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 …

Trends in peptide drug discovery

M Muttenthaler, GF King, DJ Adams… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Since the introduction of insulin almost a century ago, more than 80 peptide drugs have
reached the market for a wide range of diseases, including diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis …

Recent advances in the development of protein–protein interactions modulators: mechanisms and clinical trials

H Lu, Q Zhou, J He, Z Jiang, C Peng, R Tong… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) have pivotal roles in life processes. The studies showed
that aberrant PPIs are associated with various diseases, including cancer, infectious …

Protein assembly by design

J Zhu, N Avakyan, A Kakkis, AM Hoffnagle… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Proteins are nature's primary building blocks for the construction of sophisticated molecular
machines and dynamic materials, ranging from protein complexes such as photosystem II …

Chasing molecular glue degraders: screening approaches

A Domostegui, L Nieto-Barrado… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) govern all biological processes. Some small molecules
modulate PPIs through induced protein proximity. In particular, molecular glue degraders …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolite interactions between host and microbiota during health and disease: Which feeds the other?

Y Zhang, R Chen, DD Zhang, S Qi, Y Liu - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
Metabolites produced by the host and microbiota play a crucial role in how human bodies
develop and remain healthy. Most of these metabolites are produced by microbiota and …

Molecular glue discovery: current and future approaches

JA Dewey, C Delalande, SA Azizi, V Lu… - Journal of medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The intracellular interactions of biomolecules can be maneuvered to redirect signaling,
reprogram the cell cycle, or decrease infectivity using only a few dozen atoms. Such …

Lessons in PROTAC design from selective degradation with a promiscuous warhead

DP Bondeson, BE Smith, GM Burslem… - Cell chemical …, 2018 - cell.com
Inhibiting protein function selectively is a major goal of modern drug discovery. Here, we
report a previously understudied benefit of small molecule proteolysis-targeting chimeras …

Late-stage diversification of natural products

B Hong, T Luo, X Lei - ACS central science, 2020 - ACS Publications
Late-stage diversification of natural products is an efficient way to generate natural product
derivatives for drug discovery and chemical biology. Benefiting from the development of site …

Natural products as sources of new drugs from 1981 to 2014

DJ Newman, GM Cragg - Journal of natural products, 2016 - ACS Publications
This contribution is a completely updated and expanded version of the four prior analogous
reviews that were published in this journal in 1997, 2003, 2007, and 2012. In the case of all …