Proteins are made of amino acids that have two essential functions: to enable the accretion and renewal of body proteins, and to provide metabolites that play important physiological roles in maintaining the pr
In all instances the albumin and glutelin extracts constituted a significant proportion of the total nitrogen extract, and the precipitable albumin proteins were present in quantities comparable to the globulin proteins. The amino acid analyses and essential amino acid indices (EAA index) of the ...
Amino acids:The amino acid is the basic unit of protein which are connected by peptide bonds. The amino acid has a general structure of an alpha-amino group, alpha-carboxyl group, and the R-group or side chain. The R-group is different for different amino acids. The 20 naturally ...
What information do researchers mine from amino acid sequence alignments?Amino Acids:The functional product which is synthesized during the gene expression, especially translation, is called amino acids. Amino acids are the group of m...
ProteinsMelanin is a highly irregular heteropolymer consisting of monomeric units derived from the enzymatic oxidation of the amino acid tyrosine. The process of melanin formation takes place in specialized acidic organelles (melanosomes) in melanocytes. The process of melanin polymerization requires an ...
In recent years, a population of unconventional T cells called ‘mucosal-associated invariant T cells’ (MAIT cells) has captured the attention of immunologists and clinicians due to their abundance in humans, their involvement in a broad range of infectious and non-infectious diseases and their un...
N6-methyladenosine (m6A), the most prevalent and reversible modification of mRNA in mammalian cells, has recently been extensively studied in epigenetic regulation. YTH family proteins, whose YTH domain can recognize and bind m6A-containing RNA, are the
Glycoprotein refers to proteins in which oligosaccharide chains (glycans) are covalently attached/bound to the amino acid side chains (polypeptide backbones). In different types of organisms, these molecules are formed through a process known as glycosylation. ...
Recombinant ProteinsAntigens, Differentiation, B-LymphocyteAmino Acid SequenceModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataIgE antibodies are best known for their pathological role in allergy. The class-specific effector sites are located in the chains; these form covalent dimers via two cystine residues (Cys...
The present study leads to a simple method for predicting protein stability changes caused by amino acid substitutions, which will be useful for protein engineering in designing novel proteins with increased stability and altered function. ? 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Biopolymers 64: 210-220, 2002...