{"title":"Synthesis of homocarnosine for applications in bioactive peptide and functional food studies.","authors":"Tomoka Nagao, Kanako Sato, Takeshi Arima, Takumi Komaru, Sudathip Sae-Tan, Masubon Thongngam, Hisato Kuniyoshi, Makoto Hirayama, Yoshiaki Nakamura, Akiko Koi, Jun-Ichi Kakimura, Hitoshi Fujitaka, Ruge Cao, Noriyuki Yanaka, Thanutchaporn Kumrungsee","doi":"10.1093/bbb/zbaf075","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Homocarnosine is a brain-specific dipeptide composed of γ-aminobutyric acid and L-histidine. In contrast to its well-known analog carnosine, homocarnosine is under-explored and non-commercially available. Here, we report an in-house and practical procedure for solid-phase synthesis of homocarnosine yielding a purity of > 95%. Applications of the synthesized homocarnosine in in vitro assays exhibited antioxidant and muscle-fiber-cell viability activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":9175,"journal":{"name":"Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bbb/zbaf075","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Homocarnosine is a brain-specific dipeptide composed of γ-aminobutyric acid and L-histidine. In contrast to its well-known analog carnosine, homocarnosine is under-explored and non-commercially available. Here, we report an in-house and practical procedure for solid-phase synthesis of homocarnosine yielding a purity of > 95%. Applications of the synthesized homocarnosine in in vitro assays exhibited antioxidant and muscle-fiber-cell viability activities.
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Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry publishes high-quality papers providing chemical and biological analyses of vital phenomena exhibited by animals, plants, and microorganisms, the chemical structures and functions of their products, and related matters. The Journal plays a major role in communicating to a global audience outstanding basic and applied research in all fields subsumed by the Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry (JSBBA).