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Drugs Based on de novo-developed Peptides are Coming of Age
CHIMIA, 2018 Naturally evolved peptides, such as the hormone oxytocin or the anti-bacterial vancomycin, have seen decades of success as powerful therapeutics due to many of the favorable properties of peptides.
Kaycie Deyle, Christian Heinis
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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Scientific ReportsPeptide-based nanogels (NGs) represent a cutting-edge class of nanoscale drug delivery systems. Due to their structural properties, NGs platforms can encapsulate and protect therapeutic agents (e.g.
Mariangela Rosa +6 more
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BiomedicinesObjectives: To assess the influences of growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) on the reduction in glycated hemoglobin (ΔHbA1c) induced by exenatide in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).
Qi Wu +7 more
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Preferred Configurations of Peptide–Peptide Interactions
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2013 The natural and fundamental proclivities of interaction between a pair of peptide units are examined using high-level ab initio calculations. The NH···O H-bonded structure is found to be the most stable configuration of the N-methylacetamide (NMA) model dimer, but only slightly more so than a stacked arrangement.
Adhikari, U., Scheiner, Steve
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Biophysical approaches for studying viral entry
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Viruses infect all living organisms and have been responsible for major epidemics and pandemics. Their ongoing evolutionary battle with host defenses creates a constant need for improved tools to study viral behavior. Advancing methods to probe viral attachment, fusion, and genome release deepen our understanding of how infections begin and support the
Inbar Yosibash, Raya Sorkin
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Degradation mechanism of the von Willebrand factor A2 domain by nattokinase
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Nattokinase, a natto‐derived protease, exhibits potent antithrombotic effects. This study demonstrates that nattokinase directly cleaves the von Willebrand factor (vWF) A2 domain in vitro. Unlike the native regulator ADAMTS13, nattokinase degrades folded vWF independently of shear stress.
Ryuichi Hyakumoto +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 The self-assembling of small peptides not only leads to the formation of intriguing nanoarchitectures, but also generates materials with unexpected functional properties.
Chiara Schiattarella +7 more
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Modulation of Homer1 EVH1 domain internal dynamics by putative autism‐associated mutations
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The putative autism‐associated M65I and S97L variants of the EVH1 domain of the postsynaptic scaffold protein Homer1 do not exhibit substantial changes in their overall structure or partner binding. Both of them, but especially the M65I variant, show altered internal dynamics relative to the wild‐type domain on the μs‐ms timescale, indicated by the ...
Fanni Farkas +6 more
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Self-assembly antimicrobial peptide for treatment of multidrug-resistant bacterial infection
Journal of NanobiotechnologyThe wide-spreading of multidrug resistance poses a significant threat to human and animal health. Although antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) show great potential application, their instability has severely limited their clinical application.
Xuanxuan Ma +8 more
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