Structural Analysis and Aggregation Propensity of Reduced and Nonreduced Glycated Insulin Adducts was written by Alavi, Parnian;Yousefi, Reza;Amirghofran, Sara;Karbalaei-Heidari, Hamid Reza;Moosavi-Movahedi, Ali Akbar. And the article was included in Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology in 2013.Category: benzofurans This article mentions the following:
The milieu within pancreatic β cells represents a favorable environment for glycation of insulin. Therefore, in this study, insulin samples were individually subjected to glycation under reducing and nonreducing conditions. As monitored by ortho-phthalaldehyde and fluorescamine assays, the reduced glycated insulin adduct demonstrates extensively higher level of glycation than the nonreduced glycated counterpart. Also, gel electrophoresis experiments suggest a significant impact of glycation under a reducing system on the level of insulin oligomerization. Furthermore, reduced and nonreduced glycated insulin adducts resp. exhibit full and partial resistance against dithiothreitol-induced aggregation. The results of thioflavin T and Congo red assays suggest the existence of a significant quantity of amyloid-like entities in the sample of reduced glycated insulin adduct. Both fluorescence and far-UV CD studies resp. suggest that the extents of unfolding and secondary structural alteration were closely correlated to the level of insulin glycation. Moreover, the surface tension of two glycated insulin adducts was inversely correlated to their glycation extents and to the quantity of exposed hydrophobic patches. Overall, the glucose-modified insulin mols. under reducing and nonreducing systems display different structural features having significant consequences on aggregation behaviors and surface tension properties. The particular structural constraints of glycated insulin may reduce the binding interaction of this hormone to its receptor which is important for both insulin function and clearance. In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, 4-Phenyl-3H,3’H-spiro[furan-2,1′-isobenzofuran]-3,3′-dione (cas: 38183-12-9Category: benzofurans).
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