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Beyond Nature's Blueprint: Macrocyclic Peptides Containing Unnatural Amino Acids in Therapeutic Development

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Strategic incorporation of unnatural amino acids transforms macrocyclic peptides into drug‐like molecules capable of engaging challenging targets. These building blocks enhance stability, permeability, and bioavailability, accelerating the development of next‐generation peptide therapeutics.
Krishna K. Sharma, Komal Sharma, Anku Sharma, Kamya Rao, Rahul Jain, Brett VanVeller   +5 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Repurposing FDA‐Approved Drugs to Inhibit Fungal PPTases for Broad‐Spectrum Synergy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Fungal secondary metabolites serve as crucial virulence effectors; however, the potential of their biosynthetic pathways as antifungal targets remains inadequately comprehended. Repurposed FDA‐approved drugs inhibit fungal PPTase (essential for secondary metabolism) in vivo.
Zili Song, Can Zhao, Qiaoling Wang, Hongjiao Zhang, Xiao Liu, Linqi Wang, Michael Bromley, Wen‐Bing Yin   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cysteine Thioaldehydes: Photolytic Generation, Reactivity, and Biological Implications

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Photolysis of cysteine phenacylsulfides bearing non‐conjugating electron‐withdrawing substituents leads to high conversions into cysteine thioaldehydes through a Norrish type‐II pathway. This methodology enabled the study of the aqueous reactivity of these important biosynthetic intermediates, which, depending on peptide sequence, pH and buffer ...
Ardra Karthika, Matthew Murray, Guillermo Palop, Lee‐Ann J. Keane, Patrick McArdle, Nicholas D. J. Yates, Christopher D. Spicer, Alison Parkin, Martin A. Fascione, Eddie L. Myers   +9 more
wiley   +2 more sources

In Vivo Direct Reprogramming: Current Progress and Future Prospects from Mechanisms to Therapeutic Application

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This review examines the potential of in vivo direct reprogramming in regenerative medicine for functional tissue restoration, highlighting the role of tissue‐resident cues in generating functionally mature reprogrammed cells from lineage‐related cells. It contains a discussion on mechanisms, reprogramming factors, delivery approaches, and applications
Rishabh Deo Singh, Mauro Calvoli, Kyeong Kyu Kim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

De Novo Discovery of Nonstandard Thioisoindole‐Bridged Bicyclic Peptides Targeting Traf2‐ and NCK‐Interacting Kinase

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
An optimized strategy for the ribosomal synthesis of thioisoindole‐bridged bicyclic (TiB) peptides is incorporated into the RaPID platform, enabling high‐throughput discovery from topologically defined TiB libraries. Proof‐of‐concept selection against TNIK identifies nanomolar‐affinity ligands with inhibitory activity, while x‐ray crystallography ...
Yue Zhang, Alexander A. Vinogradov, Keisuke Hamada, Yin Sun, Toru Sengoku, Hiroaki Suga   +5 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Ribosomal pentapeptide nitration for non-ribosomal peptide antibiotic precursor biosynthesis

Peptide natural products possess a fascinating array of complex structures and diverse biological activities. Central to this is a repertoire of structurally modified amino acid building blocks, which stem from fundamentally different biosynthetic ...
Sasi, Vishnu Mini, Crüsemann, Max, Gullick, Jemma, Zhao, Yongwei, Padva, Leo, Schittenhelm, Ralf B., Zimmer, Lukas, Jackson, Colin J., Cryle, Max J.   +8 more
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Impaired Chaperone‐Mediated Autophagy Accelerates Intervertebral Disc Degeneration by Inducing MIDN Accumulation to Target TSC2 for Proteasomal Degradation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This graphical abstract illustrates how chaperone‐mediated autophagy (CMA) regulates intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD). Under normal homeostasis (B), CMA degrades cytoplasmic Midnolin (MIDN) to maintain proteostasis. Under inflammatory stress (A), impaired CMA leads to cytoplasmic MIDN accumulation.
Xianglong Chen, Haiyang Gao, Wang Wu, Pengzhi Shi, Yuhang Chen, Anran Zhang, Zhangrong Cheng, Wenbo Wu, Zimu Yu, Yukun Zhang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intermolecular Carbon–Carbon Naphthalene Coupling Involves a Radical Mechanism Driven by Cytochrome P450 in Alternaria alternata

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
1,8‐DHN is an important intermediate to form complex aromatic ring systems. Phenol‐coupling reactions are important for the dimerization of two molecules. Here, we show that a fungal cytochrome P450 enzyme catalyzes specific C─C bonds. ABSTRACT Dihydroxynaphthalene (DHN) derivatives are precursors of biologically important molecules, including melanin ...
Jia Gao, Leyao Chen, Karin Steffen, Henrik Schweder, Birgit Schreckenberger, Shu‐Ming Li, Ben Auxier, Antonis Rokas, Reinhard Fischer   +8 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Similarity‐Enhanced Representation Learning of Non‐Canonical Amino Acids for Therapeutic Peptide Modeling

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Non‐canonical amino acids (ncAAs) enhance peptide therapeutics but remain difficult to model computationally. SinCAA, a similarity‐enhanced pretraining framework, jointly optimizes contrastive learning guided by a novel conformational similarity metric with masked node reconstruction, capturing both functional relationships and chemical identity of ...
Chencheng Xu, Lesong Wei, Jianmin Wang, Yuanpeng Xiong, Ruochi Zhang, Yu Wang, Chao Zha, Qiangcheng Zeng, Xin Gao   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tandem mass spectrometry of non-enzymatically glycated peptides and proteins [PDF]

The thesis presents the study of the reaction of glyoxal (ethanedial) with polypeptides. This reaction is important in the food industry as well as during ageing and diabetes mellitus.
Lopez-Clavijo, Andrea F.
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