Complement, a target for therapy in inflammatory and degenerative diseases

BP Morgan, CL Harris - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2015 - nature.com
The complement system is a key innate immune defence against infection and an important
driver of inflammation; however, these very properties can also cause harm. Inappropriate or …

Cyclic peptides as drugs for intracellular targets: the next frontier in peptide therapeutic development

LK Buckton, MN Rahimi… - Chemistry–A European …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Develo** macrocyclic peptides that can reach intracellular targets is a significant
challenge. This review discusses the most recent strategies used to develop cell permeable …

Harnessing protein folding neural networks for peptide–protein docking

T Tsaban, JK Varga, O Avraham, Z Ben-Aharon… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Highly accurate protein structure predictions by deep neural networks such as AlphaFold2
and RoseTTAFold have tremendous impact on structural biology and beyond. Here, we …

Peptide therapeutics: targeting the undruggable space

N Tsomaia - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
Rapid advancements in genomics have brought a better understanding of molecular
mechanisms for various pathologies and identified a number of highly attractive target …

A chemical perspective on the modulation of TEAD transcriptional activities: Recent progress, challenges, and opportunities

J Lou, Y Lu, J Cheng, F Zhou, Z Yan, D Zhang… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
TEADs are transcription factors and core downstream components of the Hippo pathway.
Mutations of the Hippo pathway and/or dysregulation of YAP/TAZ culminate in aberrant …

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 …

Peptiderive server: derive peptide inhibitors from protein–protein interactions

Y Sedan, O Marcu, S Lyskov… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Rosetta Peptiderive protocol identifies, in a given structure of a protein–protein
interaction, the linear polypeptide segment suggested to contribute most to binding energy …

Designing peptides on a quantum computer

VK Mulligan, H Melo, HI Merritt, S Slocum, BD Weitzner… - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Although a wide variety of quantum computers are currently being developed, actual
computational results have been largely restricted to contrived, artificial tasks. Finding ways …

Elucidating the druggable interface of protein− protein interactions using fragment docking and coevolutionary analysis

F Bai, F Morcos, RR Cheng, H Jiang… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Protein− protein interactions play a central role in cellular function. Improving the
understanding of complex formation has many practical applications, including the rational …

Stabilized cyclic peptides as modulators of protein–protein interactions: Promising strategies and biological evaluation

J Cheng, J Zhou, L Kong, H Wang, Y Zhang… - RSC Medicinal …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) control many essential biological pathways which are
often misregulated in disease. As such, selective PPI modulators are desirable to unravel …