"Cryptdin 2 (UniProtKB: P28309, LRDLVCYCRTRGCKRRERMNGTCRKGHLMYTLCCR)... obtained by oxidative refolding of partially purified linear peptides (synthesized by CPC Scientific...) and purifying the correctly folded species by reverse-phase high-pressure liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC). Purity was determined by analytical RP-HPLC, and the mass of the disulfide-bonded peptides was verified by high mass accuracy liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry."
Abstract
The small intestinal epithelium produces numerous antimicrobial peptides and proteins, including abundant enteric α-defensins. Although they most commonly function as potent antivirals in cell culture, enteric α-defensins have also been shown to enhance some viral infections in vitro. Efforts to determine the physiologic relevance of enhanced infection have been limited by the absence of a suitable cell culture system. To address this issue, here we use primary stem cell-derived small intestinal enteroids to examine the impact of naturally secreted α-defensins on infection by the enteric mouse pathogen, mouse adenovirus 2 (MAdV-2). MAdV-2 infection was increased when enteroids were inoculated across an α-defensin gradient in a manner that mimics oral infection but not when α-defensin levels were absent or bypassed through other routes of inoculation. This increased infection was a result of receptor-independent binding of virus to the cell surface. The enteroid experiments accurately predicted increased MAdV-2 shedding in the feces of wild type mice compared to mice lacking functional α-defensins. Thus, our studies have shown that viral infection enhanced by enteric α-defensins may reflect the evolution of some viruses to utilize these host proteins to promote their own infection.
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Froning, K., Maguire, J., Sereno, A., Huang, F., Chang, S., Weichert, K., Frommelt, A.J., Dong, J., Wu, X., Austin, H. and Conner, E.M. Nature Communications 11, no. 1 (2020): 2330.
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SLLMWITQC (NY-ESO-1) peptide (synthesized by CPC Scientific), 100 μL total volume, for 3 h.
Buss, Colin G., and Sangeeta N. Bhatia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020).
Tandem Peptides. Tandem peptides were purchased from CPC Scientific. Sequences are: mTP-TAMRA-LyP1 (Myr-GWTLNSAGYLLGKINLKALA-ALAKKILGGGGK(5TAMRA)-CGNKRTRGC (C-C bridge)); [..] PEGylated formulations of these peptides were synthesized as previously described (49). The sequences are: [..] mTP-PEG-ARAL (Myr-GWTLNSAGYLLGKINLKALA-ALAKKILC-PEG5K-GGGARALPSQRSR).
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Kudryashev, Julia A., Lauren E. Waggoner, Hope T. Leng, Nicholas H. Mininni, and Ester J. Kwon. ACS Sensors (2020).
Calpain substrate peptide (QSY21-QEVYGAMP-K(Cy5)-PEG2-GC- NH2) was synthesized by CPC Scientific Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA …
Adem, Sandeep, Sonal Jain, Michael Sveiven, Xiahan Zhou, Anthony J. O’Donoghue, and Drew A. Hall. Scientific Reports 10, no. 1 (2020): 1-10
Biotin-PEG36-Thr-Phe-Ser-Tyr-Nle-Arg-Trp-Pro-PEG12-Cys (known as peptide) was synthesized by CPC Scientific..
Baba, Osamu, Andrew Elvington, Martyna Szpakowska, Deborah Sultan, Gyu Seong Heo, Xiaohui Zhang, Hannah Luehmann et al. bioRxiv (2020).
The FC131 peptide (cyclo[2-Nal-Gly-d-Tyr-NMe-d-Orn-Arg]) was synthesized by CPC Scientific (Sunnyvale, CA).
This guide will help you understand how to read ESI spectra for large and complex bio-molecules like peptides. Other techniques such as high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) show one major peak (i.e., absorbance and purity for RP-HPLC) in the spectra, making the interpretation straightforward. ESI-MS spectra are more complicated due to the multiplicity of the data. While most small molecules (100-500 AMU) behave well in ESI-MS and ionize as a single charged state, larger biomolecules, such as peptides, ionize as multiple charged variants. A major advantage of ESI-MS over other mass spectroscopy techniques is that molecular fragmentation is rare (t-Boc groups and a few other protection groups are an exception), which is why ESI-MS is often referred to as a soft ionization technique.
Vickers, Timothy A., Meghdad Rahdar, Thazha P. Prakash, and Stanley T. Crooke. Nucleic Acids Research (2019).
A solution of 1.5 umol SmBiT peptide (Val-Thr-Gly-Tyr-Arg-Leu-Phe-Glu-Glu-Ile-Leu-Gly-Gly-Ser-Gly-Gly-Lys(N3)-NH2) containing an azide group at the C-terminus (CPC Scientific, 1245 Reamwood Ave, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) in DMSO (0.5 ml) was added and the reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 5 h.