Kringle 1-3 domain is a recently found angiogenesis inhibitor with anti-angiogenesis and anti-tumor activity. The kringle 1-3 gene was amplified by PCR technique using angiostatin gene as template. After DNA sequencing, the PCR product was cloned into pPIC9K resulting in recombinant plasmid pPIC9K13 which was then transformed into Pichia pastoris GS115. The high copy integration transformants screened by PCR and G418 methods were cultivated in flasks. The K1-3 was expressed and secreted to the medium and has immunogenic activity as shown by SDS-PAGE and Western blotting. High cell density culture was carried out in 30-liter and 80-liter bioreactor, the biomass reaches 300 OD after methanol induction, and the expressed product is 200 mg/L. The fermentation supernatant was purified by Streamline SP and Phenyl Sepharose Chromatography, the product appears as a single band on SDS-PAGE, with a purity of 95%-96%. The purified product has anti-angiogenesis and anti-tumor activity.
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Protein Sci
February 2025
Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Dengue fever is a serious health issue, particularly in tropical countries like Singapore. We have previously found that dengue virus (DENV) recruits human plasmin in blood meal to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut for infection. Here, using biolayer interferometry, we found that neither kringle-4 nor kringle-5 plasmin domains alone binds well to dengue virus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Advancing age, decreasing renal function, and atrial fibrillation are strongly associated. Real-world evidence of direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) use among elderly patients ≥75 years of age with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation and renal dysfunction is limited.
Objectives: This study sought to assess 2-year outcomes and anticoagulant treatment, stratified by renal function.
J Proteomics
October 2022
Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, Complutense University, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Electronic address:
The disulfide bonds formed in the SAPA domain of a recombinant version of the NH-terminal propeptide (SP-B) from the precursor of human pulmonary surfactant protein B (SP-B) were identified through sequential digestion of SP-B with GluC/trypsin or thermolysin/GluC, followed by mass spectrometry (MS) analysis. MS spectra allowed identification of disulfide bonds between Cys-Cys and Cys-Cys, and we propose a disulfide connectivity pattern of 1-3 and 2-4 within the SAPA domain, with the Cys residues numbered according to their position from the N-terminus of the propeptide sequence. The peaks with m/z ∼ 2136 and ∼ 1780 in the MS spectrum of the GluC/trypsin digest were assigned to peptides AWTTSSLACAQGPE and QALQCR linked by Cys-Cys and FWCQSLE and ALGHCLQE linked by Cys-Cys respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObes Res Clin Pract
June 2022
Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States. Electronic address:
Objective: To examine the association between COVID-19 impact and clinical outcomes of an integrated collaborative care intervention for adults with obesity and comorbid depression.
Methods: Latent class analysis identified clusters of self-reported COVID-19 impact. Cluster characteristics were examined using Fishers' least significant difference method and canonical discriminant analysis.
Purpose Of Review: To summarize the recent studies directly comparing LDL and lipoprotein(a) as causal factors for cardiovascular disease and mortality.
Recent Findings: In approximately 100,000 individuals from the Copenhagen General Population Study for risk of myocardial infarction, in observational analyses per 39 mg/dl (1 mmol/l) cholesterol increase, the hazard ratio was 1.3 (95% confidence interval: 1.
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