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Human metallothionein genes—primary structure of the metallothionein-II gene and a related processed gene

Michael Karin, Robert I. Richards

Nature

Cytosolic factors which affect microsomal lipid peroxidation in lung and liver

Jo Rae Wright, Howard D. Colby, P. R. Miles

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

COVID-19 virus outbreak lockdown: What impacts on household food wastage?

Sarra Jrıbı, Hanen Ben Ismaıl, Darine Doggui +1

Environment Development and Sustainability

Transparency in food supply chains: A review of enabling technology solutions

Jake Astill, Rozita Dara, Malcolm Campbell +4

Trends in Food Science & Technology

Physiological roles of zinc transporters: molecular and genetic importance in zinc homeostasis

Takafumi Hara, Takaaki Takeda, Teruhisa Takagishi +3

The Journal of Physiological Sciences

Zinc (Zn) is an essential trace mineral that regulates the expression and activation of biological molecules such as transcription factors, enzymes, adapters, channels, and growth factors, along with...

Volatile affairs in microbial interactions

Ruth Schmidt, Viviane Cordovez, Wietse de Boer +2

The ISME Journal

Microorganisms are important factors in shaping our environment. One key characteristic that has been neglected for a long time is the ability of microorganisms to release chemically diverse volatile...

Pulmonary Embolism Response to Fragmentation, Embolectomy, and Catheter Thrombolysis (PERFECT)

William T. Kuo, Arjun Banerjee, Paul S. Kim +9

CHEST Journal

Invited review: Caseins and the casein micelle: Their biological functions, structures, and behavior in foods

Carl Holt, John A. Carver, Heath Ecroyd +1

Journal of Dairy Science

A typical casein micelle contains thousands of casein molecules, most of which form thermodynamically stable complexes with nanoclusters of amorphous calcium phosphate. Like many other unfolded...

The <i>Legionella</i> Effector RavZ Inhibits Host Autophagy Through Irreversible Atg8 Deconjugation

Augustine Choy, Julia Dancourt, Brian Mugo +4

Science

Eukaryotic cells can use the autophagy pathway to defend against microbes that gain access to the cytosol or reside in pathogen-modified vacuoles. It remains unclear if pathogens have evolved...

Sensory Evaluation Techniques

D.D. Muir

International Journal of Dairy Technology

Magnesium and the inflammatory response: Potential physiopathological implications

Andrzej Mazur, Jeanette A.M. Maier, Edmond Rock +3

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Prospects for plant-derived antibacterials

Kim Lewis, Frederick M. Ausubel

Nature Biotechnology

Challenges in the Addition of Probiotic Cultures to Foods

Claude P. Champagne, Nancy Gardner, Denis Roy

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Probiotic cultures are increasingly being added to foods in order to develop products with health-promoting properties. Although the literature is abundant on the beneficial effects of bifidobacteria...

Mechanisms by which Dietary Fatty Acids Modulate Plasma Lipids

María Luz Fernández, Kristy L. West

Journal of Nutrition

Interplay Between Different Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Men

Dariush Mozaffarian, Alberto Ascherio, Frank B. Hu +4

Circulation

n-3 PUFAs from both seafood and plant sources may reduce CHD risk, with little apparent influence from background n-6 PUFA intake. Plant-based n-3 PUFAs may particularly reduce CHD risk when...

Nutritional aspects of cereals

Brigid McKevith

Nutrition Bulletin

SUMMARY 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 General structure of grains 1.2 Wheat 1.3 Rice 1.4 Maize 1.5 Barley 1.6 Oats 1.7 Rye 1.8 Millet 1.9 Sorghum 1.10 Triticale 1.11 Other grains 1.12 Key points 2 TECHNICAL...

A Walnut Diet Improves Endothelial Function in Hypercholesterolemic Subjects

Emilio Ros, Isabel Núñez, Ana Pérez-Heras +4

Circulation

Substituting walnuts for monounsaturated fat in a Mediterranean diet improves endothelium-dependent vasodilation in hypercholesterolemic subjects. This finding might explain the cardioprotective...

Why Asparagine Needs Carbohydrates To Generate Acrylamide

Varoujan A. Yaylayan, Andrzej Wnorowski, Carolina Perez Locas

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Structural considerations dictate that asparagine alone may be converted thermally into acrylamide through decarboxylation and deamination reactions. However, the main product of the thermal...

Cadmium causes the oxidative modification of proteins in pea plants

María C. Romero‐Puertas, José M. Palma, María Dolores Gómez +2

Plant Cell & Environment

Abstract In pea ( Pisum sativum L.) leaves from plants grown in the presence of 50 µ m CdCl 2 the oxidative production of carbonyl groups in proteins, the rate of protein degradation and the...

Comparative genomic analysis of <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> : Genes that correlate with cholera endemic and pandemic disease

Michelle Dziejman, Emmy Balon, Dana Boyd +3

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Historically, the first six recorded cholera pandemics occurred between 1817 and 1923 and were caused by Vibrio cholerae O1 serogroup strains of the classical biotype. Although strains of the El Tor...

Integrons and Gene Cassettes in the <i>Enterobacteriaceae</i>

Peter A. White, Christopher J. McIver, William D. Rawlinson

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Integrons were detected in 59 of 120 (49%) urinary isolates of Enterobacteriaceae by PCR using degenerate primers targeted to conserved regions of class 1, 2, and 3 integrase genes. PCR sequencing...

The potential application of plant essential oils as natural food preservatives in soft cheese

Alison Smith-Palmer, J. Stewart, Lorna Fyfe

Food Microbiology

Atp6i-deficient mice exhibit severe osteopetrosis due to loss of osteoclast-mediated extracellular acidification

Yiping Li, Wei Chen, Yuqiong Liang +2

Nature Genetics

Control of zinc transfer between thionein, metallothionein, and zinc proteins

Claus Jacob, Wolfgang Maret, Bert L. Vallée

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Metallothionein (MT), despite its high metal binding constant (KZn = 3.2 x 10(13) M-1 at pH 7.4), can transfer zinc to the apoforms of zinc enzymes that have inherently lower stability constants. To...

Measurement of Intracellular Free Zinc in Living Cortical Neurons: Routes of Entry

Stefano L. Sensi, Lorella M.T. Canzoniero, Shan Yu +4

Journal of Neuroscience

We used the ratioable fluorescent dye mag-fura-5 to measure intracellular free Zn2+ ([Zn2+]i) in cultured neocortical neurons exposed to neurotoxic concentrations of Zn2+ in concert with...

Nitrile Hydratase and Its Application to Industrial Production of Acrylamide

Hideaki Yamada, Michihiko Kobayashi

Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Nitrile hydratase (NHase) was discovered in our laboratory. This enzyme was purified and characterized from various microorganisms. NHases are roughly classified into two groups according to the...

The omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoate reduces cytokine-induced expression of proatherogenic and proinflammatory proteins in human endothelial cells.

Raffaele De Caterina, Myron I. Cybulsky, Steven K. Clinton +2

Arteriosclerosis and Thrombosis A Journal of Vascular Biology

The mechanisms by which dietary fatty acids can modulate atherogenesis and inflammation are poorly understood. Induction in endothelial cells of adhesion molecules for circulating leukocytes and of...

Studies on the properties and mode of action of the purified regulatory subunit of bovine heart adenosine 3‘:5‘-monophosphate-dependent protein kinase.

Jackie D. Corbin, P H Sugden, Lori J. West +3

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Composition of phospholipids and of phospholipid fatty acids and aldehydes in human red cells

James T. Dodge, Gerald B. Phillips

Journal of Lipid Research

Improved methods for lipid analysis that have been developed recently were employed to reevaluate the phospholipid composition, the fatty acid and fatty aldehyde composition of the total...

Food Traceability on Blockchain: Walmart’s Pork and Mango Pilots with IBM

Reshma Kamath

The Journal of British Blockchain Association

In response to food contamination scandals worldwide, retail giant Walmart is tackling food safety in the supply chain using blockchain technology. In 2016, it established the Walmart Food Safety...

Valorisation of citrus processing waste: A review

Demetrio Antonio Zema, Paolo S. Calabrò, Adele Fòlino +3

Waste Management

Potassium Solubilizing Microorganisms for Sustainable Agriculture

Vijay Singh Meena, Bihari Ram Maurya, Jay Prakash Verma +1

Reducing Child Undernutrition: Past Drivers and Priorities for the Post-MDG Era

Lisa C. Smith, Lawrence Haddad

World Development

As the post-MDG era approaches in 2016, reducing child undernutrition is gaining high priority on the international development agenda, both as a maker and marker of development. Revisiting Smith and...

Adult consequences of growth failure in early childhood

John Hoddinott, Jere R. Behrman, John A. Maluccio +6

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Incidence of and Mortality from Venous Thromboembolism in a Real-world Population: The Q-VTE Study Cohort

Vicky Tagalakis, Valérie Patenaude, Susan R. Kahn +1

The American Journal of Medicine

Population Dynamics of Salmonella enterica Serotypes in Commercial Egg and Poultry Production

Steven L. Foley, Rajesh Nayak, Irene Hanning +3

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Fresh and processed poultry have been frequently implicated in cases of human salmonellosis. Furthermore, increased consumption of meat and poultry has increased the potential for exposure to...

Health Benefits of Whole Grain Phytochemicals

Neal Okarter, Rui Hai Liu

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

A whole grain consists of the intact, ground, cracked, or flaked caryopsis, whose principal anatomical components--the starchy endosperm, germ, and bran--are present in the same relative proportions...

Pomegranate Juice Ellagitannin Metabolites Are Present in Human Plasma and Some Persist in Urine for Up to 48 Hours

Navindra P. Seeram, Susanne M. Henning, Yanjun Zhang +3

Journal of Nutrition

Survival of Ca-alginate microencapsulated Bifidobacterium spp. in milk and simulated gastrointestinal conditions

Lisbeth Truelstrup Hansen, Paula Allan‐Wojtas, Yitong Jin +1

Food Microbiology

ANTIGEN SAMPLING ACROSS EPITHELIAL BARRIERS AND INDUCTION OF MUCOSAL IMMUNE RESPONSES

Marian R. Neutra, Eric Pringault, Jean-Pierre Kraehenbühl

Annual Review of Immunology

Epithelial barriers on mucosal surfaces at different sites in the body differ dramatically in their cellular organization, and antigen sampling strategies at diverse mucosal sites are adapted...

Hunger Modulates the Responses to Gustatory Stimuli of Single Neurons in the Caudolateral Orbitofrontal Cortex of the Macaque Monkey

Edmund T. Rolls, Zenon Sienkiewicz, S. Yaxley

European Journal of Neuroscience

1. In order to determine whether the responsiveness of neurons in the caudolateral orbitofrontal cortex (a secondary cortical gustatory area) is influenced by hunger, the activity evoked by...

EFFECT OF MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS VERSUS COMPLEX CARBOHYDRATES ON HIGH-DENSITY LIPOPROTEINS IN HEALTHY MEN AND WOMEN

RonaldP. Mensink, MartijnB. Katan

The Lancet

Mechanism of polyethylene glycol interaction with proteins

Tsutomu Arakawa, Serge N. Timasheff

Biochemistry

Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) is one of the most useful protein salting-out agents. In this study, it has been shown that the salting-out effectiveness of PEG can be explained by the large unfavorable...

Serotyping of Campylobacter jejuni by slide agglutination based on heat-labile antigenic factors

H. Lior, David L. Woodward, J. A. Edgar +2

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

A serotyping scheme for Campylobacter jejuni was developed based on slide agglutination of live bacteria with whole cell antisera absorbed with homologous heated and heterologous unheated...

Bioactive compounds of beetroot and utilization in food processing industry: A critical review

Navnidhi Chhikara, Komal Kushwaha, Paras Sharma +2

Food Chemistry

ASPEN Safe Practices for Enteral Nutrition Therapy

Joseph I. Boullata, Amy Long Carrera, Lillian P. Harvey +17

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

Enteral nutrition (EN) is a valuable clinical intervention for patients of all ages in a variety of care settings. Along with its many outcome benefits come the potential for adverse effects. These...

Recycling, recovering and preventing “food waste”: competing solutions for food systems sustainability in the United States and France

Marie Mourad

Journal of Cleaner Production

Lipoteichoic Acid Synthesis and Function in Gram-Positive Bacteria

Matthew G. Percy, Angelika Gründling

Annual Review of Microbiology

Lipoteichoic acid (LTA) is an important cell wall polymer found in gram-positive bacteria. Although the exact role of LTA is unknown, mutants display significant growth and physiological defects....

Heavy Metals and Metalloids As a Cause for Protein Misfolding and Aggregation

Markus J. Tamás, Sandeep Sharma, Sebastian Ibstedt +2

Biomolecules

While the toxicity of metals and metalloids, like arsenic, cadmium, mercury, lead and chromium, is undisputed, the underlying molecular mechanisms are not entirely clear. General consensus holds that...

Systematic review: Assessing the impact of drinking water and sanitation on diarrhoeal disease in low‐ and middle‐income settings: systematic review and meta‐regression

Jennyfer Wolf, Annette Prüss‐Üstün, Oliver Cumming +17

Tropical Medicine & International Health

The results show that inadequate water and sanitation are associated with considerable risks of diarrhoeal disease and that there are notable differences in illness reduction according to the type of...