Regulation of photosynthetic electron transport and photoinhibition.

abstract：:The aggregation of proteins or their digested fragments through β-sheet structures has a great significance because it leads to neurodegenerative diseases, which are a problem of the aging societies of the developed countries. Short peptides are typically used as models to study the formation of specific structures. H...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Makowska J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angina pectoris, associated with coronary artery disease, a cardiovascular disease where, pain is caused by adverse oxygen supply in myocardium, resulting in contractility and discomfort in chest. Inflammasomes, triggered by stimuli due to infection and cellular stress have identified to play a vital role in the progr...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Sharma I,Behl T,Bungau S,Sachdeva M,Kumar A,Zengin G,Arora S

更新日期：2020-12-08 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：:Lactation is a critical phase for brain function development. New dietary experiences of mouse caused by weaning can regulate brain development and function, increase their response to food and environment, and eventually give rise to corresponding behavioral changes. Changes in weaning time induce the alteration of b...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Zhang W,Zhang Y,Zheng Y,Zheng M,Sun N,Yang X,Gao Y

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is a continuation of a series of reviews on the presence and the role of intrinsic disorder in milk proteins in the journal of Current Protein and Peptide Science. The focus of this article is on casein phosphopeptides, which are liberated during digestion of the milk protein casein. Structurally these ph...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Naqvi MA,Irani KA,Katanishooshtari M,Rousseau D

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Glucagon-like peptide 2 (GLP-2) is a newly discovered gastrointestinal peptide with 33% sequence homology to glucagon. GLP-2 has attracted interest because of its potent intestinotrophic endocrine/paracrine actions. The peptide, consisting of 33-amino-acid, results from expression of the glucagon gene in the enteroend...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Thulesen J

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host cell entry by influenza and other enveloped viruses is well characterized, however, the manner in which non-enveloped viruses deliver their genome across host cell membranes in the absence of membrane fusion remains unresolved. The discovery of short, membrane altering, amphipathic or hydrophobic sequences in sev...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Banerjee M,Johnson JE

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：:This work briefly describes available sensors for cAMP and cGMP. Many sensors are based on derivatization of naturally occurring products such as immunoglobulins, protein kinases, etc. Only a few published works deal with chemosensors, which are built up by "total" chemical synthesis. This field stays opened for combi...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Sebestík J,Hlavácek J,Stibor I

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Really Interesting New Gene (RING) family of proteins are found throughout the cells of eukaryotes and function in processes as diverse as development, oncogenesis, viral replication and apoptosis. There are over 200 members of the RING family where membership is based on the presence of a consensus seq...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Kentsis A,Borden KL

更新日期：2000-07-01 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 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：:Changes in protein structure and function, alteration in protein-protein interaction, and significant difference in protein concentration inside the body could play an important role in indicating the pathological evidence of abnormalities before the development of clinical symptoms and act as a critical detection and...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Puranik N,Yadav D,Yadav SK,Chavda VK,Jin JO

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal diseases are severe and have very high morbidity as well as up to 60% mortality for patients diagnosed with invasive fungal infection. In this review, in vitro and in vivo studies provided us with the insight into the role of Candida virulence factors that mediate their success as pathogens, such as: membrane a...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Staniszewska M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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：: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：:Heart failure (HF) is a condition with high mortality worldwide characterized by persistent progression. Myocardial hypertrophy is a dominant feature during the early stage of HF. The development of HF is a complex process related to a series of physiologic and molecular factors. Although the treatment of HF has been ...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Bi Q

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:Incidence of fungal infections has increased alarmingly in past few decades. Of the fungal pathogens, the Aspergillus fumigatus has been a major cause of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) which has five main stages--the acute, remission, exacerbation, glucocorticoid dependent and fibrotic stage. The diagn...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Singh B,Singh S,Asif AR,Oellerich M,Sharma GL

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring protease inhibitors (PI) of the Bowman-Birk type constitute a major PI family in cereal and legume seeds. The family name is derived from the names of the two investigators who characterised the first inhibitor of this type, the Bowman-Birk inhibitor from soybean (BBI). These proteins have the capa...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Clementea A,Domoney C

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:A growing body of work demonstrates the importance of post-transcriptional control, in particular translation initiation, in the overall regulation of gene expression. Here we focus on the contribution of regulatory elements within the 5' and 3' untranslated regions of mRNA to gene expression in eukaryotic cells inclu...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Pichon X,Wilson LA,Stoneley M,Bastide A,King HA,Somers J,Willis AE

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To defend themselves from attack by pathogens, plants can rely only on their innate defense systems. Defensins are antimicrobial peptides that contribute to plant immunity by displaying a direct cidal activity against various pathogens, some of which are responsible for plant diseases. These determine a significant de...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Padovan L,Crovella S,Tossi A,Segat L

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telobox is a Myb-related DNA-binding domain which is present in a number of yeast, plant and animal proteins. Its capacity to bind preferentially double-stranded telomeric DNA has been used in numerous studies to search for candidate telomeric proteins in various organisms, including plants. Here we provide an overvie...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Peška V,Schrumpfová PP,Fajkus J

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：:Mites and ticks are associated with many human diseases including allergic diseases and scabies. With the recent advances in the high throughput DNA sequencing technology, many mitochondrial nuclear genomes of these species have been sequenced and the resulting genomic resources will certainly provide novel insights f...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Xiong Q,Wan ATY,Tsui SK

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compare the DNA-interactive properties of bacteriophage T4 gene 32 protein (gp32) with those of crotamine, a component of the venom of the South American rattlesnake. Gene 32 protein is a classical single-stranded DNA binding protein that has served as a model for this class of proteins. We discuss its biological f...

journal_title：Current protein & peptide science

authors： Karpel RL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00