Peptide-based drug discovery: Current status and recent advances

K Sharma, KK Sharma, A Sharma, R Jain - Drug Discovery Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•A comprehensive compilation and analysis of FDA approved and under clinical
trials peptide-based therapeutics.•Clinical trial peptides pipeline analysis reveals emerging …

Recent advances in chemical protein synthesis: method developments and biological applications

S Dong, JS Zheng, Y Li, H Wang, G Chen… - Science China …, 2024 - Springer
The central dogma of modern biology underscores the pivotal roles proteins play in diverse
biological processes, the study of which necessitates advanced methods to produce …

DRAMP 3.0: an enhanced comprehensive data repository of antimicrobial peptides

G Shi, X Kang, F Dong, Y Liu, N Zhu, Y Hu… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Stapled antimicrobial peptides are an emerging class of artificial cyclic peptide molecules
which have antimicrobial activity and potent structure stability. We previously published the …

Chemoselective umpolung of thiols to episulfoniums for cysteine bioconjugation

P Hartmann, K Bohdan, M Hommrich, F Juliá… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cysteine conjugation is an important tool in protein research and relies on fast, mild and
chemoselective reactions. Cysteinyl thiols can either be modified with prefunctionalized …

Biospecific Chemistry for Covalent Linking of Biomacromolecules

L Cao, L Wang - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Interactions among biomacromolecules, predominantly noncovalent, underpin biological
processes. However, recent advancements in biospecific chemistry have enabled the …

Macrocycles and macrocyclization in anticancer drug discovery: Important pieces of the puzzle

C Zhang, F Liu, Y Zhang, C Song - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Increasing disease-related proteins have been identified as novel therapeutic targets.
Macrocycles are emerging as potential solutions, bridging the gap between conventional …

Engineering tRNAs for the ribosomal translation of non-proteinogenic monomers

M Sigal, S Matsumoto, A Beattie, T Katoh… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ribosome-dependent protein biosynthesis is an essential cellular process mediated by
transfer RNAs (tRNAs). Generally, ribosomally synthesized proteins are limited to the 22 …

Site-selective arylation of carboxamides from unprotected peptides

W Li, Y Chen, Y Chen, S **a, W Chang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The amidated peptides are an important class of biologically active compounds due to their
unique biological properties and wide applications as potential peptide drugs and …

Site-selective polyfluoroaryl modification and unsymmetric stapling of unprotected peptides

M Wang, D Pan, Q Zhang, Y Lei, C Wang… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Peptide stapling is recognized as an effective strategy for improving the proteolytic stability
and cell permeability of peptides. In this study, we present a novel approach for the site …

Peptide-based inhibitors of protein–protein interactions: biophysical, structural and cellular consequences of introducing a constraint

H Wang, RS Dawber, P Zhang, M Walko, AJ Wilson… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are implicated in the majority of cellular processes by
enabling and regulating the function of individual proteins. Thus, PPIs represent high-value …