Crystallization and preliminary x-ray diffraction analysis of three mastoparans.

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：:Oblique orientated alpha-helices are highly specialised protein structural elements that penetrate membranes at a shallow angle and are used to promote membrane destabilisation by a number of protein classes. Here, the use of extended hydrophobic moment methodology shows that the amphibian extrudates, aurein 1.2 and c...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Dennison SR,Harris F,Phoenix DA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor vasculatures express high levels of α(V)β(3)/α(V)β(5) and α(5)β(1) integrins. Peptide containing the RGD (Arg-Gly-Asp) sequence, which is present in ligands of integrins, is effective in targeting therapeutic reagents to tumor vascular endothelium. In this study, we investigated whether the biological activity o...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Zhang HT,Li HC,Li ZW,Guo CH,Chen YJ

更新日期：2011-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microalgae have been suggested as promising feedstocks of significant biotechnological interest due to their enormous potential for the sustainable production of industrially valuable compounds such as lipids/fatty acids, proteins, metabolites, pigments, and biofuels. However, exploitation of algal biomass f...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Khan AZ,Shahid A,Cheng H,Mahboob S,Al-Ghanim KA,Bilal M,Liang F,Nawaz MZ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Type VI Secretion System (T6SS) has been found in approximately onequarter of the gram-negative bacterial species, and its structural characteristics appear to slightly differ from species to species. The genes encoding T6SS are designated as type six secretion A-M (tssA-M). The expression of the tss gene cl...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Ok CK,Chang JH

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wheat germ, one of the byproducts of flour milling, contains abundant physiologically active components. Globulins in wheat germ are a class of high-quality functional proteins and have received widespread attention. However, the composition of wheat germ globulin（ WGG）and the structure of the typical protei...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Ji XG,Huang JH,Hui M,Zhang YQ,Zhao Y

更新日期：2018-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Uterine Leiomyoma is mainly widespread non-malignant tumor. Around more than 80% woman have these particular tumor among them only 30% of them are detected. Integrin-ᵦ1 is one of the up regulated biomarkers during tumorigenesis which is also associated with structural disordered. Intrinsically disordered pro...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Maulik U,Uversky VN,Sen S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-terminal peptide alpha-thioesters are valuable intermediates in the synthesis/semisynthesis of proteins by native chemical ligation. They are prepared either by solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) or biosynthetically by protein splicing techniques. The present paper reviews the different methods available for the c...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Camarero JA,Mitchell AR

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Though protein folding is a regular phenomenon inside the cellular milieu, slight differences in the folding pattern of proteins may lead to disease-causing forms. Many diseases have been identified that are caused by these misfolded macromolecules and a considerable amount of focus is still directed towards better un...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Nayeem MS,Khan RH

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seminal plasma proteins contributed by secretions of accessory glands plays a copious role in fertilization. Their role is overlooked for decades and even now, as Artificial Reproduction Techniques (ART) excludes the plasma components in the procedures. Recent evidences suggest the importance of these proteins startin...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kumar A,Sridharn TB,Rao KA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cryptochrome is a flavin-binding blue-light photoreceptor that functions in growth and development in plants, the circadian clock in animals and navigation in birds. However, a lack of purified cryptochrome has hindered studies of the structure and function of this protein. In this study, we obtained a subst...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Yuan X,Wang W,Wu W,Wang J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a new prohormone convertase gene of insect origin, Trichoplusia ni furin, which was cloned from BTI-Tn-5B-4 (Tn5) insect cells. We constructed a truncated mutant that lacked Cys-rich repeated segments. Using baculovirus expression system and standard enzymatic assay, we obtained recombinant Tn furin and eval...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Wang L,Xu D,Qian M,Yang G,Wu X

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease with an autoimmunological background. RA is mostly characterized by systemic inflammation and injuries of synovial joints. There is a hypothesis that bacterial infections may be connected with development of the disease. It has been suggested that molecular mimicry betwee...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Konieczna I,Kwinkowski M,Kolesińska B,Kamiński Z,Zarnowiec P,Kaca W

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Synuclein forms amyloid deposits in the dopaminergic neurons; a process that is believed to contribute to the Parkinson's disease. An emerging theme in amyloid research is the hypothesis that the toxic species produced during amyloid formation share common physic-chemical features and exert their effects by common m...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Ruzza P,Gazziero M,Marchi MD,Massalongo G,Marchiani A,Autiero I,Tessari I,Bubacco L,Calderan A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study dealt with the isolation, identification and characterization of pigments from red snow samples of the Quito coastal front glacier (S 62º 27,217', W 059º 45,960') in Greenwich, Archipelago South Shetland, Antarctica, during summer 2013. As a strain of Shewanella was found to be the most common and ab...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Martín-Cerezo ML,García-López E,Cid C

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discriminating cell wall lytic enzymes from non lytic enzymes is a very important task for curing bacterial infections. In this paper, based on Chou's amphiphilic pseudo amino acid composition, we develop fisher-discriminant based classifier to predict cell wall lytic enzymes. Experiments show that 66.7% sensitivity w...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Ding H,Luo L,Lin H

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we review the current status of our understanding of membrane mediated interactions from theory and experiment. Phenomenological mean field and molecular models will be discussed and compared to recent experimental results from dynamical neutron scattering and atomic force microscopy. ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Armstrong CL,Sandqvist E,Rheinstädter MC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper(1) we present a novel framework for protein secondary structure prediction. In this prediction framework, firstly we propose a novel parameterized semi-probability profile, which combines single sequence with evolutionary information effectively. Secondly, different semi-probability profiles are respecti...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Huang DS,Huang X

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study revealed that the content of protein S29 in ribosomes of cancer cell line A549 was distinctly low (equivalent to about 30% of that of 2BS). The conclusion was acquired based on the ratios of spot volume of ribosomal protein S29 to that of several other ribosomal proteins (S29/L37a, S29/L38, S29/S27 and S29/...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Zhou ZD,Bao L,Liu DG,Li MQ,Ge YZ,Huang YL,Liu WY

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The studies presented here explore antimicrobial peptide preferential binding behavior for a target pathogen, Escherichia coli O157:H7. A modified immunoassay and surface plasmon resonance were employed to evaluate immobilized peptide binding of whole bacterial cells. The knowledge gained may guide the rational design...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Soares JW,Kirby R,Morin KM,Mello CM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of interfaces in protein complexes is effective for the elucidation of protein function and helps us to understand their roles in biological processes. With the exponentially growing amount of protein sequence data, an exploration of new methods that predict protein interaction sites based solely on...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Huang J,Deng R,Wang J,Wu H,Xiong Y,Wang X

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:The search for potential inhibitors that target so far unexplored bacterial enzyme mono-N-succinyl-L,L-diaminopimelic acid desuccinylase (DapE) has stimulated a development of methodology for quick and efficient preparation of mono-N-acylated 2,6-diaminopimelic acid (DAP) derivatives bearing the different carboxyl gro...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Vanek V,Pícha J,Budesínský M,Sanda M,Jirácek J,Holz RC,Hlavácek J

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：:The Saccaromices cerevisiae D-serine dehydratase is a pyridoxal 5'-phosphate dependent enzyme that requires zinc for its function. It catalyses the conversion of D-serine into pyruvate and ammonia with the K(m) and k(cat) values of 0.39 mM and 13.1 s(-1) respectively. In this work, a new methodology for monitoring D-s...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Staiano M,Strianese M,Varriale A,Di Giovanni S,di Mase DS,Dell'Angelo V,Ruggiero G,Labella T,Pellecchia C,D'Auria S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleobindin-2 is a 420 amino acid EF-hand Ca²⁺ binding protein that can be further processed to generate an 82 amino terminal peptide termed Nesfatin-1. To examine the function of secreted Nucleobindin-2 in adipocyte differentiation, cultured 3T3-L1 cells were incubated with either 0 or 100 nM of GST, GST-Nucleobindi...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Tagaya Y,Osaki A,Miura A,Okada S,Ohshima K,Hashimoto K,Yamada M,Satoh T,Shimizu H,Mori M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) plays an important role in cellular metabolism and acts as hydrideaccepting and hydride-donating coenzymes in energy production. Identification of NAD protein interacting sites can significantly aid in understanding the NAD dependent metabolism and pathways, and it could further...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Wang X,Wang CC,Zhang YQ,Mi G,Zhang J,Li ML

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Class I fusion glycoproteins of viruses are involved in the fusion between viral envelope and cell membrane. A region located in the N-terminal domain of these glycoproteins, called the fusion peptide, is essential for fusion. Fusion peptides are able to induce by themselves in vitro membrane fusion. In this paper, we...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Charloteaux B,Lorin A,Brasseur R,Lins L

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loxosceles intermedia spider venom was subjected to proteomic analysis through a MudPIT shot-gun approach to identify the protein composition. Were identified 39 proteins which seem to responsible by the lesion of different types of tissues, to some physiopathological actions and by the prevention of structural damage...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： dos Santos LD,Dias NB,Roberto J,Pinto AS,Palma MS

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the effect of guanidinium chloride (Gdn.Cl) and different osmolytes such as betaine, trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) and urea on the rate of chymotrypsin catalyzed reaction. The rates were measured using three synthetic chromogenic substrates, succinyl-ala-ala-pro-arg-pNA (AAPR), succinyl-ala-ala-pro-leu...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Garringer M,Qasim MA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00