Reflecting work in the Del Valle and Ebright Groups
Members of the Del Valle Group at the University of Notre Dame, in collaboration with the Ebright Group at Rutgers, report in Organic letters, the synthesis of the antimicrobial cyclodepsipeptides...
Reflecting work in the The Futaki Lab
Published in Bioconjugate Chemistry, researchers from Shiroh Futaki Group at the Kyoto University, prepared conjugates of the biocompatible polysaccharide pullulan with a cell membrane permeabilizing peptide...
Reflecting work in the The Raines Group
As a traceless, bioreversible modification, the esterification of carboxyl groups in peptides and proteins has the potential to increase their clinical utility. An impediment is the lack of strategies to quantify...
Reflecting work in the The Mapp Group
The melanocortin-3 receptor, MC3R, is a G-protein coupled receptor that regulates appetite and is a potential therapeutic target for anorexia and weight loss treatments...
Reflecting work in the Suga and Goto Groups
Prenylation of peptides is widely observed in the secondary metabolites of diverse organisms, granting peptides unique chemical properties distinct from proteinogenic amino acids. Discovery of...
Reflecting work in the Yudin Lab
Helical secondary structures, namely α- and 310-helices, comprise >60% of all secondary structures observed at protein–protein interactions, PPIs, and are responsible for the mediation of many biological...
Reflecting work in the Wennemers Lab
In a study from the Wennemers Lab at ETH, Zūrich, published in JACS, group members present an organocatalytic kinetic resolution to yield enantiomerically enriched β-branched aldehydes and γ-nitroaldehydes with three...
Reflecting work in the The Suga Lab
Nonproteinogenic amino acids, including D-α-, β-, and γ-amino acids, present in bioactive peptides play pivotal roles in their biochemical activities and proteolytic stabilities...
Reflecting work in the Malmsten Lab
Published in Advanced Functional Materials, work by members of the Martin Malmsten group at the University of Lund, Sweden, explores the coating of photocatalytic nanoparticles with antimicrobial peptides...
Reflecting work in the Martin and Panwar Labs
Membrane–peptide interactions are key to the formation of helical intermediates in the early stages of amyloidogenesis. Aqueous solutions of 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol...
Reflecting work in the Hamley Group
Chirality plays a crucial role in the self-assembly of biomolecules in nature. Peptides show chirality-dependent conformation and self-assembly. Lipidation of peptides occurs in vivo...
Reflecting work in the Steuer Group
Published in Peptide Science, the Steuer Group at ETH, Zūrich, presents "PICKAPEP," an application developed for Mac and Windows, enabling the virtual construction...
Reflecting work in the Voigt Lab
Natural melanin polymers, biosynthesized from free tyrosine, assemble into microstructures that interact with light, producing a wide range of photonic properties. These structures...
Reflecting work in the Evans Lab
Ion transport is essential to energy storage, cellular signalling and desalination. Polymers have been explored for decades as solid-state electrolytes by either adding salt to polar polymers...
Reflecting work in the Kellermeier Lab
In a recent study, published in Advanced Functional Materials, researchers in the Kellermeier Lab at BASF, have used phage display screening to identify peptide motifs...
Reflecting work in the Bhattacharya Lab
Circularly polarized luminescence, CPL, is gaining interest across various disciplines, including materials science, pharmaceuticals, and sensing technologies. Organic molecules...
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...
Schmeing Lab – December, 2024
The focus of the Schmeing lab is on understanding how large, natural biosynthetic enzymes make their interesting and valuable products. Two of our favorite types of biosynthetic enzymes are nonribosomal peptide synthetases, NRPSs, which synthesize compounds like the antibiotic daptomycin, the anti-tumour actinomycin and the immunosuppressant cyclosporin, and cyanophycin synthetase, which makes an extremely useful green polymer. We combine cryo-EM, crystallography, chemical biology, biophysical and biochemical techniques to visualize and understand these awesome enzymes.
Stay tuned for more exciting features, and don’t miss the chance to get your lab featured!
Please contact Lars Sahl to get involved!
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