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Cationicity Enhancement on the Hydrophilic Face of Ctriporin Significantly Reduces Its Hemolytic Activity and Improves the Antimicrobial Activity against Antibiotic-Resistant ESKAPE Pathogens

Toxins
The ESKAPE pathogen-associated antimicrobial resistance is a global public health issue, and novel therapeutic strategies are urgently needed. The short cationic antimicrobial peptide (AMP) family represents an important subfamily of scorpion-derived ...
Xudong Luo, Huan Deng, Li Ding, Xiangdong Ye, Fang Sun, Chenhu Qin, Zongyun Chen   +6 more
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Discovery of Klotho peptide antagonists against Wnt3 and Wnt3a target proteins using combination of protein engineering, protein–protein docking, peptide docking and molecular dynamics simulations

Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry, 2017
The Klotho is known as lifespan enhancing protein involved in antagonizing the effect of Wnt proteins. Wnt proteins are stem cell regulators, and uninterrupted exposure of Wnt proteins to the cell can cause stem and progenitor cell senescence, which may ...
Shaher Bano Mirza, Ramin Ekhteiari Salmas, M. Qaiser Fatmi, Serdar Durdagi   +3 more
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Immunogenicity in protein and peptide based-therapeutics: An overview

, 2017
15 páginasCurrently it is well known that all biological drugs, including those with a fully human structure, are capable of inducing a host immune response known as immunogenicity [1]. The presence of ADAs can condition the drug´s level and action, thus
Fernandez Rodriguez, Leonardo, Zapata, Carlos Daniel, Bustos, Helena, Garcia, Julio   +3 more
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Functionalization of osmium arene anticancer complexes with (poly)arginine : effect on cellular uptake, internalization, and cytotoxicity [PDF]

, 2011
Attaching peptides to metallodrugs may result in improved biological properties of the complexes. The potential use of cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) as cell delivery vectors is attractive, since directed cell uptake of (metallo)drugs remains a major ...
Rijt, Sabine H. van, Peter J. Sadler, Sadler, P. J., Hana Kostrhunova, Viktor Brabec, Brabec, V. (Viktor), Sabine H. van Rijt, Kostrhunova, Hana   +7 more
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Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
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COMP–PMEPA1 axis promotes epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition in breast cancer cells

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study reveals that cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) promotes epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition (EMT) in breast cancer. We identify PMEPA1 (protein TMEPAI) as a novel COMP‐binding partner that mediates EMT via binding to the TSP domains of COMP, establishing the COMP–PMEPA1 axis as a key EMT driver in breast cancer.
Konstantinos S. Papadakos, Gilar Gorji‐bahri, Lejla Gradjan, Julia Zajac, Kacper Gil, Yvonne Thokozile Nduku, Anna M. Blom   +6 more
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Increased serum levels of procollagen type III peptide in severely injured patients [PDF]

, 1993
Objectives: To determine the serum concentrations of procollagen type in peptide in severely injured patients with different outcomes and to evaluate the relationship between serum procollagen type III peptide concentrations, sources of increased ...
Waydhas, Christian, Trupka, Arnold, Nast-Kolb, Dieter, Schweiberer, Leonhard, Jochum, Marianne, Lenk, Susann, Duswald, Karl-Heimo   +6 more
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EDNRB‐dependent endothelin signaling reduces proliferation and promotes proneural‐to‐mesenchymal transition in gliomas

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Glioma cells mainly express the endothelin receptor EDNRB, while EDNRA is restricted to a perivascular tumor subpopulation. Endothelin signaling reduces glioma cell proliferation while promoting migration and a proneural‐to‐mesenchymal transition associated with poor prognosis. This pathway activates Ca2+, K+, ERK, and STAT3 signalings and is regulated
Donovan Pineau, Leonor Garcia, Hugo Arnold, Antonija Hanžek, Maialen Arrieta, Laurent R Gauthier, Christine Granotier‐Beckers, François D Boussin, Amaury Herbet, Marie Hautière, Valentin Asei‐Ceschino, Clémentin Jacques, Laura Brard, Thomas Harnois, Valérie Coronas, Bruno Constantin, Aurélien Chatelier, Jean Chemin, Serge Urbach, Martial Seveno, Szimonetta Hideg, Chantal Ripoll, Kasandra Aguilar‐Cázarez, Min Zheng, Guo‐Hao Huang, Sheng‐Qing Lv, Lei Zhang, Philippe Rondard, Laurent Prezeau, Jean‐Philippe Pin, Hugues Duffau, Luc Bauchet, Valérie Rigau, Franck Denat, Charles Truillet, Didier Boquet, Jean‐Philippe Hugnot   +36 more
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Design of protein-binding peptides with controlled binding affinity: the case of SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain and angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 derived peptides

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
The development of methods able to modulate the binding affinity between proteins and peptides is of paramount biotechnological interest in view of a vast range of applications that imply designed polypeptides capable to impair or favour Protein-Protein ...
Giacomo Parisi, Roberta Piacentini, Alessio Incocciati, Alessandra Bonamore, Alberto Macone, Jakob Rupert, Jakob Rupert, Elsa Zacco, Mattia Miotto, Edoardo Milanetti, Edoardo Milanetti, Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, Gian Gaetano Tartaglia, Giancarlo Ruocco, Giancarlo Ruocco, Alberto Boffi, Lorenzo Di Rienzo   +16 more
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Viral Peptide Targeted Delivery of Nano-Therapeutics

, 2013
Over the past decade, an increasing number of potential drugs have been suggested for therapeutic applications. Often bio-macromolecules show a limited ability to cross the plasma membrane resulting in poor cellular access, which largely prevents them ...
GALDIERO, MASSIMILIANO, Massimiliano Galdiero, FALANGA, ANNARITA, PERILLO, EMILIANA, CANTISANI, MARCO, MORELLI, GIANCARLO, GALDIERO, STEFANIA   +6 more
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