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 …

Membrane internalization mechanisms and design strategies of arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptides

M Hao, L Zhang, P Chen - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) have been discovered to deliver chemical drugs, nucleic
acids, and macromolecules to permeate cell membranes, creating a novel route for …

Generation of KS-58 as the first K-Ras (G12D)-inhibitory peptide presenting anti-cancer activity in vivo

K Sakamoto, T Masutani, T Hirokawa - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Ras mutations (eg, occur in K-Ras, N-Ras, and H-Ras) are one of the most desirable and
promising drug targets in chemotherapy treatments for cancer. However, there are still no …

Clinical application of AMPs

F Costa, C Teixeira, P Gomes, MCL Martins - … peptides: basics for clinical …, 2019 - Springer
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been described as one of the most promising
compounds able to address one of the main health threats of the twenty-first century that is …

A review of lipidation in the development of advanced protein and peptide therapeutics

R Menacho-Melgar, JS Decker, JN Hennigan… - Journal of Controlled …, 2019 - Elsevier
The use of biologics (peptide and protein based drugs) has increased significantly over the
past few decades. However, their development has been limited by their short half-life …

Cell permeable stapled peptide inhibitor of Wnt signaling that targets β-catenin protein-protein interactions

L Dietrich, B Rathmer, K Ewan, T Bange, S Heinrichs… - Cell chemical …, 2017 - cell.com
The Wnt signaling pathway plays a critical role in cell proliferation and differentiation, thus it
is often associated with diseases such as cancers. Unfortunately, although attractive …

New generation of cell‐penetrating peptides: functionality and potential clinical application

S Reissmann, MP Filatova - Journal of peptide science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cell‐penetrating peptides (CPPs) can transport various cargoes through membranes of live
cells. Since the first generations of CPPs suffered from insufficient cell and tissue selectivity …

Multifunctional polymeric micelle-based nucleic acid delivery: Current advances and future perspectives

I Jarak, M Pereira-Silva, AC Santos, F Veiga… - Applied Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nucleic acid (NA) therapeutics are a rapidly growing class of biomedicines with the ability to
manipulate gene expression in potent and specific manner, and with the enormous potential …

[HTML][HTML] 9S1R nullomer peptide induces mitochondrial pathology, metabolic suppression, and enhanced immune cell infiltration, in triple-negative breast cancer …

N Ali, C Wolf, S Kanchan, SR Veerabhadraiah… - Biomedicine & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Nullomers are the shortest strings of absent amino acid (aa) sequences in a species or
group of species. Primes are those nullomers that have not been detected in the genome of …

The rational design of cell-penetrating peptides for application in delivery systems

Z Kang, G Ding, Z Meng, Q Meng - Peptides, 2019 - Elsevier
Cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) play a crucial role in the transportation of bioactive
molecules. Although CPPs have been used widely in various delivery systems, further …