Understanding cell penetration of cyclic peptides

PG Dougherty, A Sahni, D Pei - Chemical Reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Approximately 75% of all disease-relevant human proteins, including those involved in
intracellular protein–protein interactions (PPIs), are undruggable with the current drug …

Cell-surface interactions on arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptides allow for multiplex modes of internalization

S Futaki, I Nakase - Accounts of chemical research, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus One of the recent hot topics in peptide-related chemical biology research is the
potential of cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs). Owing to their ability to deliver exogenous …

Membrane active peptides and their biophysical characterization

FG Avci, B Sariyar Akbulut, E Ozkirimli - Biomolecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
In the last 20 years, an increasing number of studies have been reported on membrane
active peptides. These peptides exert their biological activity by interacting with the cell …

[HTML][HTML] Arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptides

N Schmidt, A Mishra, GH Lai, GCL Wong - FEBS letters, 2010 - Elsevier
Arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptides are short cationic peptides capable of traversing the
plasma membranes of eukaryotic cells. While successful intracellular delivery of many …

Fundamental molecular mechanism for the cellular uptake of guanidinium-rich molecules

HD Herce, AE Garcia, MC Cardoso - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Guanidinium-rich molecules, such as cell-penetrating peptides, efficiently enter living cells in
a non-endocytic energy-independent manner and transport a wide range of cargos …

Translocation of HIV TAT peptide and analogues induced by multiplexed membrane and cytoskeletal interactions

A Mishra, GH Lai, NW Schmidt… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs), such as the HIV TAT peptide, are able to translocate
across cellular membranes efficiently. A number of mechanisms, from direct entry to various …

Backbone rigidity and static presentation of guanidinium groups increases cellular uptake of arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptides

G Lättig-Tünnemann, M Prinz, D Hoffmann… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
In addition to endocytosis-mediated cellular uptake, hydrophilic cell-penetrating peptides
are able to traverse biological membranes in a non-endocytic mode termed transduction …

Emerging trends in clinical implications of bio-conjugated silver nanoparticles in drug delivery

P Prasher, M Sharma, H Mudila, G Gupta… - Colloid and Interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
From nanopharmaceutics to renewable energy, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) present
innumerable applications in the contemporary era. However, the associated toxicity to the …

Minimal surfaces in porous media: Pore-scale imaging of multiphase flow in an altered-wettability Bentheimer sandstone

Q Lin, B Bijeljic, S Berg, R Pini, MJ Blunt, S Krevor - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
High-resolution x-ray imaging was used in combination with differential pressure
measurements to measure relative permeability and capillary pressure simultaneously …

Arginine-rich peptides destabilize the plasma membrane, consistent with a pore formation translocation mechanism of cell-penetrating peptides

HD Herce, AE Garcia, J Litt, RS Kane, P Martín… - Biophysical journal, 2009 - cell.com
Recent molecular-dynamics simulations have suggested that the arginine-rich HIV Tat
peptides translocate by destabilizing and inducing transient pores in phospholipid bilayers …