Proteome analysis of rice root plasma membrane and detection of cold stress responsive proteins.

abstract：:Coordination of cell growth and cell division is very important for living organisms in order for these to develop harmonically. The present research is concerned with the purification and characterization of a new peptide hormone, namely ZmIGF (Zea mays insulin-like growth factor), which regulates growth and cell div...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Rodríguez-López CD,Rodríguez-Romero A,Aguilar R,de Jiménez ES

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmepsin 4 (PM4) is a digestive vacuole enzyme found in all Plasmodium species examined to date. While P. falciparum has three additional aspartic proteinases in its digestive vacuole in addition to plasmepsin 4, other Plasmodium species have only PM4 in their digestive vacuole. Therefore, PM4 may be a good target f...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Janka L,Clemente J,Vaiana N,Sparatore A,Romeo S,Dunn BM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteases have been used not only for proteolysis but also in organic solvent-assisted religation processes. Here, we demonstrated the effect of salts on peptide bond resynthesis in Glutathione-S-transferase (GST) and have found it to be in the purview of the Hofmeister phenomena. Our results show that the efficiency ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kishan KV,Sharma A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Haloalkane dehalogenases (EC 3.8.1.5, HLDs) are α/β-hydrolases which catalyze the irreversible cleavage of carbon-halogen bonds of haloalkanes, producing an alcohol, a halide and a hydrogen ion. Haloalkanes are acutely toxic to animals and humans and their toxic effects are mainly observed in the liver, kidn...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Georgakis N,Chronopoulou E,Gad MA,Skliros D,Efrose R,Flemetakis E,Labrou NE

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：:Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) is known to interact with different biomolecules and was implicated in many novel cellular activities including programmed cell death, nuclear RNA transport unrelated to the commonly known carbohydrate metabolism. We reported here the purification of GAPDH from Chironom...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Chong IK,Ho WS

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hop is a tetratricopeptide repeat domain (TPR)-containing co-chaperone that is able to directly associate with both Hsp70 and Hsp90. Previous data showed that the TPR2A-domain is the primary site for dimerization and that the TPR2B-domain may also play a role in dimerization. We present Hop-D456G, a mutant within the ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Gonçalves DC,Gava LM,Ramos CH

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chickpea is a widely grown legume in India, Australia, Canada, and Mediterranean regions. Seeds of chickpea are good source of protein for both human and animals. Wild relatives of chickpea (Cicer arietinum) are the potential gene pool for crop improvement; however, very little information is available on th...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Dhar S,Bhattacharjee M,Acharjee S,Baishya D

更新日期：2020-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The aerotolerance of the lactic - fermentative bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus is mainly based on the key antioxidant function of superoxide dismutase (StSOD). In this work, the comparison of recombinant StSOD (rStSOD) forms obtained from two different initiation triplets indicated that the enzyme from S. thermop...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： De Vendittis A,Marco S,Di Maro A,Chambery A,Albino A,Masullo M,Michniewicz A,Parlato G,De Angelis A,De Vendittis E,Rullo R

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-splicing inteins are widespread in nature and have found many applications in protein research and engineering. The mechanism of protein splicing typically requires a nucleophilic amino acid residue at both position 1 (first residue of intein) and position +1 (first residue after intein), however it was not cl...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Qi X,Wang J,Meng Q,Liu XQ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have synthesised the CXC chemokine receptor 4 (29-39) peptide, CXCR4[29-39]. This peptide is located in the N-terminal region of the receptor and is likely to be involved in the docking step of the receptor interaction with its natural ligand stromal cell-derived factor-1 chemokine, SDF-1. Preliminary experiments, ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Palladino P,Pedone C,Ragone R,Rossi F,Saviano M,Benedetti E

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) was once considered as an ideal anti-diabetic candidate for its important role in maintaining glucose homeostasis through the regulation of islet hormone secretion, as well as hepatic and gastric function. However, the major therapeutic obstacle for using native GLP-1 as a therapeutic a...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Chen W,Zhou Y,Zhang H,Qian H,Huang W,Yang B,Han J,Zhou J,Chi Y,Ni S

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:Heat shock proteins (HSPs) consist of a large group of proteins with negligible expressions under physiological conditions. Their expressions are highly induced under stress conditions and they are ubiquitously expressed in various tissues and organs. HSPs possess chaperone functions, thus facilitating the correct fol...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Lu WJ,Lee NP,Fatima S,Luk JM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

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：:PepX is a X-prolyl dipeptidyl aminopeptidase of S15 family that cleaves dipeptides from the N-terminus of polypeptides having a proline or alanine residue at the second position. Involved in bacterial nutrition and in peptide maturation, this serine exopeptidase, counterpart of the mammalian DDP-4, has been proposed t...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： André J,Bach M,Xie J,Rigolet P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient preparation of Periplaneta americana nymphae allergen, Cr PI (54 kDa) is described. It was expressed as a GST-tag fusion protein in Escherichia coli, strain BL21 (DE3). Expression of recombinant Cr PI (rCr PI), denaturation/renaturation of the inclusion bodies and the effects of protein and L-arginine con...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Wu HQ,Liu ZG,Ran PX,Zhou ZW,Gao B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prediction of protein function is a difficult and important problem in computational biology. In this study, an efficient method is presented to predict protein function with sequence composition information. Four kinds of basic building blocks of protein sequences are investigated, including N-grams, binary profi...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Dong Q,Zhou S,Deng L,Guan J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA ligase is an important enzyme and it plays vital role in the replication and repair; also catalyzes nick joining between adjacent bases of DNA. The NAD(+) dependent DNA ligase is selectively present in eubacteria and few viruses; but missing in humans. Homology modeling was used to generate 3-D structure of NAD(+)...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Singh V,Somvanshi P

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the in vitro antibiotic activity of the 19-amino acid antimicrobial peptide HP (2-20), derived from the N-terminus of Helicobacter pylori Ribosomal Protein L1 (RPL1), against antibiotic susceptible and resistant pathogens from a patient with gallstones. HP (2-20) was active against antibiotic-susceptib...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Park Y,Hahm JS,Hahm KS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Application of complementary B and T cell epitopes in inducing anti-idiotypic and anti-clonotypic antibodies capable of regulating or suppressing the autoimmune responses in experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis (EAMG), allergic neuritis (EAN) and allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) has been the stimulus of many rese...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Sakarellos-Daitsiotis M,Cung MT,Sakarellos C,El Hilali Z,Kosmopoulou A,Voitharou C

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of tumor suppressor protein p53 are present in almost about 50% of all cancers. It has been reported that the p53 mutations cause aggregation and subsequent loss of p53 function, leading to cancer progression. Here in this study we focus on the inhibitory effects of cationic osmolyte molecules acetylcholine ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Chen Z,Kanapathipillai M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human gut microbial ecosystem (HGME) exerts an important influence on the human health. In recent researches, meta-genomics provided deep insights into the HGME in terms of gene contents, metabolic processes and genome constitutions of meta-genome. Here we present a novel methodology to investigate the HGME on the...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Ji Y,Shi Y,Wang C,Dai J,Li Y

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial ADP-ribosyltransferases (BADPRTs) are extensively contributed to determine the strain-specific virulence state and pathogenesis in human hosts. Understanding molecular evolution and functional diversity of the BADPRTs is an important standpoint to describe the fundamental behind in the vaccine designing for ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Chellapandi P,Sakthishree S,Bharathi M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saturation Transfer Difference NMR (STD NMR) is used for the detection of the binding constant of the decapeptide RRRDDDSDDD with CK2α, the catalytic subunit of the proteinkinase CK2. For this work a valid irradiation frequency of the CK2α had to be found ensuring that no peptide resonance is affected by the irradiati...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Raüber C,Berger S

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protealysin, a zinc metalloprotease of Serratia proteamaculans, is the prototype of a new group within the peptidase family M4. Protealysin-like proteases (PLPs) are widely spread in bacteria but are also found in fungi and archaea. The biological functions of PLPs have not been well studied, but published d...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Chukhontseva KN,Salnikov VV,Morenkov OS,Kostrov SV,Demidyuk IV

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ewing's Sarcoma transcript-2 (EAT2) also known as SH2D1B is involved in regulation of signalling lymphocytic activation molecule (SLAM) family receptor functions. Cytoplasmic tails of SLAM family receptors contain tyrosine residues which mediate the downstream signal transduction through their phosphorylation. EAT2, c...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Taha M,Nezerwa E,Nam HJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilizing different computational methods; phosphorylation, O-GlcNAc modification and Yin Yang sites are predicted in HMGN-1. Prediction results suggest that interplay of phosphorylation and O-GlcNAc modification regulates binding and removal of HMGN-1 with the nucleosome and its translocation from nucleus to cytoplas...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Ahmad I,Khan TS,Hoessli DC,Walker-Nasir E,Kaleem A,Shakoori AR,Nasir-ud-Din

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, therapeutic proteins have become an important growing class of drugs in the pharmaceutics industry. The development of recombinant DNA technology has caused to appreciation of therapeutic value of many proteins and peptides in medicine. Currently, approximately 100 therapeutic proteins obtained approv...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Ozgur A,Tutar Y

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00