A bridged peptide with the sequence: H-Thr-Pro-Gln-Arg-Gly-Asp-Val-gamma-Abu-Asn-Asp-Gln-Glu-Glu-Thr-Thr-Gly-Val-Val-Ser-Thr-Pro-Leu-Ile-Arg-Asn-Gly-OH was designed to mimic the discontinuous epitope of the HLA-DQ molecule that might interact with CD4. The bridged peptide revealed distinct suppressory effect in the humoral immune response. This result supports our suggestion that the 164-172 re...

The tryptic peptides from human pepsin and gastricsin were purified and their sequences were determined. The sequence of 27 residues at the COOH-terminal end of human pepsin was found to be: -Ile-Leu-Gly-Asp-Val-Phe-Ile-ArgGln-Phe-Tyr-Thr-Val-Phe-Asp-Arg-Ala-Asn-Asn-GlnVal-Gly-Leu-Ala-Pro-Val-Ala. The sequence of 19 residues at the COOH-terminal end of human gastricsin was found to be: -Gln-Phe...

The aims of this study were to investigate the utility of solid microneedle arrays (150 µm in length) in enhancing transdermal delivery of peptides and to examine the relationship between peptide permeation rates and D2O flux. Four model peptides were used (Gly-Gln-Pro-Arg [tetrapeptide-3, 456.6 Da], Val-Gly-Val-Ala-Pro-Gly [hexapeptide, 498.6 Da], AC-Glu-Glu-Met-Gln-Arg-Arg-NH2 [acetyl hexapep...

The amino acid sequences surrounding three major phosphorylation sites in rat and bovine synapsin I have been determined by employing automated gas-phase sequencing and manual Edman degradation of purified phosphopeptide fragments. Site 1 is a serine residue phosphorylated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase and by calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase I. The sequence around site 1 was deriv...

We have demonstrated that the S'(1) and S'(2) subsites of human tissue kallikrein (hK1) play determinant roles in the recognition and hydrolysis of substrates. The presence of serine at position P'(1) and arginine at P'(2) resulted in the best substrate, Abz-Ala-Ile-Lys-Phe-Phe-Ser-Arg-Gln-EDDnp, which was derived from the kallistatin reactive-centre loop sequence and quencher groups o-aminoben...

Sequence analysis was performed of an ovine hypothalamic 41-residue polypeptide that had been postulated to be a putative corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) because of its high intrinsic corticotropin releasing activity. The NH2-terminal 39 residues of CRF were determined by Edman degradation of 0.6-3.5 nmol of peptide in a Wittmann-Liebold modified Beckman 890C spinning cup sequencer with re...

A polypeptide was purified from frog brain extracts on the basis of its ability to inhibit alpha-melanotropin release from perifused frog neurointermediate lobes. Based on Edman degradation, amino acid analysis, and peptide mapping, the primary structure of this frog melanotropin-release-inhibiting factor (melanostatin) was determined to be H-Tyr-Pro-Ser-Lys-Pro-Asp-Asn-Pro-Gly-Glu-Asp-Ala-Pro-...

The amino acid sequence of neuropeptide Y, a 36-residue peptide recently isolated from porcine brain, has been determined by using high performance liquid chromatography for separation of its tryptic and chymotryptic fragments and subsequent sequence analysis of the isolated fragments by an improved dansyl Edman subtractive technique. The amino acid sequence of neuropeptide Y has been found to ...

The replication of Moloney murine leukemia virus (MMuLV) in chronically infected mouse cells arrested at the G0/G1 phase of the cell cycle by different procedures was investigated. MMuLV production was inhibited in glutamine- and isoleucine (Gln-Ile)-deprived G0/G1 cells. In contrast, butyric acid treatment, which efficiently arrested the cells at the G0/G1 phase of the cell cycle, did not inhi...

The mechanism of action of peptide inhibitors on angiotensin I-converting enzyme (Al-converting enzyme) was studied in relation to the substrate requirements of the enzyme in vivo in the dog lung and in vitro in plasma. l-</-Asp-8-Ile-AI prepared by the solid-phase technique was compared with the known peptide inhibitors of Al-converting enzyme. BPP5il (Pyr-Lys-Trp-Ala-Pro) and SQ 20881 (Pyr-Tr...