Synthesis and applications of mirror-image proteins

K Harrison, AS Mackay, L Kambanis… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The homochirality of biomolecules in nature, such as DNA, RNA, peptides and proteins, has
played a critical role in establishing and sustaining life on Earth. This chiral bias has also …

Enzymatic noncovalent synthesis

H He, W Tan, J Guo, M Yi, AN Shy, B Xu - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Enzymatic reactions and noncovalent (ie, supramolecular) interactions are two fundamental
nongenetic attributes of life. Enzymatic noncovalent synthesis (ENS) refers to a process …

Chiral protein supraparticles for tumor suppression and synergistic immunotherapy: an enabling strategy for bioactive supramolecular chirality construction

J Yan, Y Yao, S Yan, R Gao, W Lu, W He - Nano letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
The design of bioactive supramolecular chirality is always hampered by the lack of feasible
schemes to assigned specific biological activities. Herein, we developed a “mirror-image …

Structure‐based design of inhibitors of protein–protein interactions: mimicking peptide binding epitopes

M Pelay‐Gimeno, A Glas, O Koch… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are involved at all levels of cellular organization, thus
making the development of PPI inhibitors extremely valuable. The identification of selective …

MDM2, MDMX and p53 in oncogenesis and cancer therapy

M Wade, YC Li, GM Wahl - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2013 - nature.com
The MDM2 and MDMX (also known as HDMX and MDM4) proteins are deregulated in many
human cancers and exert their oncogenic activity predominantly by inhibiting the p53 tumour …

Drugging the p53 pathway: understanding the route to clinical efficacy

KH Khoo, CS Verma, DP Lane - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
The tumour suppressor p53 is the most frequently mutated gene in human cancer, with more
than half of all human tumours carrying mutations in this particular gene. Intense efforts to …

Unnatural helical peptidic foldamers as protein segment mimics

P Sang, J Cai - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Unnatural helical peptidic foldamers have attracted considerable attention owing to their
unique folding behaviours, diverse artificial protein binding mechanisms, and promising …

Blocking of the PD‐1/PD‐L1 Interaction by a D‐Peptide Antagonist for Cancer Immunotherapy

HN Chang, BY Liu, YK Qi, Y Zhou… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Blockade of the protein–protein interaction between the transmembrane protein
programmed cell death protein 1 (PD‐1) and its ligand PD‐L1 has emerged as a promising …

Mirror-image ligand discovery enabled by single-shot fast-flow synthesis of D-proteins

AJ Callahan, S Gandhesiri, TL Travaline… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Widespread adoption of mirror-image biological systems presents difficulties in accessing
the requisite D-protein substrates. In particular, mirror-image phage display has the potential …

Pillararene host–guest complexation induced chirality amplification: A new way to detect cryptochiral compounds

H Zhu, Q Li, Z Gao, H Wang, B Shi, Y Wu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The contradiction between the rising demands of optical chirality sensing and the failure in
chiral detection of cryptochiral compounds encourages researchers to find new methods for …