Recent advances in peptide macrocyclization strategies

P Fang, WK Pang, S Xuan, WL Chan… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, owing to their special spatial structures, peptide-based macrocycles have shown
tremendous promise and aroused great interest in multidisciplinary research ranging from …

Tailoring a near‐infrared macrocyclization scaffold allows the control of in situ self‐assembly for photoacoustic/PET bimodal imaging

Y Wang, H Bai, Y Miao, J Weng… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Enzyme‐triggered macrocyclization and in situ self‐assembly of small molecules into
nanoparticles has shown promise to design activatable probes for molecular imaging …

Biocompatible and selective generation of bicyclic peptides

S Ullrich, J George, AE Coram… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bicyclic peptides possess superior properties for drug discovery; however, their chemical
synthesis is not straightforward and often neither biocompatible nor fully orthogonal to all …

Versatile Synthesis of Multivalent Porphyrin–Peptide Conjugates by Direct Porphyrin Construction on Resin

Y Wu, HF Chau, YH Yeung, W Thor… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Multifunctional porphyrin–peptide conjugates with different propensities for self‐assembly
into various supramolecular nanoarchitectures play important roles in advanced materials …

The multifaceted roles of peptides in “always-on” near-infrared fluorescent probes for tumor imaging

H Xu, H Wang, Z Xu, S Bian, Z Xu, H Zhang - Bioorganic Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Tumor-targeted near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging by using NIR fluorescent probes
has attracted extensive attentions in the field of tumor imaging and is becoming an attractive …

5, 10, 15, 20‐Tetrakis (pentafluorophenyl) porphyrin as a Functional Platform for Peptide Stapling and Multicyclisation

P Dognini, T Chaudhry, G Scagnetti… - … A European Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polyfluorinated aromatic reagents readily react with thiolates via nucleophilic aromatic
substitution (SNAr) and provide excellent scaffolds for peptide cyclisation. Here we report a …

Direct Construction of Corrole‐Peptide Conjugates by Controllable Bilane Formation on Resin

Y Wu, HF Chau, HY Kai, WS Tam… - … A European Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Corroles have attracted increasing research interests in recent decades owing to their
unique properties over porphyrins. However, the relatively inefficient and tedious synthetic …

Differential Peptide Multi‐Macrocyclizations at the Surface of a Helical Foldamer Template

S Dengler, C Douat, I Huc - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hybrid sequences comprising a peptide with several Cys residues and an aromatic foldamer
helix with several chloroacetamide functions at its surface were synthesized. Such products …

Facile Peptide Macrocyclization and Multifunctionalization via Cyclen Installation

TL Cheung, LKB Tam, WS Tam, L Zhang… - Small …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Cyclen‐peptide bioconjugates are usually prepared in multiple steps that require individual
preparation and purification of the cyclic peptide and hydrophilic cyclen derivatives. An …

A fluorescent electrophile for CLIPS: self indicating TrkB binders

T Thompson, T Pewklang, P Piyanuch… - Organic & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Combination of cysteine-containing peptides with electrophiles provides efficient access to
cyclo-organopeptides. However, there are no routes to intrinsically fluorescent cyclo …