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 …

Protein domain mimics as modulators of protein–protein interactions

N Sawyer, AM Watkins, PS Arora - Accounts of chemical research, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are ubiquitous in biological systems and
often misregulated in disease. As such, specific PPI modulators are desirable to unravel …

Comprehensive analysis of loops at protein-protein interfaces for macrocycle design

J Gavenonis, BA Sheneman, TR Siegert… - Nature chemical …, 2014 - nature.com
Inhibiting protein-protein interactions (PPIs) with synthetic molecules remains a frontier of
chemical biology. Many PPIs have been successfully targeted by mimicking α-helices at …

Predicting and experimentally validating hot-spot residues at protein–protein interfaces

AA Ibarra, GJ Bartlett, Z Hegedus, S Dutt… - ACS chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are vital to all biological processes. These interactions
are often dynamic, sometimes transient, typically occur over large topographically shallow …

Anatomy of β-strands at protein–protein interfaces

AM Watkins, PS Arora - ACS chemical biology, 2014 - ACS Publications
The development of inhibitors for protein–protein interactions frequently involves the mimicry
of secondary structure motifs. While helical protein–protein interactions have been heavily …

Bent into shape: Folded peptides to mimic protein structure and modulate protein function

HI Merritt, N Sawyer, PS Arora - Peptide Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Protein secondary and tertiary structure mimics have served as model systems to probe
biophysical parameters that guide protein folding and as attractive reagents to modulate …

Biophysical survey of small-molecule β-catenin inhibitors: a cautionary tale

MA McCoy, D Spicer, N Wells… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The canonical Wingless-related integration site signaling pathway plays a critical role in
human physiology, and its dysregulation can lead to an array of diseases. β-Catenin is a …

Dual-capped helical interface mimics

T Mi, Z Gao, Z Mituta, K Burgess - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Disruption of protein–protein interactions is medicinally important. Interface helices may be
mimicked in helical probes featuring enhanced rigidities, binding to protein targets …

Computational methods-guided design of modulators targeting protein-protein interactions (PPIs)

Y Qiu, X Li, X He, J Pu, J Zhang, S Lu - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2020 - Elsevier
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play a pivotal role in extensive biological processes and
are thus crucial to human health and the development of disease states. Due to their critical …

Protein–protein interactions mediated by helical tertiary structure motifs

AM Watkins, MG Wuo, PS Arora - Journal of the American …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The modulation of protein–protein interactions (PPIs) by means of creating or stabilizing
secondary structure conformations is a rapidly growing area of research. Recent success in …