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Engineering peptides into antibodies—opportunities and strategies for therapeutic innovation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Peptides and antibodies occupy complementary therapeutic niches. Peptides recognize difficult targets in a compact format, while antibodies add specificity, long half‐life, and effector functions. This review examines strategies that merge both modalities—peptide grafting into loops, terminal and Fc fusions, and bioconjugation—highlighting how ...
Jinling Wang, Ruslana Romaniuk, Hristo L. Svilenov   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structures of Three Actinobacteriophage Capsids: Roles of Symmetry and Accessory Proteins

Viruses, 2020
Here, we describe the structure of three actinobacteriophage capsids that infect Mycobacterium smegmatis. The capsid structures were resolved to approximately six angstroms, which allowed confirmation that each bacteriophage uses the HK97-fold to form ...
Jennifer Podgorski, Joshua Calabrese, Lauren Alexandrescu, Deborah Jacobs-Sera, Welkin Pope, Graham Hatfull, Simon White   +6 more
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Trypsin is associated with the rotavirus capsid and is activated by solubilization of outer capsid proteins

Journal of General Virology, 2005
The rotavirus capsid is made up of three concentric protein layers. The outer layer, consisting of VP7 and VP4, is lost during virus entry into the host cell. Rotavirus field isolates can be adapted to high-titre growth in tissue culture by treatment with trypsin and by supplementing the culture medium with trypsin, which cleaves VP4 into two fragments,
Benureau, Yann, Huet, Jean-Claude, Charpilienne, Annie, Poncet, Didier, Cohen, Jean   +4 more
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Assessment of the cross-protective capability of recombinant capsid proteins derived from pig, rat, and avian hepatitis E viruses (HEV) against challenge with a genotype 3 HEV in pigs [PDF]

, 2012
Hepatitis E virus (HEV), the causative agent of hepatitis E, is primarily transmitted via the fecal-oral route through contaminated water supplies, although many sporadic cases of hepatitis E are transmitted zoonotically via direct contact with infected ...
Meng, Xiang-Jin, Sanford, Brenton J, Kenney, Scott P, Dryman, Barbara A, Córdoba, Laura, Opriessnig, Tanja   +5 more
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Importin 7 mediates the nuclear import of HIV‐1 integrase via a specific interacting interface

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
HIV‐1 integrase enables viral DNA integration into the host genome. By binding to the core domain of the host protein Importin 7 via its C‐terminal domain, the integrase is transported across the nuclear membrane into the nucleus, where integration of the viral genome into host DNA takes place. This translocation is a critical step for subsequent viral
Juana Bana, Avigail Yariv, Tal Oppenheim, Hadar Amartely, Dana Reichmann, Oded Livnah   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

De novo peptide grafting to a self-assembling nanocapsule yields a hepatocyte growth factor receptor agonist

iScience, 2021
Summary: Lasso-grafting (LG) technology is a method for generating de novo biologics (neobiologics) by genetically implanting macrocyclic peptide pharmacophores, which are selected in vitro against a protein of interest, into loops of arbitrary protein ...
Yamato Komatsu, Naohiro Terasaka, Katsuya Sakai, Emiko Mihara, Risa Wakabayashi, Kunio Matsumoto, Donald Hilvert, Junichi Takagi, Hiroaki Suga   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Role of capsid proteins in parvoviruses infection [PDF]

Virology Journal, 2015
The parvoviruses are widely spread in many species and are among the smallest DNA animal viruses. The parvovirus is composed of a single strand molecule of DNA wrapped into an icosahedral capsid. In a viral infection, the massy capsid participates in the entire viral infection process, which is summarized in this review.
Tu, Mengyu, Liu, Fei, Chen, Shun, Wang, Mingshu, Cheng, Anchun   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Protection against myxomatosis and rabbit viral hemorrhagic disease with recombinant myxoma viruses expressing rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus capsid protein [PDF]

, 1996
Two myxoma virus-rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) recombinant viruses were constructed with the SG33 strain of myxoma virus to protect rabbits against myxomatosis and rabbit viral hemorrhagic disease.
Milon, Alain, Le Gall, Ghislaine, Petit, Frédérique, Bertagnoli, Stéphane, Vautherot, Jean-François, Boilletot, E., Laurent, S., Boucraut-Baralon, Corine, Le Gall, G., Gelfi, Jacqueline, Laurent, Sylvie, Petit, F., Boilletot, Eric, Rasschaert, Denis   +13 more
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Myogenic Fusogen‐Engineered Lipid Nanoparticles Enhance mRNA Delivery in Skeletal Muscle

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study reports a biomimetic strategy of engineering full‐length Myomaker, a muscle‐specific fusogen, into lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to harness the native myoblast fusion capability for skeletal muscle mRNA delivery. The resulting Mymk‐LNPs enhance transfection in differentiating myocytes and enable Cre‐mediated reporter activation in injured ...
Fangyu Zhang, Zhisheng Xu, Yaou Duan, Yehui Sun, Shiying Wu, Tao Long, Mateusz Durbacz, Li Zhang, Yufen Xiao, Yu‐Chung Pien, Erick D. Guerrero, Zeru Tian, Xu Wang, Pratima Basak, Sumanta Chatterjee, Ning Liu, Xiaochun Li, Eric N. Olson, Daniel J. Siegwart   +18 more
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Dengue Virus Capsid Interacts with DDX3X–A Potential Mechanism for Suppression of Antiviral Functions in Dengue Infection

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2018
Dengue virus is a pathogen of global concern and has a huge impact on public health system in low- and middle-income countries. The capsid protein of dengue virus is least conserved among related flavivirus and there is very limited information on the ...
Rinki Kumar, Rinki Kumar, Nirpendra Singh, Malik Z. Abdin, Arvind H. Patel, Guruprasad R. Medigeshi   +5 more
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