Research Progress on Bacteriocins Produced by Lactic Acid Bacteria and Their Inhibitory Effect on the Biofilm of Staphylococcus aureus by Xiaoge XUE, Yuanyuan LIU, Lina ZHANG, Rui FAN, Yu XIN, Jiage MA, Wei YU, Libo LIU

“…Its biofilm formation poses a serious threat to food processing and food safety. Bacteriocins are peptides with antimicrobial activity produced by lactic acid bacteria (LAB) during metabolism. …”
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DMSS: An Attention-Based Deep Learning Model for High-Quality Mass Spectrometry Prediction by Yihui Ren, Yu Wang, Wenkai Han, Yikang Huang, Xiaoyang Hou, Chunming Zhang, Dongbo Bu, Xin Gao, Shiwei Sun

“…Accurate prediction of peptide spectra is crucial for improving the efficiency and reliability of proteomic analysis, as well as for gaining insight into various biological processes. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Biomarkers in Type 2 Diabetes Patients With and Without Comorbidities: Insights Into the Role of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease by Symeon Savvopoulos, Haralampos Hatzikirou, Herbert F Jelinek

“…Methods: Linear discriminant analysis is used for classification method and feature importance, This study examined the relationship between Humanin and mitochondrial protein (MOTSc), mitochondrial peptides associated with oxidative stress, diabetes progression, and associated complications. …”
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Human Neutrophil Defensins Disrupt Liver Interendothelial Junctions and Aggravate Sepsis by QiXing Chen, Yang Yang, YiHang Pan, LiHua Shen, Yan Zhang, Fei Zheng, Qiang Shu, XiangMing Fang

“…Human neutrophil peptides 1-3 (HNP1-3), also known as human α-defensins, are the most abundant neutrophil granule proteins. …”
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Micellar Casein in Rennin Coagulation, Cheese Dehydration, and Ripening by Elena I. Melnikova, Ekaterina V. Bogdanova, Elena S. Rudnichenko, Mariya S. Chekmareva

“…Its application in the standard technology for the Rossiiskii cheese required the following adjustments: a longer starter activation, starter cultures with high proteolytic activity and ability to hydrolyze bitter peptides, extra rennet, a two-fold reduction of second heating and stirring, and at least 45 days or ripening. …”
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Expanding the structural resolution of glycosylation microheterogeneity in therapeutic proteins by salt-free hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry by Yutian Gan, Steffen Lippold, John Stobaugh, Christian Schöneich, Feng Yang

“…Further, our new method improves the retention of hydrophilic peptides, allowing simultaneous analysis of important CQAs such as deamidation in antibodies. …”
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Core-genome guided novel therapeutic targets identification and chimeric vaccine designing against Rickettsia rickettsii by Fizza Arshad, Asifa Sarfraz, Muhammad Shehroz, Umar Nishan, Asia Perveen, Riaz Ullah, Mohamed A. Ibrahim, Mohibullah Shah

“…Using conserved antigenic peptides, two chimeric vaccine constructs were developed and assessed using molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations, principal component analysis, MM-GBSA binding free energy, and dynamic cross-correlation matrix studies. …”
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High-resolution mass spectrometry measurement of N-terminal carbamylated hemoglobin as a potential marker for chronic diseases with elevated blood urea levels by Fangjun Chen, Priscilla S.-W. Yeung, Carolyn V. Wong, Ruben Y. Luo

“…Methods: Apparent CarHb/Hb ratios were calculated from the peak area ratios of carbamylated to native N-terminal peptides digested from hemoglobin alpha and beta subunits. …”
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Extreme Environment Streptomyces: Potential Sources for New Antibacterial and Anticancer Drug Leads? by Periyasamy Sivalingam, Kui Hong, John Pote, Kandasamy Prabakar

“…Extreme Streptomyces have been an excellent source of a new class of compounds which include alkaloids, angucycline, macrolide, and peptides. This review covers novel drug leads with antibacterial and cytotoxic activities isolated from deep-sea, desert, cryo, and volcanic environment Streptomyces from 2009 to 2019. …”
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Sp17 Protein Expression and Major Histocompatibility Class I and II Epitope Presentation in Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma Patients by Kamel Ait-Tahar, Amanda P. Anderson, Martin Barnardo, Graham P. Collins, Chris S. R. Hatton, Alison H. Banham, Karen Pulford

“…A significant γ-interferon CTL response was detected in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of 13/31 DLBCL patients following short-term cell stimulation with two novel HLA-A⁎0201 peptides and one previously reported HLA-A⁎0101-restricted nine-mer Sp17 peptide. …”
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Ophthalmic products with extracellular matrix components. Their effectiveness in the process of corneal repair in neurotrophic, herpetic, recurrent keratitis and erosions by D.Yu. Maychuk, A.A. Tarkhanova, I.A. Pronkin

“…Among the many biomimetics, we can single out the multicomponent hydrogel composition «Corneal Epithelium gel Protector (CEGP) SPHERO®oko (JSC «BIOMIR Service», Russia), designed to restore the corneal epithelium, which includes both the main components of ECM and other biologically active substances, including peptides, amino acids, uronic acids, monosaccharides, growth factors, etc. …”
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Neurological Disease-Affected Patients, including Multiple Sclerosis, Are Poor Responders to BKPyV, a Human Polyomavirus by Ilaria Bononi, Elisa Mazzoni, Silvia Pietrobon, Maria Rosa Iaquinta, Andrea Caselli, Elena Torreggiani, Maura Pugliatti, Ilaria Casetta, Massimiliano Castellazzi, Enrico Granieri, Fernanda Martini, Mauro Tognon

“…Samples were analyzed for IgG antibodies against BKPyV with an indirect ELISA with synthetic peptides mimicking the viral capsid protein 1 (VP1) antigens. …”
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Acute hepatitis of non-specified etiology by Ye. V. Tsyganova, O. O. Znoyko, N. D. Yushchuk, K. R. Dudina, M. G. Isagulyants, N. V. Petrakova, T. V. Petrova, M. I. Mikhaylov

“…Investigation of patients with acute hepatitis of non-specified etiology included clinical, epidemiologic, routine laboratory, serological methods; molecular biological method (RNA of hepatitis A, C, Е, G viruses; DNA of hepatitis B virus, TTV, CMV, EBV, HHV of 1, 2, 6 and 8 types, PV B-19, NV-f – qualitative analysis); method of immunofluorescence (assessment of antimitochondrial and antinuclear antibodies); immunologic methods (laboratory diagnostic methods) – independent assessment of specific antibodies for individual HCV antigens spectrum, including structural and unstructural proteins and compound peptides, representing the whole HCV polyprotein (overall 38 antigens: 34 HCV antigens and 4 control antigens) in blood serum by EIA method; investigation of Т-cellular immune response to HCV antigens by blast-cell lymphocytes transformation method under stimulation by HCV antigens with quantitative evaluation of cytokine secretion; instrumental method – ultrasound investigation of abdominal organs.Conclusions. …”
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Development and Characterisation of a Novel NF-κB Reporter Cell Line for Investigation of Neuroinflammation by Marie-Theres Zeuner, Thomas Vallance, Sakthivel Vaiyapuri, Graeme S. Cottrell, Darius Widera

“…Thus, we developed a stable neural NF-κB-reporter cell line to assess the potency of proinflammatory molecules and peptides, as well as anti-inflammatory pharmaceuticals. …”
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Case report: Treatable immune-mediated severe orthostatic hypotension in SARS-CoV-2 infection by Kenji Theiler, Maroussia Bronchain, Eric Grouzmann, Serge Duflon, Lorenz Hirt, Renaud Du Pasquier, Gérard Waeber, Grégoire Wuerzner, Karin Diserens, Julien F. Bally

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Problems of creating antibody phage libraries and their solutions by V. S. Aripov, N. V. Volkova, A. A. Ilyichev, D. N. Shcherbakov

“…Phage display has become an efficient, reliable and popular molecular technique for generating libraries encompassing millions or even billions of clones of divergent peptides or proteins. The method is based on the correspondence between phage genotype and phenotype, which ensures the presentation of recombinant proteins of known amino acid composition on the surface of phage particles. …”
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α-Synuclein fibrils enhance HIV-1 infection of human T cells, macrophages and microglia by Lia-Raluca Olari, Sichen Liu, Franziska Arnold, Julia Kühlwein, Marta Gil Miró, Ajeet Rijal Updahaya, Christina Stürzel, Dietmar Rudolf Thal, Paul Walther, Konstantin M. J. Sparrer, Karin M. Danzer, Jan Münch, Frank Kirchhoff

“…Additionally, an HIV-1 Env-derived amyloidogenic peptide accelerated amyloid formation by α-synuclein and Aβ peptides. …”
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Surfactin alleviated hyperglycaemia in mice with type 2 diabetes induced by a high-fat diet and streptozotocin by Xiaoyu Chen, Hongyuan Zhao, Fanqiang Meng, Libang Zhou, Zhaoxin Lu, Yingjian Lu

“…Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is associated with liver dysfunction and intestinal dysbiosis. Bioactive peptides (BAPs) have been reported to ameliorate T2DM by preventing oxidative damage to the liver. …”
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Gelatin/Poly (Lactic-Co-Glycolic Acid)/Attapulgite Composite Scaffold Equipped with Teriparatide Microspheres for Osteogenesis in vitro and in vivo by Zhao Z, Feng X, Zhao Y, Song Z, Zhang R, Zhang K, He Y, Chen G, Zhang J, Wang W

“…Zhenrui Zhao,1 Xiaofei Feng,1 Yuhao Zhao,1 Zhengdong Song,1 Ruihao Zhang,1 Kui Zhang,1 Yixiang He,1 Guoliang Chen,1 Jing Zhang,2 Wenji Wang3 1Department of Orthopedics, The First Clinical Medical College of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Orthopedics, Anlu People’s Hospital, Anlu, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Orthopedics, the First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Wenji Wang, The First Hospital of Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, People’s Republic of China, Tel +8613893221698, Email wwjldyy@163.comBackground: Given the risks associated with autologous bone transplantation and the limitations of allogeneic bone transplantation, scaffolds in bone tissue engineering that incorporate bioactive peptides are highly recommended. Teriparatide (TPTD) plays a significant role in bone defect repair, although achieving controlled release of TPTD within a bone tissue engineering scaffold remains challenging. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of the Diversity of Fungal Secondary Metabolites and Their Emerging Applications in Healthcare and Environment by Khushbu Wadhwa, Neha Kapoor, Hardeep Kaur, Eman A. Abu-Seer, Mohd. Tariq, Sazada Siddiqui, Virendra Kumar Yadav, Parwiz Niazi, Pankaj Kumar, Saad Alghamdi

“…The fungi produce these secondary metabolites (SMs) during the different phases of their growth, which are categorized into terpenoids, alkaloids, polyketides, and non-ribosomal peptides. These SMs exhibit significant biological activity, which contributes to the formulation of novel pharmaceuticals, biopesticides, and environmental bioremediation agents. …”
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