Neuronal 'traffic jam' marks early Alzheimer's disease
... to form an aberrant form of amyloid beta (A-beta) peptide that makes up the plaques that surround the neuron...red to have an abnormal production of human A-beta peptide that produced Alzheimer's-like plaques and subsequent neural degeneration. The scientists' analyses...Research advances quest for HIV-1 vaccine
...f the complex formed by association of 4E10 with a peptide fragment that is identical to the section of gp41 that the antibody recognizes. The researchers identified the specific amino acids on gp41 that 4E10 interacts with and the 3D structure adopted by these amino acids. These study results suggest that 4...Pathogen-Mimicking Vaccine As Strategy For Cancer Therapy
...CpG 7909 (ProMuneTM, Coley Pharmaceutical), with a peptide antigen were reported today in the Journal of Clin.... "The immune system mounts a response against the peptide antigen, the cancer-specific target, in the vaccine, and thus also against the antigen on the cancer...50-year-old Mystery Solved: Protein Tags Regulate Key Ion Channel
...how cells control ion channel function: reversible peptide linkage." Ion channels are in every cell in the h...shun]. In this process, an enzyme attaches a small peptide called SUMO (for small ubiquitin-like modifier protein) onto another protein. The presence of SUMO a...Researchers make gains in understanding antibiotic resistance
...tunnel" in the ribosome, through which the growing peptide chain moves during synthesis. This tunnel is normally blocked by macrolide antibiotics. In the mutant form, the tunnel widens, which may explain why macrolide antibiotics are no longer effective. According to Steitz, insights about the ribosomal ori...S-Protein Agarose from Novagen
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...eads with site-specific protease, leaving the STag peptide bound to the resin. As alternative elution strategies, bound proteins can be dissociated from the S-protein Agarose in the presence of 3 M NaSCN, 3 M MgCl2 or 0.2 M citrate, pH 2....Standard Protein Kinase Substrate (PKS) Peptide Microarray from LC Sciences
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...the pESP-3 vector, aC-terminal fusion with the GST peptide (~27 kDa) results, which facilitatesone-step purification of the GST fusion protein. 1 In order to provideconvenient removal of the GST tag after purification, a sequence coding for therecognition and cleavage sites for enterokinase and thrombin hav...Low Abundance cDNA Cloned Using Stratagenes Human Universal cDNA Library
...ive mass spectrometric techniques provide valuable peptide sequence information from very limited amo...ghly degenerate primers from these partial peptide sequences, but our initial attempts at PCR-cloning were unsuccessful. The peptide sequences ...Detecting Gastrin-Releasing Peptide Receptor by in situ PCR on Archived Tissue
...tecting the rare message for the gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) receptorexpressed by a previously resected g...tility and to induce the secretion ofother enteric peptide hormones. 1-3 However, GRP receptors are notexpressed by mucosal epithelial cells lining the normal...Simple, Sensitive, and Rapid Detection of FLAG -Tagged Fusion Proteins
...y of cloning andexpression vectors. Since the FLAG peptide (DYKDDDDK) is a commonly usedepitope tag, Stratagene developed the TagDetect FLAG Protein Dipstick. It can beused to monitor expression of FLAG-tagged proteins in either prokaryotic oreukaryotic cells, to follow FLAG-tagged proteins during purifica- ......tagging is a convenient technique in which a known peptide epitopethat is recognized by an antibody is fused to the target protein of interest.With this technique, a tag-specific antibody can be used to detect the fusionprotein within a cell, eliminating the need to make specific antibodies to eachnew protei...Vaccine for Alzheimer’s diseas
... Alzheimer’s mice are vaccinated with beta-amyloid peptide they develop antibodies against the protein, which sweep the brain clean of the plagues. Mice given the test vaccine developed fewer protein deposits in their brains compared with unvaccinated animals. These results are reported in Nature. Whethe...Red Wine Helps Fight Heart disease
...henols. Polyphenols inhibit the production of a peptide that contributes to hardening of the arteries. Polyphenols in red wine decreases the amount of the peptide endothelin-1 produced by cells taken from the blood vessels of cows. Endothelin-1 is a potent blood ...Hidden influenza virus protein found
...hen the scientists examined the gene encoding this peptide more closely, they noticed it was suspiciously long for mere junk.Wondering if this molecule might be a bonafide protein, Dr. Yewdell’s team decided to see how much of it was created in cells infected with the flu virus. If it were junk, there should...Can one get addicted to fast food?
...t food diet, they become more resistant to a brain peptide called galanin that stimulates eating// and to leptin, a hormone which is strongly linked to weight and appetite. Leptin releases signals to the part of the brain that co-ordinates eating behaviour. Studies conducted by researchers has shown that ra......ous infusion of a gut hormone called glucagon-like peptide 1, or GLP-1, had significantly fewer of these complications than those who remained on standard oral medications. The study involved 16 patients. Eight remained on usual care and eight discontinued their usual oral medications and received a continu...Proteomelab™ PA 800 Protein Characterization System
...nt and molecular weight, generates high-resolution peptide maps and carbohydrate profiles and provides front-end separation to mass spectrometry....IGF-1 EIA Endocrine Function 026-AC-27F1 Insulin Growth Factor
...r of biological activities similar to insulin. The peptide is growth hormone (GH) dependent to a high degree, but there is growing evidence of GH-independent secretion. IGF-1 has numerous growth-promoting effects, including mitogenic effects and the promotion of cartilage sulphation. It also mediates growth ...Angiotensin II RIA Hypertension / Cardiac Evaluation, Cardiovascular 001-RK-A22
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...e that cleaves p -nitroaniline from a chromogenic peptide substrate. This in turn allows photometric readout. The entire test can be carried out with standard laboratory equipment. A related assay, Glucatell, is available for non-diagnostic purposes, for example, to test for fungal contamination in build...Pharmexa A/S (DK) - Pharmexa presents data from influenza program
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... in vitro tests. Thisexperiment confirmed that the peptide sequences in Flu-V are highlyconserved across strains, and that these peptides are naturallypresented on the surface of flu-infected cells, and therefore canbe recognised by the immune system. When the immunised mice were subsequently challenged wit...