Recent Peptide Research and News
Antihapten Antibodies
Reflecting recent 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...
Defining the Limits
Reflecting recent 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...
Max Cell Penetration
Reflecting recent 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...
Backbone N-Methylation
Reflecting recent 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...
Macrocyclic Peptides
Reflecting recent 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...
Peptide Receptors
Reflecting recent 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...
Backbone Modification
Reflecting recent 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...
Site-Specific Probes
Reflecting recent 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...
Triceptide Biocatalysts
Reflecting recent 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...
Ephrin Receptors
Reflecting recent 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...
Lasso Peptides
Reflecting recent 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...
Antifungal Resistance
Reflecting recent work in the Rubini and Murphy Labs
The pursuit of novel antifungal agents is imperative to tackle the threat of antifungal resistance, which poses major risks to both human health and to food security...
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