addition of potassium cyanide to a mixture of schiff base and lithium perchlorate afforded a-aminonitriles in high yields. addition of potassium cyanide to a methanolic solution of schiff base and phosphoric acid afforded a-aminonitriles. when the reaction mixture was refluxed it gave a-amino acids in high yields.

Since carbon dioxide is always present in living systems where synthesis of proteins is occurring, it is desirable to study the fate of tracer isotopes of this rather simple metabolite before turning to more complicated substrates. Metabolic activity of most organisms leads to formation of COz which in many cases is subsequently incorporated into amino acids, purines, pyrimidines, and other bio...

background: addition of amino acids to the culture medium is beneficial for embryonic development in many species. objective: the objective of this study was to investigate the effects of amino acids on the in vitro maturation and embryonic development of the bovine oocyte. materials and methods: bovine ovaries were collected from a local abattoir and brought into laboratory. cumulus-oocyte com...

lysozyme is one of the bioactive components of eggs with well known antibacterial potential, widely used in food industry, medicine and pharmaceutics. in this study, the possibility of quail’s egg lysozyme concentration and activity (modified via amino acids dietary supplementation) was investigated. in accordance with lysozyme amino acids profile, four amino acids of: asparagine, arginine, gly...

Specifically W-labeled fatty acids and 2-amino-4-phenylbutyric acid were administered to fed and starved normal and nonketotic and ketotic diabetic rats. The acetylated amino acid was isolated from their urines, hydrolyzed, and the resulting acetates degraded. The percentage of distribution of 14C! in the acetate from [2-Wlstearate and [2W]palmitate formed by the nonketotic diabetic rats was ab...

The effects of different concentrations of three amino acids as carbon and or nitrogen sources on mycelial dry weights, changes in pH values of synthetic medium, ammonia secretion and extracellular protease activity by three zoosporic fungi, pathogens of fish and shellfish, were studied. As compared with the control, the addition of isoleucine and aspartic acid as nitrogen sources were generall...

Amino acids are not only building blocks for proteins but serve as precursors for the synthesis of many metabolites with multiple functions in growth and other biological processes of a living organism. The biosynthesis of amino acids is tightly connected with central carbon, nitrogen and sulfur metabolism. Recent publication of genome sequences for two diatoms Thalassiosira pseudonana and Phae...

Lawlor, D. W., Boyle, F. A., Young, A. T., Kendall, A. C. and Keys, A. J. 1987. Nitrate nutrition and temperature effects on wheat: Soluble components of leaves and carbon fluxes to amino acids and sucrose.—J. exp. Bot. 38: 1091-1103. Amounts of some metabolites and the incorporation of '*CO2 into photosynthetic products were measured in the third leaf of wheat, grown with two rates of nitrate ...

Background and Aims: Amino acids have different effects on the growth of some dermatophytes. Some may increase whereas others maydecrease their growth. The concentration of some amino acids is also an important factor for their effects. Materials and Methods: To investigate the effects of L-amino acids on the growth of six species of dermatophytes including Epidermophyton floccosum, Microspor...