• A tetrapeptide is a peptide, classified as an oligopeptide, since it only consists of four amino acids joined by peptide bonds. Many tetrapeptides are...
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    are called oligopeptides, and include dipeptides, tripeptides, and tetrapeptides. Peptides fall under the broad chemical classes of biological polymers...
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  • A tetrapeptide (example: Val-Gly-Ser-Ala) with green highlighted N-terminal α-amino acid (example: L-valine) and blue marked C-terminal α-amino acid (example:...
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    consisting of two to twenty amino acids, including dipeptides, tripeptides, tetrapeptides, and other polypeptides. Some of the major classes of naturally occurring...
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    A tetrapeptide, a hetero-oligomer of the amino acids valine (green), glycine (black), serine (black), and alanine (blue). The units were joined by condensation...
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    Cholecystokinin tetrapeptide (CCK-4, tetragastrin, Trp-Met-Asp-Phe-NH2) is a peptide fragment derived from the larger peptide hormone cholecystokinin....
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  • A tetrapeptide (example: Val-Gly-Ser-Ala) with green highlighted N-terminal α-amino acid (example: L-valine) and blue marked C-terminal α-amino acid (example:...
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    extensively studied synthetic analog systems, feature copper(III). With tetrapeptides, purple-colored copper(III) complexes are stabilized by the deprotonated...
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    Tetrapeptide repeat homeobox 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TPRX1 gene. Homeobox genes encode DNA-binding proteins, many of which are...
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    key biosynthetic precursor to penicillin and cephalosporin. Dipeptide Tetrapeptide Nelson, David L.; Cox, Michael M. (2005). Principles of Biochemistry...
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  • Dipeptidyl-dipeptidase (EC 3.4.14.6, dipeptidyl tetrapeptide hydrolase, dipeptidyl ligase, tetrapeptide dipeptidase) is an enzyme. This enzyme catalyses...
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  • monopeptide, oligopeptide, pepsin, peptic, peptide, peptone, polypeptide, tetrapeptide, tripeptide per- wallet Greek πήρα (pḗra), πηρίδιον (pērídion) peridium...
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    Schlatter had synthesized aspartame as an intermediate step in generating a tetrapeptide of the hormone gastrin, for use in assessing an anti-ulcer drug candidate...
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    patients with a long-term clinical benefit were enriched for a series of tetrapeptide motifs that were not found in tumors of patients with no or minimal clinical...
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    molecule). For example, the formation of cyclo-tetrapeptides through the head-to-tail reaction of linear tetrapeptides assisted by HATU has been reported. HATU...
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    involved in the synthesis of fungisporin and related hydrophobic cyclic tetrapeptides in Penicillium chrysogenum". PLOS ONE. 9 (6): e98212. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...
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    Epitalon (category Tetrapeptides)
    primarily overseen by Vladimir Khavinson, in Russia. Epitalon is a tetrapeptide with the amino acid sequence Ala-Glu-Asp-Gly and the molecular formula...
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    Elamipretide (category Tetrapeptides)
    as SS-31, , MTP-131 and Bendavia) is a small mitochondrially-targeted tetrapeptide (D-Arg-dimethylTyr-Lys-Phe-NH2) that appears to reduce the production...
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  • above and type II below. Each image shows the main chain atoms of a tetrapeptide excluding hydrogen atoms. Carbon atoms grey, oxygen atoms red and nitrogen...
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    Carfilzomib (category Tetrapeptides)
    medication acting as a selective proteasome inhibitor. Chemically, it is a tetrapeptide epoxyketone and an analog of epoxomicin. It was developed by Onyx Pharmaceuticals...
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  • according to the chemical moiety that binds to the zinc ion (except cyclic tetrapeptides which bind to the zinc ion with a thiol group). As of 2005, some examples...
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    Tuftsin (category Tetrapeptides)
    Tuftsin is a tetrapeptide (Thr-Lys-Pro-Arg, TKPR) located in the Fc-domain of the heavy chain of immunoglobulin G (residues 289-292). It has an immunostimulatory...
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    the primary ligands are as follows: Formyl peptides are di-, tri-, tetrapeptides of bacterial origin, formylated on the N-terminus of the peptide.[citation...
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    Merrifield RB (1963). "Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis. I. The Synthesis of a Tetrapeptide". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 85 (14): 2149–2154. doi:10.1021/ja00897a025. Mitchell...
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    hippocampus, hypothalamus, periaqueductal grey, and cortical regions. The CCK tetrapeptide fragment CCK-4 (Trp-Met-Asp-Phe-NH2) reliably causes anxiety and panic...
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    tetrapeptide on the thiolation domain of CesB2.  Finally, the final thioesterase domain combines three units of the aforementioned tetrapeptide between...
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  • and testing of peptidomimetics whose structure is based on the AVPI tetrapeptide IAP binding motif present in the N-terminus of mature Smac. These peptidomimetic...
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  • D-glutamine, L-lysine, and D-alanine with a 5-glycine interbridge between tetrapeptides in the case of Staphylococcus aureus (a gram-positive bacterium). Peptidoglycan...
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  • such as ecopipam and reserpine cholecystokinin (CCK) (especially the tetrapeptide and octapeptide fragments CCK-4 and CCK-8) Anxiolytic substances have...
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  • Mikhaleva I (February 2004). "Delta sleep-inducing peptide and its tetrapeptide analogue alleviate severity of metaphit seizures". Pharmacol. Biochem...
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