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More than skin deep: cyclic peptides as wound healing and cytoprotective compounds
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2023 The prevalence and cost of wounds pose a challenge to patients as well as the healthcare system. Wounds can involve multiple tissue types and, in some cases, become chronic and difficult to treat.
Ying-Chiang J. Lee +3 more
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Comparison of Collisional Fragmentation Pathways of Sodiated and Protonated Cyclic Peptide Analogs [PDF]
Zhipu Xuebao, 2023 Cyclic peptides and their related species have been shown a unique class of molecules characterized by their biological function and structural diversity.
DU Meng-ying1;JIAO Lu-yang1;XU Yi-cheng1;LI Shu-qi1;CUI Yong-liang1;ZHANG Sen1;KONG Xiang-lei1,2,3
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Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2016 For decades the opioid receptors have been an attractive therapeutic target for the treatment of pain. Since the first discovery of enkephalin, approximately a dozen endogenous opioid peptides have been known to produce opioid activity and analgesia, but their therapeutics have been limited mainly due to low blood brain barrier penetration and poor ...
Michael, Remesic +2 more
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Cyclic Peptides for the Treatment of Cancers: A Review
Molecules, 2022 Cyclic peptides have been widely reported to have therapeutic abilities in the treatment of cancer. This has been proven through in vitro and in vivo studies against breast, lung, liver, colon, and prostate cancers, among others.
Dalifa Ramadhani +3 more
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Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2023 Genetically-encoded combinatorial peptide libraries are convenient tools to identify peptides to be used as therapeutics, antimicrobials and functional synthetic biology modules. Here, we report the identification and characterization of a cyclic peptide,
Stefano Rosa +11 more
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CHIMIA, 2021 Proteins with large and flat binding sites as well as protein–protein interactions are considered ' undruggable ' with conventional small-molecule drugs.
Stephanie M. Linker +4 more
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Marine Cyclic Peptides: Antimicrobial Activity and Synthetic Strategies
Marine Drugs, 2022 Oceans are a rich source of structurally unique bioactive compounds from the perspective of potential therapeutic agents. Marine peptides are a particularly interesting group of secondary metabolites because of their chemistry and wide range of ...
Ricardo Ribeiro +3 more
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Improving In Vivo Brain Delivery of Monoclonal Antibody Using Novel Cyclic Peptides
Pharmaceutics, 2019 Many proteins can be used to treat brain diseases; however, the presence of the blood−brain barrier (BBB) creates an obstacle to delivering them into the brain.
Kavisha R. Ulapane +2 more
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Structural Diversity and Biological Activities of Fungal Cyclic Peptides, Excluding Cyclodipeptides
Molecules, 2017 Cyclic peptides are cyclic compounds formed mainly by the amide bonds between either proteinogenic or non-proteinogenic amino acids. This review highlights the occurrence, structures and biological activities of fungal cyclic peptides (excluding ...
Xiaohan Wang +4 more
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Enhancing Cell Penetration Efficiency of Cyclic Oligoarginines Using Rigid Scaffolds
Pharmaceutics, 2023 Delivering therapeutic agents into cells has always been a major challenge. In recent years, cyclization emerged as a tool for designing CPPs to increase their internalization and stability.
Csaba Bató +2 more
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