Peptide Publications Archive
Chiral Prodrug Synthesis
Kong Lab
Carboxylic acid groups frequently serve as essential pharmacophores in drug molecules, yet their high polarity limits membrane permeability and can reduce bioavailability. Prodrug strategies address …
Computational Peptide Design
Guo Group
Xanthine oxidase catalyzes the final steps of purine catabolism, converting hypoxanthine and xanthine to uric acid. Dysregulation of this enzyme leads to excessive uric acid …
ACE-Inhibitory Peptides
Beys-da-Silva Lab
Hypertension remains the leading cause of premature death worldwide, yet one in five affected adults achieve adequate blood pressure control. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors represent one …
Nitrogen Walks
Huang/Xiao Labs
Noncanonical amino acids have become indispensable tools in chemical biology and drug discovery. By introducing side chains that nature never encoded, researchers can endow peptides …
Beyond Alpha
Ohshima/Yazaki Labs
Unnatural amino acids have transformed both medicinal chemistry and chemical biology. By introducing side chains that nature never encoded, chemists can enhance metabolic stability, tune …
Clicking Safely
Jain Lab
The 1,2,3-triazole ring has become indispensable in peptidomimetic design. Its geometry and electronic properties closely mimic the trans-amide bond: similar planarity, comparable dipole moment, and …
Catching Lanthanides
Zeymer Lab
Lanthanide ions offer an extraordinary toolkit for biomolecular engineering. Their long-lived luminescence enables sensitive detection, their paramagnetism provides NMR structural probes, their strong anomalous X-ray …
Designing Droplets
Pina Lab
Cells organize their interiors not only with membranes but also through liquid-liquid phase separation, LLPS, the spontaneous demixing that creates membraneless organelles like nucleoli and …
Binders by Design
Pomplun Lab
Discovering high-affinity ligands directly from protein structures has long tantalized drug discovery scientists. Virtual screening can explore billions of small molecules computationally, yet hit rates …
Ribosomal Bicycles
Suga Lab
Bicyclic peptides occupy a sweet spot in drug discovery. Their constrained architectures resist proteolytic degradation and bind targets with antibody-like specificity, yet they remain small …
Taming Aggregation
Hartrampf Lab
Peptide chains misbehave. During solid-phase peptide synthesis, growing chains can collapse into sticky β-sheet structures that clog the resin, block coupling reactions, and leave chemists …
NRPS Golden Gate
Bode Lab
A modular Golden Gate–based workflow unites the XUT concept with non-ribosomal peptide synthetase engineering, enabling rapid, scarless assembly of hybrid enzymes. Over 100 constructs yielded …
Mirror-Image Hunters
Denisov/Dijkgraaf Labs
Chemokines make frustrating drug targets. These small signaling proteins orchestrate immune cell migration during inflammation, making them attractive therapeutic targets for conditions ranging from atherosclerosis …
Luminescent Nanosheets
Granja/Montenegro Labs
Two-dimensional materials have captivated researchers since graphene's isolation in 2004, offering properties unmatched by their bulk counterparts. High surface areas, tunable electronics, and morphological anisotropy …
Acoustic Coupling
Lubell Group
The demand for peptide therapeutics is booming, but their manufacture carries a heavy environmental burden. Solid-phase peptide synthesis, SPPS, the workhorse of the field, consumes …
Guided Precision
Waser Lab
Cysteine residues attract chemical attention. Their nucleophilic thiol groups react readily with electrophiles, making them popular handles for attaching drugs, fluorophores, and other payloads to …
Crossing Cell Barriers
Meldal Lab
The cell membrane stands as biology's most formidable gatekeeper. Large molecules, from therapeutic proteins to diagnostic agents, cannot simply walk through. This barrier has frustrated …
Photoclick Bicycles
Lei Lab
Bicyclic peptides offer exceptional promise for targeting protein-protein interactions, combining the conformational rigidity needed for high-affinity binding with improved metabolic stability. Yet their construction remains …
Borrowed Machinery
Xu Lab
N-myristoylation is a common posttranslational modification in which the enzyme N-myristoyltransferase, NMT, attaches a 14-carbon fatty acid to an N-terminal glycine residue. This lipid anchor …
Modeling Selectivity
Miller Lab
Chiral sulfur compounds are gaining traction in drug discovery. Unlike their achiral counterparts, molecules with stereogenic sulfur centers often show improved potency and selectivity. IFM …
Masked Sugars
Dong Lab
Chemical synthesis provides atomic-level control over glycoprotein structure, yet hydrophobic sequences often aggregate before chemists can purify or ligate them. This problem may intensify for …
Helical Hijackers
Cai Lab
The Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway governs embryonic development, stem cell maintenance, and tissue homeostasis. When aberrantly activated, it drives colorectal cancer and other malignancies. Inside the …
β-Hairpin Oligomers
Nowick Lab
Researchers in the Nowick Group at the University of California Irvine, reveal how a designed β-hairpin peptide derived from amyloid-β, Aβ, crosses the boundary from …
Gelatinase Targeting
Amitava Lab
Antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus thrives on biofilm fortifications and membrane resilience, which blunt broad-spectrum drugs and damage commensal flora. A modular short peptide, Py-FGGK, …