[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic peptides: current applications and future directions

L Wang, N Wang, W Zhang, X Cheng, Z Yan… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Peptide drug development has made great progress in the last decade thanks to new
production, modification, and analytic technologies. Peptides have been produced and …

[HTML][HTML] A global review on short peptides: frontiers and perspectives

V Apostolopoulos, J Bojarska, TT Chai, S Elnagdy… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Peptides are fragments of proteins that carry out biological functions. They act as signaling
entities via all domains of life and interfere with protein-protein interactions, which are …

[HTML][HTML] Lactate in the regulation of tumor microenvironment and therapeutic approaches

KG de la Cruz-López, LJ Castro-Muñoz… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Tumor cells must generate sufficient ATP and biosynthetic precursors in order to maintain
cell proliferation requirements. Otto Warburg showed that tumor cells uptake high amounts …

[HTML][HTML] Direct decarboxylative Giese reactions

DM Kitcatt, S Nicolle, AL Lee - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The quest to find milder and more sustainable methods to generate highly reactive, carbon-
centred intermediates has led to a resurgence of interest in radical chemistry. In particular …

Amide bond bioisosteres: Strategies, synthesis, and successes

S Kumari, AV Carmona, AK Tiwari… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The amide functional group plays a key role in the composition of biomolecules, including
many clinically approved drugs. Bioisosterism is widely employed in the rational …

Mechanochemistry: new tools to navigate the uncharted territory of “impossible” reactions

F Cuccu, L De Luca, F Delogu, E Colacino… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanochemical transformations have made chemists enter unknown territories, forcing a
different chemistry perspective. While questioning or revisiting familiar concepts belonging …

Artificial intelligence in drug discovery: recent advances and future perspectives

J Jiménez-Luna, F Grisoni, N Weskamp… - Expert opinion on drug …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Artificial intelligence (AI) has inspired computer-aided drug discovery. The
widespread adoption of machine learning, in particular deep learning, in multiple scientific …

Targeting the dimerization of the main protease of coronaviruses: a potential broad-spectrum therapeutic strategy

B Goyal, D Goyal - ACS combinatorial science, 2020 - ACS Publications
A new coronavirus (CoV) caused a pandemic named COVID-19, which has become a
global health care emergency in the present time. The virus is referred to as SARS-CoV-2 …

Identification of potent antimicrobial peptides via a machine-learning pipeline that mines the entire space of peptide sequences

J Huang, Y Xu, Y Xue, Y Huang, X Li, X Chen… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
Systematically identifying functional peptides is difficult owing to the vast combinatorial
space of peptide sequences. Here we report a machine-learning pipeline that mines the …

Fluorine‐containing drugs approved by the FDA in 2018

H Mei, J Han, S Fustero… - … A European Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last two decades, fluorine substitution has become one of the essential structural
traits in modern pharmaceuticals. Thus, about half of the most successful drugs (blockbuster …