The glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide is secreted from enteroendocrine cells and can enhance the release of insulin from pancreatic cells. The identification of peptides in human plasma are a challenging task and is barely studied by the scientists. Learn about this novel technology that can improve the plasma extraction yield, leading to the identification of trace peptides with low molecular weight using a single drop of plasma sample.

For MS-based immunopeptidomics, major histocompatibility complex (MHC) peptides are typically isolated by immunoaffinity purification using specific anti-MHC antibodies. In this work, restricted access material (RAM)-SPE (solid-phase extraction) to increase the number of identified MHC peptides compared to C18-SPE.

Listeria is a foodborne pathogen that can cause listeriosis, which can be dangerous specially among vulnerable individuals including immunocompromised individuals. Learn how this study extended the antigen knowledge on Listeria, by applying an immunopeptidomics study on two infected human epithelial cell lines.

Covalent antibody recruiting molecules are synthetic bifunctional molecules capable of inducing antibodies to recognise and eliminate cancer cells by the innate immune machinery. Learn more about this proof-of-concept research by McCann et al, and how a “covalent immune proximity-induction” strategy may enable the efficient recruitment of immune receptors via the incorporation of available modest affinity peptide ligands.

Bottom–up mass-spectrometry-based proteomics is a well-developed technology but the gradient type and time can have influence on the results and must be well studied. Learn how Wei et al. investigated various gradient types, and gradient lengths with different sample loading amounts and loading conditions to optimise the LC step.

Learn more about this study on how decellularized nerve hydrogels (dNHs) can be used for peripheral nerve injury and examining how dNHs can promote neurite remylination and inhibit synaptogenesis.

Hypertension affects over a billion people around the world and overactivation of renin−angiotensin−aldosterone system (RAS) is one of the main pathologies. Here, this study aims to investigate the effects and mechanisms of bovine bone gelatin-derived peptides (BGPs) on hypertension and hypertension complications.

Learn how overexpression of Canonical C. reihardtii poly (A) polymerase (crePAPSs) genes can possibly be harnessed to exploit green algae for recombinant protein production on an industrial scale.

CD8+ T cells can eradicate abnormal cells through the recognition of small peptides presented by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules. In this study, a system-level and cross-species analysis of the MHC-I immunopeptidome was conducted to understand how the MHC-I immunopeptidome is being shaped in different primary tissues in vivo.

Umami is the fifth taste found in substances that mainly include amino acids and nucleotides. Here, the combination of peptidomics and virtual screening is employed for rapid screening of samples to identify novel umami peptides in clam species.