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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144659803321

Titolo

Peptide transport and hydrolysis / / editors, Katherine Elliott, Maeve O'Connor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York : , : Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North Holland, , 1977

ISBN

0-444-15272-5

1-280-78366-4

0-470-71800-5

9786613694058

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 385 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 50 (new ser.)

Disciplina

574.1/9256

Soggetti

Peptides

Peptidase

Biological transport

Intestinal absorption

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Peptide Transport and Hydrolysis; Contents; Chairman's opening remarks; Introduction; Amino acid and peptide absorption in man; Discussion of the two preceding papers; Intestinal dipeptidases and dipeptide transport in the monkey and in man; Discussion; Dipeptide transport in the intestinal mucosa of developing rabbits; Discussion; Mechanisms of peptide transport; Discussion; A brush-border-bound peptidase and amino acid transport; Discussion; The function of the γ-glutamyl cycle in the transport of amino acids and peptides; Discussion; General Discussion I

Intestinal mucosal hydrolysis of proteins and peptides; Discussion; Intestinal brush border peptidases; Discussion; Intracellular hydrolysis of peptides; Endopeptidases in the brush border of the kidney proximal tubule; Discussion of the two preceding papers; Membrane and intracellular hydrolysis of peptides : differentiation, role and interrelations with transport; Discussion; Intestinal hydrolysis of disaccharides and peptides : comparison of hydrolases and perfusion



studies; Discussion; Clearance of dipeptides from plasma: role of kidney and intestine; Discussion

Peptiduria in the Fanconi syndrome; Discussion; General Discussion II; Coeliac disease; Transport and hydrolysis of peptides by microorganisms; Discussion; Peptidases in germinating barley grain: properties, localization and possible functions; Discussion; Final Discussion; Site of peptide hydrolysis; Peptide transport through membranes; Membrane digestion of peptides; Epithelial transport of peptides; Rate-limiting steps : hydrolysis or transport?; Closing remarks; Index of contributors; Subject index