Cancer is a severe illness that significantly threatens human life and health. Anticancer peptides (ACPs) represent a promising therapeutic strategy for combating cancer. In silico methods enable rapid and accurate identification of ACPs without exte...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jun 7, 2024
The adaptive immune response plays a vital role in eliminating infected and aberrant cells from the body. This process hinges on the presentation of short peptides by major histocompatibility complex Class I molecules on the cell surface. Immunopepti...
Functional peptides play crucial roles in various biological processes and hold significant potential in many fields such as drug discovery and biotechnology. Accurately predicting the functions of peptides is essential for understanding their divers...
Bioactive peptide therapeutics has been a long-standing research topic. Notably, the antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been extensively studied for its therapeutic potential. Meanwhile, the demand for annotating other therapeutic peptides, such as a...
With their diverse biological activities, peptides are promising candidates for therapeutic applications, showing antimicrobial, antitumour and hormonal signalling capabilities. Despite their advantages, therapeutic peptides face challenges such as s...
MOTIVATION: Despite the extensive manufacturing of antiviral drugs and vaccination, viral infections continue to be a major human ailment. Antiviral peptides (AVPs) have emerged as potential candidates in the pursuit of novel antiviral drugs. These p...
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society
Apr 1, 2024
AntiCancer Peptides (ACPs) have emerged as promising therapeutic agents for cancer treatment. The time-consuming and costly nature of wet-lab discriminatory methods has spurred the development of various machine learning and deep learning-based ACP c...
Cancer, recognized as a primary cause of death worldwide, has profound health implications and incurs a substantial social burden. Numerous efforts have been made to develop cancer treatments, among which anticancer peptides (ACPs) are garnering reco...
MOTIVATION: Anticancer peptides (ACPs) have natural cationic properties and can act on the anionic cell membrane of cancer cells to kill cancer cells. Therefore, ACPs have become a potential anticancer drug with good research value and prospect.
MOTIVATION: Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder that has been a major cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, stroke, and lower limb amputation across the world. To alleviate the impact of diabetes, researchers have developed the next...