Aromatic amide foldamers: structures, properties, and functions

DW Zhang, X Zhao, JL Hou, ZT Li - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
The past several decades have witnessed great progress in the understanding of the high-
order structure of biomacromolecules. Currently, it is well-recognized that folding of proteins …

De novo design of antimicrobial polymers, foldamers, and small molecules: from discovery to practical applications

GN Tew, RW Scott, ML Klein… - Accounts of chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) provide protection against a variety of pathogenic bacteria
and are, therefore, an important part of the innate immune system. Over the past decade …

Emerging trends in macromolecular antimicrobials to fight multi-drug-resistant infections

AC Engler, N Wiradharma, ZY Ong, DJ Coady… - Nano Today, 2012 - Elsevier
Synthetic macromolecular antimicrobials are a highly promising class of therapeutics with
immense potential for combating multidrug resistant microbes. In contrast to conventional …

Small molecule conformational preferences derived from crystal structure data. A medicinal chemistry focused analysis

KA Brameld, B Kuhn, DC Reuter… - Journal of chemical …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Based on torsion angle distributions of frequently occurring substructures, conformation
preferences of druglike molecules are presented, accompanied by a review of the relevant …

De novo design and in vivo activity of conformationally restrained antimicrobial arylamide foldamers

S Choi, A Isaacs, D Clements, D Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The emergence of drug-resistant bacteria has compromised the use of many conventional
antibiotics, leading to heightened interest in a variety of antimicrobial peptides. Although …

Synthetic mimics of antimicrobial peptides

A Som, S Vemparala, I Ivanov, GN Tew - Peptide Science, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance are now considered the most imperative global
healthcare problem. In the search for new treatments, host defense, or antimicrobial …

J oyce and U lysses: integrated and user-friendly tools for the parameterization of intramolecular force fields from quantum mechanical data

V Barone, I Cacelli, N De Mitri, D Licari… - Physical Chemistry …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The JOYCE program is augmented with several new features, including the user friendly
ULYSSES GUI, the possibility of complete excited state parameterization and a more flexible …

Intramolecular hydrogen bonding involving organic fluorine: NMR investigations corroborated by DFT-based theoretical calculations

S Kumar Mishra, N Suryaprakash - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
The combined utility of many one and two dimensional NMR methodologies and DFT-based
theoretical calculations have been exploited to detect the intramolecular hydrogen bond …

Accelerating the calculation of protein–ligand binding free energy and residence times using dynamically optimized collective variables

ZF Brotzakis, V Limongelli… - Journal of chemical theory …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Elucidation of the ligand/protein binding interaction is of paramount relevance in
pharmacology to increase the success rate of drug design. To this end, a number of …

Dynamic supramolecular polymers based on benzene‐1, 3, 5‐tricarboxamides: The influence of amide connectivity on aggregate stability and amplification of chirality

PJM Stals, JC Everts, R de Bruijn… - … A European Journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract N‐Centred benzene‐1, 3, 5‐tricarboxamides (N‐BTAs) composed of chiral and
achiral alkyl substituents were synthesised and their solid‐state behaviour and self …