Spectroscopy and Molecular Modeling Study on Binding of Nickel Phthalocyanine to Human Serum Albumin.

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：:Solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has developed into one of the most informative and direct experimental approaches to the characterization of the molecular structures of amyloid fibrils, including those associated with Alzheimer's disease. In this article, essential aspects of solid state NMR methods are d...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Tycko R

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Many polyketides show biological activities and have thus been applied in clinics, as food additives, and in agriculture. Type II thioesterases (TEIIs) play an important role in polyketide biosynthesis. Most TEIIs belong to α/β-hydrolase family and usually contain a catalytic triad Ser-His-Asp. In polyketide biosynthe...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Luo HD,Jin MY,Wu H,Jiang H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:OPT3s are involved in the transport of Fe from xylem to phloem, in loading Fe into phloem, and in the transmission of shoot-to-root iron signaling. Yet, apart from Arabidopsis, little is known about these transporters'functions in other plant species. OBJECTIVE:OPT3 proteins of several plant species were ch...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kurt F

更新日期：2020-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of tumor suppressor protein p53 are present in almost about 50% of all cancers. It has been reported that the p53 mutations cause aggregation and subsequent loss of p53 function, leading to cancer progression. Here in this study we focus on the inhibitory effects of cationic osmolyte molecules acetylcholine ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Chen Z,Kanapathipillai M

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:The prediction of protein function is a difficult and important problem in computational biology. In this study, an efficient method is presented to predict protein function with sequence composition information. Four kinds of basic building blocks of protein sequences are investigated, including N-grams, binary profi...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Dong Q,Zhou S,Deng L,Guan J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the last years, Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) and lipopeptides have received attention as promising candidates to treat infections caused by resistant microorganisms. OBJECTIVE:The main objective of this study was to investigate the effect of repetitive KLFK motifs and the attachment of aliphatic acids t...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Húmpola MV,Rey MC,Spontón PG,Simonetta AC,Tonarelli GG

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of rat proteins is an indispensable task in experimental medicine and drug development. The function of a rat protein is closely related to its subcellular location. Based on the above concept, we construct the benchmark rat proteins dataset and develop a combined approach for predicting the subcellular loca...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Shi R,Xu C

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：: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：: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：:The aerotolerance of the lactic - fermentative bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus is mainly based on the key antioxidant function of superoxide dismutase (StSOD). In this work, the comparison of recombinant StSOD (rStSOD) forms obtained from two different initiation triplets indicated that the enzyme from S. thermop...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： De Vendittis A,Marco S,Di Maro A,Chambery A,Albino A,Masullo M,Michniewicz A,Parlato G,De Angelis A,De Vendittis E,Rullo R

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 30 tripeptides were synthesized and tested as novel 5-HT4 receptor ligands. Receptor binding assays showed that a subset of compounds had reasonable potency relative to the agonists serotonin and 5-methoxytryptamine. Structure-activity analyses and molecular docking have highlighted avenues for further syn...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Hanna-Elias A,Thompson PE,Manallack DT,Irving HR,Coupar IM,Berque-Bestel I,Iskander MN

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is currently believed that protein folding rates are influenced by protein structure, environment and temperature, amino acid sequence and so on. We have been working for long to determine whether and in what ways mRNA affects the protein folding rate. A large number of palindromes aroused our attention i...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Li R,Li H,Yang S,Feng X

更新日期：2020-01-01 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

abstract：:PepX is a X-prolyl dipeptidyl aminopeptidase of S15 family that cleaves dipeptides from the N-terminus of polypeptides having a proline or alanine residue at the second position. Involved in bacterial nutrition and in peptide maturation, this serine exopeptidase, counterpart of the mammalian DDP-4, has been proposed t...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： André J,Bach M,Xie J,Rigolet P

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Unstructured regions in proteins can vary from several amino acid residues to a completely disordered sequence. Since such regions play an important role in the protein functioning, much attention is being paid to their prediction. Special different programs are available for this purpose; however, predictio...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Deryusheva E,Machulin A,Nemashkalova E,Glyakina A,Galzitskaya O

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ROS, including (.)OH, is now recognized as the hallmark of inflammation and damage to the anti-proteinase barrier has been implicated in a number of pathophysiological conditions. We have previously shown that O2( -) and H2O2/HOCl are physiologically relevant inactivators of alpha 2M, a key anti-proteinase. Here, we s...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Khan SA,Khan FH

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red blood cell (RBC) encapsulated L-asparaginase is a novel therapeutic for the treatment of asparagine auxotrophic malignancies. The enzyme-loaded red blood cells function as bioreactors to deplete bloodstream substrate. This delivery system provides improved pharmacodynamics with protection from circulating proteoly...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Agrawal V,Woo JH,Borthakur G,Kantarjian H,Frankel AE

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA fragmentation factor 45 (DFF45) regulates DNase DFF40 as its inhibitor and chaperone. It was reported that the N-terminal domain (NTD) of DFF45 alone is disordered and DFF40 is necessary as a mutual chaperone for the folding of NTD. However, here we reported the crystallization of DFF45 NTD. These crystals diffrac...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Li T,Li X,Yang W,Rao Z,Zhai Zh

更新日期：2003-04-01 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：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：: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：:Marine species are comprising about a half of the whole global biodiversity; the sea offers an enormous resource for novel bioactive compounds. Several of the marine origin species show multifunctional bioactivities and characteristics that are useful for a discovery and/or reinvention of biologically active compounds...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Chandra R,Parra R,Iqbal HM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We here describe a new strategy for the delivery of oligonucleotides to cells that is based on the use of a short peptide containing three functional units: a membrane-penetrating segment, a DNA-binding domain and a cell-localization sequence. The designed vector binds strongly to oligonucleotides and has membrane-per...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Smith J,Guidry J,Wittung-Stafshede P

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：:In this paper, a 3D map of protein fold space was produced using Dali structure alignment and nonmetric multidimensional scaling. The fold space comprises four radial clusters, which correspond to the four classes of SCOP. The overall structure of the protein fold space is largely determined by three factors: secondar...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Xu Q

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00