Therapeutic potential of foldamers: from chemical biology tools to drug candidates?

R Gopalakrishnan, AI Frolov, L Knerr… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, foldamers have progressively emerged as useful architectures to
mimic secondary structures of proteins. Peptidic foldamers, consisting of various amino acid …

Harnessing ligand design to develop primary and self-calibrated luminescent thermometers with field-induced single ion magnet behaviour in Dy 3+ complexes

J Corredoira-Vázquez, C González-Barreira… - Inorganic Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Novel complexes {[Dy (LN6en)(OAc) 2](NO3)}· 2H2O (1· 2H2O) and {[Dy (LN6prop)(OAc)
2](NO3)}· CHCl3 (2· CHCl3), containing partially flexible symmetric N6 macrocycles, are …

Innovative peptide architectures: advancements in foldamers and stapled peptides for drug discovery

Z Dongrui, M Miyamoto, H Yokoo… - Expert Opinion on Drug …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Peptide foldamers play a critical role in pharmaceutical research and
biomedical applications. This review highlights recent (post-2020) advancements in novel …

Atomic-level engineering and imaging of polypeptoid crystal lattices

S Xuan, X Jiang, RK Spencer, NK Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Rational design of supramolecular nanomaterials fundamentally depends upon an atomic-
level understanding of their structure and how it responds to chemical modifications. Here …

A γ-amino acid that favors 12/10-helical secondary structure in α/γ-peptides

MW Giuliano, SJ Maynard, AM Almeida… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
H-bonded helices in conventional peptides (containing exclusively homochiral α-amino acid
residues) feature a uniform H-bonding directionality, N-terminal side C O to C-terminal side …

Racemic DNA crystallography

PK Mandal, GW Collie, B Kauffmann… - Angewandte Chemie, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Racemates increase the chances of crystallization by allowing molecular contacts to be
formed in a greater number of ways. With the advent of protein synthesis, the production of …

Heterogeneous H-bonding in a foldamer helix

BF Fisher, L Guo, BS Dolinar, IA Guzei… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Structural characterization of new α/γ-peptide foldamers containing the cyclically
constrained γ-amino acid I is described. Crystallographic and 2D NMR analysis shows that γ …

Crystal structure of a complex between β-glucopyranose and a macrocyclic receptor with dendritic multicharged water solubilizing chains

PK Mandal, B Kauffmann, H Destecroix… - Chemical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Using commercial screens for crystallization of biomolecules and taking advantage of the
use of racemic crystallography allowed the production of X-ray quality single crystals and the …

Carboxylated glucuronic poly-amido-saccharides as protein stabilizing agents

SE Stidham, SL Chin, EL Dane… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of novel carbohydrate-based polymers allows the structure to be tailored at
the monomer level for a specific property and expands the range of available structures …

12/10-helical β-peptide with dynamic folding propensity: coexistence of right-and left-handed helices in an enantiomeric foldamer

S Shin, M Lee, IA Guzei, YK Kang… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We present the first examples of atomic-resolution crystal data for the β-peptide 12/10-helix
from oligomers of cis-2-aminocyclohexane carboxylic acid (cis-ACHC) with alternating …