Novel inhibitory activity for serine protease inhibitor Kazal type-3 (Spink3) on human recombinant kallikreins.

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

abstract：:Two cell-penetrating peptides, a Pro-rich peptide derivative, acetyl-(Val-Arg-Leu-Pro-Pro-Pro)(3)-Gly-Cys amide, and an octaarginine derivative, acetyl-Arg-Arg-Arg-Arg-Arg-Arg-Arg-Arg-Gly-Cys amide, were prepared by the solid phase method. Each peptide was coupled to the heterobifunctional cross-linking reagent, 6-mal...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kida S,Eto Y,Yoshioka Y,Nakagawa S,Kawasaki K,Maeda M

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cathepsin D is a lysosomal enzyme that is found in all organisms acting in protein turnover, in humans it is present in some types of carcinomas, and it has a high activity in Parkinson's disease and a low activity in Alzheimer disease. In marine organisms, most of the research has been limited to corroborat...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Francisco CC,Luis CJ,Marina EJ,Javier CF,Alexis LA,Del Carmen SH,Alfredo RI

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Src is a non-receptor protein tyrosine kinase ubiquitously expressed in animals. It is involved in various cellular processes, including the innate immune response in mammals. However, less is known about the function of insect Src. Here we presented a homologue of Src in silkworm (Bombyx mori), named as BmSrc by phyl...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Li X,Hua X,Song L,Xia Q,Wang F

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：:After consideration of the tertiary structure of the pY+3 binding pocket in SH2 domains, isoleucine of Ac-pYEEIE was replaced with various unnatural aliphatic amino acids and the binding affinities for Lck, Src, and Fyn SH2 domains were measured. We determined the characteristics of the amino acid at the pY+3 position...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Lee KH,Park SH

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polypeptide leptin exerts a multitude of regulatory functions. It has been implicated in the pathophysiology of inflammatory, metabolic and psychiatric disorders and has been found to be differentially expressed in men and women. Although a clear increase of leptin levels with age has been repeatedly observed in m...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Fulda S,Linseisen J,Wolfram G,Himmerich S,Gedrich K,Pollmächer T,Himmerich H

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prmt5 plays major role in regulation of gene expression, RNA processing, cell growth and differentiation, signal transduction, germ cell development, etc., in mammals. Prmt5 is also related to cancer. Knowing the proteins interacting with Prmt5 is important to understand Prmt5's function in cells. Although t...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Shen H,Zhang X,Al Hafiz MA,Liang X,Yao Q,Guo M,Xu G,Zhong X,Zhou Q,Zhao H

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-assembly of short peptide building blocks into well-ordered nanostructures is a key direction in bionanotechnology. The formation of β -sheet organizations by short peptides is well explored, leading to the development of a wide range of functional assemblies. Likewise, many natural proteinaceous materials, s...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Bera S,Gazit E

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalase is an enzyme that occurs in almost all aerobic organisms. Its main metabolic function is to prevent oxidative damage to tissues induced by hydrogen peroxide which is a strong oxidizing agent. Catalase is very effective in performing this task, since it has the highest turnover rate among all the enzymes. The ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Seixas FA,da Silva MR,Murakami MT,Tosqui P,Colombo MF

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porins are integral membrane proteins found in the outer membrane of bacteria, mitochondria and chloroplasts. Herein, we have reviewed sequence and structural understanding about bacterial porins. The first porin structure from Rhodobacter capsulatus at 1.8 Å resolution in 1991 till the recent structural advancement, ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kumar A,Bhandari A,Krishnaswamy S

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Allergy prevalence has increased worldwide over the last 25 years along with industrialization and westernized lifestyles. Indoor allergens are primarily responsible for the sensitization and development of atopic diseases. The main indoor allergens are known to be derived from various arthropods which account for up ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Jeong KY,Hong CS,Yong TS

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Phage Virion Proteins (PVP) are essential materials of bacteriophage, which participate in a series of biological processes. Accurate identification of phage virion proteins is helpful to understand the mechanism of interaction between the phage and its host bacteria. Since experimental method is labor intensive and t...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Chen W,Nie F,Ding H

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:For biophysical studies using heteronuclear NMR analysis of amyloid beta peptide, construction of an efficient and high yield expression system of uniformly isotopic labeled amyloid beta peptide is desirable. Here we succeeded in obtaining (15)N-labeled amyloid beta 1-40 expressed by attachment to hen egg white lysozy...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Nagata-Uchiyama M,Yaguchi M,Hirano Y,Ueda T

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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:Type VI Secretion System (T6SS) has been found in approximately onequarter of the gram-negative bacterial species, and its structural characteristics appear to slightly differ from species to species. The genes encoding T6SS are designated as type six secretion A-M (tssA-M). The expression of the tss gene cl...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Ok CK,Chang JH

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human ankyrin repeat and suppressor of cytokine signaling box protein 9 (hASB9), a subunit of an Elongin C-cullin-SOCS box (ECS) E3 ubiquitin ligase complex, is believed to be involved in specific substrate-recognition for ubiquitination and degradation. In fact, this specific substrate-recognition is determined by th...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Fei X,Zhang Y,Gu X,Qiu R,Mao Y,Ji C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sry-related box (Sox) transcription factors share a conserved high-mobility-group box domain (HMG-domain) that binds DNA in the minor groove and bends DNA for further assembly of transcriptional machineries. During organogenesis, each member of the Sox family triggers a specific cell lineage differentiation, indicatin...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Gao N,Jiang W,Gao H,Cheng Z,Qian H,Si S,Xie Y

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:The biocatalytic oxidation of UDP-glucose in the presence of NAD+ is catalyzed by UDP-glucose dehydrogenases. OBJECTIVES:The main objective of this study was the characterization of a UDP-glucose dehydrogenase (AmUGD) from Akkermansia muciniphila, a bacterium originally isolated from human faeces in an anae...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Wei S,Zhang XY,Sun Y,Conway LP,Liu L

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to design and develop stable nanoemulsion formulations containing IFN-γ to probe their use as an immunomodulating agent. The nanoemulsions comprising distilled water, triglycerides of capric acid/caprylic, sobitan-oleate (SP), polysorbate 80 (TW) and propylene glycol (PG) were prepared throug...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Ribeiro EB,Honorio-França AC,França EL,Soler MA

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:In this paper(1) we present a novel framework for protein secondary structure prediction. In this prediction framework, firstly we propose a novel parameterized semi-probability profile, which combines single sequence with evolutionary information effectively. Secondly, different semi-probability profiles are respecti...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Huang DS,Huang X

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：: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