Peptides

Peptide Ac-CY-NH2 is a Research Peptide with significant interest within the field academic and medical research. This peptide is available for purchase at Cymit Quimica in multiple sizes and with a specification of your choice.

Peptide H-STTTGHLIYK^-OH is a Research Peptide with significant interest within the field academic and medical research. This peptide is available for purchase at Cymit Quimica in multiple sizes and with a specification of your choice.

Peptide Ac-SIINFEKL-NH2 is a Research Peptide with significant interest within the field academic and medical research. This peptide is available for purchase at Cymit Quimica in multiple sizes and with a specification of your choice.

Melittin is a 26-residue cationic, haemolytic peptide isolated from honeybee venom. Melittin lowers the surface tension at the plasma membrane and causes cell lysis. It also exhibits potent anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial activity. Melittin has been extensively used as a model peptide for observing membrane lipid-protein interaction. In Melittin [Cy5] the fluorophore Cy5, a member of the Cy-Dye fluorescent molecule group which are most commonly used in DNA-related applications is added to the melittin peptide.

T regulatory cell epitopes (Tregitopes) are a set of natural T cell epitopes derived from immunoglobulin G. These peptides are Treg-activating and show some promise in prophylactic and therapeutic studies in type 1 diabetes mellitus: which is associated with effector T cell (Teff) destruction of insulin-producing pancreatic β-islet cells. In non-diabetics, self-reactive T cells are deleted during thymic development, rendered anergic, or converted into natural regulatory T cells (Tregs) that suppress autoimmune responses.Tregitopes are processed and presented by MHC class II molecules. They can suppress effector T cell responses, and up-regulate Treg-associated cytokines and chemokines. Tregitopes help stimulate 'antigen-specific adaptive tolerance induction' (ASATI) to modulate antigen-specific transplant rejection and to reduce immune responses to allergens in vitro and in vivo.

Peptide Ac-AKFVAAWTLK-NH2 is a Research Peptide with significant interest within the field academic and medical research. This peptide is available for purchase at Cymit Quimica in multiple sizes and with a specification of your choice.

Desmoglein-3 DSG3 (50-79) is derived from the pemphigus vulgaris antigen DSG3 and is involved in cell-cell adhesion. It can exist as non-junctional and junctional and is one of the desmosomal cadherins. Within the epithelial cells non-junctional DSG3 takes part in E-cadherin signalling.The overexpression of DSG3 has been observed in squamous cell carcinoma and can be used as a biomarker for cervical sentinel lymph nodes. DSG3 in tumours is considered as being pro-metastatic through DSG3 ability to activate AP-1 and the PKC/Ezrin pathway.Biotin (B7) has been added to the N-terminus.

Catalogue peptide; min. 95% purity

Biotin-PEG2-Claudin-6 is derived from the tight junction protein Claudin-6 which is encoded by the CLDN6 gene and can be found within epithelial cell to cell contacts. The Claudin family are transmembrane proteins containing two extracellular loops and are involved in maintaining cell polarity and controlling paracellular ion flux.The expression of Claudin-6 is most commonly seen in early embryonic development where it plays a role in the regulation of blastocyst formation through tight junction enhancement. It is also an important factor for epidermal differentiation and barrier formation. Although it is more commonly seen in embryonic development it is also expressed in mammary epithelial cells. Studies have also shown Cldn6 to be a tumour suppressor in breast cancer.This peptide has a covalently bonded N-terminal Biotin tag that can be used for detection and purification and contains a polyethylene glycol spacer (PEG2).

C5A is an anaphylatoxin produced along with C5b, by the cleavage of complement C5, a fundamental factor of the complement system pathways.

Polyproline-13 (Pro13) forms a helix, and it is a naturally occurring secondary structure. Pro13 is used as a model peptide to help understand the folding mechanisms and intermediates of the proteome. Pro13 can exist in a cis-orientation leading to the formation of the right-handed PPI helix- this is more favourable in non-polar solvents. Alternatively, Pro13 can have a trans-orientation leading to a left-handed PPII helix favoured in polar solvents. Pro13 can interchange these forms by altering the solvent composition, as determined by circular dichronism spectroscopy. The ability to observe the reversible transition between PPI and PPII, and its intermediates, has been hampered by a lack of methodologies, and thus the mechanistic pathway remains unclear. There is PPII helix content in proteins, and the role that PPII conformations play in the non-structured state of polypeptides is still being investigated. Free energy landscapes of polyprolines in various solvents have helped to understand their relative stability and improve the information about the transition pathway between the helices.

Albumin (237-251) Bovine is derived from the globular protein Albumin and is found in the blood-plasma of humans (known as Human Serum Albumin, HSA) where it serves to maintain plasma pressure and nutritional balance. Another role it carries out is the transportation of bound molecules through the blood. Bovine serum albumin (BSA), composed of 583 amino acids, is very similar to HSA thus allowing BSA to be used as a successful model and a standard protein in laboratory experiments.Although BSA and HAS share homology in their three domains, I, II and III, BSA contains 2 tryptophan whereas HAS only contains 1 tryptophan residue.In agriculture the presence of the albumin protein has been used to assess the health of cows to ensure that a suitable quality of milk and meat are produced. Moreover it is important to detect bovine albumin in food and pharmaceutical products due to it being an allergenic protein.

(Arg8) Vasotocin (AVT) is a member of the neurohypophyseal hormone family which contains 9 amino acids with the cysteines at positions 1 and 6 linked through a disulphide bridge. Within the central nervous system of lower vertebrates, AVT has been shown to play a role as a neuromodulator and controls reproductive behaviour. Furthermore it regulates osmotic and electrolyte balance and blood pressure within the periphery. In the mammalian brain AVT functions through arginine vasopressin (AVP) or oxytocin receptor cross-reactions. Mice have an AVT reactive receptor specific to AVT and neuropeptide S. This AVT which functions to regulate processes such as sleep and reproduction.

Peptide Ac-GCRDGPQGIAGQDRCG-OH is a Research Peptide with significant interest within the field academic and medical research. This peptide is available for purchase at Cymit Quimica in multiple sizes and with a specification of your choice.

The Beclin-1 peptide is derived from a region of the Beclin-1 protein, which interacts with a newly identified negative regulator of autophagy, GAPR-1 (also called GLIPR2) to act as a potent inducer of autophagy. Autophagy is an essential process that maintains cellular homeostasis and carries out lysosome-mediated degradation of unwanted proteins in the cytoplasm. It is often examined when looking at disease pathways because of this regulatory function. While the immune system initiates the removal of viruses and pathogens through the autophagic pathway, some viruses (such as HIV) are able to evade this process.

The octapeptide cholecystokinin (26-33), known as CCK-8, has the full biological activity of the full-length cholecystokinin (CCK). CCK acts as a hormone and neurotransmitter and is found in the GI and central nervous systems. CCK-8 is a satiety peptide that inhibits food intake.CCK-8 can also inhibit amanitin uptake into hepatocytes.

Histone 3 (H3) is one of the four core histones (H2A, H2B, H3 and H4) fundamental in compacting eukaryotic DNA into the nucleosome. The nucleosome arises when 147 base pairs of DNA wrap around a H3-H4 tetramer and two H2A-H2B dimers, forming the histone octamer core. Both H4 and H3 are highly conserved and perform roles in binding to segments of DNA which enter and leave the nucleosome and in chromatin formation. Similar to the other core histone, H3 has a globular domain and a flexible N-terminal domain, 'histone tail' which can undergo modifications such as acetylation, methylation, phosphorylation and ubiquitination. The transcriptional activation or silencing of the chromatin is controlled by ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling factors and histone modifying enzymes which target histone proteins. Both processes function to alter the positioning of the nucleosome, allowing the DNA it to be either available or inaccessible to the transcription machinery.The lysine at position 4 of this peptide has been tri-methylated and it is implicated in studies that this modification may remodel the chromatin so that it is more accessible to transcription factors, which may ultimately increase the level of gene expression. The lysine at position 9 has been acetylated, which neutralizes the positive charge on the amino acid, loosening the chromatin structure. This alteration to the accessibility of chromatin promotes the initiation of transcription. Moreover, the serine at position 10 has been phosphorylated, and studies have suggested that this may induce chromatin condensation, and subsequently repress transcription and gene expression.