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Glucuronic acid

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Equilibrium and non-equilibrium furanose selection in the ribose isomerisation network

Paolo De Los Rios, Francesco Piazza, Daniel Maria Busiello, Shiling Liang

The exclusive presence of beta -D-ribofuranose in nucleic acids is still a conundrum in prebiotic chemistry, given that pyranose species are substantially more stable at equilibrium. However, a precise characterisation of the relative furanose/pyranose fra ...

Nature Research2021

PEG/HA Hybrid Hydrogels for Biologically and Mechanically Tailorable Bone Marrow Organoids

Nicolas Antoine Vincent Broguiere, Queralt Vallmajó Martín

Bone marrow (BM) organoids provide powerful tools to study the vital interplay between the BM microenvironment and resident cells. Current biomaterials, however, are limited in terms of versatility for independently studying the biochemical and biophysical ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Biogeography and biochemistry of bile acid 7-dehydroxylation in the mammalian gut

Solenne Anne Marie Marion

Bile acids (BAs) are small molecules synthesized by the host and chemically modified by the microorganisms inhabiting the intestinal tract. The microbial transformation of BAs in the gut is critical to BA-mediated signaling as it modifies their amount and ...

EPFL2020

Microcomputed Tomography Technique for In Vivo Three-Dimensional Fat Tissue Volume Evaluation After Polymer Injection

Harm-Anton Klok, Ioana Konz

Tissue engineering technologies are new and promising techniques in fat tissue reconstruction. However, to assess their efficacy before any clinical application, in vivo experiments are mandatory. This study assesses whether microcomputed tomography (CT) s ...

2017

Development of Stapling Methods by Selective Side Chain Modifications of Bioactive Peptides

Christopher Matthew Bandeli Kourra

Cyclic peptide therapeutics fill the gap between small molecules (5000 Da) as a separate class of drugs, combining the advantages of both in terms of high selectivity, bioavailability, synthetic accessibility and low toxicity. Howe ...

EPFL2016

Farnesoid X receptor inhibits glucagon-like peptide-1 production by enteroendocrine L cells

Kristina Schoonjans, Alessia Perino

Bile acids are signalling molecules, which activate the transmembrane receptor TGR5 and the nuclear receptor FXR. BA sequestrants (BAS) complex bile acids in the intestinal lumen and decrease intestinal FXR activity. The BAS-BA complex also induces glucago ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Molecular thermodynamics of metabolism: quantum thermochemical calculations for key metabolites

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Meriç Ataman, Noushin Hadadi

The present work is the first of a series of papers aiming at a coherent and unified development of the thermodynamics of metabolism and the rationalization of feasibility analysis of metabolic pathways. The focus in this part is on high-level quantum chem ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Intestinal FXR agonism promotes adipose tissue browning and reduces obesity and insulin resistance

Kristina Schoonjans, Alessia Perino

The systemic expression of the bile acid (BA) sensor farnesoid X receptor (FXR) has led to promising new therapies targeting cholesterol metabolism, triglyceride production, hepatic steatosis and biliary cholestasis. In contrast to systemic therapy, bile a ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

Paul Jack Mc Laren, Jiancheng Yang, Murielle Bochud, Jian Yang

Using genome-wide data from 253,288 individuals, we identified 697 variants at genome-wide significance that together explained one-fifth of the heritability for adult height. By testing different numbers of variants in independent studies, we show that th ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Intrinsic viscoelasticity increases temperature in knee cartilage under physiological loading

Dominique Pioletti, Philippe Abdel Sayed, Mohamadreza Nassajian Moghadam

Metabolism of proteoglycans and hyaluronic acid has been shown to be temperature- dependent in cartilage explants, with optimal anabolic effects between 36 1C and 38 1C. At rest, the temperature of human knee has a value of around 33 1C. We aim to show in ...

Elsevier2014

Improving the osteogenic potential of BMP-2 with hyaluronic acid hydrogel modified with integrin-specific fibronectin fragment

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell

While human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) is a promising growth factor for bone regeneration, its clinical efficacy has recently shown to be below expectation. In order to improve the clinical translation of rhBMP-2, there exists strong motivation ...

Elsevier2013

The 2SO Skew-Boat Conformation in L-Iduronic Acid

Kurt Schenk

Crystal clear: After two decades of controversy the elusive skew-boat conformation of L-iduronic acid (see picture) was finally ascertained at atomic resolution in a synthetic, substituted disaccharide. This highly flexible compound crystallizes in two dim ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2011

The bile acid membrane receptor TGR5 as an emerging target in metabolism and inflammation

Johan Auwerx, Kristina Schoonjans, Thijs Pols, Lilia Noriega Lopez, Mitsunori Nomura

Bile acids (BAs) are amphipathic molecules that facilitate the uptake of lipids, and their levels fluctuate in the intestine as well as in the blood circulation depending on food intake. Besides their role in dietary lipid absorption, bile acids function a ...

Elsevier2011

Deciphering neuron-glia compartmentalization in cortical energy metabolism

Pierre Magistretti, Renaud Jolivet

Energy demand is an important constraint on neural signaling. Several methods have been proposed to assess the energy budget of the brain based on a bottom-up approach in which the energy demand of individual biophysical processes are first estimated indep ...

2009

Synthesis of aza-C-disaccharides

Eliazar Rodriguez Garcia

Cell surface oligosaccharides control cell adhesion, fertilization, inflammation, the immune response and metastasis. Their biosynthesis implies sequences of reactions catalysed by glycosidases and glycosyltranferases. Inhibitors of these enzymes are there ...

EPFL2005