Detection of antibodies against synthetic peptides mimicking ureases fragments in sera of rheumatoid arthritis patients.

abstract：:To investigate the function of plant plasma membrane, proteins of rice plasma membrane were analyzed and the proteins changed by cold stress were identified. Plasma membrane proteins were purified with an aqueous two-phase partitioning method from root of rice seedlings, and activity of specific H(+)-ATPase localized ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Hashimoto M,Toorchi M,Matsushita K,Iwasaki Y,Komatsu S

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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: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：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：:Comparison between the BAD complexes indicated that BAD all docks a hydrophobic surface of PKAc regardless of its phosphorylation. PKAc may prevent Bcl-xL from rebinding to BAD by phosphorylating human BAD at Ser118; whereas human BAD is phosphorylated on Ser75 in a BAD-Bcl-xL complex, resulting in the dissociation of...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Yang J

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bromelain inhibitor, "bromein", is a proteinase-inhibitor specific to the cysteine proteinase bromelain from pineapple stem. In the stem, eight bromein isoforms are known to exist, and each isoform has a short peptide (light chain) and a long one (heavy chain) with five disulfide bonds. The three-dimensional structure...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Hatano KI,Takahashi K,Tanokura M

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：: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

abstract：:The immunogenicity of "novel" MART-1 and Tyrosinase class-II peptides was assessed in transgenic mice. Tyrosinase(141-161) peptide was found to be immunogenic and endogenously processed in the HLA-DRbeta1*0101 and HLA-DRbeta1*0401 transgenic mice with peptide specific production of IFNgamma or IL-5 respectively. The M...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Horton RB,Laversin SA,Reeder SP,Rees RC,McArdle SE

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The description of protein backbone was recently improved with a group of structural fragments called Structural Alphabets instead of the regular three states (Helix, Sheet and Coil) secondary structure description. Protein Blocks is one of the Structural Alphabets used to describe each and every region of protein bac...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Suresh V,Ganesan K,Parthasarathy S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5A (eIF-5A) is universally found in all eukaryotic cells. It is the only protein in nature known to contain the unusual amino acid hypusine, a post-translationally modified lysine. Recombinant human eIF-5A was crystallized by the hanging-drop vapor diffusion method. Crystals we...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Sun Y,Li X,Wu B,Sun P,Rao Z

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotic cells, regulated protein degradation of intracellular proteins is mediated largely by the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS). UPS-mediated protein degradation regulates virtually all crucial aspects of cellular physiology, such as cell proliferation, cell division, cell differentiation, and cell death. Co...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Eldeeb M,Fahlman R

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a de novo designed, beta-hairpin forming T1 peptide as a model to investigate the kinetics of peptide fibrogenesis by a combination of light scattering (LS), circular dichroism (CD), fluorescence, and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The results demonstrate that the T1 fibrogenesis undergoes a consecutive stepwi...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Wang C,Sha Y

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:Hepatitis C virus and related viruses in the Flaviviridae family (such as dengue virus, yellow fever virus or West Nile virus) are amongst the most important human pathogens, causing substantial morbidity and mortality world-wide. The production of viral progeny in Flaviviridae is orchestrated by the small, multifunct...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Ivanyi-Nagy R,Darlix JL

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：: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：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：: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：: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：:Colon cancer is one of the most common malignances. In vitro and in vivo study show that retinoic acids inhibit a wide variety of cancer cells but the molecular mechanism of their anti-tumor effects are not yet fully understood. Alltrans retinoic acid (ATRA), an isomer of retinoic acid, can inhibit the proliferation o...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Zhao J,Wen G,Ding M,Pan JY,Yu ML,Zhao F,Weng XL,Du JL

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bz(NO(2))-Orn(Boc)-OCH(2)CN was synthesized as an amino acid component with effective and successful orthogonal protection for amino acylation of 5'-O-Pivaloyl nucleosides and preparation of substrates for model ribosome reactions. The synthesis was carried out using suitable combinations of the methods of peptide syn...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Bayryamov SG,Vassilev NG,Petkov DD

更新日期：2010-07-01 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 synthesised nine analogues of the antibacterial peptide anoplin with a peptoid residue at position 5 (H-GLLKXIKTLL-NH(2)). The most active compounds showed MIC-values of 12.5 and 25 microM against E.coli and S.aureus. These MIC-values are comparable with anoplin which showed 23 microM and 11 microM against E. ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Meinike K,Hansen PR

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Laminin, a member of the Extracellular Matrix (ECM), is a glycoprotein that is used as a factor that affects cell adhesion, proliferation, survival, and differentiation. Of these, five globular domains (LG domains) of the alpha chain play an important role in influencing the cell by binding to the integrin. ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kim JE,Seo HJ,Lee S,Jang JH

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:Transgelin was solubly expressed in E. coli. Crystals of transgelin have been grown at 291K using sodium formate or PEG-4000 as precipitants. X-ray diffraction by the crystal extends to 2.3 A resolution. The crystal belongs to the space group P2(1), with the unit cell parameters a=39.3, b=61.9, c=56.0 A and beta=90.2 ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Liao X,Li S,Lou Z,Chen Z,Bartlam M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00