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abstract::The immunoglobulin fold (Ig-fold) is a widespread structural motif that is detected in a variety of proteins involved in diversified biological processes. The Ig-fold contains 70-110 residues that are assembled in a characteristic sandwich-like structure formed by two facing β-sheets each made of antiparallel β-strand...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986612802762732
更新日期:2012-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Saturation Transfer Difference NMR (STD NMR) is used for the detection of the binding constant of the decapeptide RRRDDDSDDD with CK2α, the catalytic subunit of the proteinkinase CK2. For this work a valid irradiation frequency of the CK2α had to be found ensuring that no peptide resonance is affected by the irradiati...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986612802084447
更新日期:2012-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Nucleobindin-2 is a 420 amino acid EF-hand Ca²⁺ binding protein that can be further processed to generate an 82 amino terminal peptide termed Nesfatin-1. To examine the function of secreted Nucleobindin-2 in adipocyte differentiation, cultured 3T3-L1 cells were incubated with either 0 or 100 nM of GST, GST-Nucleobindi...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986612802084546
更新日期:2012-09-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986612801619525
更新日期:2012-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Polymyositis is an inflammatory myopathy characterized by muscle invasion of T-cells penetrating the basal lamina and displacing the plasma membrane of normal muscle fibers. In order to understand the different adhesive mechanisms at the T-cell surface, Schubert randomly selected 19 proteins expressed at the T-cell su...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986612801619534
更新日期:2012-08-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986612800793127
更新日期:2012-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Saccaromices cerevisiae D-serine dehydratase is a pyridoxal 5'-phosphate dependent enzyme that requires zinc for its function. It catalyses the conversion of D-serine into pyruvate and ammonia with the K(m) and k(cat) values of 0.39 mM and 13.1 s(-1) respectively. In this work, a new methodology for monitoring D-s...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986612800494002
更新日期:2012-06-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986612800494101
更新日期:2012-06-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986612800190982
更新日期:2012-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) plays an important role in cellular metabolism and acts as hydrideaccepting and hydride-donating coenzymes in energy production. Identification of NAD protein interacting sites can significantly aid in understanding the NAD dependent metabolism and pathways, and it could further...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986612800191017
更新日期:2012-05-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986612799789378
更新日期:2012-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Like those in mammals, heterotrimeric G protein complexes have been implicated in signal transduction pathways in plants; however, the subunits themselves have not been isolated. In this study, the rice heterotrimeric G protein subunits α (Gα) and β (Gβ) were purified by affinity chromatography using anti-Gα and -Gβ a...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986612799363190
更新日期:2012-03-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986612799363127
更新日期:2012-03-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986612799080248
更新日期:2012-02-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986612799080194
更新日期:2012-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Prediction of protein structure from its amino acid sequence is still a challenging problem. The complete physicochemical understanding of protein folding is essential for the accurate structure prediction. Knowledge of residue solvent accessibility gives useful insights into protein structure prediction and function ...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986612798472875
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The superoxide anion radical is a highly reactive toxic species produced during the metabolic processes. A number of copper (II) complexes with amino acids and peptides are known to show superoxide dismutase (SOD) like activity. The design and application of synthetic low molecular weight metal complexes as SOD mimics...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986611797642724
更新日期:2011-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Protein-splicing inteins are widespread in nature and have found many applications in protein research and engineering. The mechanism of protein splicing typically requires a nucleophilic amino acid residue at both position 1 (first residue of intein) and position +1 (first residue after intein), however it was not cl...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986611797642760
更新日期:2011-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cyclophilin A (CyPA) is a cytosolic receptor of immunosuppressive drug cyclosporin A (CsA) which possesses peptidyl-prodyl cis/trans isomerase (PPIase) activity. The recombinant human CyPA (rhCyPA) gene has been expressed in E. coli M15. Purification was performed using salting-out, as well as Sephacryl S-100 and DEAE...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986611797642670
更新日期:2011-12-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986611796378675
更新日期:2011-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Galanin is a neuropeptide that is widely distributed in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Some small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) cell lines such as SBC-3A release only the high-molecular-mass form, with lower molecular mass forms being undetectable. To investigate the mechanism of processing of progalanin to ...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986611796378693
更新日期:2011-10-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986611796011392
更新日期:2011-09-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986611795714005
更新日期:2011-08-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986611795713970
更新日期:2011-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Prediction of thermophilic and mesophilic protein plays a crucial role in both biochemistry and bioengineering. In this study, a different mode of pseudo amino acid composition (PseAAC) was proposed to formulate the protein samples by integrating the amino acid composition, the physic chemical features, as well as the...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986611795446085
更新日期:2011-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Tumor vasculatures express high levels of α(V)β(3)/α(V)β(5) and α(5)β(1) integrins. Peptide containing the RGD (Arg-Gly-Asp) sequence, which is present in ligands of integrins, is effective in targeting therapeutic reagents to tumor vascular endothelium. In this study, we investigated whether the biological activity o...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:2011-06-15 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986611795222768
更新日期:2011-06-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986611794927893
更新日期:2011-05-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986611794653987
更新日期:2011-04-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986611794653941
更新日期:2011-04-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986611794578369
更新日期:2011-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Protein palmitoylation is an important and common post-translational lipid modification of proteins and plays a critical role in various cellular processes. Identification of Palmitoylation sites is fundamental to decipher the mechanisms of these biological processes. However, experimental determination of palmitoylat...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986611794475084
更新日期:2011-02-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986611794328636
更新日期:2011-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/0929866511009011436
更新日期:2010-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are short, cationic, membrane-interacting proteins that exhibit broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity, and are hence of significant biomedical interest. They exert their activity by selectively binding to and lysing target cell membranes, but the precise molecular details of their mechani...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/0929866511009011313
更新日期:2010-11-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986610792231555
更新日期:2010-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::There is a growing body of evidence that the formation and accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGE) have been known to progress under diabetic conditions, thereby being involved in diabetic vascular complications. Further, we, along with others, have recently found AGE could disturb insulin actions in cul...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986610791760423
更新日期:2010-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::A Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging (SPRI) sensor has been developed for highly selective determination of cathepsin D (Cat D) or/and E (Cat E). The sensor contains immobilised pepstatin A, which binds aspartyl proteases from solution. Pepstatin A activated with N-Hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) and N-Ethyl-N'-(3-dimethylami...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986610791760450
更新日期:2010-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::With a huge amount of protein sequence data, the computational method for protein-protein interaction (PPI) prediction using only the protein sequences information have drawn increasing interest. In this article, we propose a sequence-based method based on a novel representation of local protein sequence descriptors. ...
journal_title:Protein and peptide letters
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/092986610791760306
更新日期:2010-09-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/092986610791498911
更新日期:2010-08-01 00:00:00