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- noun biochemistry, organic chemistry An
organic compound formed from fouramino acids joined bypeptide bonds .
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The other antiserum was prepared by immunization of a rabbit (Rabbit B) with the COOH-terminal gastrin tetrapeptide amide.
Nobel Lecture Radioimmunoassay: A Probe For Fine Structure Of Biologic Systems 1977
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In each library, each tetrapeptide had a fixed amino acid at one position (P 1, P2, P3, or P4) and randomized amino acids at the other positions
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It is a pure synthetic tetrapeptide developed to decrease nerve stimulation, which Cognis says helps to increase skin tolerance.
CosmeticsDesign RSS 2009
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It is a pure synthetic tetrapeptide developed to decrease nerve stimulation, which Cognis says helps to increase skin tolerance.
CosmeticsDesign RSS 2009
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It is a pure synthetic tetrapeptide developed to decrease nerve stimulation, which Cognis says helps to increase skin tolerance.
CosmeticsDesign RSS 2009
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To better characterize falcipain activities and determine whether a clear pathway of hemoglobin degradation by falcipains is present, activities were studied by three assays, evaluating action against a tetrapeptide library, 12-mer peptides representing the sequences of α and β globin, and intact hemoglobin.
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To exclude the possibility that the observed effects of salubrinal were specific for the tetrapeptide aldehyde inhibitor PSI only, two other inhibitors, MG132 and bortezomib, were also evaluated.
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Thus, although of limited utility in discriminating activity against native protein substrates, the elaboration of enzyme specificity using tetrapeptide scanning libraries provided accurate prediction of optimal small molecule inhibitors.
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Vanhoorelbeke K, Depraetere H, Romijn RA, Huizinga EG, De Maeyer M, et al. (2003) A consensus tetrapeptide selected by phage display adopts the conformation of a dominant discontinuous epitope of a monoclonal anti-VWF antibody that inhibits the von Willebrand factor-collagen interaction.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Julien Muzard et al. 2009
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P Cleavage preferences of falcipain-2 and falcipain-3 against a tetrapeptide library.
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