Orally absorbed cyclic peptides

DS Nielsen, NE Shepherd, W Xu, AJ Lucke… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Peptides and proteins are not orally bioavailable in mammals, although a few peptides are
intestinally absorbed in small amounts. Polypeptides are generally too large and polar to …

[HTML][HTML] Systemic delivery of peptides by the oral route: Formulation and medicinal chemistry approaches

DJ Brayden, TA Hill, DP Fairlie, S Maher… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
In its 33 years, ADDR has published regularly on the po5tential of oral delivery of biologics
especially peptides and proteins. In the intervening period, analysis of the preclinical and …

Drug–target kinetics in drug discovery

PJ Tonge - ACS chemical neuroscience, 2018 - ACS Publications
The development of therapies for the treatment of neurological cancer faces a number of
major challenges including the synthesis of small molecule agents that can penetrate the …

Orthosteric and allosteric action of the C5a receptor antagonists

H Liu, HR Kim, RNVK Deepak, L Wang… - Nature structural & …, 2018 - nature.com
The C5a receptor (C5aR) is a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) that can induce strong
inflammatory response to the anaphylatoxin C5a. Targeting C5aR has emerged as a novel …

Preclinical pharmacokinetics of complement C5a receptor antagonists PMX53 and PMX205 in mice

V Kumar, JD Lee, RJ Clark, PG Noakes, SM Taylor… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The cyclic hexapeptides PMX53 and PMX205 are potent noncompetitive inhibitors of
complement C5a receptor 1 (C5aR1). They are widely utilized to study the role of C5aR1 in …

Pharmacological characterisation of small molecule C5aR1 inhibitors in human cells reveals biased activities for signalling and function

XX Li, JD Lee, NL Massey, C Guan… - Biochemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
The complement fragment C5a is a core effector of complement activation. C5a, acting
through its major receptor C5aR1, exerts powerful pro-inflammatory and immunomodulatory …

G protein–coupled receptors in asthma therapy: pharmacology and drug action

SG Wendell, H Fan, C Zhang - Pharmacological reviews, 2020 - ASPET
Asthma is a heterogeneous inflammatory disease of the airways that is associated with
airway hyperresponsiveness and airflow limitation. Although asthma was once simply …

Crystal structures of protein-bound cyclic peptides

AK Malde, TA Hill, A Iyer, DP Fairlie - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Cyclization is an important post-translational modification of peptides and proteins that
confers key advantages such as protection from proteolytic degradation, altered solubility …

Protein–ligand (un) binding kinetics as a new paradigm for drug discovery at the crossroad between experiments and modelling

M Bernetti, A Cavalli, L Mollica - MedChemComm, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last three decades, protein and nucleic acid structure determination and
comprehension of the mechanisms, leading to their physiological and pathological …

Pharmacological inhibition of complement C5a‐C5a1 receptor signalling ameliorates disease pathology in the hSOD1G93A mouse model of amyotrophic lateral …

JD Lee, V Kumar, JNT Fung… - British journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Purpose Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal and rapidly
progressing motor neuron disease without effective treatment. The complement system is up …