“We hope in the future to hijack parts of this process to induce a similar weight loss in humans but without completely removing cysteine,” said co-senior study author Dan R. Littman, M.D., Ph.D., a ...

Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN 2A) is a dominantly inherited cancer syndrome, which involves the triad of MTC, pheochromocytoma, and hyperparathyridism. Missense mutations in one of six ...

Experiment and modeling were combined to understand inhibition of the alanine-serine-cysteine-1 (asc1) transporter. The structure–activity relationship (SAR) was explored with synthesis of analogues ...

Reducing cysteine intake in mice fed a high-fat diet led to conversion of white fat to brown fat, increased fat burning, weight loss, and reduced inflammation, without loss of muscle mass.

Cysteine proteases (CPs) are an important class of enzymes, many of which are responsible for several human diseases. For instance, cruzain of protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi is responsible for ...

Cysteine, known to be involved in a myriad of immuno-modulatory, anti-oxidant, and anti-carcinogenic pathways, has not been investigated in the aetiology of oesophageal or gastric cancers. To examine ...

These new bonds were only discovered in 2016, and are formed when the end of a lysine side-chain is linked to the end of a cysteine side-chain with an oxygen atom linking them together. The NOS ...

Wayne Lewis, a founding member, vocalist and keyboardist for R&B group Atlantic Starr, has died. He was 68. Lewis’ death was announced by the band in a Facebook post on Friday. No cause of death ...

A high-throughput workflow for wide-targeted metabolomics in dried blood spots (DBS) is presented.