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 …

Getting across the cell membrane: an overview for small molecules, peptides, and proteins

NJ Yang, MJ Hinner - Site-Specific Protein Labeling: Methods and …, 2015 - Springer
The ability to efficiently access cytosolic proteins is desired in both biological research and
medicine. However, targeting intracellular proteins is often challenging, because to reach …

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 …

Enzyme‐instructed self‐assembly (EISA) and hydrogelation of peptides

J Gao, J Zhan, Z Yang - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐assembly is a powerful tool for constructing supramolecular materials for many
applications, ranging from energy harvesting to biomedicine. Among the methods to prepare …

Constraining cyclic peptides to mimic protein structure motifs

TA Hill, NE Shepherd, F Diness… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Many proteins exert their biological activities through small exposed surface regions called
epitopes that are folded peptides of well‐defined three‐dimensional structures. Short …

Modulating protein–protein interactions: the potential of peptides

L Nevola, E Giralt - Chemical Communications, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) have emerged as important and challenging targets in
chemical biology and medicinal chemistry. The main difficulty encountered in the discovery …

pH‐Universal Catechol‐Amine Chemistry for Versatile Hyaluronic Acid Bioadhesives

S An, EJ Jeon, SY Han, J Jeon, MJ Lee, S Kim, M Shin… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Catechol, a major mussel‐inspired underwater adhesive moiety, has been used to develop
functional adhesive hydrogels for biomedical applications. However, oxidative catechol …

An orthosteric inhibitor of the Ras-Sos interaction

A Patgiri, KK Yadav, PS Arora, D Bar-Sagi - Nature chemical biology, 2011 - nature.com
Mimics of α-helices on protein surfaces have emerged as powerful reagents for
antagonizing protein-protein interactions, which are difficult to target with small molecules …

Synthesis of N-methylated cyclic peptides

J Chatterjee, B Laufer, H Kessler - Nature protocols, 2012 - nature.com
This protocol presents a detailed description of the synthesis of N-methylated cyclic
peptides. N-methylation is a powerful technique to modulate the physicochemical properties …

Constrained peptides with target‐adapted cross‐links as inhibitors of a pathogenic protein–protein interaction

A Glas, D Bier, G Hahne, C Rademacher… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Bioactive conformations of peptides can be stabilized by macrocyclization, resulting in
increased target affinity and activity. Such macrocyclic peptides proved useful as modulators …