Therapeutic peptides: current applications and future directions

L Wang, N Wang, W Zhang, X Cheng, Z Yan… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Peptide drug development has made great progress in the last decade thanks to new
production, modification, and analytic technologies. Peptides have been produced and …

G protein-coupled receptors: structure-and function-based drug discovery

D Yang, Q Zhou, V Labroska, S Qin… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
As one of the most successful therapeutic target families, G protein-coupled receptors
(GPCRs) have experienced a transformation from random ligand screening to knowledge …

Mechanisms of mucosal healing: treating inflammatory bowel disease without immunosuppression?

EJ Villablanca, K Selin, CRH Hedin - Nature Reviews Gastroenterology …, 2022 - nature.com
Almost all currently available treatments for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) act by
inhibiting inflammation, often blocking specific inflammatory molecules. However, given the …

Stapled helical peptides bearing different anchoring residues

X Li, S Chen, WD Zhang, HG Hu - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
A large proportion of protein–protein interactions (PPIs) occur between a short peptide and a
globular protein domain; the peptides involved in surface interactions play important roles …

Targeting MYC with modular synthetic transcriptional repressors derived from bHLH DNA-binding domains

TE Speltz, Z Qiao, CS Swenson, X Shangguan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite unequivocal roles in disease, transcription factors (TFs) remain largely untapped as
pharmacologic targets due to the challenges in targeting protein–protein and protein–DNA …

Biodegradable polymeric nanoparticles loaded with flavonoids: A promising therapy for inflammatory bowel disease

M Li, Y Liu, B Weigmann - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of disorders that cause chronic non-specific
inflammation in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, primarily affecting the ileum and colon. The …

Strategies to improve the physicochemical properties of peptide-based drugs

MF Lee, CL Poh - Pharmaceutical Research, 2023 - Springer
Peptides are a rapid-growing class of therapeutics with unique and desirable
physicochemical properties. Due to disadvantages such as low membrane permeability and …

Harnessing the therapeutic potential of biomacromolecules through intracellular delivery of nucleic acids, peptides, and proteins

Y Tian, MV Tirrell, JL LaBelle - Advanced healthcare materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biomacromolecules have long been at the leading edge of academic and pharmaceutical
drug development and clinical translation. With the clinical advances of new therapeutics …

S100 proteins as novel therapeutic targets in psoriasis and other autoimmune diseases

K Kurpet, G Chwatko - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Psoriasis is one of the most common inflammatory skin diseases affecting about 1–3% of the
population. One of the characteristic abnormalities in psoriasis is the excessive production of …

A novel pathway of flavonoids protecting against inflammatory bowel disease: modulating enteroendocrine system

M Li, B Weigmann - Metabolites, 2022 - mdpi.com
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a comprehensive term for chronic or relapsing
inflammatory diseases occurring in the intestinal tract, generally including Crohn's disease …