Recent Peptide Research and News
Peptide Gels
Reflecting recent work in the Schneider lab
Researchers in the Schneider lab, published in Angewandte Chemie, Intl. Ed., discuss how peptide nucleic acids, PNAs, are employed in the design...
Peptide & Enzyme Catalysts
Reflecting recent work in the Wennemers lab
Enzymes and peptide catalysts consist of the same building blocks but require vastly different environments to operate best. Published in Angewandte...
Self-Assembled Nanofibers
Reflecting recent work in the Sabatino lab
Amphiphilic peptide sequences are conducive to secondary structures that self-assemble into higher-ordered peptide nanostructures. A select set...
Novel Substrate Prediction
Reflecting recent work in the Parker lab
The TAM family of receptor tyrosine kinases is implicated in multiple distinct oncogenic signaling pathways. However, to date, there are no...
Coiled Coils
Reflecting recent work in the Price lab
Coiled coils are one of most common protein quaternary structures and represent the best understood relationship between amino acid sequence and protein...
Network Pharmacology
Reflecting recent work in the Jin lab
Carapax Trionycis is a traditional Chinese medicine and it has been clear that oligo-peptides from Carapax Trionycis extract, CTP, are the main active substances...
Azobenzene Moiety
Reflecting recent work in the Wiedman lab
Azobenzenes are a series of compounds that can be isomerized upon irradiation with light. These molecules can...
Monoclonal Antibodies
Reflecting recent work in the Nowick lab
Monoclonal antibodies, mAbs, that target the β-amyloid peptide, Aβ, are important Alzheimer's disease research tools and are now being...
Novel, Rational Drug Design
Reflecting recent work in the Deber lab
As an alternative approach to conventional antibiotics, members of the Charles Deber laboratory, published in Peptide Science, explore a novel...
Bicyclic Peptides
Reflecting recent work in the Nitsche lab
Bicyclic peptides have emerged as one of the driving forces within the constrained peptide family. Due to their unique pharmaceutical attributes...
Self-Sorting Collagen
Reflecting recent work in the Wennemers lab
Nature uses elaborate methods to control protein assembly, including that of heterotrimeric collagen....
Lasso Peptides
Reflecting recent work in the Swanson lab
Lasso peptides make up a class of natural products characterized by a threaded structure. Given their small size and stability, chemical synthesis would offer tremendous potential...
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Intarcia Therapeutics
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University of Washington
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Professor
Tufts University
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