Small peptides from snake venom are studied as exceedingly selective, specific, effective and harmless therapeutics. This review article critically analyzes with numerous examples for the use of components a potential therapeutic tool against various illnesses. The active venoms isolated, purified used in assays to identify specific that were categorized based on their biological goal mechanism...

Many experimental techniques have allowed researchers to probe the fate of hydrolysis products from proteins in the small intestine. An overview of amino acid and peptide absorption from the small intestine is presented with attention given to historical perspectives that have led to current concepts. Speculation about nutritional significance of these processes is offered. Species differences ...

Very little is known about the evolvability of lead peptides that are isolated from small library screens. Here we begin to explore this question by comparing the directed evolution of two peptides previously isolated from a small library screen to new ligands generated de novo by in vitro selection.

background and objective: chlorella vulgaris is a multi-cellular edible algal species with abundant proteins. extraction of high value protein fractions for pharmaceutical and nutritional applications can significantly increase the commercial value of microalga biomasses. there is no known report on the anticancer peptides derived from the chlorella vulgaris abundant protein. materials and meth...

High-resolution ion mobility measurements and molecular dynamics simulations have been used to probe the conformations of protonated polyglycine and polyalanine (GlynH 1 and AlanH , n 5 3–20) in the gas phase. The measured collision integrals for both the polyglycine and the polyalanine peptides are consistent with a self-solvated globule conformation, where the peptide chain wraps around and s...

conclusions this study provided conserved b-cell epitopes and peptides that can be useful for designing entry inhibitors and vaccines able to cover a global population, especially where genotype 5a is common. results differences in the probability of glycosylation in e1 and e2 regions were observed in this study. three conserved antigenic b-cell epitopes were predicted in the e2 regions and als...

The term 'antimicrobial peptides' refers to a large number of peptides first characterized on the basis of their antibiotic and antifungal activities. In addition to their role as endogenous antibiotics, antimicrobial peptides, also called host defense peptides, participate in multiple aspects of immunity (inflammation, wound repair, and regulation of the adaptive immune system) as well as in m...

Multicellular organisms produce small cysteine-rich antimicrobial peptides as an innate defense against pathogens. While defensins, a well-known class of such peptides, are common among eukaryotes, there are other classes restricted to the plant kingdom. These include thionins, lipid transfer proteins and snakins. In earlier work, we identified several divergent classes of small putatively secr...