background: hepatitis c virus (hcv) is a main public health problem causing chronic liver infection and subsequently liver cirrhosis and lethal hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc). vaccination based on hcv capsid proteins has attracted a special interest for prevention of viral infections. the core protein is a basic and evolutionary most conserved protein, which regulates the cellular processes rel...

Biomolecule separation and purification has until very recently steadfastly remained one of the more empirical aspects of modern biotechnology. Affinity chromatography, one of several types of adsorption chromatography, is particularly suited for the efficient isolation of biomolecules. This technique relies on the adsorbent bed material that has biological affinity for the substance to be isol...

Se-containing proteins play an important role in human metabolic processes such as antioxidant action. However, speciation analysis of Se-containing proteins in biological samples is challenging because of their small amounts. In order to determine selenoprotein P (Sel-P) in human plasma, separation performance was compared between size exclusion chromatography and affinity chromatography. It w...

The SIR2, SIR3, and SIR4 proteins are required for silencing of transcription at the silent mating type loci and at telomeres in yeast. Using protein affinity chromatography, we show that SIR2, SIR3, and two proteins of 69 and 110 kDa tightly associate with SIR4. Surprisingly, the 110 kDa SIR4-binding protein is identical to UBP3, one of several previously described yeast enzymes that deubiquit...

In vitro selection is a powerful approach for generating novel aptamers and catalysts. Currently, several methods are being developed to extend this technique to proteins. In principle, selection methods could be applied to any library whose members can be replicated. Here, we describe a bifunctional tRNA that fuses translation products to their mRNAs. The utility of peptide-tRNA-mRNA fusions f...

Two major forms of plasminogen can be isolated from the plasmas of several species by affinity chromatography methods. These two forms are easily isolated in high purity from a single small animal, a situation which is particularly suitable for biological investigations. This paper shows that the two forms of rat and rabbit plasminogen must exist as such in the circulating plasma, are not inter...

OBJECTIVES The agar diffusion assay is one method for quantifying the ability of antibiotics to inhibit bacterial growth. Interpretation of results from this assay relies on model-dependent analysis, which is based on the assumption that antibiotics diffuse freely in the solid nutrient medium. In many cases, this assumption may be incorrect, which leads to significant deviations of the predicte...

We have developed an approach using Bayesian networks to predict protein-protein interactions genome-wide in yeast. Our method naturally weights and combines into reliable predictions genomic features only weakly associated with interaction (e.g., messenger RNAcoexpression, coessentiality, and colocalization). In addition to de novo predictions, it can integrate often noisy, experimental intera...