Institute of Biostructure and Bioimaging

Structural and functional insights into the recombinant PR-10 tomato allergen Sola l 4.02

Abstract Sola l 4.02 is a major tomato allergen of the PR-10 family and a Bet v 1 homolog implicated in pollen–food cross-reactivity, yet its molecular properties remain poorly defined. Here, we report the recombinant production and its comprehensive structural and functional cha...

Plant Proteins and Bioactive Peptides: Distinguishing Nutritional Quality from Sequence-Dependent Bioactivity

Plant proteins represent both important nutritional resources and reservoirs of encrypted bioactive peptide sequences. However, protein nutritional quality and peptide bioactivity are distinct properties: a favorable indispensable amino acid profile or high digestibility does not...

Identification and characterization of TrxA: a novel bacterial thioredoxin–metallothionein chimera

Abstract Heavy metals (HMs) are naturally occurring elements which can be essential, such as zinc, copper, and iron, or non-essential, including cadmium, mercury, and lead. While essential metals serve as cofactors in critical enzymatic processes, elevated concentrations of both...