Antimicrobial peptides: Application informed by evolution

BP Lazzaro, M Zasloff, J Rolff - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are small proteins with potent antibacterial,
antiviral, and antifungal activity. AMPs are ubiquitous among multicellular eukaryotes, with …

Peptide and protein nanoparticle conjugates: versatile platforms for biomedical applications

CD Spicer, C Jumeaux, B Gupta… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptide–and protein–nanoparticle conjugates have emerged as powerful tools for
biomedical applications, enabling the treatment, diagnosis, and prevention of disease. In …

AntiCP 2.0: an updated model for predicting anticancer peptides

P Agrawal, D Bhagat, M Mahalwal… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Increasing use of therapeutic peptides for treating cancer has received considerable
attention of the scientific community in the recent years. The present study describes the in …

Designing of a multi-epitope vaccine against the structural proteins of marburg virus exploiting the immunoinformatics approach

SA Sami, KKS Marma, S Mahmud, MAN Khan… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Marburg virus disease (MVD) caused by the Marburg virus (MARV) generally appears with
flu-like symptoms and leads to severe hemorrhagic fever. It spreads via direct contact with …

PepTherDia: database and structural composition analysis of approved peptide therapeutics and diagnostics

V D'Aloisio, P Dognini, GA Hutcheon, CR Coxon - Drug Discovery Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•PepTherDia is a database containing 105 approved peptide
pharmaceuticals.•86% of approved peptide therapeutics and diagnostics are natural or …

Designing improved active peptides for therapeutic approaches against infectious diseases

B Gomes, MT Augusto, MR Felício, A Hollmann… - Biotechnology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Infectious diseases are one of the main causes of human morbidity and mortality. In the last
few decades, pathogenic microorganisms' resistance to conventional drugs has been …

Benchmarking of different molecular docking methods for protein-peptide docking

P Agrawal, H Singh, HK Srivastava, S Singh… - BMC …, 2019 - Springer
Background Molecular docking studies on protein-peptide interactions are a challenging
and time-consuming task because peptides are generally more flexible than proteins and …

Proteome-wide screening for designing a multi-epitope vaccine against emerging pathogen Elizabethkingia anophelis using immunoinformatic approaches

Z Nain, F Abdulla, MM Rahman, MM Karim… - Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Elizabethkingia anophelis is an emerging human pathogen causing neonatal meningitis,
catheter-associated infections and nosocomial outbreaks with high mortality rates. Besides …

Immunoinformatics Approach for Epitope‐Based Peptide Vaccine Design and Active Site Prediction against Polyprotein of Emerging Oropouche Virus

UK Adhikari, M Tayebi… - Journal of immunology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Oropouche virus (OROV) is an emerging pathogen which causes Oropouche fever and
meningitis in humans. Several outbreaks of OROV in South America, especially in Brazil …

In vitro genetic code reprogramming for the expansion of usable noncanonical amino acids

T Katoh, H Suga - Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Genetic code reprogramming has enabled us to ribosomally incorporate various
nonproteinogenic amino acids (npAAs) into peptides in vitro. The repertoire of usable npAAs …