L-amino acid oxidases (LAAO) are flavoproteins that catalyze the oxidative deamination of L-amino acids to a keto-acid along with the production of H₂O₂ and ammonia. Interleukin 4 induced gene 1 (IL4I1) is a secreted LAAO expressed by macrophages and dendritic cells stimulated by microbial derived products or interferons, which is endowed with immunoregulatory properties. It is the first LAAO d...

Here we report two novel red emission fluorescent probes for the highly sensitive and selective detection of monoamine oxidase (MAO) with large Stokes shift (227 nm). Both of the probes possess solid state fluorescence and can accomplish the identification of MAO on test papers. The probe MAO-Red-1 exhibited a detection limit down to 1.2 μg mL(-1) towards MAO-B. Moreover, the cleavage product w...

Using isogenic mouse embryonic fibroblasts and human cancer cell lines, we show that cells defective in base excision repair (BER) display a cisplatin-specific resistant phenotype. This was accompanied by enhanced repair of cisplatin interstrand cross-links (ICLs) and ICL-induced DNA double strand breaks, but not intrastrand adducts. Cisplatin induces abasic sites with a reduced accumulation in...

Protein; classification, structure and functions. Amino acids, Peptides and peptide bonds; essential and non-essential amino acids. Metabolism of amino acids: transamination, oxidative deamination, decarboxylation etc. urea cycle. Interconversions of threonine. In born errors of metabolism. Chemistry asnd structure of nucleic acids. Cataboliosm of purines, pyrimidines and nucleotides; disorders...

The yeast Candida albicans is able to utilize L-lysine as the sole nitrogen and carbon source accompanied by intracellular accumulation of alpha-aminoadipate-delta-semialdehyde. A novel yeast amino acid dehydrogenase catalysing the oxidative deamination of the epsilon-group of L-lysine was found in this yeast. The enzyme, L-lysine epsilon-dehydrogenase, is strongly induced in cells grown on L-l...

3,4-Dihydroxyphenylacetaldehyde (DOPAL) is the focus of catecholaldehyde hypothesis for pathogenesis Parkinson’s disease and other Lewy body diseases. The produced via oxidative deamination catalyzed by monoamine oxidase (MAO) acting on cytoplasmic dopamine. DOPAL autotoxic, in that it can harm same cells which produced. Normally, detoxified aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH)-mediated conversion to ...

Stopped flow studies of the oxidative deamination of L-glutamate by TPN and beef liver glutamate dehydrogenase were performed at pH 6.5 and 7.6. At each pH value, the initial burst slopes obey an equation of the form: e/v = 40 + dd(TPN) + h/bglutamate) + &/(TPN)(L-glutamate). The agreement of dissociation constants for enzyme-TPN and enzyme-L-glutamate binary complexes obtained from the r#~ val...

Histamine dehydrogenase (HADH) from Nocardioides simplex catalyzes the oxidative deamination of histamine to produce imidazole acetaldehyde and an ammonium ion. HADH is functionally related to trimethylamine dehydrogenase (TMADH), but HADH has strict substrate specificity towards histamine. HADH is a homodimer, with each 76 kDa subunit containing two redox cofactors: a [4Fe-4S] cluster and an u...

The existence of a specific deaminase in muscle tissue for the deamination of adenylic acid (AMP) was firmly established by its crystallization and characterization (l-3). Whether hepatic tissue also had a specific AMP deaminase appeared less certain. For instance, Conway and Cooke (4) believed that the deamination of AMP in rabbit liver was preceded by dephosphorylation. On the other hand, Kut...

An enzyme from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pa0142 (gi|9945972), that is able to catalyze the deamination of 8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG) to uric acid has been identified for the first time. 8-Oxoguanine is formed by the oxidation of guanine residues within DNA by reactive oxygen species, and this lesion results in G:C to T:A transversions. The value of k(cat)/K(m) for the deamination of 8-oxoG by Pa0142 a...