Airway β-Defensin-1 Protein Is Elevated in COPD and Severe Asthma by Katherine J. Baines, Thomas K. Wright, Jodie L. Simpson, Vanessa M. McDonald, Lisa G. Wood, Kristy S. Parsons, Peter A. Wark, Peter G. Gibson

“…Innate immune antimicrobial peptides, including β-defensin-1, promote the chemotaxis and activation of several immune cells. …”
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Extreme Environment Streptomyces: Potential Sources for New Antibacterial and Anticancer Drug Leads? by Periyasamy Sivalingam, Kui Hong, John Pote, Kandasamy Prabakar

“…Extreme Streptomyces have been an excellent source of a new class of compounds which include alkaloids, angucycline, macrolide, and peptides. This review covers novel drug leads with antibacterial and cytotoxic activities isolated from deep-sea, desert, cryo, and volcanic environment Streptomyces from 2009 to 2019. …”
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Fundamentals of bio-based technologies for selective metal recovery from bio-leachates and liquid waste streams by Anna Sieber, Sabine Spiess, Wadih Y. Rassy, Wadih Y. Rassy, Dominik Schild, Thomas Rieß, Shalini Singh, Rohan Jain, Nora Schönberger, Franziska Lederer, Klemens Kremser, Klemens Kremser, Georg M. Guebitz, Georg M. Guebitz

“…Modifications and adaptations in the processes of biosorption, bioaccumulation and bioelectrochemical systems are highlighted, further emphasizing the application of metal-binding peptides and siderophores to increase selectivity in the recovery of metals. …”
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From waste to value: protein hydrolysates from byproducts of the Argentine hake (Merluccius hubbsi) processing using endogenous enzymes and Alcalase® 2.4L by Clara Liebana, Nair de los Ángeles Pereira, Analia Fernández-Gimenez, Maria Florencia Fangio

“…Waste from Argentine hake (Merluccius hubbsi) could enhance its functional and antioxidant properties through hydrolysis, releasing peptides with bioactive properties. Protein hydrolysates of Argentine hake were produced through autolysis (Aut) and enzymatic hydrolysis using Alcalase® 2.4L at concentrations of 0.24% and 2% (v/v) (Alc-0.24 and Alc-2), respectively, over 150 min. …”
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Probiotic Bacterium-Derived p40, p75, and HM0539 Proteins as Novel Postbiotics and Gut-Associated Immune System (GAIS) Modulation: Postbiotic-Gut-Health Axis by Feray Gençer Bingöl, Duygu Ağagündüz, Ferenc Budán

“…Postbiotics are bioactive metabolites such as organic acids, peptides/proteins, cell wall components, functional enzymes, short-chain fatty acids, vitamins, and phenols. …”
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Serological diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminth (Ascaris, Trichuris and hookworm) infections: A scoping review. by Sara Roose, Fiona Vande Velde, Johnny Vlaminck, Peter Geldhof, Bruno Levecke

“…Almost all records targeted antibodies as analytes, employing proteins and peptides as analyte detection agents. Approximately 60% of sample sets described pertained to human samples. …”
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Differential proteome analysis of pea roots at the early stages of symbiosis with nodule bacteria by I. V. Leppyanen, A. N. Kirienko, A. A. Lobov, E. A. Dolgikh

“…To identify the proteins, a mass spectrometric analysis of tryptic peptides was performed on a quadrupole-time-of-flight mass spectrometer combined with a high-performance liquid chromatograph. …”
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Adipokines in Breast Cancer: Decoding Genetic and Proteomic Mechanisms Underlying Migration, Invasion, and Proliferation by Ließem A, Leimer U, Germann GK, Köllensperger E

“…Anne Ließem, Uwe Leimer, Günter K Germann, Eva Köllensperger Clinic for Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Spine, Orthopedic and Hand Surgery, Preventive Medicine – ETHIANUM, Heidelberg, 69115, GermanyCorrespondence: Eva Köllensperger, Clinic for Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Spine, Orthopedic and Hand Surgery, Preventive Medicine – ETHIANUM, Heidelberg, 69115, Germany, Email Eva.Koellensperger@ethianum.deBackground: Adipokines, bioactive peptides secreted by adipose tissue, appear to contribute to breast cancer development and progression. …”
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Cottonseed Meal Protein Hydrolysate Improves the Growth Performance of Chinese Mitten Crab (Eriocheir sinensis) by Promoting the Muscle Growth and Molting Performance by Chao-Fan He, Wen-Bin Liu, Ling Zhang, Wei-Liang Chen, Zi-Shang Liu, Xiang-Fei Li

“…Plant protein hydrolysates contain a large number of small peptides and free amino acids, which can improve the growth performance of aquatic animals. …”
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Hepatitis B virus genotypes A1 and A2 have distinct replication phenotypes due to polymorphisms in the HBx gene. by Min Zhang, Karim Mouzannar, Zhensheng Zhang, Yuji Teraoka, Jason Piotrowski, Yuji Ishida, Chise Tateno-Mukaidani, Takeshi Saito, Hiromi Abe-Chayama, Kazuaki Chayama, T Jake Liang

“…Superposition of the two models reveal that the overall structural motifs are similarly aligned, except for the C-terminal peptides diverging between the A1 and A2 models, possibly explaining their functional difference. …”
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Altered Protein Structures and Neoepitopes in Lupus Neutrophils From Dysregulated Splicing of Messenger RNA by Rayan Najjar, Xiaoxing Wang, Jose Mario Bello Pineda, Hugh Alessi, Alison Bays, Robert K. Bradley, James N. Jarvis, Tomas Mustelin

“…Besides causing a range of structural changes, 80 mRNA splice variants exclusive to SLE were predicted to translate into novel amino acid sequences. Peptides derived from these novel amino acid sequences were predicted to bind to the individual patients’ class I and II major histocompatibility complex molecules with high affinity. …”
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Proteogenomic Analysis Reveals Proteins Involved in the First Step of Adipogenesis in Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells by Bernardo Bonilauri, Amanda C. Camillo-Andrade, Marlon D. M. Santos, Juliana de S. da G. Fischer, Paulo C. Carvalho, Bruno Dallagiovanna

“…We identified 3420 proteins out of 48,336 peptides, of which 92 proteins were exclusively identified in undifferentiated hASC and 53 proteins were exclusively found in 24 h-differentiated cells. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Biomarkers in Type 2 Diabetes Patients With and Without Comorbidities: Insights Into the Role of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease by Symeon Savvopoulos, Haralampos Hatzikirou, Herbert F Jelinek

“…Methods: Linear discriminant analysis is used for classification method and feature importance, This study examined the relationship between Humanin and mitochondrial protein (MOTSc), mitochondrial peptides associated with oxidative stress, diabetes progression, and associated complications. …”
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Human Neutrophil Defensins Disrupt Liver Interendothelial Junctions and Aggravate Sepsis by QiXing Chen, Yang Yang, YiHang Pan, LiHua Shen, Yan Zhang, Fei Zheng, Qiang Shu, XiangMing Fang

“…Human neutrophil peptides 1-3 (HNP1-3), also known as human α-defensins, are the most abundant neutrophil granule proteins. …”
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Micellar Casein in Rennin Coagulation, Cheese Dehydration, and Ripening by Elena I. Melnikova, Ekaterina V. Bogdanova, Elena S. Rudnichenko, Mariya S. Chekmareva

“…Its application in the standard technology for the Rossiiskii cheese required the following adjustments: a longer starter activation, starter cultures with high proteolytic activity and ability to hydrolyze bitter peptides, extra rennet, a two-fold reduction of second heating and stirring, and at least 45 days or ripening. …”
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Expanding the structural resolution of glycosylation microheterogeneity in therapeutic proteins by salt-free hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry by Yutian Gan, Steffen Lippold, John Stobaugh, Christian Schöneich, Feng Yang

“…Further, our new method improves the retention of hydrophilic peptides, allowing simultaneous analysis of important CQAs such as deamidation in antibodies. …”
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Core-genome guided novel therapeutic targets identification and chimeric vaccine designing against Rickettsia rickettsii by Fizza Arshad, Asifa Sarfraz, Muhammad Shehroz, Umar Nishan, Asia Perveen, Riaz Ullah, Mohamed A. Ibrahim, Mohibullah Shah

“…Using conserved antigenic peptides, two chimeric vaccine constructs were developed and assessed using molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations, principal component analysis, MM-GBSA binding free energy, and dynamic cross-correlation matrix studies. …”
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Ophthalmic products with extracellular matrix components. Their effectiveness in the process of corneal repair in neurotrophic, herpetic, recurrent keratitis and erosions by D.Yu. Maychuk, A.A. Tarkhanova, I.A. Pronkin

“…Among the many biomimetics, we can single out the multicomponent hydrogel composition «Corneal Epithelium gel Protector (CEGP) SPHERO®oko (JSC «BIOMIR Service», Russia), designed to restore the corneal epithelium, which includes both the main components of ECM and other biologically active substances, including peptides, amino acids, uronic acids, monosaccharides, growth factors, etc. …”
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Neurological Disease-Affected Patients, including Multiple Sclerosis, Are Poor Responders to BKPyV, a Human Polyomavirus by Ilaria Bononi, Elisa Mazzoni, Silvia Pietrobon, Maria Rosa Iaquinta, Andrea Caselli, Elena Torreggiani, Maura Pugliatti, Ilaria Casetta, Massimiliano Castellazzi, Enrico Granieri, Fernanda Martini, Mauro Tognon

“…Samples were analyzed for IgG antibodies against BKPyV with an indirect ELISA with synthetic peptides mimicking the viral capsid protein 1 (VP1) antigens. …”
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Acute hepatitis of non-specified etiology by Ye. V. Tsyganova, O. O. Znoyko, N. D. Yushchuk, K. R. Dudina, M. G. Isagulyants, N. V. Petrakova, T. V. Petrova, M. I. Mikhaylov

“…Investigation of patients with acute hepatitis of non-specified etiology included clinical, epidemiologic, routine laboratory, serological methods; molecular biological method (RNA of hepatitis A, C, Е, G viruses; DNA of hepatitis B virus, TTV, CMV, EBV, HHV of 1, 2, 6 and 8 types, PV B-19, NV-f – qualitative analysis); method of immunofluorescence (assessment of antimitochondrial and antinuclear antibodies); immunologic methods (laboratory diagnostic methods) – independent assessment of specific antibodies for individual HCV antigens spectrum, including structural and unstructural proteins and compound peptides, representing the whole HCV polyprotein (overall 38 antigens: 34 HCV antigens and 4 control antigens) in blood serum by EIA method; investigation of Т-cellular immune response to HCV antigens by blast-cell lymphocytes transformation method under stimulation by HCV antigens with quantitative evaluation of cytokine secretion; instrumental method – ultrasound investigation of abdominal organs.Conclusions. …”
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