Peptide Publications Archive

Backbone Sensitivity

Backbone Sensitivity

Cryle Lab

Researchers supervised by Professors Julien Tailhades and Max J. Cryle from Monash University, Australia, published in ACS Chemical Biology, have developed a chemoenzymatic strategy …

NMR Double Agent

NMR Double Agent

Liu Lab

Researchers in the Liu Group at the Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.

Peptides Deliver Fluoride

Peptides Deliver Fluoride

Gouverneur Lab

Fluorine is among the most consequential substituents in medicinal chemistry, improving metabolic stability, membrane permeability, and target binding across a broad range of drug candidates

Unwinding RNA Delivery

Unwinding RNA Delivery

Dulin Lab

Researchers in the Dulin Group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam investigated the biophysical effects of two peptides derived from the tomato aspermy virus 2b, TAV2b, protein …

Convergent Bradykinin Mimicry

Convergent Bradykinin Mimicry

Robinson Lab

Researchers in the Robinson Group at the University of Queensland, published in Science, demonstrated that bradykinin-like peptides found in hymenopteran venoms and anuran skin …

Site-Free Ligation

Site-Free Ligation

Hua Fu Lab

Researchers in the Fu Group at Tsinghua University in Beijing, published in Org. Lett., have developed a new chemoselective peptide ligation strategy, hydroxylamine-involved ligation, …

Jujube Unlocked

Jujube Unlocked

Kersten Lab

Researchers in the Kersten Group at the University of Michigan, published in J. Am. Chem. Soc., identified candidate biosynthetic genes in the genome of …

Intracellular Peptide Stapling

Intracellular Peptide Stapling

Mason Lab

Researchers in the Mason Group at the University of Bath, published in Cell Chemical Biology, developed a platform called intracellular-cyclization TBS that merges chemical …

Safety Catch Strategy

Safety Catch Strategy

Albericio Lab

Researchers supervised by Professor Fernando Albericio at the University of KwaZulu-Natal developed a new family of safety-catch protecting groups based on the phenylthioethyl, Pte, and …

Ginkgo Degrader

Ginkgo Degrader

Tam Lab

Researchers in the Tam Group at Nanyang Technological University identified a hyperdisulfide-constrained peptide from Ginkgo biloba nuts, termed β-ginkgotide β-gB1, as a first-in-class

Frankenproteins Block Myc

Frankenproteins Block Myc

Shin Lab

The proto-oncogene MYC is dysregulated in more than 70% of human cancers and drives some of the most aggressive subtypes of breast cancer. Triple-negative breast …

Lasso Peptide Progress

Lasso Peptide Progress

Craik Lab

In a new Perspective published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Professor David J. Craik and colleagues at the University of Queensland's …

Barrier Shuttle Peptides

Barrier Shuttle Peptides

Norton Lab

Researchers supervised by Professor Raymond S. Norton at Monash University, Australia, published in the International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics, developed a modular …

Targeted Fusion Inhibitors

Targeted Fusion Inhibitors

Cheloha Lab

Researchers in the Cheloha Group at the National Institutes of Health, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, have developed nanobody-fusion inhibitor …

Programmable Hydrogel Mechanics

Programmable Hydrogel Mechanics

Pashuck Lab

Researchers in the Pashuck Group at Lehigh University, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, developed a modular approach that harnesses self-assembling …

Hemostatic Protein Polymers

Hemostatic Protein Polymers

Nash Group

Researchers supervised by Professor Michael A. Nash at the University of Basel, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, engineered a library …

Remote Stereocontrol

Remote Stereocontrol

Miller Lab

Researchers in the Miller Group at Yale University, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, have developed guanidinylated peptide ligands that enable …

Mimicking Nature's Grip

Mimicking Nature's Grip

Mott and Owen Lab

Researchers supervised by Drs. Helen Mott and Darerca Owen at the University of Cambridge, published in Biochemistry, engineered a new generation of disulfide-cyclized peptide …

Ready-Made Amino Acids

Ready-Made Amino Acids

Liming Zhang Lab

Researchers in the Zhang Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, developed a concise …

Cooperativity Unlocked

Cooperativity Unlocked

Waters Lab

Christopher Travis, and colleagues in Marcey Waters' laboratory at the University of North Carolina, published in Biochemistry, devised an elegant strategy to probe why …

Targeting Protein Interactions

Targeting Protein Interactions

Arora Lab

Researchers in the Arora Group at New York University, published in Chemical Reviews, have assembled a comprehensive blueprint for designing inhibitors of protein-protein interactions. …

Metabolic Resilience

Metabolic Resilience

Labs at Genentech

Researchers at Genentech, published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, present a comprehensive perspective on the strategies that medicinal chemists and DMPK scientists now …

Green Peptide Synthesis

Green Peptide Synthesis

Wellings, Meldal, and Wade Groups

Researchers supervised by Dr. Donald A. Wellings, Nobel Laureate Professor Morten Meldal, and Professor John D. Wade at the University of Melbourne, published in Nature …

Tetrapeptide Cyclase

Tetrapeptide Cyclase

Parkinson Lab

Cyclic tetrapeptides occupy a tantalizing corner of chemical space. Head-to-tail macrocyclization eliminates the charged termini that limit membrane permeability, while the constrained