Costs of compliance with EU regulations and competitiveness of the EU dairy sector (2008)
Bezlepkina, I., Jongeneel, R., Brouwer, F.M., Dillen, K., Meister, A., Winsten, J., ...
The introduction of cross-compliance mechanism in the European Union with its 2003 CAPreform might affect the costs of production and thus competitiveness of the EU. Little evidence is available to...
Suess-Fink, G, Mollwitz, B, Therrien, B, Dadras, M, Laurenczy, G, Meister, A, ...
The cationic organometallic aqua complexes formed by hydrolysis of [(C6H6)RuCl2]2 in water, mainly [(C6H6)Ru(H2O)3]2+, intercalate into sodium hectorite by ion exchange, replacing the sodium cations...
Surface Patterning using Attoliter Deposition by AFM Probes (2007)
Meister, A, Liley, M, Brugger, J, Pugin, R, Heinzelmann, H
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Surface Patterning using Attoliter Deposition by AFM Probes (2007)
Meister, A, Liley, M, Brugger, J, Pugin, R, Heinzelmann, H
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A. Meister, M.J. Weygand, G. Brezesinski, A. Kerth, S. Drescher, ...
Journal article
Carriere, D., Page, M., Dubois, M., Zemb, T., Cölfen, H., Meister, A., ...
Catanionic bilayers as micro-crystals with in-plane ordered alternated charges (2007)
Zemb, T., Carriere, D., Glinel, K., Hartman, M., Meister, A., Vautrin, C., ...
Carriere, D., Page, M., Dubois, M., Zemb, T., Cölfen, H., Meister, A., ...
NANOSCALE DISPENSING OF LIQUIDS WITH AFM-CANTILEVER (2006)
Santschi, Ch, Meister, A, Brugger, J, Heinzelmann, H
The demand for tools suitable for deposition of small amount of material is continuously increasing. A standard SiN cantilever was modified in order to dispense single droplets of femto- and...
Equation of state of colloids coated by polyelectrolyte multilayers (2006)
Dubois, M., Schönhoff, M., Meister, A., Belloni, L., Zemb, T., Möhwald, H.
Meister, A, Liley, M, Brugger, J, Pugin, R, Heinzelmann, H
In this letter, we describe the on-demand dispensing of single liquid droplets with volumes down to a few attoliters and submicrometric spacing. This dispensing is achieved using a standard atomic...
Kurth, D.G., Meister, A., Thünemann, A.F., Förster, G.
The solid-state organization of a liquid crystalline metallosupramolecular polyelectrolyte-amphiphile complex at the nanoscopic level is decoded by a combination of X-ray scattering and molecular...
Meister, A., Förster, G., Thünemann, A.F., Kurth, D.G.
A combination of molecular modeling and X-ray scattering was used to elucidate the structure of the metallosupramolecular polyelectrolyte-amphiphile complex (PAC) self-assembled from Fe-II,...
Evidence for Inertia Gravity Waves Forming Polar Stratospheric Clouds over Scandinavia (2002)
Dörnbrack, A., Birner, T., Fix, A., Flentje, H., Meister, A., Schmid, H., ...
Trans. of Zeitschrift fuer Psychologie (German D.R.) v184 n1 p51-62 1976, by Barbara Garland.
Reihe F, Reihe A Preprints, Reihe B Berichte, Reihe C Mathematische, Modelle Simulation, Reihe D Elektrische, ...
The simulation of cavitation phenomena plays an important role for the development of modern hydraulic tools and injection systems. Cavitation leads to a reduction of mass ow and inuences the wave...
Asymptotic based preconditioning technique for low Mach number flows (2001)
A. Meister, Reihe F, Reihe A Preprints, Reihe B Berichte, Reihe C Mathematische, Modelle Simulation, ...
A comprehensive study of a finite volume method for inviscid flow fields at high and low speeds is presented...
On an Adaptive Method for Heat Conduction Problems with Boundary Layers (2001)
A. Meister, Reihe F, Reihe A Preprints, Reihe B Berichte, Reihe C Mathematische, Modelle Simulation, ...
We deal with the numerical solution of heat conduction problems featuring steep gradients. In order to solve the associated partial differential equation a finite volume technique is used and...
Different sites of acivicin binding and inactivation of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidases.
Smith, T K, Ikeda, Y, Fujii, J, Taniguchi, N, Meister, A
Acivicin is a potent inhibitor of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (EC 2.3.2.2), an enzyme of importance in glutathione metabolism. Acivicin inhibition and binding are prevented by gamma-glutamyl...
Amino acid sequence of rat kidney glutathione synthetase.
Huang, C S, He, W, Meister, A, Anderson, M E
Glutathione (GSH) synthetase [gamma-L-glutamyl-L-cysteine:glycine ligase (ADP-forming), EC 6.3.2.3], an enzyme present in almost all cells, catalyzes the ATP-dependent synthesis of GSH from...
Ikeda, Y, Fujii, J, Taniguchi, N, Meister, A
A mutant of human gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (EC 2.3.2.2, a membrane-bound enzyme of importance in glutathione metabolism) that differs from the wild type by deletion of the putative signal...
Glutathione ester delays the onset of scurvy in ascorbate-deficient guinea pigs.
Mårtensson, J, Han, J, Griffith, O W, Meister, A
Previous studies showed that administration of ascorbate to glutathione (GSH)-deficient newborn rats and guinea pigs prevented toxicity and mortality and led to increased tissue and mitochondrial GSH...
Transport of glutathione diethyl ester into human cells.
Levy, E J, Anderson, M E, Meister, A
Glutathione monoesters in which the carboxyl group of the glycine residue is esterified were previously found, in contrast to glutathione itself, to be effectively transported into various types of...
Godwin, A K, Meister, A, O'Dwyer, P J, Huang, C S, Hamilton, T C, Anderson, M E
Exposure of human ovarian tumor cell lines to cisplatin led to development of cell lines that exhibited increasing degrees of drug resistance, which were closely correlated with increase of the...
Jain, A, Mårtensson, J, Mehta, T, Krauss, A N, Auld, P A, Meister, A
Glutathione deficiency in adult mice leads to lung type 2 cell lamellar body and mitochondrial damage; as reported here, these effects are associated with marked decrease of the levels of...
Glutathione deficiency increases hepatic ascorbic acid synthesis in adult mice.
Glutathione deficiency, induced in adult mice by administering buthionine sulfoximine (an inhibitor of glutathione synthesis), led to a rapid and substantial increase in ascorbate in the liver. This...
Kalebic, T, Kinter, A, Poli, G, Anderson, M E, Meister, A, Fauci, A S
The effects of glutathione (GSH), glutathione ester (GSE), and N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) on the induction of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) expression were investigated in the chronically...
Glutathione deficiency leads to mitochondrial damage in brain.
Jain, A, Mårtensson, J, Stole, E, Auld, P A, Meister, A
Glutathione deficiency induced in newborn rats by giving buthionine sulfoximine, a selective inhibitor of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase, led to markedly decreased cerebral cortex glutathione...
Mãrtensson, J, Meister, A, Mrtensson, J
Glutathione deficiency in newborn rats, produced by administration of L-buthionine-(S,R)-sulfoximine, a transition-state inactivator of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase, decreases ascorbate levels...
Mårtensson, J, Jain, A, Stole, E, Frayer, W, Auld, P A, Meister, A
A model for oxidative stress is described in which glutathione (GSH) synthesis is selectively blocked in newborn rats by administration of L-buthionine-(S,R)-sulfoximine (BSO). In this model, the...
Stole, E, Seddon, A P, Wellner, D, Meister, A
gamma-Glutamyl transpeptidase [(5-glutamyl)-peptide:amino-acid 5-glutamyltransferase, EC 2.3.2.2], an enzyme of major importance in glutathione metabolism, was inactivated by treating it with...
Glutathione is required for intestinal function.
Mårtensson, J, Jain, A, Meister, A
Glutathione (GSH) deficiency produced in mice by giving buthionine sulfoximine leads to severe degeneration of the epithelial cells of the jejunum and colon. This is prevented by giving GSH monoester...
Suthanthiran, M, Anderson, M E, Sharma, V K, Meister, A
Regulation of proliferation of normal human T lymphocytes (T cells) by glutathione (GSH) was explored with T-cell activation models that do not require accessory cell signals....
Mårtensson, J, Lai, J C, Meister, A
Glutathione, an essential cellular antioxidant required for mitochondrial function, is not synthesized by mitochondria but is imported from the cytosol. Rat liver mitochondria have a multicomponent...
Pfundel, E., Nagel, E., Meister, A.
The chlorophyll fluorescence characteristics of mesophyll and bundle-sheath thylakoids from plant species with the C4 dicarboxylic acid pathway of photosynthesis were investigated using flow...
Huang, C S, Moore, W R, Meister, A
gamma-Glutamylcysteine synthetase (glutamate-cysteine ligase; EC 6.3.2.2) was isolated from an Escherichia coli strain enriched in the gene for this enzyme by recombinant DNA techniques. The purified...
Skeletal muscle degeneration associated with mitochondrial damage was found after marked depletion of glutathione produced by administration to mice of buthionine sulfoximine, an irreversible...
Moore, W R, Anderson, M E, Meister, A, Murata, K, Kimura, A
A strain of Escherichia coli, enriched in its content of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase and glutathione synthetase activities by recombinant DNA techniques, is more resistant to the lethal effects...
Mårtensson, J, Jain, A, Frayer, W, Meister, A
Mice treated with buthionine sulfoximine, an inhibitor of glutathione synthesis, showed striking alterations of morphology of lung type 2 cell lamellar bodies (swelling and disintegration) and...
Glutathione ester prevents buthionine sulfoximine-induced cataracts and lens epithelial cell damage.
Mårtensson, J, Steinherz, R, Jain, A, Meister, A
Treatment of newborn rats and mice with buthionine sulfoximine, an inhibitor of glutathione synthesis, leads to development of cataracts, which are not prevented by treatment with glutathione, but...
Formation of gamma-glutamycyst(e)ine in vivo is catalyzed by gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase.
Griffith, O W, Bridges, R J, Meister, A
These studies indicate that gamma-glutamylcyst(e)ine, found in the urine of a patient with gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase deficiency and also in the urine of experimental animals injected with...
5-Oxo-L-prolinase, the enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of 5-oxo-L-proline to L-glutamate coupled to the cleavage of ATP to ADP and Pi, also acts on L-2-oxothiazolidine-4-carboxylate (an analog...
Intrahepatic transport and utilization of biliary glutathione and its metabolites.
Glutathione transported by hepatocytes into the bile canaliculi is metabolized by the actions of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase and dipeptidase located on the biliary ductular epithelium. This pathway...
Treatment of mice with various gamma-glutamyl amino acids leads to marked urinary excretion of glutathione and other gamma-glutamyl compounds. There is good correlation between the affinity of...
Glutathione and gamma-glutamyl cycle enzymes in crypt and villus tip cells of rat jejunal mucosa.
Villus tip cells and crypt cells of rat jejunal mucosa were separated by the planning procedure of Imondi et al. and were studied with respect to their activities of the enzymes of the gamma-glutamyl...
Serine-borate complex as a transition-state inhibitor of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase.
gamma-Glutamyl transpeptidase, a membrane-bound enzyme, functions in the gamma-glutamyl cycle to catalyze utilization of glutathione. It has been postulated that the amino-acid-stimulated utilization...
Anderson, M E, Allison, R D, Meister, A
The reversible conversion of leukotriene C4 to leukotriene D4 and of the latter to leukotriene E4 were studied with highly purified homogeneous preparations of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase,...
Williamson, J M, Boettcher, B, Meister, A
Depletion of glutathione by inhibition of its synthesis by buthionine sulfoximine, an irreversible inhibitor of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase, leads to increased sensitivity to (i) irradiation...
Glutathione (in the form of GSH) is transported out of cultured human lymphoid cells at rates proportional to the intracellular glutathione levels. Inhibition of glutathione synthesis by buthionine...
Animals treated with potent gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase inhibitors and a patient with severe gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase deficiency excrete much larger than normal amounts of glutathione,...
Weinrich, S L, Meister, A, Rutter, W J
Exocrine pancreas (XP) enhancers, which contain a conserved core sequence, are active only in XP cells. A core enhancer-binding activity also appears to be restricted to XP nuclei. Here we describe...
Griffith, O W, Novogrodsky, A, Meister, A
Translocation of intracellular glutathione to the medium was studied in lymphoid cells (grown in tissue culture) that have very high, very low, or intermediate levels of membrane-bound gamma-glutamyl...
Conversion of glutathione to glutathione disulfide by cell membrane-bound oxidase activity.
Tate, S S, Grau, E M, Meister, A
An apparently specific glutathione oxidase activity is present in renal cortex, epididymal caput, jejunal villus tip cells, choroid plexus, and retina (but not in liver). The activity is...
Human lymphoid cells depleted of glutathione by treatment with buthionine sulfoximine, a specific inhibitor of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase, may be partially repleted by adding glutathione in...
Transport of glutathione, as gamma-glutamylcysteinylglycyl ester, into liver and kidney.
Administration of gamma-glutamylcysteinylglycyl monomethyl (or monoethyl) ester to mice leads to substantial increases in the levels of glutathione in the liver and kidney. Mice depleted of...
Origin and turnover of mitochondrial glutathione.
Mitochondrial glutathione in liver does not arise by intramitochondrial synthesis, but rather from the cytoplasm, by a process characterized by slow net transport and more rapid exchange transport.