Dietary Additive Probiotics Modulation of the Intestinal Microbiota.

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：BACKGROUND:Nε-acetyl L-α lysine is an unusual acetylated di-amino acid synthesized and accumulated by certain halophiles under osmotic stress. Osmolytes are generally known to protect proteins and other cellular components under various stress conditions. OBJECTIVE:The structural and functional stability imparted by N...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Joghee NN,Jayaraman G,Selladurai M

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Peptide: N-glycanase is a deglycosylation enzyme releasing N-glycan from glycoproteins. Although glycan specificity analysis of this enzyme has been reported, recognition requirements for the peptide sequence have not been precisely elucidated. OBJECTIVE:In this study, we carried out peptide specificity ana...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kuribara T,Ishihara T,Kudo T,Hirano M,Totani K

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the extensive analysis, we identified three highly conserved sequence segments in HCV NS5A proteins and one binding motif in human proteins. The binding motif of human proteins often forms a full helix or an extended strand-loop structure, and is in good agreement with the experimental findings of previous studie...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Zhang GZ,Han K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the in vitro antibiotic activity of the 19-amino acid antimicrobial peptide HP (2-20), derived from the N-terminus of Helicobacter pylori Ribosomal Protein L1 (RPL1), against antibiotic susceptible and resistant pathogens from a patient with gallstones. HP (2-20) was active against antibiotic-susceptib...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Park Y,Hahm JS,Hahm KS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful approaches of de novo protein design suggest a great potential to create novel structural folds and to understand natural rules of protein folding. For these purposes, smaller and simpler de novo proteins have been developed. Here, we constructed smaller proteins by removing the terminal sequences from stab...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Okura H,Takahashi T,Mihara H

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proof-of-principle methodology is presented in which all commercially-available cysteine (Cys) and selenocysteine (Sec) solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) derivatives are synthesized in high yield from easily prepared protected dichalcogenide precursors. A Zn-mediated biphasic reduction process applied to a series...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Flemer S

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：:Highly efficient coupling reagents, N-methanesulphonyloxy-2-phenyl benzimidazole and N - p-toluenesulphonyloxy-2-phenyl benzimidazole were designed, synthesized and successfully applied in peptide coupling reactions. Their efficiency was evaluated by synthesizing a number of structurally different amides and peptides ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kokare ND,Nagawade RR,Rane VP,Shinde DB

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gibberellins (GAs) are tetracyclic, diterpenoid plant hormones, essential for many developmental processes in higher plants. Plants perceive GA through a nuclear-localized GA receptor, GA INSENSITIVE DWARF1 (GID1). From sequence similarity, it is suggested that GID1 evolved from a hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL), and r...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Hirano K,Aya K,Matsuoka M,Ueguchi-Tanaka M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AB204 is an Activin/BMP2 chimera, which has been found to exhibit a higher activity than Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2 (BMP2) in osteogenic activity. To prepare AB204 for its preclinical studies, AB204 has been characterized in various formulation buffers. We observed that AB204 purified by ion-exchange chromatography ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Ahn C,Maslennikov I,Choi JY,Oh H,Cheong C,Choe S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study revealed that the content of protein S29 in ribosomes of cancer cell line A549 was distinctly low (equivalent to about 30% of that of 2BS). The conclusion was acquired based on the ratios of spot volume of ribosomal protein S29 to that of several other ribosomal proteins (S29/L37a, S29/L38, S29/S27 and S29/...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Zhou ZD,Bao L,Liu DG,Li MQ,Ge YZ,Huang YL,Liu WY

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：:After several studies on prediction of mutation, we examine the effect of three sampling strategies, the sampling based on years, the sampling based on number of mutations, and the sampling based on the unpredictable portion of amino-acid pairs, on the prediction performance in H5N1 hemagglutinins. The results show th...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Wu G,Yan S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of amyloid-like fibrils was studied by using the well-known serine protease trypsin as a model protein in the presence of ethanol as organic solvent. Trypsin forms amyloid-like fibrils in aqueous ethanol at pH = 7.0. The dye Congo red (CR) was used to detect the presence of amyloid-like fibrils in the sa...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kotormán M,Simon ML,Borics A,Szabó MR,Szabó K,Szögi T,Fülöp L

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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：:Comparison between the BAD complexes indicated that BAD all docks a hydrophobic surface of PKAc regardless of its phosphorylation. PKAc may prevent Bcl-xL from rebinding to BAD by phosphorylating human BAD at Ser118; whereas human BAD is phosphorylated on Ser75 in a BAD-Bcl-xL complex, resulting in the dissociation of...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Yang J

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:Norepinephrine-stimulated skin secretions from the Sante Fe frog Leptodactylus laticeps contained high concentrations of a peptide, termed laticeptin, with the primary structure Gly-Val-Val-Asp-Ile-Leu-Lys-Gly-Ala-Ala-Lys-Asp-Leu-Ala-Gly-His-Leu-Ala-Thr-Lys-Val-Met-Asn-Lys-Leu.NH(2). Laticeptin inhibited the growth of...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Conlon JM,Al-Ghaferi N,Abraham B,Sonnevend A,King JD,Nielsen PF

更新日期：2006-01-01 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: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 new coding sequence of the procarboxypeptidase B gene was obtained from SD rat fresh pancreas by RT-PCR and highly expressed in Escherichia coli in inclusion bodies. The folded procarboxypeptidase B was subjected to trypsin enzymatic cleavage to produce active carboxypeptidase B, subsequently, carboxypeptidase B was...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Su-Xia L,Yu-Jian Z,Li-Ping T,Qin-Sheng Y,Yi G

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Laminin, a member of the Extracellular Matrix (ECM), is a glycoprotein that is used as a factor that affects cell adhesion, proliferation, survival, and differentiation. Of these, five globular domains (LG domains) of the alpha chain play an important role in influencing the cell by binding to the integrin. ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kim JE,Seo HJ,Lee S,Jang JH

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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：:Spermadhesins are a family of secretory proteins expressed in the male genital tract of pig, horse and bull. Their function and structure have been widely studied, especially those isolated from boar. However, there are no data concerning spermadhesins isolated from buck. Buck seminal plasma was collected and subjecte...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Teixeira DI,Cavada BS,Sampaio AH,Havt A,Bloch C Jr,Prates MV,Moreno FB,Santos EA,Gadelha CA,Gadelha TS,Crisóstomo FS,Freitas VJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00