Peptide Publications Archive

Antibody Drug Painting

Antibody Drug Painting

Pentelute Group

Researchers in the Pentelute Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, collaborating with several other institutes and groups at MIT, published in Chem, have …

Selective Protein Degraders

Selective Protein Degraders

Tang Group

Researchers in the Tang Group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in collaboration with colleagues at NovoNordisk, published in Advanced Science, have engineered an insulin-like …

Quantifying S-Acylation

Quantifying S-Acylation

Thinon Group

Researchers in the Emmanuelle Thinon Group at the University of Bordeaux, published in ACS Chemical Biology as part of the special issue "Lipids and Lipidation," …

Uniform Cleavage

Uniform Cleavage

Phan Lab

Researchers in the Phan Group at the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, published in Communications Chemistry, have characterized a serine protease that cleaves precursor …

Threading Peptide Sequences

Threading Peptide Sequences

Dekker & Albada Labs

Researchers in the Dekker Group at Delft University of Technology, in collaboration with Bauke Albada at Wageningen University, published in the Journal of the American …

Frankenprotein Precision

Frankenprotein Precision

Shin Lab

Researchers in the Shin Group at Chapman University, published in ACS Synthetic Biology, drew inspiration from an unusual source: the homeodomain-leucine zipper transcription factor …

Bacterial Crosstalk

Bacterial Crosstalk

Bertucci & Tal-Gan Labs

In a study published in ACS Infectious Diseases, researchers from the Tal Gan Group at the University of Nevada at Reno, and The Bertucci …

Helical Peptide Discovery

Helical Peptide Discovery

Suga and Katoh Labs

A team led by Hiroaki Suga and Takayuki Katoh at the University of Tokyo extended their engineered tRNA system, tRNAPro1E2, to incorporate five achiral dαAAs …

Ribosomal γ-Amino Acids

Ribosomal γ-Amino Acids

Suga Lab

Researchers in the Hiroaki Suga Group at the University of Tokyo hypothesize in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, that the conformational constraint …

Budding Immunity

Budding Immunity

Mayo Group

Immune cells naturally release extracellular vesicles studded with peptide-MHC complexes that can orchestrate immune responses, either directly stimulating T cells or transferring their cargo to …

Pyroglutamate Labeling

Pyroglutamate Labeling

Ball Lab

Scientists in the laboratories of Professors Zachary Ball and Laura Segatori at Rice University have developed a photoredox catalysis method that enables site-selective modification of …

Mapping Membrane Activity

Mapping Membrane Activity

Hennig & Nau Labs

Cell-penetrating peptides and antimicrobial peptides both interact with lipid membranes, but with fundamentally different outcomes. Cell-penetrating peptides slip through membranes while leaving them largely intact, …

Dual Targeting Dendrimers

Dual Targeting Dendrimers

Alderete & Jiménez Labs

Tumor blood vessels differ from healthy vasculature in ways that drug developers can exploit. Endothelial cells lining tumor vessels overexpress E-selectin, a glycoprotein normally involved …

Fluorinated Viral Mimics

Fluorinated Viral Mimics

Matsuura Lab

Messenger RNA therapeutics have transformed medicine, from vaccines against infectious diseases to emerging applications in cancer immunotherapy and genome editing. Unlike DNA-based treatments that require …

Covalent Library Design

Covalent Library Design

Derda Group

Researchers in the Derda Group at the University of Alberta, published in Biochemistry, have surveyed the emerging field of covalent genetically-encoded libraries for discovering …

Leader-Dependent Prenylation

Leader-Dependent Prenylation

Agarwal Lab

Lipidation of macrocyclic peptides represents a pharmaceutically important chemical transformation. Adding lipid groups to peptides can enhance antibiotic activity, alter membrane transport properties, and improve …

Tryptophan Transformation

Tryptophan Transformation

Grob and Morandi Labs

A collaboration between the laboratories of Professor Bill Morandi in the Laboratorium für Organische Chemie and Dr. Nathalie Grob in the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, …

Evolved Photo-Cross-Linkers

Evolved Photo-Cross-Linkers

Yoo & Kim Labs

Antibody conjugates represent a cornerstone of modern therapeutics, diagnostics, and imaging. By attaching payloads such as cytotoxins, fluorophores, or radionuclides to immunoglobulins, researchers can harness …

Cyclic Cell Anchors

Cyclic Cell Anchors

Yamada Group

Researchers in the Yamada Group at Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, published in Biochemistry, have systematically characterized LDV-derived peptides as cell-adhesive molecules …

Supra-Bivalent Inhibitors

Supra-Bivalent Inhibitors

Sengoku and Suga Labs

A collaboration between the laboratories of Professor Hiroaki Suga at the University of Tokyo and Professor Toru Sengoku at Yokohama City University has developed a …

Mirrored for Stability

Mirrored for Stability

Luo Lab

T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain 3, TIM-3, ranks among the most promising immune checkpoint targets in oncology. Expressed on exhausted T cells, natural killer cells, …

Cysteine Boronation

Cysteine Boronation

Bandyopadhyay Lab

Boronic acids have earned a versatile reputation in chemical biology and drug design. Their empty p orbital allows dynamic switching between sp2 and sp

Tryptophan N-Sulfenylation

Tryptophan N-Sulfenylation

Yuan Lab

Peptides have become increasingly important as drug candidates and research tools due to their favorable safety profiles and ability to modulate protein-protein interactions. However, native …

Targeted Evolution

Targeted Evolution

Jumi Shin Lab

Rational protein design can create remarkable molecules, but it explores only a sliver of sequence space. The Shin group at the University of Toronto has …