ChemInform Abstract: AROMATIC AMINO ACID HYDROXYLASE INHIBITORS PART 3, IN VITRO INHIBITION BY AZADOPAMINE ANALOGS

1974 ◽  
Vol 5 (19) ◽  
pp. no-no
Author(s):  
L. E. HARE ◽  
M. C. LU ◽  
C. B. SULLIVAN ◽  
P. T. SULLIVAN ◽  
R. E. COUNSELL ◽  
...  
1974 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. E. Hare ◽  
M. C. Lu ◽  
C. B. Sullivan ◽  
P. T. Sullivan ◽  
R. E. Counsell ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 1039-1047 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zi T. Wang ◽  
Steve Harmon ◽  
Karen L. O'Malley ◽  
L. David Sibley

Toxoplasma gondiiinfection has been described previously to cause infected mice to lose their fear of cat urine. This behavioral manipulation has been proposed to involve alterations of host dopamine pathways due to parasite-encoded aromatic amino acid hydroxylases. Here, we report successful knockout and complementation of the aromatic amino acid hydroxylaseAAH2gene, with no observable phenotype in parasite growth or differentiationin vitroandin vivo. Additionally, expression levels of the two aromatic amino acid hydroxylases were negligible both in tachyzoites and in bradyzoites. Finally, we were unable to confirm previously described effects of parasite infection on host dopamine eitherin vitroorin vivo, even whenAAH2was overexpressed using theBAG1promoter. Together, these data indicate that AAH enzymes in the parasite do not cause global or regional alterations of dopamine in the host brain, although they may affect this pathway locally. Additionally, our findings suggest alternative roles for theAHHenzymes inT. gondii, sinceAAH1is essential for growth in nondopaminergic cells.


1984 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 1009-1015 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Bali ◽  
H. Mattras ◽  
A. Previero ◽  
M. A. Coletti-Previero

Rat blood was shown to contain an aminopeptidase which rapidly hydrolyses short peptides containing an aromatic amino acid as N-terminal residue. Using tetragastrin (Trp-Met-Asp-PheNH 2) as substrate, we showed that some amino acid hydroxamates inhibit rat aminopeptidase activity ‘in vitro’ in the following order: HTrpNHOH > HPheNHOH ≫ HAIaNHOH. The same hydroxamates markedly enhanced the biological activity of tetragastrin ‘in vivo’. The amplification of the secretory effect, correlated with the amount of the hydroxamate used, strongly suggests that these compounds can stabilize a number of active peptides in vivo by inhibiting their proteolytic degradation.


2009 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Abromaitis ◽  
P. Scott Hefty ◽  
Richard S. Stephens

1981 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 629-629
Author(s):  
Stanley E Fisher ◽  
Mark Atkinson ◽  
Ian Holzman ◽  
David H Van Thiel ◽  
T K Oliver

1994 ◽  
Vol 130 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irena Cosic ◽  
Ann E. Drummond ◽  
John R. Underwood ◽  
Milton T. W. Hearn

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