Small open reading frames: current prediction techniques and future prospect.

abstract：:The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) belongs to ErbB family of tyrosine kinases, which plays an important role in the regulation of cell proliferation, survival, differentiation, and metastasis. In addition, tumors develop resistance to EGFR inhibitors due to the presence or development of point mutations in th...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Wang X,Xu L,Lao Y,Zhang H,Xu H

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthetic organisms and isolated photosystems are of interest for technical applications. In nature, photosynthetic electron transport has to work efficiently in contrasting environments such as shade and full sunlight at noon. Photosynthetic electron transport is regulated on many levels, starting with the energ...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Roach T,Krieger-Liszkay A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MEP (mercapto-ethyl-pyridine) HyperCel is one of the hydrophobic charge induction chromatography (HCIC) resins. Under normal operation, proteins are bound to the MEP resin at neutral pH, at which MEP is not charged, mostly via hydrophobic interaction. MEP has a pyridine group, whose pK is 4.8, and hence is positively ...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Arakawa T,Tokunaga M,Maruyama T,Shiraki K

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An allergic reaction to mosquitoes can result in severe or abnormal local or systemic reactions such as anaphylaxis, angioedema, and general urticarial or wheezing. The aim of this review is to provide information on mosquito saliva allergens that can support the production of highly specific recombinant saliva allerg...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Jeon SH

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the crucial role of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) in the cell cycle is now recognized, deciphering their molecular mode of action at the structural level still remains highly challenging and requires a combination of many biophysical approaches. Among them, small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) has been...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Receveur-Brechot V,Durand D

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The affinity tags are unique proteins/peptides that are attached at the N- or C-terminus of the recombinant proteins. These tags help in protein purification. Additionally, some affinity tags also serve a dual purpose as solubility enhancers for challenging protein targets. By applying a combinatorial approach, carefu...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Mishra V

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The review presents three hypotheses concerning the amino acid complementarity: 1) the Mekler-Blalock antisense hypothesis; 2) the Root-Bernstein approach based on stereochemical complementarity of amino acids and anti-amino acids coded by anticodons read in parallel with the coding DNA strand; 3) Siemion hypothesis r...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Siemion IZ,Cebrat M,Kluczyk A

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural products serve as a main resource for drug discovery. The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) is one of the primary intracellular protein degradation systems, which is responsible for the degradation of most short-lived, mis-folded and aged proteins. The proteasome is a validated target for cancer treatment, sin...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Wang H,Yang Q,Dou QP,Yang H

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:CGRP and adrenomedullin [AM] are peptides that have a number of physiological effects, including vasodilation, through the activation of a shared GPCR, the family B calcitonin receptor-like receptor [CLR]. Specificity to each ligand is conferred through the unusual association of CLR with a single transmembrane access...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Woolley MJ,Conner AC

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin (CaM) is a highly conserved eukaryotic Ca2+ sensor protein that is able to bind a large variety of target sequences without a defined consensus sequence. The recognition of this diverse target set allows CaM to take part in the regulation of several vital cell functions. To fully understand the structural b...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Dürvanger Z,Harmat V

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestines are not only major organs for nutrient digestion and absorption, but are also the largest immune organ in pigs. They are essential for maintaining the health and growth of piglets. Fatty acids, including short-chain fatty acids, medium-chain fatty acids, and long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, are impor...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Chen J,Li Y,Tang Z,Sun Z

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By utilizing recently developed full-length cDNA technologies, large-scale cDNA sequencing was carried out by several cDNA projects. Now full-length cDNA resources cover the major part of the protein-coding human genes. Comprehensive analyses of the collected full-length cDNA data revealed not only the complete sequen...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Suzuki Y,Sugano S

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer is one of the major threats to the man's health. There are several mechanisms of the prostate cancer development characterized by the involvement of various androgen-related and androgen-unrelated factors in prostate cancer pathogenesis and in the metastatic carcinogenesis of prostate. In all these pro...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Uversky VN,Na I,Landau KS,Schenck RO

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug-Target Interactions (DTI) play a crucial role in discovering new drug candidates and finding new proteins to target for drug development. Although the number of detected DTI obtained by high-throughput techniques has been increasing, the number of known DTI is still limited. On the other hand, the exper...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Huang YA,You ZH,Chen X

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of mortality worldwide. Rehmanniae Radix Praeparata (RRP) is a popular medicinal herb widely used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to treat CVDs. However, the development of this novel therapeutic product has been stagnant, and its molecular mechanism of action...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Zhang X,Wang D,Ren X,Atanasov AG,Zeng R,Huang L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are cell surface receptors that transmit extracellular signals to the interior of the cell activating multiple signaling cascades: the binding of specific extracellular ligands activates RTKs which act as a scaffold at plasma membrane level for the recruitment and activation of several...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Salvi M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid bilayer of the plasma membrane is a selective impermeable barrier for the internalization of most macromolecules. Cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) could cross the plasma membrane barrier to deliver various molecules into cells and are considered as a promising tool to deliver macromolecular drugs. However, t...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Zhu P,Jin L

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalent conjugation of the ubiquitin tag to cellular proteins plays a central role in a number of processes, the most notable among them being degradation by the 26S proteasome. A fundamental property of this process is that ubiquitination, in contrast to subsequent degradation, is reversible due to a number of deubi...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Guterman A,Glickman MH

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many naturally occurring bioactive peptides bind to biological membranes. Studying and elucidating the mode of interaction is often an essential step to understand their molecular and biological functions. To obtain the complete orientation and immersion depth of such compounds in the membrane or a membrane-mimetic sy...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Hohlweg W,Kosol S,Zangger K

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the existence and structure of intermediates on the reaction pathway is necessary before specific details of the mechanism may be successfully resolved. However, enzymatic catalysis is an extremely fast process. This rapidity of enzyme-catalyzed reactions and the short life times of intermediates represen...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Dunn BM,Uversky VN

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic aggregation is closely associated with various protein misfolding diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus and Alzheimer's disease. Amyloidogenic proteins that have a propensity to assemble into amyloid oligomers and fibrils form the aggregates. The tumor suppressor p53, a transcription factor that regulat...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Gong H,Yang X,Zhao Y,Petersen RB,Liu X,Liu Y,Huang K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of bioinformatics has become a major part of the drug discovery pipeline playing a key role in improvement and acceleration of this time and money consuming process. Here we review the application of the informational spectrum method (ISM), a virtual spectroscopy method for structure/function analysis of pro...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Veljkovic N,Glisic S,Prljic J,Perovic V,Botta M,Veljkovic V

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absence of uracil from DNA genomes is a consequence of enzyme functions that eliminate intracellular dUTP pools and that purposefully recognize and remove uracil moieties from DNA. These enzymatic functions are dUTP nucleotidohydrolase (dUTPase) and uracil-DNA glycosylase (UDG), respectively. There are distinct nu...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Caradonna S,Muller-Weeks S

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated blood pressure or hypertension is one of the fastest growing health problems worldwide. Although the etiology of essential hypertension has a genetic component, dietary factors play an important role. With the high costs and adverse side-effects associated with synthetic antihypertensive drugs and the awarene...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Harnedy PA,FitzGerald RJ

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoconjugates comprise a variety of structures, include glycoproteins and glycolipids and are found on the surfaces of animal and plant cells, as well as on the surface of microorganisms. Determination of the structure and the distribution of glycoconjugates on cell surfaces are important for the understanding their...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Naeem A,Saleemuddin M,Khan RH

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria carry a battery of multidrug transporters, which belong to six families of transporters. Members of at least three families the ATP-Binding Cassette superfamily, the Major Facilitator Superfamily and the Multidrug Endosomal Transporter family have been shown to contribute to multidrug resistance phenotype in ...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Zgurskaya HI,Nikaido H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell viability depends on the correct folding of the proteins involved in metabolism. Proteins are synthesized on the endoplasmic reticulum and must follow a pathway to a correct, metastable, tridimensional structure. Changes in structure or in environmental conditions can drive an instability of the folding condition...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： de la Arada I,Andraka N,Pacios MG,Arrondo JL

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biotin carboxylase family is comprised of a group of enzymes that utilize a covalently bound prosthetic group, biotin, as a cofactor. These enzymes, which include acetyl-CoA carboxylase, pyruvate carboxylase, propionyl-CoA carboxylase, methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase, geranoyl-CoA carboxylase, oxaloacetate decarbox...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Jitrapakdee S,Wallace JC

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A complete understanding of the relationships between protein structure and stability remains an open problem. Much of our insight comes from laborious experimental analyses that perturb structure via directed mutation. The glycolytic enzyme lysozyme is among the most well characterized proteins under this paradigm, d...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Verma D,Jacobs DJ,Livesay DR

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD2 (cluster of differentiation 2) is a cell adhesion molecule expressed on T cells and is recognized as a target for CD48 (rats) and CD58 (humans). Tremendous progress has been achieved in understanding the function of CD2, the mechanism of molecular recognition and protein folding, thus, leading towards the use of t...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Wilkins AL,Yang W,Yang JJ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00