Overcoming the shortcomings of peptide-based therapeutics

C Lamers - Future Drug Discovery, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Peptides have traditionally been perceived as poor drug candidates due to unfavorable
characteristics mainly regarding their pharmacokinetic behavior, including plasma stability …

Lessons for Oral bioavailability: how Conformationally flexible cyclic peptides enter and cross lipid membranes

SM Linker, C Schellhaas, AS Kamenik… - Journal of medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cyclic peptides extend the druggable target space due to their size, flexibility, and hydrogen-
bonding capacity. However, these properties impact also their passive membrane …

Steering new drug discovery campaigns: permeability, solubility, and physicochemical properties in the bRo5 chemical space

G Caron, J Kihlberg, G Goetz, E Ratkova… - ACS Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
An increasing number of drug discovery programs concern compounds in the beyond rule of
5 (bRo5) chemical space, such as cyclic peptides, macrocycles, and degraders. Recent …

Effect of flexibility, lipophilicity, and the location of polar residues on the passive membrane permeability of a series of cyclic decapeptides

S Wang, G Konig, HJ Roth, M Fouché… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Cyclic peptides have received increasing attention over the recent years as potential
therapeutics for “undruggable” targets. One major obstacle is, however, their often relatively …

CycPeptMPDB: A comprehensive database of membrane permeability of cyclic peptides

J Li, K Yanagisawa, M Sugita, T Fujie… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Recently, cyclic peptides have been considered breakthrough drugs because they can
interact with “undruggable” targets such as intracellular protein–protein interactions …

Property‐Driven Development of Passively Permeable Macrocyclic Scaffolds Using Heterocycles

GJ Saunders, AK Yudin - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Passive membrane permeability is a fundamental challenge in the development of bioactive
macrocycles. To achieve this objective, chemists have resorted to various strategies, the …

Lipid composition is critical for accurate membrane permeability prediction of cyclic peptides by molecular dynamics simulations

M Sugita, T Fujie, K Yanagisawa, M Ohue… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cyclic peptides have attracted attention as a promising pharmaceutical modality due to their
potential to selectively inhibit previously undruggable targets, such as intracellular protein …

MacroConf–dataset & workflows to assess cyclic peptide solution structures

D Crusius, JR Schnell, F Cipcigan, PC Biggin - Digital Discovery, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Knowing solution structures of cyclic peptides is essential for predicting pharmacokinetic
properties for drug discovery. Here, we report the MacroConf dataset along with …

Chemical synthesis and cell-free expression of thiazoline ring-bridged cyclic Peptides and their properties on biomembrane permeability

T Tamura, M Inoue, Y Yoshimitsu… - Bulletin of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Cyclic peptides that exhibit biomembrane permeability provide a useful platform in the
development of peptide drugs. Here, the reaction characteristics and versatility of a novel …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond Rule-of-five: Permeability Assessment of Semipeptidic Macrocycles

M L'Exact, C Comeau, A Bourhis, O Boisvert… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2023 - Elsevier
Compounds beyond the rule-of-five are generating interest as they expand the molecular
toolbox for modulating targets previously considered “undruggable”. Macrocyclic peptides …