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3,3'-Thiodialanine; an amino acid obtained from wood that resembles cystine but has only one sulfur atom in the molecule rather than two, that is, a sulfide rather than a disulfide.
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BT-11 is a first-in-class, orally-active, gut-restricted small molecule investigational new drug that targets the Lanthionine Synthetase C-Like 2 (LANCL2) pathway that impacts the gastrointestinal tract.
It is reported that alkaline pH favors keratin degradation as cysteine residues are modified to lanthionine making it vulnerable for hydrolytic action.
Nisin is an important bacteriocin AMP and one of the most studied lantibiotic which has a 34 amino acid including lanthionine and methyl-lanthionine.
Banerjee, "[H.sub.2]S biogenesis by human cystathionine y-lyase leads to the novel sulfur metabolites lanthionine and homolanthionine and is responsive to the grade of hyperhomocysteinemia," The Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol.
More specifically, lantibiotics are an important family of heat stable low molecular weight bacteriocins that possess unusual posttranslationally modified amino acids, such as lanthionine, methyllanthionine, dehydroalanine, and dehydrobutyrine with thioether linkages [2].
The exact phenomenon by which processing adversely affects the cysteine is not clear (Wang and Parsons, 1998) but might be due to lysinoalanine or lanthionine formation (Robbins et al., 1980).
Diet B contained higher levels of digestible methionine, threonine, and lanthionine (P < .05, Table 3).
Cysteine [right arrow] lanthionine + [H.sub.2]S [5]
Cavallini, "Specific method for the determination of 1,4-thiomorpholine3,5-dicarboxylic acid and its unsaturated analogue lanthionine ketimine," Journal of Chromatography, vol.