Gbetagamma-copurified lipid kinase impurity from Sf9 cells.

abstract：:A method for seed proteome analysis using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry is described. The data were used to estimate the genetic diversity degree among twelve genotypes of pepper (Capsicum). The resulting spectra were converted into a binary matrix consisting of 23 protein data sets, and genetic similarity values were c...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： de Pinho Pessoa Filho MA,Bloch Junior C,da Silva Filho DF,Galdino AS,da Cunha RM,Alves MA,Grangeiro TB

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermadhesins are a family of secretory proteins expressed in the male genital tract of pig, horse and bull. Their function and structure have been widely studied, especially those isolated from boar. However, there are no data concerning spermadhesins isolated from buck. Buck seminal plasma was collected and subjecte...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Teixeira DI,Cavada BS,Sampaio AH,Havt A,Bloch C Jr,Prates MV,Moreno FB,Santos EA,Gadelha CA,Gadelha TS,Crisóstomo FS,Freitas VJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prediction of thermophilic and mesophilic protein plays a crucial role in both biochemistry and bioengineering. In this study, a different mode of pseudo amino acid composition (PseAAC) was proposed to formulate the protein samples by integrating the amino acid composition, the physic chemical features, as well as the...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Wang D,Yang L,Fu Z,Xia J

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:Endonuclease tRNase Z catalyzes the generation of the mature 3' end of tRNA precursors through specific endonucleolytic cleavage. The enzyme has been characterized from organisms representative of all domains of life as well as from organelles, and the crystal structure of three bacterial enzymes has been determined. ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Ceballos M,Vioque A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants reproductive phase, when grain yield and consequently farmers' investment is most in jeopardy, is considered as the most sensitive stage to drought stress. In this study, we aimed to explore the proteomic response of wheat anther at meiosis stage in a drought tolerant, Darab, and susceptible, Shiraz, wheat geno...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Fotovat R,Alikhani M,Valizadeh M,Mirzaei M,Salekdeh GH

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasostatin has previously been expressed in fused form or in inclusion body form in Escherichia coli. Here the protein was expressed in soluble non-fusion form in BL21(DE3)pLysS by IPTG induction. The expression level of vasostatin was about 15% of the total cellular protein. The expressed vasostatin was purified and ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Wu X,Li X,Su Z,Zheng Q,Xu H,Wu S,Feng Y,Zhao W

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human endophilin 1 (hEndo1) is a multifunctional protein that was found to bind a wide spectrum of prolinerich endocytic proteins through its Src homology 3 (SH3) domain. In order to elucidate the unknown biological functions of hEndo1, it is essential to find out the cytoplasmic components that hEndo1 recognizes and ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Wu G,Zhang ZL,Fu CJ,Lv FL,Tian FF

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Michael Laskowski Jr. (1930-2004) was a pioneer in the field of Standard mechanism serine proteinase inhibitors. He made numerous important contributions in the field. This article highlights some of his most important contributions such as the discovery of the reactive site in serine proteinase inhibitors, the propos...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Qasim MA

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:Migraine is a common neurologic condition marked by recurrent episodes of headache. Its pathophysiology is highly complex involving neuronal, inflammatory and vascular mechanisms. The Renin-Angiotensin System (RAS) can modulate all these mechanism, being a potential pharmacological target for migraine treatment. We ca...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Sassi KLM,Martins LB,de Miranda AS,Teixeira AL

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural, synthetic and analogues of peptides have shown prospects for application in cancer chemotherapy. Notably, some food protein-derived peptides are known to possess anticancer activities in cultured cancer cells, and also in animal cancer models via different mechanisms including induction of apoptosis, cell cyc...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Rajendran SR,Ejike CE,Gong M,Hannah W,Udenigwe CC

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:A significant association between increased level of blood homocysteine (hyperhomocysteinimia) and various eye pathological disorders including cataract has been reported. This metabolic byproduct is converted into a highly reactive cyclic thioester compound, homocysteine thiolactone (HCTL), which can potentially reac...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Hajjari S,Masoudi R,Javadi S,Hemmateenejad B,Yousefi R

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:After several studies on prediction of mutation, we examine the effect of three sampling strategies, the sampling based on years, the sampling based on number of mutations, and the sampling based on the unpredictable portion of amino-acid pairs, on the prediction performance in H5N1 hemagglutinins. The results show th...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Wu G,Yan S

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Since their recent identification, eukaryotic Hsp70 nucleotide exchange factors (NEFs) have gained increasing interest due to their engagement in vital cellular processes. Here, I summarize our current knowledge of their mechanisms of action, regulations and cellular functions as well as their relevance for human dise...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kabani M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging (SPRI) sensor has been developed for highly selective determination of cathepsin D (Cat D) or/and E (Cat E). The sensor contains immobilised pepstatin A, which binds aspartyl proteases from solution. Pepstatin A activated with N-Hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) and N-Ethyl-N'-(3-dimethylami...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Gorodkiewicz E,Regulska E

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) represent a large and ubiquitous group of peptides. The current crisis in antibiotic therapy has led to an intensified search for new antimicrobial agents. In this regard, scorpion venom constitutes a rich source of biologically active peptides including AMPs. In the present study, the pu...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Dueñas-Cuellar RA,Kushmerick C,Naves LA,Batista IF,Guerrero-Vargas JA,Pires OR Jr,Fontes W,Castro MS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cinnamomin is a type II ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP) and its A-chain (CTA) is a RNA N-glycosidase. It is observed that modification of tyrosine residues by N-acetylimidazole (N-AI) causes almost complete loss of CTA activity. Adenine partially protects tyrosine residues from modification by N-AI. It is proposed...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Xu H,Liu WY

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:Adenoregulin is a 33 amino acid antibiotic peptide who belongs to dermaseptin family which is the first vertebrate family to show lethal effects against filamentous fungi, as well as a broad spectrum of pathogenic microorganisms. Synthetic adenoregulin gene was cloned in 2, 4 and 6 tandem repeats and subcloned in pET3...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Zhou Y,Cao W,Wang J,Ma Y,Wei D

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recombinant human parathyroid hormone (rhPTH) fragment (Gly1-Gln26-rhPTH(1-34)) which contains two amino acids substitutions (Gly1 and Gln26) was acquired through Escherichia coli expression system using a soluble fusion protein strategy. The soluble fusion protein MBP-Gly1-Gln26-rhPTH(1-34) was harvested after puri...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Xu XC,Zhong SD,Kai F,Li LR,Liu C,Liu B,Bao JK

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 30 tripeptides were synthesized and tested as novel 5-HT4 receptor ligands. Receptor binding assays showed that a subset of compounds had reasonable potency relative to the agonists serotonin and 5-methoxytryptamine. Structure-activity analyses and molecular docking have highlighted avenues for further syn...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Hanna-Elias A,Thompson PE,Manallack DT,Irving HR,Coupar IM,Berque-Bestel I,Iskander MN

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:In this investigation a novel approach based on mucoadhesive superporous hydrogel hybrids (SPHHs) for topi- cal vaginal drug delivery for Metronidazole was tried. METHOD:SPHHs were synthesized by solution polymerization tech- nique. The synthesized SPHHs were characterized for tensile strength, swelling beh...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Chavda H,Chavada G,Patel J,Rangpadiya K,Patel C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phoenixin (PNX), a newly identified peptide cleaved from the C-terminus of protein C4orf52, mainly exists in two active isoforms, phoenixin-14 (PNX-14) amide and phoenixin-20 (PNX-20) amide that were first isolated from the rat hypothalamus and bovine heart, respectively. Initial studies demonstrated that PNX is a rep...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Yuan T,Sun Z,Zhao W,Wang T,Zhang J,Niu D

更新日期：2017-01-01 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 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：:Behcet's disease (BD) is a recurrent pathema with a typical symptom of inflammation involved in many organs. Previous report indicated that the serum of Korean patients with BD stimulates membrane expression of hnRNP A2/B1 in endothelial cells. In this study, the target 35 kDa recombinant human hnRNP A2/B1 were over-e...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Liang J,Yang W,Meng X,Chen P,Du H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00