The relationship between the pY+3 amino acid in the phosphopeptide ligands and the specificity for various SH2 domains.

abstract：:Annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) is widely used as a cool-season forage grass for its luxuriant growth, palatable and high digestible. To investigate the salt tolerance mechanism in annual ryegrass under salt stress, salt-tolerant genotype 'R102-3' and salt-sensitive genotype 'Tetragold' were subject to 300mmol/L ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Wang X,Ma X,Xinquan-Zhang,Linkai-Huang,Li Z,Nie WX

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bz(NO(2))-Orn(Boc)-OCH(2)CN was synthesized as an amino acid component with effective and successful orthogonal protection for amino acylation of 5'-O-Pivaloyl nucleosides and preparation of substrates for model ribosome reactions. The synthesis was carried out using suitable combinations of the methods of peptide syn...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Bayryamov SG,Vassilev NG,Petkov DD

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During spermiogenesis, the elongating rat spermatid chromatin undergoes a gradual process of condensation which is initiated in the round spermatids at "step 7" of cytodifferentation in stage VII and extending to elongated spermatids at "step 19" of cytodifferentiation in stage VIII. The mechanism of chromatin condens...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Gill-Sharma MK,Choudhuri J,D'Souza S

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2008 cancer was identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of four threats to human health and development. Since the early published reports of the first chemotherapeutic, mustine, in 1946, the anti-cancer drug and development industry has grown into a multi-billion dollar business enterprise. Worldw...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Li Q,Yi L,Marek P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin is naturally occurring polysaccharides which interacts with seminal plasma proteins and regulate multiple steps in fertilization process. Qualitative and quantitative information regarding the affinity for heparin-seminal plasma proteins interactions is not generally well documented and there are no reports of...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kumar V,Yadav VK,Hassan MI,Singh AK,Dey S,Singh S,Singh TP,Yadav S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porins are integral membrane proteins found in the outer membrane of bacteria, mitochondria and chloroplasts. Herein, we have reviewed sequence and structural understanding about bacterial porins. The first porin structure from Rhodobacter capsulatus at 1.8 Å resolution in 1991 till the recent structural advancement, ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kumar A,Bhandari A,Krishnaswamy S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nudix hydrolases catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleoside diphosphates linked to other moieties X, and contain the sequence motif or Nudix box, GX5EX7REUXEEXGU. The mechanisms of Nudix hydrolases are highly diverse in the position on the substrate. In this paper, we examined the sequences and structures of the MutT/Nudix...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Lin J,Tian B,Hua Y

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-gliadins isolated by carboxymethylcellulose chromatography contain noncovalently bound glucose probably due to contaminating proteoglycans and to material shed from the column. Traces of carbohydrate remain strongly bound to alpha-gliadins even after harsh denaturation, but our results indicate alpha-gliadins ar...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Turner JB,Garner GV,Gordon DB,Brookes SJ,Smith CA

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:OPT3s are involved in the transport of Fe from xylem to phloem, in loading Fe into phloem, and in the transmission of shoot-to-root iron signaling. Yet, apart from Arabidopsis, little is known about these transporters'functions in other plant species. OBJECTIVE:OPT3 proteins of several plant species were ch...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kurt F

更新日期：2020-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is currently believed that protein folding rates are influenced by protein structure, environment and temperature, amino acid sequence and so on. We have been working for long to determine whether and in what ways mRNA affects the protein folding rate. A large number of palindromes aroused our attention i...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Li R,Li H,Yang S,Feng X

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological stability curve--a plot of the free energy of unfolding versus temperature--is calculated for hen egg white lysozyme from a combination of extrapolated unfolding thermodynamic data from reversible conditions and isothermal titrations with guanidine hydrochloride. The shape of the curve suggests the e...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Younvanich SS,Britt BM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus sp. phytase contains five disulfide bonds. In order to elucidate their role, the reactivation and refolding of phytase in the absence and presence of dithiothreitol (DTT) was investigated. The results indicated that the disulfide bonds play an important role in the catalytic activity and conformational sta...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Song GY,Wang XY,Wang M

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malignant tumor is still one of the important diseases worldwide, cytotoxic CD8+ T lymphocytes (CTLs) play an important role in killing tumor cells. OBJECTIVE:To enhance the immune response of our previously identified HLA-A2-restricted CTL epitopes, we designed a multiepitope YL66. METHOD:The fusion prote...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Wu Y,Zhai W,Sun M,Zou Z,Zhou X,Li G,Yan Z,Qi Y,Gao Y

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of interaction between Asn259 (catalytic domain) with Gln821 (C-terminal domain) in PeptidaseN was investigated. The k(cat) of PeptidaseN containing Asn259Asp or Gln821Glu is enhanced whereas it is suppressed in Asn259AspGln821Glu. Structural analysis shows this interaction to change the relative disposition ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kumar A,Reddy S,Srinivasan N,Nandi D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Development of proteins and peptides into drugs has been considered as a promising strategy to target certain diseases. However, only few proteins and peptides have been approved as new drugs into the market each year. One major problem is that proteins and peptides often exhibit short plasma half-life times...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Wu H,Huang J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F(0)F(1)-ATPase is a rotary molecular motor. It is well known that the rotary torque is generated by ATP hydrolysis in F(1) but little is known about how it produces the proton-motive force (PMF) in F(0). Here a cross-linking approach was used to estimate the rotary torque produced by PMF. Three mutant E. coli strains...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Liu X,Cui Y,Chen C,Lai B,Yue J,Zhang Z

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microbe-Binding Peptides (MBPs) are currently being investigated to address the problem of antimicrobial resistance. Strategies enhancing their antimicrobial activity have been developed, including peptide dimerization. Here, we present an alternative approach based on peptide polymerization, yielding hapten...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Climacosa FMM,King RAN,Santos BMM,Caoili SEC

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thermostable uricase identified in Bacillus firmus DWD-33, which was isolated for the first time from soil, with an apparent molecular weight of 33.5 kDa was stable against oxidants and SDS. The highest expression yields were obtained in medium containing 0.8% maltose and 1.2% soybean powder as carbon and nitrogen s...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kotb E

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the development of cell-hybrid biomaterials, the functional activity of cells depends on the selective binding of cells to artificial ligands on the biomaterials. The extracellular matrix (ECM) is the most important ligand for cell activity. ECM is known to contain collagen, one of whose constituents is gelatin. Al...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Miyamoto K,Chinzei H,Komai T

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:E. coli small heat shock proteins IbpA and IbpB (inclusion body binding proteins A and B) are known to act as holding chaperones on denaturing, aggregate-prone proteins. But, there is no clear understanding about which of the IbpA and IbpB has more holdase activity and how the holdase activity of one was influenced by...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Roy SS,Patra M,Nandy SK,Banik M,Dasgupta R,Basu T

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper reviews the use of expressed protein ligation for the biosynthesis of backbone cyclized polypeptides. This general method allows the in vivo and in vitro biosynthesis of cyclic polypeptides using recombinant DNA expression techniques. Biosynthetic access to backbone cyclic peptides opens the possibil...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kimura R,Camarero JA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-protein betagamma dimers are prime regulators transmitting extracellular signals to wide-ranging cellular effectors including phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) isoforms beta and gamma. Recombinant Gbetagamma purified from Sf9 cells via metal-affinity and anion exchange chromatography exhibited a wortmannin-insensitiv...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Shymanets A,Ahmadian MR,Nürnberg B

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclotides are a large family of plant proteins that have a cyclic backbone and a knotted arrangement of three conserved disulfide bonds. Despite the apparent complexity of their cystine knot motif it is possible to efficiently fold these proteins, as exemplified by oxidative folding studies on the prototypic cycl...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Craik DJ,Daly NL

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of amyloid-like fibrils was studied by using the well-known serine protease trypsin as a model protein in the presence of ethanol as organic solvent. Trypsin forms amyloid-like fibrils in aqueous ethanol at pH = 7.0. The dye Congo red (CR) was used to detect the presence of amyloid-like fibrils in the sa...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kotormán M,Simon ML,Borics A,Szabó MR,Szabó K,Szögi T,Fülöp L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coiled coils are important structural modules and domains of protein-protein interactions. Further, they provide the required framework to proteins, like kinesins, myosins and SNAREs, which are either structural or involved in transport of biomolecules. We provide an interactive webserver to measure the strength of in...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Alva V,Syamala Devi DP,Sowdhamini R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the function of plant plasma membrane, proteins of rice plasma membrane were analyzed and the proteins changed by cold stress were identified. Plasma membrane proteins were purified with an aqueous two-phase partitioning method from root of rice seedlings, and activity of specific H(+)-ATPase localized ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Hashimoto M,Toorchi M,Matsushita K,Iwasaki Y,Komatsu S

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein structure information is very useful for the confirmation of protein function. The protein structural class can provide information for protein 3D structure analysis, causing the conformation of the protein overall folding type plays a significant part in molecular biology. In this paper, we focus on the predi...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Liao B,Xiang Q,Li D

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial mediterranean fever (FMF) is a systemic disorder characterized by recurrent attacks of fever and polyserositis. In FMF, several pro-inflammatory cytokines have been found to be elevated during the attacks. In recent years, it is shown that some proteins originated from adipose tissue play important role in in...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Keskin G,Inal A,Ozışık L

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA fragmentation factor 45 (DFF45) regulates DNase DFF40 as its inhibitor and chaperone. It was reported that the N-terminal domain (NTD) of DFF45 alone is disordered and DFF40 is necessary as a mutual chaperone for the folding of NTD. However, here we reported the crystallization of DFF45 NTD. These crystals diffrac...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Li T,Li X,Yang W,Rao Z,Zhai Zh

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgelin was solubly expressed in E. coli. Crystals of transgelin have been grown at 291K using sodium formate or PEG-4000 as precipitants. X-ray diffraction by the crystal extends to 2.3 A resolution. The crystal belongs to the space group P2(1), with the unit cell parameters a=39.3, b=61.9, c=56.0 A and beta=90.2 ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Liao X,Li S,Lou Z,Chen Z,Bartlam M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00