Red blood cell-encapsulated L-asparaginase: potential therapy of patients with asparagine synthetase deficient acute myeloid leukemia.

abstract：:Free radicals induce protein modifications, often associated to many biological phenomena. This mini-review overviews the approaches we have used to elucidate the radical-induced damages on sulfur-containing enzymes, such as ribonuclease and lysozyme, and the possible post-translational mechanism of the damage to anot...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Torreggiani A,Tamba M,Ferreri C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galanin is a neuropeptide that is widely distributed in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Some small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) cell lines such as SBC-3A release only the high-molecular-mass form, with lower molecular mass forms being undetectable. To investigate the mechanism of processing of progalanin to ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Yamamoto H,Iguchi K,Ohno S,Yokogawa T,Nishikawa K,Hoshino M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ciprofloxacin (Cip) is the most commonly used quinolone in clinical practice; however large-scale use has favored the increase of multiresistant pathogenic microorganisms. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) appear to be a promising alternative in potentiating these conventional drugs. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this s...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Carneiro VA,de Oliveira ST,Silva RL,de Sousa Duarte H,Silva ML,Matos MNC,Cavalcante RMB,Figueira CS,Lorenzón EN,Cilli EM,da Cunha RMS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcome of protein crystallization attempts is often uncertain due to inherent features of the protein or to the crystallization process that are not fully under control of the experimentalist. The aim of this contribution is to propose user-friendly tools that can increase the success rate of a protein crytalliza...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Sánchez-Puig N,Sauter C,Lorber B,Giegé R,Moreno A

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new galactose-specific lectin, named BBL, was purified from seeds of Bauhinia bauhinioides by precipitation with ammonium sulfate, followed by two steps of ion exchange chromatography. BBL haemagglutinated rabbit erythrocytes (native and treated with proteolytic enzymes) showing stability even after exposure to 60 °...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Silva HC,Bari AU,Pereira-Jénior FN,Simões RC,Barroso-Neto IL,Nobre CB,Pereira MG,Nascimento KS,Rocha BA,Delatorre P,Nagano CS,Assreuy AM,Cavada BS

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：: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：:Apelin, an endogenous ligand of the G-protein-coupled receptor APJ, is a novel myokine and may play a key role in regulating energy metabolism. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of hypoxic exposure, exercise, and hypoxic exercise training on the expression of apelin and APJ in skeletal mu...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Ji W,Gong L,Wang J,He H,Zhang Y

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Breast cancer demands safe adjuvant to overcome the side effects of standard drug tamoxifen. Diet derived bioactive compounds are reported to exhibit modulation of cancer growth leading to cell death. Chickpea is a protein rich edible legume with several bioactive compounds that includes lectin as well. Char...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Gupta N,Bisen PS,Bhagyawant SS

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：:Protein palmitoylation is an important and common post-translational lipid modification of proteins and plays a critical role in various cellular processes. Identification of Palmitoylation sites is fundamental to decipher the mechanisms of these biological processes. However, experimental determination of palmitoylat...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Li YX,Shao YH,Deng NY

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we show for the first time that non-fibrillar and spherical aggregates produced from PrP-(23-98) in the presence of NADPH plus copper ions are toxic to cultured cells and induce apoptotic signals. It is also confirmed that endogenous cellular PrP isoform is not required for toxicity to occur. ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Shiraishi N,Inai Y,Ihara Y

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:VML is a lectin from Vatairea macrocarpa seeds that has various biological activities. Here, we describe three new lectin isoforms from V. macrocarpa identified through genomic DNA analysis. One of these isoforms has high similarity to VML, while another that has noteworthy differences. We have denoted the new isoform...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Alves Filho JG,do Nascimento AS,Gondim AC,Pereira RH,da Cunha RM,Nagano CS,Teixeira EH,Nascimento KS,Cavada BS

更新日期：2013-11-01 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 small heat shock protein SsHSP14.1 from the hyper-thermophilic archeaon, Sulfolobus solfataricus (S. solfataricus) was able to protect proteins from thermal aggregation and prevent enzymes from heat induced inactivation. According to the 3D (dimensional) structural model of SsHSP14.1 developed by us before, the re...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Wen ZZ,Wang YH,Yang B,Xie MQ,Chou KC

更新日期：2011-03-01 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 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：:Human histatins are histidine-rich, low molecular weight salivary proteins that contribute to the immune system of the oral cavity. In this work, nucleotide sequences of the HIS1 (coding for histatin 1) and HIS2 (coding for histatin 3) genes, homologous to the human ones, have been sequenced and analysed in five prima...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Padovan L,Segat L,Pontillo A,Antcheva N,Tossi A,Crovella S

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper reviews the use of expressed protein ligation for the biosynthesis of backbone cyclized polypeptides. This general method allows the in vivo and in vitro biosynthesis of cyclic polypeptides using recombinant DNA expression techniques. Biosynthetic access to backbone cyclic peptides opens the possibil...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kimura R,Camarero JA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cryptochrome is a flavin-binding blue-light photoreceptor that functions in growth and development in plants, the circadian clock in animals and navigation in birds. However, a lack of purified cryptochrome has hindered studies of the structure and function of this protein. In this study, we obtained a subst...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Yuan X,Wang W,Wu W,Wang J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cysteine S-sulfenylation is a major type of dynamic post-translational modification of the protein that plays an important role in regulating many biological processes in both of prokaryotic and eukaryotic species. To understand the function of S-sulfenylated proteins, identification of S-sulfenylation sites...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Hasan MM,Khatun MS,Kurata H

更新日期：2018-01-01 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