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Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 Drug resistance against bacteria and fungi has become common in recent years, and it is urgent to discover novel antimicrobial peptides to manage this problem.
La-Mei Zhang +9 more
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Fabrication of fluorescent nanospheres by heating PEGylated tetratyrosine nanofibers
Scientific Reports, 2021 Aromatic polypeptides have recently drawn the interest of the research community for their capability to self-assemble into a variety of functional nanostructures.
Enrico Gallo +8 more
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Probing protein sequences as sources for encrypted antimicrobial peptides [PDF]
, 2012 Starting from the premise that a wealth of potentially biologically active peptides may lurk within proteins, we describe here a methodology to identify putative antimicrobial peptides encrypted in protein sequences.
Alan Cooper +8 more
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Pharmaceuticals, 2022 SOCS3 (suppressor of cytokine signaling 3) protein suppresses cytokine-induced inflammation and its deletion in neurons or immune cells increases the pathological growth of blood vessels. Recently, we designed several SOCS3 peptidomimetics by assuming as
Sara La Manna +4 more
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Polysaccharides, 2021 Insect-derived chitin and chitosan have gained interest as alternative sources to that derived from crustaceans; however, little information is available on chitin from the house cricket (Acheta domesticus) and tropical banded cricket (Gryllodes ...
Morgan Malm, Andrea M. Liceaga
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Isolation and proteomic characterization of tropomyosin extracted from edible insect protein
Food Chemistry: Molecular Sciences, 2021 Edible insects are considered promising sustainable protein sources. Thermal treatments and proteolysis are commonly used to improve their safety and quality. However, their allergenicity remains mostly unexplored.
Felicia G. Hall, Andrea M. Liceaga
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, 2021 This chapter aims to bring together some of the available methods to identify and quantify bioactive peptides in food or biological matrices, and to evaluate biological activities either in vitro or in vivo. Among others, bioactive peptides may be involved in enzyme inhibition, channel blockade, radical or metal scavenging, electrostatic or hydrophobic
Santos-Hernández, Marta +4 more
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A new family of diverse skin peptides from the microhylid frog genus phrynomantis [PDF]
, 2020 A wide range of frogs produce skin poisons composed of bioactive peptides for defence against pathogens, parasites and predators. While several frog families have been thoroughly screened for skin-secreted peptides, others, like the Microhylidae, have ...
Ballet, Steven +7 more
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The role of TRPA1 channels in thermosensation
Cell Insight, 2022 Transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) is a polymodal nonselective cation channel sensitive to different physical and chemical stimuli. TRPA1 is associated with many important physiological functions in different species and thus is involved in ...
Hao Zhang +6 more
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Obtaining Of β-Lactoglobulin By Gel Filtration Of Cow Milk Whey [PDF]
, 2019 Milk whey proteins carry out a number of important biological functions and also they are precursors of many biologically active peptides (antihypertensive peptides, antagonists of opioid receptors, regulators of intestinal motility, immunomodulatory ...
Datsyshyn, K. (Kateryna) +2 more
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