Analysis of Antioxidant Enzyme Activity and Antioxidant Genes Expression During Germination of Two Different Genotypes of Lolium multiflorum Under Salt Tolerance.

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：:Endonuclease tRNase Z catalyzes the generation of the mature 3' end of tRNA precursors through specific endonucleolytic cleavage. The enzyme has been characterized from organisms representative of all domains of life as well as from organelles, and the crystal structure of three bacterial enzymes has been determined. ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Ceballos M,Vioque A

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：:Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) is known to interact with different biomolecules and was implicated in many novel cellular activities including programmed cell death, nuclear RNA transport unrelated to the commonly known carbohydrate metabolism. We reported here the purification of GAPDH from Chironom...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Chong IK,Ho WS

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Paraoxonase (PON; arilesterase, [EC 3.1.8.1]) is an enzyme from the group arilesterases (ARE). This enzyme is capable of hydrolyzing paraoxone which is the active metabolite of parathion, an organic phosphorus insecticide. PON activity was found to be low in individuals prone to development of atherosclerosi...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Yılmaz A,Dilek E

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Assisted Reproduction Techniques (ART) have significantly advanced since the first successful In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). However, most in vitro-produced embryos fail to implant. Key steps in ART are the correct infertility diagnosis, in order to manage the individualised treatments, and the assessment of ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： De Rose MB,Piccolomini MM,Soares Belo AS,Borges E Jr,Filho FF

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing antibiotic resistance has led to an urgent need for new therapeutic approaches. Host defense peptides are known to be antimicrobial and have revealed broad immunomodulatory functions for both innate and adaptive immunity. This review will focus on the role of host defense peptides in infection and immune re...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Hirsch T,Jacobsen F,Steinau HU,Steinstraesser L

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial mediterranean fever (FMF) is a systemic disorder characterized by recurrent attacks of fever and polyserositis. In FMF, several pro-inflammatory cytokines have been found to be elevated during the attacks. In recent years, it is shown that some proteins originated from adipose tissue play important role in in...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Keskin G,Inal A,Ozışık L

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the physical-chemical characterization of the major alcohol-soluble proteins present in seeds of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) by SDS-PAGE, bidimensional gel electrophoresis, MALDI-TOF/MS and RP-HPLC. We demonstrate the presence of three major prolamins, called A-, B- and C-pennisetin with mass values ar...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Marcellino LH,Bloch Junior C,Gander ES

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：:There is accumulating evidence that proteinuria is not merely a biomarker for the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD), but also a mediator of this devastating disorder. Indeed, albumin, one of the major components found in proteinuria, causes proinflammatory and profibrotic changes in cultured proximal tubular...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Matsui T,Yamagishi S,Ueda S,Fukami K,Okuda S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human beta-defensin-2 (hBD2) is A small cationic peptide with A broad range of antimicrobial activity. An E. coli cell-free system was employed to express the hBD2 fusion protein by using the hBD2 gene with 14 rare codons. The results showed that the expression level of trxA-hBD2 fusion protein was 0.35 mg/ml, which i...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Chen H,Xu Z,Cen P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cinnamomin is a type II ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP) and its A-chain (CTA) is a RNA N-glycosidase. It is observed that modification of tyrosine residues by N-acetylimidazole (N-AI) causes almost complete loss of CTA activity. Adenine partially protects tyrosine residues from modification by N-AI. It is proposed...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Xu H,Liu WY

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutation, conferring streptomycin and deoxyglucose resistance on cells, had profound effect on the kinetic and thermodynamic parameters inferring thermostabilization of beta-glucosidase from mutant 51 SM(r) of Cellulomonas biazotea. Free energy of activation for substrate binding, enthalpy and entropy of activatio...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Rajoka MI,Durrani IS,Khalid AM

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:It is important to understand the conformational biases that are present in unfolded states to understand protein folding. In this context, it is surprising that even a short tripeptide like AFA samples folded/ordered conformation as demonstrated recently by NMR experiments of the peptide in aqueous solution at 280 K....

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Patel S,Taimni R,Sasidhar YU

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we review the current status of our understanding of membrane mediated interactions from theory and experiment. Phenomenological mean field and molecular models will be discussed and compared to recent experimental results from dynamical neutron scattering and atomic force microscopy. ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Armstrong CL,Sandqvist E,Rheinstädter MC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CsaA is among the few chaperones which are present in both bacteria and archaea, but absent in eukaryotes. There are no reports on interactome analysis of CsaA from archaea, till date. Identification of binding partners of CsaA might be helpful in understanding CsaA-associated processes in Picrophilus torrid...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Singhal N,Sharma A,Aswal M,Singh N,Kumar M,Goel M

更新日期：2020-11-26 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：UNLABELLED:In this investigation a novel approach based on mucoadhesive superporous hydrogel hybrids (SPHHs) for topi- cal vaginal drug delivery for Metronidazole was tried. METHOD:SPHHs were synthesized by solution polymerization tech- nique. The synthesized SPHHs were characterized for tensile strength, swelling beh...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Chavda H,Chavada G,Patel J,Rangpadiya K,Patel C

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：: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：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：:PD-L1 is a highly glycosylated type 1 ribosome inactivating protein, from Phytolacca dioica leaves, with the peculiarity to act also as a DNase. PD-L1 has been successfully crystallized using vapour diffusion and seeding techniques. Crystals belong to the monoclinic C2 space group, with unit cell dimensions a=161.01, ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Ruggiero A,Chambery A,Di Maro A,Mastroianni A,Parente A,Berisio R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclotides are a large family of plant proteins that have a cyclic backbone and a knotted arrangement of three conserved disulfide bonds. Despite the apparent complexity of their cystine knot motif it is possible to efficiently fold these proteins, as exemplified by oxidative folding studies on the prototypic cycl...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Craik DJ,Daly NL

更新日期：2005-02-01 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