Reflecting work in the Pal and Balakrishnan Labs
Crystalline materials exhibiting non-centrosymmetry and possessing substantial surface dipole moments play a critical role in piezoelectricity. Designing biocompatible self-assembled materials...
Reflecting work in the The Huang Lab
Global pandemics caused by pathogenic viruses have highlighted the need to develop effective and sustainable materials to defend against these viruses. However, most commercial viral disinfection...
Reflecting work in the Gopi Lab
Crystalline materials exhibiting non-centrosymmetry and possessing substantial surface dipole moments play a critical role in piezoelectricity. Designing biocompatible self-assembled materials...
Reflecting work in the Kodadek Lab
Many disease-causing proteins lack deep, readily ligandable pockets. Macrocyclic peptides and peptidomimetic compounds are one class of molecules that have shown promise in engaging these...
Reflecting work in the Grossmann Lab
The inhibition of intracellular protein-protein interactions is challenging, in particular, when involved interfaces lack pronounced cavities. The transcriptional co-activator protein...
Reflecting work in the Reflecting recent work in the Su, Partridge and Verma Labs
Macrocyclic peptides show promise in targeting high-value therapeutically relevant binding sites due to their high affinity and specificity. However, their clinical application...
Reflecting work in the Mapp Lab
A short, amphipathic peptide derived from transcriptional activators is transformed from a weak inhibitor of transcriptional protein–protein interactions (PPIs) to an effective inhibitor...
Reflecting work in the Compton and Connor Labs
Eliciting an antihapten antibody response to vaccination typically requires the use of constructs where multiple copies of the hapten are covalently attached to a larger carrier molecule...
Reflecting work in the Jongkees Lab
Messenger RNA, mRNA, display is being increasingly adopted for peptide drug candidate discovery. While many conditions have been reported for the affinity enrichment step and in some cases...
Reflecting work in the Kritzer Lab
In an article featured on the cover of ACS Chemical Biology, Nefeli Batistou from the Kritzer Lab at Tufts, describes techniques now being used to reveal differential penetration...
Reflecting work in the Wilson, Woolfson, and Karamanos Labs
A significant challenge in chemical biology is to understand and modulate protein–protein interactions, PPIs. Given that many PPIs involve a...
Reflecting work in the Kodadek Lab
Macrocyclic peptides, MPs, are a class of compounds that have been shown to be particularly well suited for engaging difficult protein targets. However, their utility...
Reflecting work in the Checco Lab
Peptide–receptor interactions play critical roles in a wide variety of physiological processes. Methods to link bioactive peptides covalently to unmodified receptors...
Reflecting work in the Horne Lab
Targeted protein backbone modification can recreate tertiary structures reminiscent of folds found in nature on artificial scaffolds with improved biostability...
Reflecting work in the Jackson, Otting, and Nitsche Labs
Proteins produced with leucine analogues, where CH2F groups substitute specific methyl groups, can readily be probed by 19F NMR spectroscopy...
Reflecting work in the Morinaka Group
Triceptides are a class of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides defined by an aromatic C(sp2) to Cβ(sp3) bond...
Reflecting work in the Sawyer Lab
Ephrin, Eph, receptors are the largest family of receptor tyrosine kinases. Interactions between Eph receptors and their membrane-bound ephrin protein ligands are...
Reflecting work in the The Hartrampf Lab
As the chemical space of MccJ25 analogues accessible through purely biological methods is also limited, researchers in the Hartrampf Lab propose a hybrid approach...
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