Evidences of monomer, dimer and trimer of recombinant human cyclophilin A.

abstract：:The stability of Merrifield linker in Fmoc deprotection process was quantitatively investigated by establishing working curve of two major decomposition components from two resin bound dipeptide models. By sampling reaction solution and analyzing with RP-HPLC, decomposition rate was determined. The results indicated t...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Yang X,Lin H,Lu W,Wang D

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are short, cationic, membrane-interacting proteins that exhibit broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity, and are hence of significant biomedical interest. They exert their activity by selectively binding to and lysing target cell membranes, but the precise molecular details of their mechani...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Bond PJ,Khalid S

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) is a fundamental task in bioinformatics and is required for many biological analysis tasks. The more accurate the alignments are, the more credible the downstream analyses. Most protein MSA algorithms realign an alignment to refine it by dividing it into two groups horizonta...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Zhan Q,Fu Y,Jiang Q,Liu B,Peng J,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:The etiology of multiple sclerosis (MS) remains unclear. To determine if autoantibodies to myelin basic protein (MBP) are produced during parvovirus B19 infection, a competitive ELISA was performed using plasma from MS patients exhibiting high IgG titers for parvovirus. Our results showed the addition of MBP decreased...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Thomas G,Rael L,Shimonkevitz R,Melamed I,Bar-Or D

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：: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：:The development of a stable L-BDH chimera was attempted by exchanging whole domains between two native structural analogs, L-BDH and meso-BDH, because the S-configuration specificity of L-BDH is valuable from the standpoint of its application but its activity is unstable, whereas meso-BDH is stable. The domain chimera...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Shimegi T,Takusagawa Y,Ohtsuki T,Noda S,Kurisu G,Kusunoki M,Ui S

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：: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：:Quantum mechanical fragment molecular orbital calculations have been performed for receptor binding of the hemagglutinin protein of the recently pandemic influenza 2009 H1N1, A/swine/Iowa/1930, and A/Puerto Rico/8/1934 viruses to α2-6 linked sialyloligosaccharides, as analogs of human receptors. The strongest receptor...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Fukuzawa K,Omagari K,Nakajima K,Nobusawa E,Tanaka S

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bucain, a potent neurotoxin isolated from the venom of the Malayan krait (Bungarus candidus), induces paralysis and death. Its crystal structure has been determined at 2.10 A resolution and based on the molecular topology and hydrophobicity profile is structurally classified as a three-fingered alpha-neurotoxin posses...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Murakami MT,Kini RM,Arni RK

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：: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：:Infections by antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming a great risk for human health, leading to an urgent need for new efficient antibacterial therapies. The short, proline-rich antimicrobial peptides from insects gained a lot of interest as a potential antibacterial treatment, having a low toxicity profile and bei...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Stalmans S,Wynendaele E,Bracke N,Knappe D,Hoffmann R,Peremans K,Polis I,Burvenich C,De Spiegeleer B

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fruit juice clarification is a challenging aspect of beverage industry which needs to be addressed for economical and hygienic production of fruit juices. OBJECTIVE:Current study is focused on the complete purification, characterization and thermodynamic analysis of an efficient mannanase enzyme to analyze ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Ikram Ul Haq,Shakoor S,Nawaz A,Arshad Y,Mukhtar H

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This work describes the investigations of electrochemical interactions of naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) with stabilized lipid films supported on a methacrylate polymer on a glass fiber filter with incorporated auxin-binding protein 1 receptor for the development of a biosensor for the rapid detection of this compound ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Nikolelis DP,Ntanos N,Nikoleli GP,Tampouris K

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:To investigate the processing of transforming growth factor beta1 (TGFbeta1) pro-protein by furin protease we expressed a GST-pro-TGFbeta1 fusion protein in bacteria. Analysis of the furin digestion pattern revealed the liberation of 12.5 kDa TGFbeta1 monomers. There was no evidence for cleavage of an alternative furi...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kahle NA,Joffroy C,Popp SL,Knabbe C,Stope MB

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Searching the biomarker from complex heterogeneous material for early detection of disease is a challenging task in the field of biomedical sciences. OBJECTIVE:The study has been arranged to explore the proteomics serum derived profiling of the differential expressed and low molecular weight protein in brea...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Zafar A,Jabbar M,Manzoor Y,Gulzar H,Hassan SG,Nazir MA,Ain-Ul-Haq,Mustafa G,Sahar R,Masood A,Iqbal A,Hussain M,Hasan M

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：: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：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：: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：:The importance of the intestinal microbiota of animals is widely acknowledged because of its vital role in the health of animals. There are complex communities of microbiota, which colonize the gastrointestinal tract. Intestinal microbiota are conductive to animal health and the development of the host immune system. ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Hu S,Wang L,Jiang Z

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) triggers coordinated innate and adaptive response in host cell. HCV genome and proteins of the replicating virus are recognized as non-self-antigens by host cell to activate Toll Like Receptors (TLRs). Activated TLRs ultimately express cytokines, which can clear virus either by activating inter...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Farooqi ZU,Tareen SH,Ahmed J,Zaidi NU

更新日期：2016-01-01 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