A. Meister

Publication List Details

Period

1993 - 2008

Number

142

Co-Authors

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...

Ruthenium Nanoparticles Intercalated in Hectorite: A Reusable Hydrogenation Catalyst for Benzene and Toluene (2007)

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...

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...

Nanodispenser for attoliter volume deposition using atomic force microscopy probes modified by focused-ion-beam milling (2005)

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...

Structure of a liquid crystalline metallosupramolecular polyelectrolyte-amphiphile complex at the nanoscopic level (2003)

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...

Nanoscopic structure of a metallo-supramolecular polyelectrolyte-amphiphile complex, elucidated by x-ray scattering and molecular modeling (2003)

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,...

On the Simulation of Cavitation in Hydraulic Pipelines based on the Thermodynamic and Caloric Properties of Liquid and Steam (2001)

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...

Expression of an active glycosylated human gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase mutant that lacks a membrane anchor domain.

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...

High resistance to cisplatin in human ovarian cancer cell lines is associated with marked increase of glutathione synthesis.

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...

Ascorbic acid prevents oxidative stress in glutathione-deficient mice: effects on lung type 2 cell lamellar bodies, lung surfactant, and skeletal muscle.

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.

Mårtensson, J, Meister, A

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...

Suppression of human immunodeficiency virus expression in chronically infected monocytic cells by glutathione, glutathione ester, and N-acetylcysteine.

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...

Glutathione deficiency decreases tissue ascorbate levels in newborn rats: ascorbate spares glutathione and protects.

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...

Inhibition of glutathione synthesis in the newborn rat: a model for endogenously produced oxidative stress.

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...

Identification of a highly reactive threonine residue at the active site of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase.

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...

Glutathione regulates activation-dependent DNA synthesis in highly purified normal human T lymphocytes stimulated via the CD2 and CD3 antigens.

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....

High-affinity transport of glutathione is part of a multicomponent system essential for mitochondrial function.

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...

Analyzing the Light Energy Distribution in the Photosynthetic Apparatus of C4 Plants Using Highly Purified Mesophyll and Bundle-Sheath Thylakoids.

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...

On the active site thiol of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase: relationships to catalysis, inhibition, and regulation.

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...

Mitochondrial damage in muscle occurs after marked depletion of glutathione and is prevented by giving glutathione monoester.

Mårtensson, J, Meister, A

Skeletal muscle degeneration associated with mitochondrial damage was found after marked depletion of glutathione produced by administration to mice of buthionine sulfoximine, an irreversible...

Increased capacity for glutathione synthesis enhances resistance to radiation in Escherichia coli: a possible model for mammalian cell protection.

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...

Glutathione metabolism in the lung: inhibition of its synthesis leads to lamellar body and mitochondrial defects.

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...

Stimulation of hepatic glutathione formation by administration of L-2-oxothiazolidine-4-carboxylate, a 5-oxo-L-prolinase substrate.

Williamson, J M, Meister, A

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.

Abbott, W A, Meister, A

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...

Inhibition of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase and induction of glutathionuria by gamma-glutamyl amino acids.

Anderson, M E, Meister, A

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.

Cornell, J S, Meister, A

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.

Tate, S S, Meister, A

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...

Interconversion of leukotrienes catalyzed by purified gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase: concomitant formation of leukotriene D4 and gamma-glutamyl amino acids.

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,...

Intracellular cysteine delivery system that protects against toxicity by promoting glutathione synthesis.

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 export by human lymphoid cells: depletion of glutathione by inhibition of its synthesis decreases export and increases sensitivity to irradiation.

Dethmers, J K, Meister, A

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...

Excretion of cysteine and gamma-glutamylcysteine moieties in human and experimental animal gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase deficiency.

Griffith, O W, Meister, A

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,...

Exocrine pancreas transcription factor 1 binds to a bipartite enhancer element and activates transcription of acinar genes.

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...

Translocation of glutathione from lymphoid cells that have markedly different gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase activities.

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...

Radioprotection of human lymphoid cells by exogenously supplied glutathione is mediated by gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase.

Jensen, G L, Meister, A

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.

Puri, R N, Meister, A

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.

Griffith, O W, Meister, A

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.