Conformational design of cyclic peptides [PDF]
, 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
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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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Recent Progress in Understanding the Properties of Linseed Cyclic Peptides and the Mechanism Underlying Their Bitter Taste [PDF]
Shipin KexueLinseed 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
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Development of the force field for cyclosporine A
Biophysics 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
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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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Antimicrobial Peptides and Skin: A Paradigm of Translational Medicine [PDF]
, 2012 Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are small, cationic, amphiphilic peptides with broad-spectrum microbicidal activity against both bacteria and fungi. In mammals, AMPs form the first line of host defense against infections and generally play an important ...
Schöllmann, C. +3 more
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Peptide oligomers from ultra-short peptides using sortase
Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports, 2017 Sortase A catalyzed ligation of ultra-short peptides leads to inter/intra-molecular transpeptidation to form either linear or cyclic oligomers dependent upon the peptide length.
Natalya Voloshchuk +3 more
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Anti-oxidative stress mechanism of cyclic dipeptide in distiller's grains of strong-flavor Baijiu [PDF]
Zhongguo niangzaoIn this study, the in vitro antioxidant activity of free peptides in distiller's grains of strong-flavor (Nongxiangxing) Baijiu was determined by measuring the free radical scavenging rate of 1,1-diphenyl-2-trinitrophenylhydrazine (DPPH).
GUO Yan, LIAO Qinjian, ZHENG Jia, WANG Fang, YANG Hao, ZHOU Hanling, SU Jian
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Cyclic RGD-containing peptides: in silico exploration against BCL-X(L) [PDF]
The Ukrainian Biochemical Journal, 2023 Сyclic peptides attract attention for possible applications in cancer treatment. We examined the ability of six cyclic RGD-containing peptides-based compounds to inhibit B-cell lymphoma-extra-large (Bcl-XL) (PDB ID: 3zk6) using the in silico method.
A. K. Oyebamiji +5 more
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Methionine epimerization in cyclic peptides
RSC Advances, 2021 One step regioselective methionine epimerization in cyclic peptides followed by selective functionalization leads to chemical novelty.
Pramodkumar D. Jadhav +5 more
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