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Authors : Doulidis, Pavlos G. (2023) - Bloodwork is a widely used diagnostic tool in veterinary medicine, as diagnosis and therapeutic 15 interventions often rely on blood biomarkers. However, biomarkers available in veterinary medicine 16 often lack sensitivity or specificity. Mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics technology has been 17 extensively used in biological fluids and offers excellent potential for a more comprehensive 18 characterization of the plasma proteome in veterinary medicine. In this...
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Authors : Henrion, André (2023) - Quantitative analysis depends on pure-substance primary calibrators with known mass fractions of impurity. Here, label-free quantification (LFQ) is being evaluated as a readily available, reliable method for determining the mass fraction of host-cell proteins (HCPs) in bioengineered proteins. For example, hemoglobin-A2 (HbA2) is being used as obtained through overexpression in E.coli. Two different materials had been produced: natural, and U-15N-labeled HbA2. For quantification&...
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Authors : Cannon, Kevin S. (2023) - processes such as signal transduction, membrane trafficking, and autophagy. Transient binding to the membrane
has a profound impact on protein function, serving to induce conformational changes and alter biochemical and
biophysical parameters by increasing the local concentration of factors and restricting diffusion to two dimensions. Despite the centrality of the membrane in serving as a template for cell biology, there are few reported highresolution stru...
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Authors : Patel, Chinmaya Kumar (2023) - Protein aggregation and inactivation upon surface immobilization are major limiting factors for analytical applications in biotechnology related fields. Protein immobilization on solid surfaces often requires multi‐step surface passivation which is time consuming and inefficient. Herein, we have discovered that biomolecular condensates of biologically active human serum transferrin (Tf) can effectively prevent surface‐induced fibrillation and preserve the native‐like conformation of phase ...
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Authors : Phillips, Ian R. (2023) - Flavin-containing monooxygenase 5 (FMO5) is a member of the FMO family of proteins best
28 known for their roles in the detoxification of foreign chemicals and more recently in
29 endogenous metabolism. We have previously shown that Fmo5-/- mice display an age-related
30 lean phenotype, with much reduced weight gain from 20 weeks of age. The phenotype is
31 characterized by decreased fat deposition, lower plasma concentrations...
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Authors : Ketaren, Natalia E. (2023) - SARS-CoV-2 has infected >40% of the world’s population (Collaborators 2022) resulting in
a devastating loss of life. As the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic enters its endemic phase (Meng,
Irwin et al. 2023, Pilz and Ioannidis 2023), multiple new variants continue to circulate. Since
its initial spread, the rapid adaptation of the virus to selective pressures continues to
produce variants of concern (VoC), of which the omicron variants presently ...
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Authors : Samant, Rahul S. (2023) - works in concert with co-chaperones to stabilize its client
proteins, which include multiple drivers of oncogenesis
and malignant progression. Pharmacologic inhibitors of
HSP90 have been observed to exert a wide range of
effects on the proteome, including depletion of client
proteins, induction of heat shock proteins, dissociation
of co-chaperones from HSP90, disruption of client protein
signaling networks, and recruitment of the protein
...
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Authors : Ganar, Ketan A. (2023) - Hard ticks feed on their host for multiple days. To ensure firm attachment, they secrete a protein-rich
saliva that eventually forms a solid cement cone. The underlying mechanism of this liquid-to-solid
transition is not yet understood. This study focuses on the phase transitions of a disordered glycine-
rich protein (GRP) that is prominent in tick saliva. We show that GRP undergoes liquid-liquid phase
separation via simple coacervatio...
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Authors : Shalev, Niva Tadmor (2023) - Determining seaweed protein concentration and the associated phenotype is critical for
food industries that require precise tools to moderate concentration fluctuations and
attenuate risks. Algal protein extraction and profiling have been widely investigated, but
content determination involves a costly, time-consuming, and high-energy, laboratory-based
fractionation technique. The present study examines the potential of field spectroscopy
technology as a precise, high-...
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Authors : Gegner, Hagen M. (2023) - Metabolomic and proteomic analyses of human plasma and serum samples harbour the power to advance our understanding of disease biology. Pre-analytical factors may contribute to variability and bias in the detection of analytes, especially when multiple labs are involved, caused by sample handling, processing time, and differing operating procedures. To better understand the impact of pre-analytical factors that are relevant to implement a unified proteomic and...
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Authors : Mansoor, Sanaa (2023) - Mapping the ensemble of protein conformations that contribute to function and can be targeted by small
molecule drugs remains an outstanding challenge. Here we explore the use of soft-introspective
variational autoencoders for reducing the challenge of dimensionality in the protein structure ensemble
generation problem. We convert high-dimensional protein structural data into a continuous,
low-dimensional representation, carry out search in this space guided...
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Authors : Hammarén, Henrik M. (2023) - Post-translational modifications (PTMs) regulate various aspects of protein function,
including degradation. Mass spectrometric methods that rely on pulsed metabolic labeling
are very popular to quantify turnover rates on a proteome-wide scale. Such data have often
been interpreted in the context of protein proteolytic stability. Here, we combine theoretical
kinetic modeling with experimental pulsed stable isotope labeling of amino acids in cell
culture&...
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Authors : Nawaz, Mudassar (2021) - Soybean is a legume crop enriched with proteins and oil. It is frequently exposed to anthropogenic and natural flooding that limits its growth and yield. Current study applied gel free proteomic techniques to unravel soybean response mechanism to flooding stress. Two-days 44 old soybeans were flooded for 4 days continuously and root samples were collected at days 2 to 6 for proteomic and enzymatic analyses. Age-matched untreated soybeans ...
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Authors : Davies, Jonathan P. (2023) - Coronaviruses (CoV), including SARS-CoV-2, modulate host proteostasis through
activation of stress-responsive signaling pathways such as the Unfolded Protein Response
(UPR), which remedies misfolded protein accumulation by attenuating translation and
increasing protein folding capacity. While CoV nonstructural proteins (nsps) are essential for
infection, little is known about the role of nsps in modulating the UPR. We characterized the
impact of SARS-CoV-2 ns...
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Authors : Chesney, Andrew D (2023) - Parkinson’s Disease is accompanied by presence of amyloids in the brain formed of α-synuclein
chains. Correlation between COVID-19 and the onset of Parkinson’s disease let to the idea that
amyloidogenic segments in SARS-COV-2 proteins can induce aggregation of α-synuclein. Using
molecular dynamic simulations, we show that the fragment FKNIDGYFKI of the spike protein,
which is unique for SARS-COV-2, shifts preferentially the ensemble of α-synuclein...
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Authors : Kotani, Norihiro (2023) - Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) represents a real threat to the global population, and understanding the
biological features of the causative virus, i.e., severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is imperative for mitigating this threat. Analyses of proteins such as primary receptors and co-receptors (co-factors), which are involved in the entry of SARSCoV- 2 into host cells, will provide important clues to help control the virus. Here,...
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Authors : Buscagan, Trixia M. (2023) - The nitrogenase Fe protein mediates ATP-dependent electron transfer to the nitrogenase MoFe
protein during nitrogen fixation, in addition to catalyzing MoFe protein independent substrate
(CO2) reduction and facilitating MoFe protein metallocluster biosynthesis. The precise role(s) of
the Fe protein Fe4S4 cluster in some of these processes remains ill-defined. Herein, we report
crystallographic data demonstrating ATP-dependent chalcogenide exchange at the Fe4S4 clus...
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Authors : Noort, Marco van den (2021) - Our understanding of what determines ligand affinity of proteins is poor, even with highresolution structures available. Both the non-covalent ligand-protein interactions and the
relative free energies of available conformations contribute to the affinity of a protein for a
ligand. Distant, non-binding site residues can influence the ligand affinity by altering the free
energy difference between a ligand-free and ligand-bound conformation. Our hypothesis isthat...
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Authors : Chafiaa, Bouguechtouli (2023) - The combined expression of a handful of pluripotency transcription factors (PluriTFs) in
24 somatic cells can generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Here, we report the
25 structural characterization of disordered regions contained in four important PluriTFs, namely
26 Oct4, Sox2, Nanog and Esrrb. Moreover, many post-translational modifications (PTMs) have
27 been detected on PluriTFs, whose roles are not yet characterized. To help in ...
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Authors : Fürsch, Julius (2021) - Small heat-shock proteins (sHSP) are important members of the cellular stress response
in all species. Their best described function is the binding of early unfolding states and
the resulting prevention of protein aggregation. Most sHSPs exist as oligomers but vary
in size and subunit organization. Many sHSPs exist as a polydisperse composition of
oligomers which undergoes changes in subunit composition, folding status and rel...
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