The Cell Adhesion Activity of the Joining Peptide of Proopiomelanocortin
Molecules, 2023 Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) is a precursor protein of several peptide hormones, such as ACTH and β-endorphin. Almost all of the peptide hormones in POMC have been drastically investigated in terms of their biological activities.
Kyona Hiroshima +4 more
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Peptide detection of fungal functional amyloids in infected tissue. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Many fungal cell adhesion proteins form functional amyloid patches on the surface of adhering cells. The Candida albicans Agglutinin-like sequence (Als) adhesins are exemplars for this phenomenon, and have amyloid forming sequences that are conserved ...
Melissa C Garcia-Sherman +6 more
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Ugi multicomponent reaction to prepare peptide–peptoid hybrid structures with diverse chemical functionalities [PDF]
, 2018 Monodisperse sequenced peptides and peptoids present unique nano-structures based on their self-assembled secondary and tertiary structures. However, the generation of peptide and peptoid hybrid oligomers in a sequence-defined manner via Ugi ...
Azevedo, Helena S. +12 more
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Life, 2022 The peptidyl transferase center (PTC) in the ribosome is composed of two symmetrically arranged tRNA-like units that contribute to peptide bond formation.
Mai Kawabata +5 more
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Triple-targeting Gram-negative selective antimicrobial peptides capable of disrupting the cell membrane and lipid A biosynthesis [PDF]
, 2016 Early lipid A biosynthesis is a potential antimicrobial target as this is an essential component of lipid A producing Gram-negative bacteria. Herein, we introduce a potent and highly synergistic Gram-negative selective triple-targeting antimicrobial ...
Liskamp, R.M.J., Postma, T.M.
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A Novel Peptide from Soybean Protein Isolate Significantly Enhances Resistance of the Organism under Oxidative Stress. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Recent studies have indicated that protein hydrolysates have broad biological effects. In the current study we describe a novel antioxidative peptide, FDPAL, from soybean protein isolate (SPI).
Heran Ma +7 more
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Exploiting Peptide Self-Assembly for the Development of Minimalistic Viral Mimetics
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 Viruses are natural supramolecular nanostructures that form spontaneously by molecular self-assembly of complex biomolecules. Peptide self-assembly is a versatile tool that allows mimicking viruses by creating their simplified versions through the design
Patrizia Janković +4 more
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Influence of Amino Acid Substitutions in the Nisin Leader Peptide on Biosynthesis and Secretion of Nisin by Lactococcus lactis [PDF]
, 1993 Structural genes for small lanthionine-containing antimicrobial peptides, known as lantibiotics, encode N-terminal leader sequences which are not present in the mature peptide, but are cleaved off at some stage in the maturation process. Leader sequences
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Sequence-dependent Internalization of Aggregating Peptides [PDF]
Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2015 Recently, a number of aggregation disease polypeptides have been shown to spread from cell to cell, thereby displaying prionoid behavior. Studying aggregate internalization, however, is often hampered by the complex kinetics of the aggregation process, resulting in the concomitant uptake of aggregates of different sizes by competing mechanisms, which ...
Greet De Baets +15 more
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Molecules, 2012 Enzymatic proteolysis of food proteins is considered a promising method to generate antibacterial peptides. The objective of the present study was to isolate and characterize peptide fraction from the pepsin hydrolysate of half-fin anchovy (Setipinna ...
Dong-Feng Wang +3 more
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