Protealysin is not Secreted Constitutively.

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：:A recombinant human parathyroid hormone (rhPTH) fragment (Gly1-Gln26-rhPTH(1-34)) which contains two amino acids substitutions (Gly1 and Gln26) was acquired through Escherichia coli expression system using a soluble fusion protein strategy. The soluble fusion protein MBP-Gly1-Gln26-rhPTH(1-34) was harvested after puri...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Xu XC,Zhong SD,Kai F,Li LR,Liu C,Liu B,Bao JK

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) triggers coordinated innate and adaptive response in host cell. HCV genome and proteins of the replicating virus are recognized as non-self-antigens by host cell to activate Toll Like Receptors (TLRs). Activated TLRs ultimately express cytokines, which can clear virus either by activating inter...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Farooqi ZU,Tareen SH,Ahmed J,Zaidi NU

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for potential inhibitors that target so far unexplored bacterial enzyme mono-N-succinyl-L,L-diaminopimelic acid desuccinylase (DapE) has stimulated a development of methodology for quick and efficient preparation of mono-N-acylated 2,6-diaminopimelic acid (DAP) derivatives bearing the different carboxyl gro...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Vanek V,Pícha J,Budesínský M,Sanda M,Jirácek J,Holz RC,Hlavácek J

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The P2 protein (equivalent of L7/L12 in prokaryotes), a member of the ribosomal stalk in eukaryotes, is highly conserved, particularly its C-terminal domain. In order to understand the sequence-structure-function relationships in eukaryotic C-terminal stretches, about which nothing is known at the moment, we have inve...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Mishra P,Rajagopal S,Sharma S,Hosur RV

更新日期：2014-01-01 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 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：:Interaction between S100P and its target protein is an essential step in several cellular functions. The amphipathic mellitin peptide binds tightly to S100P protein in the presence of calcium cation. Since little is known about the recognition sequence, mellitin interaction form a model for S100P. Interaction between ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Tutar Y

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：: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：INTRODUCTION:The Renin-Angiotensin System (RAS) has emerged as being related to vascular disease. Recently the RAS has been associated with obesity, diabetes, and even cancer. OBJECTIVE:This review and Bioinformatics analyses focuses on the investigation of Angiotensinconverting enzymes (ACE and ACE2) as therapeutical...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： de Carvalho Fraga CA,Farias LC,Jones KM,Batista de Paula AM,Guimaraes ALS

更新日期：2017-11-17 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：:DNA ligase is an important enzyme and it plays vital role in the replication and repair; also catalyzes nick joining between adjacent bases of DNA. The NAD(+) dependent DNA ligase is selectively present in eubacteria and few viruses; but missing in humans. Homology modeling was used to generate 3-D structure of NAD(+)...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Singh V,Somvanshi P

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:Aspergillus sp. phytase contains five disulfide bonds. In order to elucidate their role, the reactivation and refolding of phytase in the absence and presence of dithiothreitol (DTT) was investigated. The results indicated that the disulfide bonds play an important role in the catalytic activity and conformational sta...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Song GY,Wang XY,Wang M

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：: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：:The development of a stable L-BDH chimera was attempted by exchanging whole domains between two native structural analogs, L-BDH and meso-BDH, because the S-configuration specificity of L-BDH is valuable from the standpoint of its application but its activity is unstable, whereas meso-BDH is stable. The domain chimera...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Shimegi T,Takusagawa Y,Ohtsuki T,Noda S,Kurisu G,Kusunoki M,Ui S

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have synthesised nine analogues of the antibacterial peptide anoplin with a peptoid residue at position 5 (H-GLLKXIKTLL-NH(2)). The most active compounds showed MIC-values of 12.5 and 25 microM against E.coli and S.aureus. These MIC-values are comparable with anoplin which showed 23 microM and 11 microM against E. ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Meinike K,Hansen PR

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：: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：:We present two efficient network propagation algorithms that operate on a binary tree, i.e., a sparse-edged substitute of an entire similarity network. TreeProp-N is based on passing increments between nodes while TreeProp-E employs propagation to the edges of the tree. Both algorithms improve protein classification e...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kocsor A,Busa-Fekete R,Pongor S

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Heparin is naturally occurring polysaccharides which interacts with seminal plasma proteins and regulate multiple steps in fertilization process. Qualitative and quantitative information regarding the affinity for heparin-seminal plasma proteins interactions is not generally well documented and there are no reports of...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kumar V,Yadav VK,Hassan MI,Singh AK,Dey S,Singh S,Singh TP,Yadav S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-carbohydrate interactions play vital roles in several biological processes in living organisms. The comparative analysis of binding site residues along with stabilizing residues in protein-carbohydrate complexes provides ample insights to understand the structure, function and recognition mechanism. ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Shanmugam NRS,Selvin JFA,Veluraja K,Gromiha MM

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：: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：:Globulins are a major class of seed storage proteins which were thought to be enzymatically inactive. These proteins belong to the most ancient cupin superfamily. They can be graded into 11S legumin type and 7S vicilin type based on their sedimentation coefficients. Members from both classes share structural homology ...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Kesari P,Neetu,Sharma A,Katiki M,Kumar P,Gurjar BR,Tomar S,Sharma AK,Kumar P

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Plasmepsin 4 (PM4) is a digestive vacuole enzyme found in all Plasmodium species examined to date. While P. falciparum has three additional aspartic proteinases in its digestive vacuole in addition to plasmepsin 4, other Plasmodium species have only PM4 in their digestive vacuole. Therefore, PM4 may be a good target f...

journal_title：Protein and peptide letters

authors： Janka L,Clemente J,Vaiana N,Sparatore A,Romeo S,Dunn BM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00