitutive activity th...

Cortactin is an F-actin binding protein that activates actin-related protein 2/3 complex and is localized within lamellipodia. Cortactin is a substrate for Src and other protein tyrosine kinases involved in cell motility, where its phosphorylation on tyrosines 421, 466, and 482 in the carboxy terminus is required for cell movement and metastasis. In spite of the importance of cortactin tyrosine...

Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) links the plant primary and secondary metabolisms, its product, trans-cinnamic acid, is derived into thousands of diverse phenylpropanoids. Bambusa oldhamii BoPAL4 has broad substrate specificity using L-phenylalanine, L-tyrosine, L-3,4-dihydroxy phenylalanine (L-DOPA) as substrates to yield p-coumaric caffeic respectively. The optimum reaction pH for three was...

We previously demonstrated that src family tyrosine kinases associate with activated platelet-derived growth factor receptors. We have now investigated the requirement for tyrosine phosphorylation sites in the human platelet-derived growth factor receptor for this binding. Tyrosine 857, but not tyrosine 751, is required for efficient association. Furthermore, even though src family tyrosine kin...

Protein tyrosine phosphorylation by endogenous and expressed tyrosine kinases is reduced markedly by the expression of functional voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channels. The levels of tyrosine kinase protein and cellular protein substrates are unaffected, consistent with a reduction in tyrosine phosphorylation that results from inhibition of protein tyrosine kinase activity. The attenuation of p...

An efficient synthesis of polyhydroquinoline derivatives is achieved via Hantzsch condensation reaction between aldehydes, dimedone, ethyl acetoacetate and ammonium acetate in the presence of catalytic amount of SFHS in ethanol. This method gives remarkable advantages such as shorter reaction time, simple workup procedure and good to excellent yields. Furthermore the catalyst can be recovered c...

An efficient synthesis of polyhydroquinoline derivatives is achieved via Hantzsch condensation reaction between aldehydes, dimedone, ethyl acetoacetate and ammonium acetate in the presence of catalytic amount of SFHS in ethanol. This method gives remarkable advantages such as shorter reaction time, simple workup procedure and good to excellent yields. Furthermore the catalyst can be recovered c...

Protein-tyrosine phosphatases are key regulators of protein tyrosine phosphorylation. More than merely terminating the pathways initiated by protein-tyrosine kinases, phosphatases are active participants in many signaling pathways. Signals involving tyrosine phosphorylation are frequently generated in response to cell-matrix adhesion. In addition, high levels of protein tyrosine phosphorylation...