Biosynthesis of Pteridines in Insects: A Review [PDF]
Pteridines are important cofactors for many biological functions of all living organisms, and they were first discovered as pigments of insects, mainly in butterfly wings and the eye and body colors of insects. Most of the information on their structures
Juan Ferré
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The role of urinary pteridines as disease biomarkers
Pteridines and their derivatives function as intermediates in the metabolism of several vitamins and cofactors, and their relevance to disease has inspired new efforts to study their roles as disease biomarkers.
Casey Burton, Yinfa Ma
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Data on urinary pteridines as a discriminator of atherosclerotic risk in patients with diabetes [PDF]
Presented here are the supplemental data of the research article “Urinary pteridines as a discriminator of atherosclerotic risk in patients with diabetes” [1]. These data provide the first information on variables that affect urinary levels of pteridines
Ichiro Wakabayashi
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Urinary pteridines as a discriminator of atherosclerotic risk in patients with diabetes [PDF]
Background and aims: We have recently proposed urinary pteridine level as a useful biomarker of oxidative stress in a general population. However, the significance of urinary pteridines in patients with diabetes is unknown.
Ichiro Wakabayashi
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Pteridines and Lipid Metabolism [PDF]
The effect of 9 different pteridines on fatty acid incorporation into phospholipids as well as on cholesterol and phospholipid content was compared in vitro using rat liver homogenate, Krebs-Ringer phosphate buffer containing 0.3 % albumin (pH=7.4 ...
Rudzite Vera+5 more
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Analysis of the Influence of Changing and Fixed Temperatures on the Growth and Pteridine Content in the Head of Adults Sarcophaga crassipalpis (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) [PDF]
Flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) are regarded as significant in medical and veterinary entomology, and their development models can be utilized as considerable markers to ascertain the minimum postmortem interval (PMImin).
Fernand Jocelin Ngando+9 more
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Highly Efficient Generation of Germline Mutations Using CRISPR/Cas9 in the Speckled Wood Butterfly <i>Pararge aegeria</i>. [PDF]
We demonstrate the efficient use of CRISPR/Cas9 to generate germline loss‐of‐function (LOF) mutations in the speckled wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria), an ecological model species. Targeting the yellow‐y gene, we achieved nearly 80% mosaic LOF phenotypes in adults and high germline mutation rates in offspring.
Shoshan AB+3 more
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A New Synthesis of Pteridines [PDF]
THERE is a growing biological interest in derivatives of pteridine (I: R1, R2, R3, R4 = H) as a source of antagonists for folic acid (I: R1 = OH; R2 = NH2 ; R4 = H; R3 = CH2.NH.C6H4.CO.NHCH(COOH): CH2CH2COOH-p), since this vitamin plays an important part in the growth of certain bacteria and normal and malignant tissue.
G. M. Timmis
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Pteridines, XCVI. Synthesis and Reactions of 6-(1,2,3-Trihydroxypropyl)pteridines
Various hydropyrano [3.2-g] pteridines (7, 10, 12, 21 , 33) were oxidized to the corresponding 6-(1,2,3- trihydroxypropyl)pteridine derivatives (8,9, 11, 13,32, 34), which are valuable intermediates for the synthesis of new 6-substituted pteridines (15 -
Soyka Rainer, Pfleiderer Wolfgang
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2,4-Disubstituted pteridine derivatives (1-3) react with acyl radicals very selectively in position 7 by a nucleophilic Substitution mechanism (4-10).
Döring Thomas+2 more
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