Construction of a tailor-made L (2S,3S)-butanediol dehydrogenase by exchanging domains between native structural analogs.

abstract：:Glycation, a non-enzymatic reaction between glucose and protein is the primary cause of diabetic complications. Albumin, the most abundant plasma protein undergoes glycation both in vivo and in vitro. The influence of albumin on glycation of less abundant proteins has not been addressed. For the first time, we show th...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Bhonsle HS,Singh SK,Srivastava G,Boppana R,Kulkarni MJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cationic antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are among the best studied antimicrobial factors expressed in the respiratory tract. AMPs are released by epithelial cells and immune cells into the airway surface liquid covering the epithelial surfaces of the lung where they act as endogenous antibiotics. Plenty of studies show...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Seiler F,Lepper PM,Bals R,Beisswenger C

更新日期：2014-04-01 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：:Identification and elimination of noise peaks in mass spectra from large proteomics data streams simultaneously improves the accuracy of peptide identification and significantly decreases the size of the data. There are a number of peak filtering strategies that can achieve this goal. Here we present a simple algorith...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Reiz B,Myers MP,Pongor S,Kertesz-Farkas A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5S subunit of transcarboxylase was expressed and purified. Recent methods of NMR spectroscopy as transferred NOESY, INPHARMA and Saturation Transfer Difference (STD) NMR were used to investigate ligand binding of free biotin to the 5S protein. The binding epitope for biotin is very similar to that obtained at the ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Bhat RK,Berger S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zwitterionic dipeptides have recently been shown to exist in water mainly as nine conformational forms with specific combinations of backbone Psi, omega and Phi torsions, which allows conformer-specific molecular recognition of peptide ligands by proteins. Here, we show that pairs of virtual backbone torsions can also...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Gupta S,Grail BM,Payne JW

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：:A pivotal feature that underlies the development of neurodegeneration is the accumulation of protein aggregates. In response, eukaryotic cells have evolved sophisticated quality control mechanisms to identify, repair and/or eliminate the misfolded abnormal proteins. Chaperones identify any otherwise abnormal conformat...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Eldeeb MA,Ragheb MA,Esmaili M,Hussein F

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last few decades, novel drug delivery strategies have been a big priority to the formulation scientists. Peptides and proteins have drawn a special attention for their wide scope in the area. Serum albumin, transferrin, recom- binant proteins, virus capsids etc. are used as carrier for drug and biomolecules. Co...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Mukherjee B,Karmakar SD,Hossain CM,Bhattacharya S

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:To identify proteins involved in the molecular mechanisms of pressure overload-induced heart failure, we quantitatively analyzed the left ventricular proteomic profile in a transverse aortic constriction (TAC) mouse model, a well-established model of cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction. Multidimensional LC-MS/MS in co...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Guan D,Zhao Y,Zhang Y,Tang D,Wu Q

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:NMAAP1 plays a role in regulating macrophage differentiation to the M1 type and exerting antitumoral functions. It is not clear what role and mechanism NMAAP1 does play in the reversal of macrophages from M1 to M2. METHODS:We detected the typing of macrophages with high or low expression of NMAAP1 by QPCR a...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Liu Q,Zhu P,Liu S,Tang M,Wang Y,Tian Y,Jin Z,Li D,Yan D

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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：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：:Thioredoxin (TRX) catalyzes redox reactions via the reversible oxidation of the conserved active center CGPC and it is involved in multiple biological processes, some of them linked to redox activity while others not. TRX is a globular, thermodynamically stable and monomeric alpha/beta protein with a structure charact...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Vazquez DS,Delfino JM,Santos J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radical Probe Mass Spectrometry (RP-MS) describes a pioneering methodology in structural biology that enables the study of protein structures, their interactions, and dynamics on fast timescales (down to sub-milliseconds). Hydroxyl radicals (•OH) generated directly from water within aqueous solutions induce ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Maleknia SD,Downard KM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is a major cause of chronic liver disease in the world. Many studies showed that T-cell responses to HCV Nonstructural Protein 3 (NS3) play an important role in clearing acute HCV infections, thus NS3 can be considered as a suitable candidate antigen for development of a HCV therapeut...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Basirnejad M,Bolhassani A

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Glycosyltransferases (GTs) are a ubiquitous group of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of sugar moieties from activated donor molecules to specific acceptor molecules, forming glycosidic bonds. Nucleotide-sugars, lipid phosphate sugars and phosphate sugars can act as activated donor molecules while acceptor substrate...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Gomez-Casati DF,Martín M,Busi MV

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：: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：: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：INTRODUCTION:The Renin-Angiotensin System (RAS) has emerged as being related to vascular disease. Recently the RAS has been associated with obesity, diabetes, and even cancer. OBJECTIVE:This review and Bioinformatics analyses focuses on the investigation of Angiotensinconverting enzymes (ACE and ACE2) as therapeutical...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： de Carvalho Fraga CA,Farias LC,Jones KM,Batista de Paula AM,Guimaraes ALS

更新日期：2017-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of rat proteins is an indispensable task in experimental medicine and drug development. The function of a rat protein is closely related to its subcellular location. Based on the above concept, we construct the benchmark rat proteins dataset and develop a combined approach for predicting the subcellular loca...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Shi R,Xu C

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calreticulin is a soluble endoplasmic reticulum chaperone, which has a relatively low melting point due to its remarkable structure with a relatively high content of flexible structural elements. Using far ultraviolet circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy and a fluorescent dye binding thermal shift assay, we have inves...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Duus K,Larsen N,Tran TA,Güven E,Skov LK,Jespersgaard C,Gajhede M,Houen G

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prediction of protein structure from its amino acid sequence is still a challenging problem. The complete physicochemical understanding of protein folding is essential for the accurate structure prediction. Knowledge of residue solvent accessibility gives useful insights into protein structure prediction and function ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Pugalenthi G,Kandaswamy KK,Chou KC,Vivekanandan S,Kolatkar P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00