New extremophilic lipases and esterases from metagenomics.

abstract：:Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), known largely as a growth-promoting agent, possesses a growth-inhibitory motif recently identified as an occult epitopic segment in the third domain. The present study reviews the multiple biological activities of this AFP-derived peptide segment termed the Growth Inhibitory Peptide (GIP), whi...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Mizejewskia GJ,Butterstein G

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of tRNA studies has focused on tRNA molecules as pivotal player in the fundamental process of protein synthesis. Mounting studies have unveiled further functions for tRNA beyond protein synthesis, including non-ribosomal amino acid transfer, and regulation of targeted proteolysis. Post-translational N-ter...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Eldeeb MA,Ragheb MA

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:Fibroids or myomas involve large proportion of women of reproductive age. The myoma formation starts from the transformation of the myometrium, causing the progressive formation of a pseudocapsule, which is made of compressed muscle fibers. Numerous studies investigated on myoma pseudocapsule anatomy, discovering many...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Tinelli A,Mynbaev OA,Sparic R,Vergara D,Di Tommaso S,Salzet M,Maffia M,Malvasi A

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Flavonoids are plant products abundant in every day diet and claimed to be beneficial for human health. After absorption, flavonoids are transported by the serum albumin (SA), the most abundant carrier blood protein, through formation of flavonoids-SA complex. This review deals with the current state of knowledge on f...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Xue P,Zhang G,Zhang J,Ren L

更新日期：2020-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the interactions between drugs and target proteins is a key step in drug discovery. This not only aids to understand the disease mechanism, but also helps to identify unexpected therapeutic activity or adverse side effects of drugs. Hence, drug-target interaction prediction becomes an essential tool in the...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Anusuya S,Kesherwani M,Priya KV,Vimala A,Shanmugam G,Velmurugan D,Gromiha MM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the search of bioactive molecules, nature has always been an important source and most of the drugs in clinic are either natural products or derived from natural products. The ocean has played significant role as thousands of molecules and their metabolites with different types of biological activity such...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Negi B,Kumar D,Rawat DS

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary protein from fermented cottonseed meal (FCSM), widely used in poultry diets in China, had regulating effects on lipid metabolism. To understand the effects of FCSM on lipid metabolism in broilers, we analyzed the biochemical indexes, enzyme activity, hormone level and metabolites in serum responses to FCSM int...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Nie C,Wang Y,Liu Y,Liu J,Ge W,Ma X,Zhang W

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) protein is an extremely versatile, highly conserved nuclear protein, with its unique intracellular and extracellular functions mediated by its relatively simple domain structure. Within the nucleus, HMGB1 binds to DNA minor groove in a nonspecific manner and causes bends in the do...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Lohani N,Rajeswari MR

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The needs for purified nucleic acids for preparative and analytical applications have increased constantly, demanding for the development of new and more efficient methods for their recovery and isolation. DNA molecules harbour some intrinsic chemical properties that render them suitable for chromatographic separation...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Matos T,Bülow L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione (GSH or reduced glutathione) is a tripeptide of gamma-Glutamyl-cysteinylglycine and the predominant intracellular antioxidant in many organisms including humans. GSH and associated enzymes are controlled by a transcription factor-nuclear factor-2 related erythroid factor-2 (Nrf2). In cellular milieu, GSH p...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Narayanankutty A,Job JT,Narayanankutty V

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine proteases and their natural inhibitors have long been served as excellent models for studying (primary, secondary and tertiary) structure - activity relationships of biologically interacting proteins. As protein flexibility has been accepted as a "fourth dimension" of the protein structure, its contribution to ...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Gráf L,Molnár T,Kardos J,Gáspári Z,Katona G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactoferrin or lactotransferrin is a multifunctional glycoprotein found in blood circulation, mucosal surfaces, neutrophils, and in various secretory fluids, such as milk, bile, tears, nasal secretion, pancreatic juice, and saliva. The lactoferrin content in milk varies between different mammalian species and, within ...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Albar AH,Almehdar HA,Uversky VN,Redwan EM

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:For several decades the specificity of proteases has been presented as an active site divided into subsites, using the nomenclature of Schechter & Berger from 1967 (S1, S2... for subsites of the active site; P1, P2... for residues of the substrate occupying the corresponding subsites). At early stages of the research ...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Schechter I

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bioactive peptides are protein fragments which have a positive impact on the intestinal homeostasis. Intestinal homeostasis depends on the diverse functions of intestinal barrier including the microbiological, physical, chemical and immunological barriers. Defects in intestinal barrier function are associated with...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Ji J,Qu H,Shu D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is accumulating that small open reading frames (sORF, <100 codons) play key roles in many important biological processes. Yet, they are generally ignored in gene annotation despite they are far more abundant than the genes with more than 100 codons. Here, we demonstrate that popular homolog search and codon-i...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Cheng H,Chan WS,Li Z,Wang D,Liu S,Zhou Y

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis is a Gram-negative anaerobic bacterium that is implicated as a major etiologic agent of adult periodontal disease. This bacterium is asaccharolytic and possesses strong potency for proteolysis. It produces a novel class of cysteine proteinases, termed gingipains, in the cell-associated and sec...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Kadowaki T,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allostery forms the basis of intra-molecular communications in various enzymes, however the underlying conformational changes are largely elusive. Recently, we have proposed to employ an elastic model based normal mode analysis to investigate the allosteric transitions in several molecular nanomachines (including myos...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Zheng W,Brooks BR,Thirumalai D

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:Carnosine (β-alanyl-L-histidine) and its methylated derivatives: anserine (β-alanyl-Nπ- methyl-L-histidine) and balenine (β-alanyl-Nτ-methyl-L-histidine) are abundant constituents of excitable tissues of vertebrates. While carnosine and anserine are present at high concentrations and in variable proportions in skeleta...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Kwiatkowski S,Kiersztan A,Drozak J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemoglobin (Hb) is the prototypical example of a cooperative protein. Cooperativity of Hb is largely accounted for by the oxygen-linked allosteric interconversion between the T and R states/structures. Allostery is such a powerful explanation of Hb cooperativity that the possibility of cooperative events occurring wit...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Bellelli A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine proteinases fulfill and facilitate a broad spectrum of biological processes. They are held in check by different specific inhibitors. This delicate balance can be disturbed by genetic defects or exogenous influences and has been shown as the underlying or promoting cause for a large number of different diseases...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Mägert HJ,Drögemüller K,Raghunath M

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorinated alcohol 2,2,2-Trifluoroethanol (TFE) has been implemented for many decades now in conformational studies of proteins and peptides. In peptides, which are often disordered in aqueous solutions, TFE acts as secondary structure stabilizer and primarily induces an α -helical conformation. The exact mechani...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Vincenzi M,Mercurio FA,Leone M

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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：:The Mastermind-like (MAML) proteins are transcriptional coactivators for Notch signaling, an evolutionarily conserved pathway that plays several key roles in development and in human disease. The MAML family contains MAML1, MAML2, and MAML3. More recently, MAML1 has been shown to function as a coactivator for the tumo...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Saint Just Ribeiro M,Wallberg AE

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tic, short for 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline-3-carboxylic acid, is a kind of unnatural α-amino acids. Due to its distinct geometrical conformation and biological activity, the structure of Tic, regarded as the surrogate of proline and the rigid analogue of phenylalanine or tyrosine, has been introduced into many comp...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Zhang Y,Fang H,Xu W

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The family of peptides designated as cathelicidins was identified over a decade ago. Cathelicidins have since gained increasing recognition, both as endogenous antibiotics and as effector molecules of the innate immune system. The human cathelicidin LL-37 is widely expressed in human tissues and plays diverse biologic...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Wong JH,Ye XJ,Ng TB

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00