Peptide Highlights
by EPS Pool of Writers
The latest articles of this section can be found on the Journal Pepide Science website:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1387.eps-peptide-highlights
by EPS Pool of Writers
The latest articles of this section can be found on the Journal Pepide Science website:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1387.eps-peptide-highlights
Animal and plant proteins, upon in vitro or in vivo digestion, have not only a nutritional role but are a rich source of bioactive peptides initially encrypted in the native protein sequences. The...
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The mammalian immune system, as part of its response to a viral infection, does something akin to a shotgun proteomics experiment. Viral proteins are digested, and the resulting peptides are...
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Swiss researchers have recently revealed the mechanism by which the insect-derived antimicrobial peptide thanatin targets the intermembrane protein complex required for lipopolysaccharide (LPS)...
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It is widely accepted that vaccines are valuable preparations for prevention against life-threatening diseases such as polio, measles and smallpox and their utilization led to control and/or...
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Despite the large number of new, therapeutically relevant proteins discovered in recent years, classical drug discovery strategies have not been particularly successful in finding suitable...
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The possibility that a subset of biological molecules has been overlooked, and is waiting to be discovered, is always intriguing. For small proteins (proteins of around 100 amino acid residues or...
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A synthetic peptide composed of alternating L- and D-amino acid residues has been recently shown to inhibit aggregation and reduce toxic effects in neuroblastoma cells, of the beta-amyloid peptide,...
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Enzymatic conjugation of peptides and their analogues to other peptides or proteins is considered to be an exciting field in protein chemistry. Besides Sortase A, Butelase and Transglutaminase, the...
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Pain is a quite frequent complaint after injuries and accompanying different pathologies, which remains poorly treated for a number of patients. Pain involves extremely complex/interrelated series...
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Native chemical ligation (NCL) commonly facilitates a peptide thioester with an N-terminal β-thiol peptide to form a native amide bond. Though many peptide thioester preparation strategies have been...
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