Peptides as modulators of α-synuclein aggregation.

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：:We have studied the effect of guanidinium chloride (Gdn.Cl) and different osmolytes such as betaine, trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) and urea on the rate of chymotrypsin catalyzed reaction. The rates were measured using three synthetic chromogenic substrates, succinyl-ala-ala-pro-arg-pNA (AAPR), succinyl-ala-ala-pro-leu...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Garringer M,Qasim MA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thermostable uricase identified in Bacillus firmus DWD-33, which was isolated for the first time from soil, with an apparent molecular weight of 33.5 kDa was stable against oxidants and SDS. The highest expression yields were obtained in medium containing 0.8% maltose and 1.2% soybean powder as carbon and nitrogen s...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kotb E

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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:Microalgae have been suggested as promising feedstocks of significant biotechnological interest due to their enormous potential for the sustainable production of industrially valuable compounds such as lipids/fatty acids, proteins, metabolites, pigments, and biofuels. However, exploitation of algal biomass f...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Khan AZ,Shahid A,Cheng H,Mahboob S,Al-Ghanim KA,Bilal M,Liang F,Nawaz MZ

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：: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：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：: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 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：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：: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：: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：:Self-Interacting Proteins (SIPs), whose two or more copies can interact with each other, have significant roles in cellular functions and evolution of Protein Interaction Networks (PINs). Knowing whether a protein can act on itself is important to understand its functions. Previous studies on SIPs have focused on thei...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Qu J,Zhao Y,Zhang L,Cai SB,Ming Z,Wang CC

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal tau, through its proline-rich domain and the microtubule binding domain, binds to RNA non-sequence-specifically via electrostatic interaction. This binding inhibits the activity of tau. Tau and RNA were also found to co-localize in SH-SY5Y cells suggesting that RNA has opportunities to interact with tau in ce...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Wang X,Wang D,Zhao J,Qu M,Zhou X,He H,He R

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Currently, prion phenomena have been detected in various organisms, in addition to mammals affected by transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, various proteins have prion properties and adopt atypical phenotypes as genetic elements, such as the Sup35 and Ure2 proteins,...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Inoue 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

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：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：:Identification on protein folding types is always based on the 27-class folds dataset, which was provided by Ding & Dubchak in 2001. But with the avalanche of protein sequences, fold data is also expanding, so it will be the inevitable trend to improve the existing dataset and expand more folding types. In this paper,...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Liu L,Hu XZ,Liu XX,Wang Y,Li SB

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

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：:Monoclonal antibody (mAb) MN423 recognizes Alzheimer's disease specific conformation of tau protein assembled into paired helical filaments (PHF). Since the three-dimensional structure of PHF is currently unavailable, the structure of MN423 binding site could provide important information about PHF conformation with t...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Csóková N,Skrabana R,Urbániková L,Kovácech B,Popov A,Sevcík J,Novák M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously described a potent anthrax toxin inhibitor, based on a phage-library-selected peptide sequence, synthesized as a tetra-branched molecule on a lysine core and further modified for improvement of activity [Pini et al., Biochem. J., 2006, 395, 157]. This branched peptide had very low solubility because of s...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Pini A,Brunetti J,Falciani C,Fabbrini M,Bracci L

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza viruses cause a significant level of morbidity and mortality in the population every year. Their resistance to current anti-influenza drugs increases the difficulty of flu treatment. Thus, development of new anti-influenza drugs is necessary in regards of prevent the tragedy of influenza pandemic. The Polyme...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Lv HM,Guo XL,Gu RX,Wei DQ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kappa-conotoxin RIIIJ is a conopeptide to inhibit voltage-gated potassium channels, however, its detailed folding structures have yet to be studied. With the advance in computing power, it is possible to use the HP model to analyze all its possible folding structures. In this study, the amino acid sequences of kappa-c...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Yan S,Wu G

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00