Marine natural products

AR Carroll, BR Copp, RA Davis, RA Keyzers… - Natural product …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2020 This review covers the literature published in 2020 for marine natural
products (MNPs), with 757 citations (747 for the period January to December 2020) referring …

Wandering beyond small molecules: Peptides as allosteric protein modulators

M Mannes, C Martin, C Menet, S Ballet - Trends in Pharmacological …, 2022 - cell.com
Recent years have seen the rise of allosteric modulation as an innovative approach for drug
design and discovery, efforts which culminated in the development of several clinical …

Characterisation of Elevenin-Vc1 from the Venom of Conus victoriae: A Structural Analogue of α-Conotoxins

B Krishnarjuna, P Sunanda, J Seow, HS Tae… - Marine Drugs, 2023 - mdpi.com
Elevenins are peptides found in a range of organisms, including arthropods, annelids,
nematodes, and molluscs. They consist of 17 to 19 amino acid residues with a single …

[PDF][PDF] Venom-derived peptides for breaking through the glass ceiling of drug development

L Freuville, C Matthys, L Quinton, JP Gillet - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Venomous animals are widely distributed taxonomically, represented in both invertebrates
(annelids, arthropods, mollusks, nematodes, cnidarians...) and vertebrates (platypus …

Single-disulfide conopeptide Czon1107, an allosteric antagonist of the human α3β4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

Y Ma, Q Cao, M Yang, Y Gao, S Fu, W Du, DJ Adams… - Marine drugs, 2022 - mdpi.com
Conopeptides are peptides in the venom of marine cone snails that are used for capturing
prey or as a defense against predators. A new cysteine-poor conopeptide, Czon1107, has …

A short framework-III (mini-M-2) conotoxin from the venom of a vermivorous species, Conus archon, inhibits human neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

AC Hernández-Sámano, A Falcón, F Zamudio… - Peptides, 2022 - Elsevier
The venoms of Conus snails contain neuroactive peptides named conotoxins (CTXs). Some
CTXs are nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChRs) antagonists. nAChRs modulate the …

Solution structures and thermodynamics of cis-trans X-Pro conformers of a novel single disulfide conopeptide: Structural and conformational studies of conopeptide …

AK Kancherla, SP Sarma - Indian Journal of Biochemistry and …, 2023 - or.niscpr.res.in
Abstract The conopeptide Mo1853 (MW= 1853 Da) consists of 17 residues and a single
disulfide bond. Structural studies using homonuclear solution NMR methods (2D 1 H, 1 H …

[PDF][PDF] Discovery, Design and Synthesis of G Protein Peptidomimetics

M Mannes - 2022 - researchportal.vub.be
The present thesis manuscript concludes my semi-industrial PhD fellowship in both the
fields of peptide synthesis in the Research Group of Organic Chemistry (ORGC), Faculty of …