1332 results about "Cystine" patented technology

The present invention relates to novel modified proteins having N-terminal free thiols that can be produced by recombinant methods and are ready for further chemical derivatization. In particular, the invention relates to erythropoietin conjugate compounds having altered biochemical, physiochemical and pharmacokinetic properties. More particularly, one embodiment of the invention relates to erythropoietin conjugate compounds of the formula:

(M)_n-X-A-cys-EPO   (I)

where EPO is an erythropoeitin moiety selected from erythropoietin or an erythropoietin variant having at least one amino acid different from the wild-type human EPO, or any pharmaceutical acceptable derivatives thereof having biological properties of causing bone marrow cells to increase production of red blood cells; cys represents the amino acid cysteine and occurs at position −1 relative to the amino acid sequence of the erythropoietin moiety; A indicates the structure of the residual moiety used to chemically attach X to the thiol group of −1Cys; X is a water soluble polymer such as a polyalkylene glycol or other polymer; M is an organic molecule (including peptides and proteins) that increases the circulating half-life of the construct; and N is an integer from 0 to 15.

Antibodies are engineered by replacing one or more amino acids of a parent antibody with non cross-linked, highly reactive cysteine amino acids. Antibody fragments may also be engineered with one or more cysteine amino acids to form cysteine engineered antibody fragments (ThioFab). Methods of design, preparation, screening, and selection of the cysteine engineered antibodies are provided. Cysteine engineered antibodies (Ab) are conjugated with one or more zirconium complex (Z) labels through a linker (L) to form cysteine engineered zirconium-labeled antibody conjugates having Formula I:

Ab-(L-Z)_p  I

where p is 1 to 4. Imaging methods and diagnostic uses for zirconium-radiolabeled, cysteine engineered antibody conjugate compositions are disclosed.

The present invention relates to a self-molding permanent agent and a method for proceeding free-rod and free-band type permanent, more particularly to a self-molding permanent agent comprising (a) a reducing composition containing a reducing agent reducing a disulfide bond of cystine on the hair and a molding stimulant spontaneously molding to fix a hair design; (b) a molding composition inducing to mold after reacting with the molding stimulant; and (c) a softening composition releasing the action of a molding stimulant, and a method for pressing a free-rod and free-band type permanent, which overcomes a disadvantage in the conventional method for pressing a permanent that needs to wear a curling device such as rods for a permanent (perm rod) or rubber band and improves to apply a wave set without a hair-curling device for a short time, since it has a self-molding feature.

The invention relates to a high-efficacy environment-friendly compound feed for layer hens, fundamentally solving the problems of high content of crude protein, poor quality of protein and large discharge of nitrogen and phosphorus in the prior feed formulation. In the material composition of the compound feed, the balance model of digestible lysine: digestible methionine+ digestible cystine: digestible threonine: digestible tryptophan is 100:87:71:18. The invention has the advantages of reasonable design, environment protection, energy saving, improvement of laying rate, reduction of feed-egg ratio, reduction of the discharge of fecal nitrogen and fecal phosphorus and improvement of the economic benefits of enterprises.

The invention discloses black garlic, a process and a device for fermenting the same, which overcomes technical defects of the prior product, processing method and processing device. The black garlic is integral in bulk, dry in outer peel and easy to peel. Garlic cloves are in preserved fruit paste shape, are free from pungent taste, have jelly taste, taste good and are easy to preserve. Every 100 grams of ripening black garlic contains 140 milligrams of isoleucine, 250 milligrams of leucine, 170 milligrams of lysine, 160 milligrams of cystine, S-allyl cysteine and polyphenol of which the content is 22 times that of raw garlic, 36 milligrams of sodium, 930 milligrams of potassium, 52 milligrams of magnesium and 13 milligrams of calcium. The black garlic has the advantages of low heavy-metal content, no pesticide residue and no additive. The fermenting process comprises the steps of taking integral garlic as raw material, initially washing the raw material with clear water, soaking the raw material in brine, placing the raw material in a tray, fermenting, steaming and baking the raw material, performing aging treatment, sterilizing and disinfecting the obtained product, and packing the obtained product in vacuum or with nitrogen. The fermenting process has the advantages of adopting mineral water vapor and discharging air in the whole process, along with few links and low cost. The fermenting device is heated by a steam boiler, has a humidifying vapor pipe, and uses all-wooden fermentation frame and a container.

A composition for potentiating glutathione, which contains at least one member selected from the group consisting of 2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethanol or a glycoside thereof, a plant containing 2-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethanol or a glycoside thereof, an extract of said plant, a hydrolysate of said plant, and a hydrolysate of the extract of said plant (excluding Olea europaea and an extract thereof), and which further contains at least one member selected from among an S-containing compound that is a supply source of cysteine, a protein that contains cysteine and/or cystine, a yeast that contains cysteine and/or cystine, and a vitamin.

The invention provides a preparation method of polyamino acid, which comprises the following steps: dissolving a terminal-aminated hydrophilic polymer, L-cystine-N-endo-carboxylic acid anhydride and amino acid-N-endo-carboxylic acid anhydride in an organic solvent, stirring and reacting, thus obtaining the polyamino acid. The invention further provides polyamino acid nano-hydrogel which comprises the polyamino acid prepared by the method adopting the technical scheme, and water. The polyamino acid which can form the nano-hydrogel can be prepared by only one step, and the step is simple, convenient and fast. The obtained polyamino acid comprises a hydrophilic polymer and a cross-linked polyamino acid, the nano-hydrogel can be formed by dissolving the polyamino acid in the water, and the nano-hydrogel can be used as carrier materials for medicament transmission, and medicament control and release. The terminal-aminated hydrophilic polymer, the L-cystine-N-endo-carboxylic acid anhydrideand the amino acid-N-endo-carboxylic acid anhydride are used as raw materials, and the nano-hydrogel formed by the obtained polyamino acid has good biocompatibility and biodegradability.

The present invention relates to a detergent composition containing an amino acid component for washing fruits, vegetables and dishes, which comprises the following components of an anionic surfactant, a non-ionic surfactant, an amphoteric surfactant, amino acid, a viscosity modifier, a chelating agent, an antiseptic, a light stabilizer, an antioxidant, a flavor and deionized water. The amino acid composition is one or a mixture with more than two of alanine, arginine, asparagine, aspartic acid, cystine, glutamine, glutamic acid, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, prolinol acid, serine, threonine, glycine, histidine, isoleucine, tryptophan, tyrosine and valine. The detergent of the invention can maintain good decontamination capability, improve the feeling when the detergent composition is used, reduce the hands skin irritation and enhance the hand skin moisturizing ability to improve dry feeling.

The present invention relates to methods for mammalian cell culture. The methods make use of independent tyrosine and cystine feed streams.

The invention provides a preparation method and application of a selenium-enriched cadmium-resistant foliar fertilizer special for rice .The preparation method of the selenium-enriched cadmium-resistant foliar fertilizer special for the rice comprises the following steps that sodium selenite, zinc sulfate, manganese sulfate and ferrous sulfate are dissolved in water and prepared into an original mother liquid, wherein the concentration of sodium selenite ranges from 30 g/l to 60 g/l; the original mother liquid is mixed with an amino acid solution of which the mass concentration ranges from 15% to 20%, shaking chelating is conducted, and a chelating liquid is obtained; the chelating liquid and a single silicic acid aqueous solution are mixed to be uniform to be prepared into a mixed liquid; sodium alkyl benzene sulfonate is added, the mixture and filtrate obtained through saccharose alcohol fermentation are stirred at 25 DEG C to 35 DEG C for secondary chelating, and the selenium-enriched cadmium-resistant foliar fertilizer special for the rice is obtained .By means of the preparation method and application of the selenium-enriched cadmium-resistant foliar fertilizer special for the rice, 90% or above of inorganic selenium is converted into organic selenium such as selenomethionine and selenocystine, the poisoning risk is eliminated, the absorption conversion rate of selenium is increased, the raw material amount is reduced, the cost is reduced, and the rice has a good cadmium-resistant property.

The invention relates to a preparation method and application of a formaldehyde fluorescent probe, and belongs to the technical field of analytical chemistry. The formaldehyde fluorescent probe is a ratio-type fluorescent probe with double emission bands. The excitation wavelength is 318 nm; and the fluorescence peak at 359nm decreases gradually with the increasing of the concentration of formaldehyde, and at the same time a new emission band is produced at 451 nm and the fluorescence peak gradually increases. The formaldehyde fluorescent probe can resist the interference of acetaldehyde, glyoxal, methylglyoxal, benzaldehyde, alanine, glycine, serine, arginine, cysteine, glutathione and glucose, has high detection accuracy, high sensitivity and strong anti-interference capability. In addition, the formaldehyde fluorescent probe of the invention can detect the formaldehyde in a biological sample (cell environment), realizes formaldehyde fluorescence imaging in living cell level, and has potential practical application value. The synthesis of the formaldehyde fluorescent probe only needs a one-step reaction, which is simple and high in yield.

The invention provides a brackish water and fresh water rotation irrigation method for a saline and alkaline land. Irrigation includes irrigation in the seedling period, irrigation in the growing period and irrigation in the cutting period. According to irrigation in the growing period, the ratio of rotation irrigation number of times of the organic-matter-enriched brackish water to that of the fresh water is 1:2, the land is irrigated once every 8-10 days, and the one-time irrigation volume is 450-500 m<3>/hectare. A preparing method for the organic-matter-enriched brackish water includes the step that organic-matter-enriched fertilizer is dissolved in the brackish water. The organic-matter-enriched fertilizer comprises, by weight, 24-26 parts of seaweed residues, 10-12 parts of chicken manure, 1-3 parts of microbial agent, 2-4 parts of magnesium-containing phosphate, 5-8 parts of fulvic acid and 2-3 parts of glutelin cystine. The irrigation method is adopted to plant red clover, the planting survival rate is 98.6-99.2%, and the annual output of red clover fresh grass is 6800-6900 kg/mu.

A method of treating chronic hepatitis B is disclosed that comprises administering a T cell-stimulating amount of a vaccine to a patient. The vaccine comprises an immunogenic amount of chimeric, carboxy-terminal truncated hepatitis B virus nucleocapsid (core) protein (HBc) that is engineered for both enhanced stability of self-assembled particles and the substantial absence of nucleic acid binding by those particles. The chimeric protein molecule can include one or more immunogenic epitopes peptide-bonded to one or more of the N-terminus, the immunogenic loop or the C-terminus of HBc. The enhanced stability of self-assembled particles is obtained by the presence of at least one heterologous cysteine residue near one or both of the amino-terminus and carboxy-terminus of the chimer molecule.

The invention discloses a cement grinding aid. The cement grinding aid comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 8 to 20 percent of triethanolamine, 0 to 10 percent of triisopropanolamine, 8 to 20 percent of diol byproduct, 0 to 10 percent of synthetic glycerine, 0 to 25 percent of molasses, 0 to 5 percent of calcium lignosulfonate, 0 to 15 percent of polyurethane, 0 to 10 percent of cystine, 3 to 5 percent of sorbitol, 5 to 10 percent of sodium carboxymethylcellulose, 0 to 5 percent of citric acid, 0 to 5 percent of silica powder, 0 to 5 percent of fly ash and the balance of water. The invention also discloses a preparation method of the cement grinding aid. The grinding aid can effectively improve the equipment-hour yield of a cement grinding mill, reduce energy consumption and remarkably improve cement performance, does not have adverse side effects on cement, reduces the using amount of cement clinkers by 4 to 10 percent, improves the equipment-hour yield of cement production by 6 to 10 percent, and has a good effect. The method has a unique process, a part of raw materials are treated by ultrasound, and the prepared grinding aid has high performance.

Disclosed are nutritional powders, including lactose-free powders or other oxidatively sensitive nutritional powders, comprising at least about 400 ppm by weight of ascorbyl palmitate, preferably in combination with at least about 300 ppm by weight of cystine, cysteine, or combinations thereof. It has been found that these powders, especially the lactose-free embodiments, have improved stability as measured by sensory performance and reduced vitamin A degradation during prolonged storage.

The invention relates to a clear liquid fermentation medium for clostridium butyricum. The clear liquid fermentation medium, the pH value of which is 7-8, is made from glucose, tryptone, a yeast extract powder, ammonium sulfate, sodium bicarbonate, a maize liquid powder and the like. The clear liquid fermentation medium for clostridium butyricum contains metal salts for promoting the growth of gemma, wherein the metal salts are manganese sulfate, magnesium sulfate and ferrous sulphate. The enrichment medium of the clear liquid fermentation medium for clostridium butyricum contains yeast extract, beef extract, tryptone, glucose, soluble starch, sodium chloride, sodium acetate trihydrate, cysteine hydrochloride, methylene blue at the concentration of 0.5% and distilled water; and the pH is adjusted to 7.1. A fermentation culture method of the clear liquid fermentation medium for clostridium butyricum comprises the following steps of: glycerin tube refrigerated strain activation, heating and optimization, Erlenmeyer flask first-order seed culture, liquid fermentation and spray drying. The production of clostridium butyricum has advantages of simple operation, high amount of zymocyte, high gemma yield, simple post-treatment, less impurities in a bacterial powder sample and high amount of effective live bacteria, and saves cost at large.

The invention combines a novel combination with two especially important aspects: first, the invention proposes to simultaneously stimulate response in white blood cells and a patient's tumor cells with a mitogen-challenging compound, preferably a lectin, in the preferred mode the selected lectin being phytohemagglutin ("PHA"), and second, to generate heat shock protein. A method of treatment is set out. The method of manufacturing proposed utilizes a system calculated to better insure sterility and streamline production of the cytokine modulator. A method of testing in conjunction with the therapy is also claimed utilizing clinical assessment of disease activity, patient performance status, and quality of life questionnaire. Should efficacy of a treatment fall off, particularly because of mutation or adaption, the composition and method may be re- applied. The invention is not limited to humans, but is also applicable to mammals. The composition is usable as a stand-alone composition, but preferably is used in conjunction with standard therapy such as radiation, chemotherapy or surgery, particularly surgical therapy, and in conjunction with the administration of cystine, as later defined, to enhance immune system competency.

Provided are hair processing agents capable of permanent waving hair even at a neutral to weakly acidic pH range that causes less irritation to the skin, and hair processing agents in which an unpleasant odor is masked. Hair processing agents contain at least one compound represented by the formula (2). Hair processing agents contain a compound of the formula (2) and at least one compound (ii) selected from thioglycolic acid, thiolactic acid, cysteine, acetylcysteine, cysteamine, acylcysteamine, salts thereof and ester derivatives thereof. Hair processing agents contain a compound of the formula (2), a surfactant and water, and are emulsified. Hair processing agents contain a compound of the formula (2) and a specific perfume. wherein X is a structure selected from —O—, —S—, —NH— and —NR¹—; R¹ is an alkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms; Y is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; in the formula (1), Z is a divalent organic residue having at least one mercapto group; in the formula (2), R is a divalent organic residue optionally having a mercapto group; and R² is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms.

The invention discloses a making method of R-(+)-3-chlophenicol, which is characterized by the following: adopting left-handed bulk of chiral amino acid derivant as catalyst; synthesizing 3-chlophenicol and NaBH4 or KBH4 directly to produce R-(+)-3-chlophenicol; selecting the left-handed bulk from one of left-handed isoleucine derivant, left-handed proline derivant, left-handed tryptophan derivant, left-handed cysteine derivant, left-handed histidine derivant and left-handed methionine derivant.