The present invention relates to a novel polypeptide which can specifically bind to programmed cell death protein 1, a polynucleotide coding for the polypeptide, a vector comprising the polynucleotide, a recombinant microorganism in which the expression vector has been introduced, a method for preparing the polypeptide by means of the recombinant microorganism, a cancer preventing or treating composition comprising the polypeptide, and a cancer prevention or treatment method comprising administration of the cancer preventing or treating composition comprising the polypeptide. The polypeptide of the present invention can inhibit the activity of programmed cell death protein 1 by binding thereto and thus can be widely utilized for a formulation for preventing or treating various diseases associated with programmed cell death protein 1.

The present disclosure provides a preparation method of a surimi low-molecular-weight antifreeze peptide, and relates to the technical field of processing of aquatic products. The preparation method includes the following steps: step 1, with Larimichthys crocea as a raw material, decapitating and gutting the L. crocea, crushing the L. crocea into a surimi, decalcifying the surimi, extracting water-soluble crude protein with water, and freeze-drying to obtain the water-extracted crude protein powder of L. crocea; step 2, redissolving the water-extracted crude protein powder of L. crocea obtained in step 1 with water, and enzymatically hydrolyzing it with protease to obtain an enzymatic hydrolysate; and step 3, sonicating and dialyzing the enzymatic hydrolysate obtained in step 2 to obtain a dialysate with a molecular weight no more than 3,500 D, and freeze-drying the dialysate to obtain the surimi low-molecular-weight antifreeze peptide.

The invention provides a Siniperca chuatsi IL-6 gene and a detection method for a disease-resistant SNP marker. A cDNA sequence of S. chuatsi IL-6 gene is cloned, as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1. A IL-6 gene gDNA sequence containing an intron of the S. chuatsi IL-6 gene is cloned, as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2. A primer for amplifying a disease-resistant SNP locus is designed according to IL-6 gDNA sequence, and S. chuatsi IL-6 gene is amplified to obtain an amplification product which is sequenced, and the SNPs loci relevant to virus disease-resistance are found out and the SNP locus is determined according to DNA peak profile. The IL-6 cDNA full-length sequence and IL-6 gDNA full-length sequence are cloned firstly. The SNP locus relevant to virus disease resistance of S. chuatsi IL-6 gene is detected, thereby providing a new method for breeding of S. chuatsi.

The present invention provides novel allergens isolated from grass carp Ctenopharyngodon idella, recombinant or modified polypeptides comprising such allergens, nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides as well as related compositions. Also provided are methods and kits for diagnosing fish allergy.

The present invention relates, inter alia, to processes for making modified fish zygotes or early-stage fish embryos (particularly salmon zygotes and salmon embryos). The invention also provides fish zygotes, fish embryos, juvenile fish, mature fish and sterile fish which are produced by the processes of the invention.

Transgenic microalgae expressing at least one exogenous biologically active protein. The protein-expressing microalgae are used for the oral delivery of the biologically active protein to the target organism in its intact and functional form. The exogenous protein, expressed in algae, is characterized by being biologically active, exerting at least one specific activity having a beneficial effect on the subject consuming the algae. The transgenic microalgae are used as animal food for aquatic or land animals welfare or as food supplement for human healthcare.

Compositions comprising an isolated peptide, which may for example optionally comprise a sequence selected from the group consisting of YDYNWY (SEQ ID NO: 1), YDYNLY (SEQ ID NO: 2), FDYNFY (SEQ ID NO: 3), FDYNLY (SEQ ID NO: 4), FDYNWY (SEQ ID NO: 5), YDWNLY (SEQ ID NO: 6), YDWHLY (SEQ ID NO: 7), and WDYNLY (SEQ ID NO: 8), extracted from organisms such as aquatic organisms and moss or any other sequence described herein, and methods of using same, including for treatment of or prevention of formation of microbial biofilms and against adhesion of a cell to a surface.

Structurally stabilized, e.g., stapled, peptides with the ability to translocate through microbial cell membranes to the interior of microbial cells and exert a biological activity there are provided, as are methods of designing, making and using such peptides.

The invention relates to a composition of peptides having an aminogram in which: glycine, hydroxyproline and proline are in molar quantities such that the ratio of each quantity to the sum of the molar quantities of the amino acids in the composition is comprised between 20.0% and 24.5%, between 6.0% and 12.0% and between 10.6% and 14.6%, respectively; the peptide composition comprising a quantity of peptides with a molecular weight lower than 1400 Da such that the ratio of said quantity to the quantity of peptides in the composition is less than 40%; the molecular weight and the quantity of peptides in the composition being determined by exclusion chromatography. The invention likewise relates to such a composition to be used as a drug. The invention further relates to such a composition to be used as a food supplement.

The present invention relates to methods of regulating G protein activity, and related methods for the treatment of therapeutic conditions, for example retinal degeneration, by transforming a cell with a bistable opsin to activate a G protein, and provide a phototransduction response.