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Anchor extension: a structure-guided approach to design cyclic peptides targeting enzyme active sites

open access: yesNature Communications, 2021
Cyclic peptides are of particular interest due to their pharmacological properties, but their design for binding to a target protein is challenging. Here, the authors present a computational “anchor extension” methodology for de novo design of cyclic ...
Parisa Hosseinzadeh   +17 more
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Cyclic Peptides for the Treatment of Cancers: A Review

open access: yesMolecules, 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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Passing the Barrier – How Computer Simulations Can Help to Understand and Improve the Passive Membrane Permeability of Cyclic Peptides

open access: yesCHIMIA, 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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Lessons for Oral Bioavailability: How Conformationally Flexible Cyclic Peptides Enter and Cross Lipid Membranes

open access: yes, 2022
Cyclic peptides are able to extend the druggable space of pharmaceutical targets, due to their size, conformational behavior, and high proportion of hydrogen bond donors and acceptors.
Sereina, Riniker   +6 more
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Marine Cyclic Peptides: Antimicrobial Activity and Synthetic Strategies

open access: yesMarine 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
doaj   +1 more source

Structural Diversity and Biological Activities of Fungal Cyclic Peptides, Excluding Cyclodipeptides

open access: yesMolecules, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Conformational design of cyclic peptides [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Due to their potential importance as drug molecules as well as other applications methods to design small cyclic peptides with a rigid well-defined conformation are useful.
Atkinson, Bethany
core   +1 more source

Improving In Vivo Brain Delivery of Monoclonal Antibody Using Novel Cyclic Peptides

open access: yesPharmaceutics, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Recent Progress in Understanding the Properties of Linseed Cyclic Peptides and the Mechanism Underlying Their Bitter Taste [PDF]

open access: yesShipin Kexue
Linseed cyclic peptides are important active ingredients in flaxseed, exhibiting antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties. However, linseed cyclic peptides undergo partial oxidation during processing and storage, leading to structural ...
ZHANG Qingyi, GUO Ruirui, JIA Caihua, ZHENG Yifu, TANG Lin, DENG Qianchun, CHENG Chen, HUANG Fenghong, ZHAO Siming, TANG Cui’e
doaj   +1 more source

Development of the force field for cyclosporine A

open access: yesBiophysics and Physicobiology, 2022
Membrane permeability of cyclic peptides is an important factor in drug design. To investigate the membrane permeability of cyclic peptides using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, the accurate force fields for unnatural amino acids present in the ...
Tsutomu Yamane   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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