Sortase-mediated labeling: Expanding frontiers in site-specific protein functionalization opens new research avenues

NB Emidio, RW Cheloha - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
New applications for biomolecules demand novel approaches for their synthesis and
modification. Traditional methods for modifying proteins and cells using non-specific …

Omniligase-1-Mediated Phage-Peptide Library Modification and Insulin Engineering

YW Zhang, NP Lin, X Guo, N Szabo-Fresnais… - ACS Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chemical and enzymatic modifications of peptide-displayed libraries have been successfully
employed to expand the phage display library. However, the requirement of specific …

Symmetric and asymmetric receptor conformation continuum induced by a new insulin

X Xiong, A Blakely, JH Kim, JG Menting… - Nature chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
Cone snail venoms contain a wide variety of bioactive peptides, including insulin-like
molecules with distinct structural features, binding modes and biochemical properties. Here …

From Natural Insulin to Designed Analogs: A Chemical Biology Exploration

Y Zhang, D Hung‐Chieh Chou - ChemBioChem, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Since its discovery in 1921, insulin has been at the forefront of scientific breakthroughs.
From its amino acid sequencing to the revelation of its three‐dimensional structure, the …

Chondrocyte‐Targeted Delivery System of Sortase A‐Engineered Extracellular Vesicles Silencing MMP13 for Osteoarthritis Therapy

W Yan, Y Li, S Xie, WA Tao, J Hu, H Liu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Targeted drug delivery and the reduction of off‐target effects are crucial for the promising
clinical application of nucleic acid drugs. To address this challenge, a new approach for …

Antagonistic insulin derivative suppresses insulin-induced hypoglycemia

C Park, Y Zhang, JU Jung, LD Buron… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Insulin derivatives provide new functions that are distinctive from native insulin. We
investigated insulin modifications on the C-terminal A chain with insulin receptor (IR) peptide …

Synthesis and Characterization of Phenylboronic Acid-Modified Insulin With Glucose-Dependent Solubility

NP Lin, N Zheng, L Purushottam, YW Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Glucose-responsive insulin represents a promising approach to regulate blood glucose
levels. We previously showed that attaching two fluorophenylboronic acid (FPBA) residues …

[HTML][HTML] Editorial of Special Column “Novel Peptides and Peptidomimetics in Drug Discovery”

J Cai, L Wei - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica. B, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Since insulin, a natural peptide composed of 51 amino acids, was first isolated and
commercialized in the 1920s, peptide drugs have greatly reshaped our modern drug …

Omniligase-1-mediated ligation for insulin analog synthesis in solu-tion and on phage surface

NP Lin, Y Zhang, N Szabo-Fresnais, DHC Chou - 2021 - chemrxiv.org
The B-chain C-terminal region of insulin has been mutated or modified to achieve improved
therapeutic efficacies. For ex-ample, all FDA-approved insulin analogs have altered C …

Omniligase-1-mediated ligation for insulin analog synthesis in solu-tion and on phage surface

DHC Chou, NP Lin, Y Zhang, N Szabo-Fresnais - 2021 - chemrxiv.org
The B-chain C-terminal region of insulin has been mutated or modified to achieve improved
therapeutic efficacies. For ex-ample, all FDA-approved insulin analogs have altered C …