International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics
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2026
·Vol. 32
·期 5
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Jiang Xinyi,Li Junxiang,Lu Yi,Ni Fangyuan,Li Sen
Purpose Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and their downstream inflammatory consequences contribute to skin dysfunction and aging-related deterioration. EQ-9 has been identified as a novel functional peptide with anti-aging and skin repair potential. In this study, we investigated the effects of EQ-9 and its two derivatives (EL-6 and ac EL-6) on Methylglyoxal (MGO)-induced glycation and inflammatory damage. Methods We exposed HaCaT cells to MGO to simulate hyperglycemic conditions. The protective effects of these peptides were assessed through measurements of cell viability, migration, CML levels, inflammatory cytokine secretion, RAGE expression, and NF-κB pathway activation. Additionally, TNF-α/IFN-γ were used to induce inflammatory injury and evaluate the anti-inflammatory effectiveness of the peptides. A murine excision wound model was also established to examine the effects of ac EL-6 on skin inflammation, collagen deposition, angiogenesis, and wound healing. Results All three peptides significantly reduced MGO-induced CML generation, downregulated RAGE, inhibited NF-κB activation, attenuated proinflammatory cytokine secretion, alleviated cell damage, and promoted migration. They also mitigated TNF-α/IFN-γ-evoked inflammatory responses via NF-κB suppression. Topical application of ac EL-6 decreased cytokine levels, increased VEGF expression and collagen deposition, and consequently accelerated wound healing in mice. Conclusion Together, these findings identify ac EL-6 as a stabilized lead candidate derived from EQ-9, which exhibits anti-glycation activity and modulates NF-κB-mediated inflammatory signaling in keratinocytes, and demonstrates initial skin-repair potential in vivo. The data support further development of ac EL-6 for skin-directed applications. Graphical
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Translational Psychiatry
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2026
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Liu Yiran,Liu Xiao,Yin Xueyong,Li Yunluo,Yu Xiaohui,Nan Xinyu,Xue Jiping,Lu Hengtai,Li Bingyu,Zhou Fei,Liu Xiaoyu,Zhang Xiangyu,He Xiangjun,Yu Xi,Yan Shu,Li Yating,Wang Shuang,Gao Yuan,Liu Yifan,Kang Ying,Zhang Jingwen,Zhao Ye,Shi Haishui
Defensive aggression is an evolutionarily conserved instinct, and its dysregulation represents a common behavioral manifestation in multiple psychiatric disorders. Although glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) are widely used for metabolic diseases, their role in aggressive behavior remains unclear. Here, we employed behavioral assays, chemogenetics, immunofluorescence, pharmacological manipulations, and metabolomics to investigate the regulatory effects of GLP-1RA on defensive aggression in mice. Acute intracerebroventricular administration of GLP-1RA significantly suppressed defensive aggression without affecting locomotor activity or time spent in the center of the open field. c-Fos immunofluorescence indicated that this effect was associated with reduced neuronal activity in the dorsomedial periaqueductal gray (DMPAG). Chemogenetic activation of DMPAG neurons reversed the suppressive effect of GLP-1RA on defensive aggression, supporting a key regulatory role of this region. In a social isolation (SI) induced pathological aggression model, GLP-1RA alleviated excessive defensive aggression and modulated the metabolic state of the DMPAG. Notably, GLP-1RA restored levels of L-carnosine, a dipeptide with neuroprotective and anti-excitotoxic properties whose levels were reduced in SI mice. Carnosine infusion into the DMPAG suppressed defensive aggression in SI mice, whereas administration of the carnosine degrading enzyme CNDP2 attenuated the suppressive effect of GLP-1RA, supporting carnosine signaling as a functionally relevant downstream component. These findings identify a carnosine-associated pathway by which GLP-1RA regulates defensive aggression and highlight its therapeutic potential beyond metabolic regulation.
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Agronomy-Basel
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2023
·Vol. 13
·期 2
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Tian Hao,Zhimin Yang,Jianfeng Liang,Jingjin Yu,Jun Liu
Drought stress is one of the crucial factors affecting plant growth and development in turfgrass species, especially during the summer season. Exogenous plant growth regulators are an effective and convenient approach to mitigating the adverse effects of drought stress on plant growth. The objectives of this study were to reveal the effects of exogenous carnosine or chitosan on turf performance and physiological indexes in bermudagrass (Cynodon transvaalensis×C. dactylon) in response to drought stress. Bermudagrass was foliar sprayed with carnosine or chitosan, and dose-dependent effects on turf quality were observed under drought stress. Under drought stress, foliar application of either carnosine (0.03%) or chitosan (10 mg L−1) significantly increased turf quality, chlorophyll content, leaf relative water content, and decreased electrolyte leakage, malonaldehyde, and hydrogen peroxide content in comparison with untreated control in bermudagrass. Moreover, exogenous carnosine treatment significantly enhanced the activities of both catalase and peroxidase, but chitosan application only increased catalase activity. The results of this experiment were beneficial to the development of new plant growth regulators and would provide helpful insights for turf management under drought-stressed conditions.Keywords:bermudagrass;drought stress;carnosine;chitosan;antioxidant enzymes
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Food Biophysics
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2022
·Vol. 18
·期 1
·71-81
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Qi Yue,Xu Xinglian,Dong Hualin,Yang Zongyun,Wang Peng
In this study, carnosine (0‒0.20%, w/v) was introduced to improve the dispersibility of myosin under a low-salt condition (0.1 M NaCl). The underlying dispersion mechanism was investigated. Carnosine has positive effects on the dispersibility of myosin, as evidenced by the significantly improved solubility and turbidity. After the addition of carnosine, the average particle size in each sample remarkably decreased, and the mole mass of the aggregates decreased from 6.74 × 10 7 g/mol to 4.00 × 10 7 g/mol as the carnosine increased from 0.10 to 0.20%. Changes in protein secondary structure, ζ-potential, and ITC (Isothermal titration calorimetry) results indicated that electrostatic interaction is the main force between myosin and carnosine. Moreover, carnosine may hinder the formation of large aggregates by affecting the structure and charge distribution of the myosin tail when carnosine was ≤ 0.10%. However, excess carnosine (˃ 0.10%) had a negative effect on the long-term stability of the protein solution. Turbiscan stability index, visual appearance, and hydrophobicity analyses showed that the instability of the system was possibly due to increase in the hydrophobicity of myosin head after excess carnosine was applied. Our research may contribute to the improvement of the functional properties of myosin under low-salt condition and regulation of protein behavior. Graphical Abstract
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JOURNAL OF SEPARATION SCIENCE
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2022
·Vol. 45
·期 12
·2045-2054
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Yali Chen,Ling Xia,Xiaohua Xiao,Gongke Li
Cosmetics that have medicinal effects, including anti-inflammatory and antioxidant, have become a daily care routine consumption. The peptide additives, such as carnosine and nicotinamide, were frequently used to realize these medicinal effects. To accomplish rapid and effective quantitation of carnosine and niacinamide in cosmetics, capillary zone electrophoresis was executed in cyclic olefin copolymer microchips having both dynamic and static coatings. The static coating of cyclic olefin copolymer microchannel was constructed from bovine serum albumin adsorption, immobilization, and active site closure, while the dynamic coating was formed by adding surfactant into running buffer of capillary zone electrophoresis. The static coating can improve the hydrophilicity of cyclic olefin copolymer surface and avoid nonspecific peptide adsorption. The dynamic coating of sodium dodecyl sulfate in running buffer proved to be useful in flow velocity adjustment and the column efficiency enhancement in the capillary zone electrophoresis separation channel of the cyclic olefin copolymer microchip device. A separation resolution up to 4.24 on the mixture of carnosine and nicotinamide was obtained. Moreover, an analysis method was established and applied to simultaneous carnosine and nicotinamide determination in a liquid whitening essence and a solid antiglycation pill, and the results were verified by comparison with high-performance liquid chromatography methods, indicating its potential in complex sample analysis.
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JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2023
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Wei Jia,Jiying Zhu
ε-Polylysine is a novel food preservative approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), yet the mechanism of its effect on animal-derived foods remains unclear. Assessment of the effect of preservatives on goat meat products is necessary. Herein, metabolite accumulation and protein expression of ε-polylysine (0.025%, w/w) spiked with goat meat were investigated by nontarget metabolomics and proteomics combined with ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography quadrupole-Orbitrap high-resolution-mass spectrometry (UHPLC-Q-Orbitrap HRMS) in a simulated in vitro digestion model. The amino side chain of ε-polylysine increased the activity of glycine aminotransferase due to its nucleophilic nature, inducing a significant upregulation of l-arginine (0.43–0.72 mg kg–1) and creatine (3.98–6.89 mg kg–1), with an improvement in muscle quality of goat meat. Downregulation of enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase expression led to upregulation of l-phenylalanine (2.26–3.25 mg kg–1) and l-tyrosine (0.98–1.29 mg kg–1). Collectively, this study first revealed the biochemical mechanism of ε-polylysine in goat meat products, which makes available new prospects for more accurate use of ε-polylysine in animal-derived foods.
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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
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2021
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He Qi,Zheng Li,Haijiao Zheng,Qiong Jia
Protein phosphorylation regulates the conformations and function of proteins, which plays an important part in organisms. However, systematic and in-depth analysis of phosphorylation often hinders on account of the low abundance and suppressed ionization of phosphopeptides. Various materials based on single enrichment mechanism show potential in phosphopeptides enrichment, but the enrichment performance is typically not satisfactory. Herein, we developed a carnosine (Car) functionalized magnetic metal organic framework designed as Fe 3 O 4 @NH 2 @ZIF-90@Car. Benefiting from the multiple recognition groups of Car and massive metal ions site of ZIF-90, the as-fabricated Fe 3 O 4 @NH 2 @ZIF-90@Car was utilized as a multifunctional material with synergistic effect for phosphopeptides enrichment. On the basis of combined immobilized metal ion affinity chromatography (IMAC) and amine-based affinity enrichment mechanism, Fe 3 O 4 @NH 2 @ZIF-90@Car exhibited higher enrichment performance of phosphopeptides compared with Fe 3 O 4 @NH 2 @ZIF-90 (single IMAC mechanism). Besides, the feasibility of Fe 3 O 4 @NH 2 @ZIF-90@Car nanocomposites in complicated samples was further verified by enriching phosphopeptides from nonfat milk, human fluids such as serum and saliva, demonstrating its bright application prospects in phosphoproteomics analysis.
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CHINESE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
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2021
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Junyang Xu,Yanjun Jiang,Liya Zhou,Li Ma,Zhihong Huang,Jiafu Shi,Jing Gao,Ying He
Immobilization is an effective method to promote the application of enzyme industry for improving the stability and realizing recovery of enzyme. To some extent, the performance of immobilized enzyme depends on the choice of carrier material. Therefore, the development of new carrier materials has been one of the key issues concerned by enzyme immobilization researchers. In this work, a novel organic–inorganic hybrid material, nickel-carnosine complex (NiCar), was synthesized for the first time by solvothermal method. The obtained NiCar exhibits spherical morphology, hierarchical porosity and abundant unsaturated coordination nickel ions , which provide excellent anchoring sites for the immobilization of proteins. His-tagged organophosphate-degrading enzyme (OpdA) and ω-transaminase (ω-TA) were used as model enzymes to evaluate the performance of NiCar as a carrier. By a simple adsorption process , the enzyme molecules can be fixed on the particles of NiCar, and the stability and reusability are significantly improved. The analysis of protein adsorption on NiCar verified that the affinity adsorption between the imidazole functional group on the protein and the unsaturated coordination nickel ions on NiCar was the main force in the immobilization process, which provided an idea way for the development of new enzyme immobilization carriers.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD PROPERTIES
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2020
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Lili Zhang,Wen Duan,Yan Huang,Yuyu Zhang,Baoguo Sun,Dandan Pu,Yizhuang Tang,Chao Liu
Taste is one of the main chicken soup characteristic quality factors as it affects palatability as well as consumer acceptability. Metabolomics coupled with sensory analysis method were applied to explore the differences of taste-chemical compositions in chicken carcasses and their correlation to the sensory qualities. Results showed that organic acid were the main taste compounds contained in the five kinds of chicken soup samples. The umami taste intensity of chicken breast meat soup was significantly higher than that of the other four parts (p < 0.05). Seven organic acids (oxalic acid, tartaric acid, formic acid, lactic acid, acetic acid, citric acid, and succinic acid) and a small peptide (anserine) were the main differential taste compounds among chicken soup with five different parts, and they contributed significantly to the taste of chicken soup (taste activity value (TAV) >1).
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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
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2019
·Vol. 102
·期 11
·6517-6528
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Liu Pei,Yan Xu,Jiaqiang Liu,Junbiao Wu,Yide Han,Xia Zhang
Morphology modulation of photocatalyst has been demonstrated to be a crucial strategy for improving the catalytic performance in solar energy conversion system. Here we systematically investigated the influence of the solvent-dependent morphology evolution of Zn 2 GeO 4 phase on the photocatalytic efficiency of the as-prepared g-C 3 N 4 /Zn 2 GeO 4 composites. The morphologies of Zn 2 GeO 4 were rationally tuned from flower-like nanosheets to length-controllable nanorods, and microclusters assembled from microrods through regulating the solution polarity of different organic solvents. Accordingly, the Zn 2 GeO 4 sample prepared in ethylene glycol (EG) with long rod-like morphology and integrated with g-C 3 N 4 , abbreviated as g-C 3 N 4 /Zn 2 GeO 4 (1:1)-EG, exhibited the best visible-light absorption ability and the highest efficiency. The synergetic effect of the long rod-like Zn 2 GeO 4 phase with many exposed (110) crystalline facets and g-C 3 N 4 accelerates the separation and interface transportation of photoexcited charge carriers, as confirmed by photocurrent measurements. The MB degradation mechanism was also proposed to clarify the charge-transfer process and the improved photodegradation activity. This study offers an experimental basis for understanding the significance of morphology control on rational design of photocatalysts with improved performance.
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FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2015
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Xing Chen,Yufeng Zou,Minyi Han,Lihua Pan,Tong Xing,Xinglian Xu,Guanghong Zhou
Myosin, a major muscle protein, can be solubilised in a low ionic strength solution containing l -histidine (His). To elucidate which chemical constituents in His are responsible for this solubilisation, we investigated the effects of 5 mM His, imidazole (Imi), l -α-alanine (Ala), 1-methyl- l -histidine (M-his) and l -carnosine (Car) on particle properties of myosin suspensions and conformational characteristics of soluble myosin at low ionic strength (1 mM KCl, pH 7.5). His, Imi and Car, each containing an imidazole ring, were able to induce a myosin suspension, which had small particle size species and high absolute zeta potential, thus increasing the solubility of myosin. His, Imi and Car affected the tertiary structure and decreased the α-helix content of soluble myosin. Therefore, the imidazole ring of His appeared to be the significant chemical constituent in solubilising myosin at low ionic strength solution, presumably by affecting its secondary structure.
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ELECTROPHORESIS
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2016
·Vol. 37
·期 14
·2106-2111
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IF 2.482
Wei Wang,Lihong Ma,Ping Lin,Kaixuan Xu
In this work, CE-LIF was employed to investigate the amino acid metabolites produced by Escherichia coli ( E. coli ) in microbial fuel cell (MFC). Two peptides, l -carnosine and l -alanyl-glycine, together with six amino acids, cystine, alanine, lysine, methionine, tyrosine, arginine were separated and detected in advance by a CE-LIF system coupled with a homemade spontaneous injection device. The injection device was devised to alleviate the effect of electrical discrimination for analytes during sample injection. All analytes could be completely separated within 8 min with detection limits of 20–300 nmol/L. Then this method was applied to analyze the substrate solution containing amino acid metabolites produced by E. coli . l -carnosine, l -alanyl-glycine, and cystine were used as the carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur source for the E. coli culture in the MFC to investigate the amino acid metabolites during metabolism. Two MFCs were used to compare the activity of metabolism of the bacteria. In the sample collected at the running time 200 h of MFC, the amino acid methionine was discovered as the metabolite with the concentrations 23.3 μg/L.
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