Reflecting work in the Niitsu Lab
Membrane-spanning peptides that form ion-conductive channels remain a challenging frontier in de novo protein design. While strides have been made in creating water-soluble peptide assemblies, translating that precision to transmembrane systems...
Reflecting work in the D'Amelio Lab
As antibiotic resistance surges worldwide, the search for effective new therapeutics has led scientists to a surprising source: the venom of Bungarus fasciatus, the banded krait. From this venom, researchers have isolated Cathelicidin-BF...
Reflecting work in the Tezcan Group
Isopeptide bonds, IPBs, — covalent linkages between the side chains of lysine and asparagine/glutamine or aspartate/glutamate — are remarkable for their chemical resilience and structural significance...
Reflecting work in the Raj Lab
The selective incorporation of post-translational modifications, PTMs, into proteins remains a key challenge in chemical biology, particularly for modifications like arginine carbonylation, which plays a crucial role...
Reflecting work in the Merck Labs
The total synthesis and process development of enlicitide decanoate, MK-0616, an orally bioavailable inhibitor of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9, PCSK9, represents a major breakthrough in macrocyclic peptide...
Reflecting work in the Raj Lab
Understanding how proteins interact with biological metabolites is crucial for deciphering biological processes and advancing therapeutic strategies. This study focuses on a specific class of metabolites—α,β-unsaturated carbonyls, particularly acrolein-derived...
Reflecting work in the Deming Lab
Self-assembled polymeric vesicles that respond to biologically relevant stimuli have significant potential in drug delivery and synthetic biology. While many stimuli-responsive assemblies disassemble upon activation, invertible vesicles...
Reflecting work in the Suga & Vinogradov Labs
α,β-Dehydroalanine, ΔAla, is a highly reactive nonproteinogenic amino acid that serves as a versatile handle for modifying peptides, natural products, NPs, and proteins. While many ΔAla functionalization...
Reflecting work in the Phan Group
Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides, RiPPs, represent an expanding class of natural products distinguished by their extensive post-translational modifications. Among the enzymatic systems...
Reflecting work in the Hartrampf Lab
Solid-phase peptide synthesis, SPPS, and native chemical ligation, NCL, are powerful methods for obtaining peptides and proteins that are otherwise inaccessible...
Reflecting work in the Nowick Lab
Vancomycin, a cornerstone antibiotic for Gram-positive infections, faces diminishing efficacy due to the emergence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci, VRE, and vancomycin-resistant...
Reflecting work in the Agarwal Lab
Brominated intermediates have long been favored in organic synthesis for their chemical versatility, particularly in transition-metal-assisted bond-forming reactions. The Agarwal and van der Donk study represents a significant leap...
Reflecting work in the NSF CGEM
The ability to precisely manipulate the peptide backbone remains one of the fundamental challenges in biomolecular engineering. While ribosomal translation and peptide synthesis methods allow for modifications...
Reflecting work in the Guha Lab
Researchers in the Samit Guha Group at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, published in Bioconjugate Chemistry, report a groundbreaking approach to cancer imaging...
Reflecting work in the Liu Group
To address the limitations of current methods for peptide macrocyclization, which often rely on nonspecific small-molecule linkers...
Reflecting work in the Woolfson and Oliver Labs
To address the formidable challenge of binding and orienting multiple small molecules for directed chemical reactions, researchers in the Woolfson and Oliver groups at the University of Bristol, published in...
Reflecting work in the Knudsen Group
Researchers in the Knudsen Group at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, published in Biochemistry, report the construction of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae-specific SICLOPPS library of 80 million members...
Reflecting work in the Proulx Lab
Published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers in the Proulx group at the North Carolina State University at Raleigh, present the first approach to controlled metal chelation of peptide backbones...
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We foster a collaborative research environment that brings together scientists from diverse backgrounds. The lab currently includes 10 postdoctoral research associates and 18 graduate students representing 10 countries, all mentored by Professor Wenshe Liu. In addition to leading the lab, Wenshe serves as Director of the Texas A&M Drug Discovery Center, with Professor J. Trae Hampton as Manager.
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