Synthetic Peptides: Promising Modalities for the Targeting of Disease‐Related Nucleic Acids

BD Ellenbroek, JP Kahler, SR Evers… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
DNA and RNA play pivotal roles in life processes by storing and transferring genetic
information, modulating gene expression, and contributing to essential cellular machinery …

Effects of Molecular Crowding on the Structure, Stability, and Interaction with Ligands of G-quadruplexes

C Gao, HI Mohamed, J Deng, M Umer, N Anwar… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
G-quadruplexes (G4s) are widely found in cells and have significant biological functions,
which makes them a target for screening antitumor and antiviral drugs. Most of the previous …

Recognition and unfolding of human telomeric G-quadruplex by short peptide binding identified from the HRDC domain of BLM helicase

T Sharma, N Kundu, S Kaur, A Chakraborty… - RSC …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Research in recent decades has revealed that the guanine (G)-quadruplex secondary
structure in DNA modulates a variety of cellular events that are mostly related to serious …

Significant destabilization of human telomeric G-quadruplex upon peptide binding: dramatic effect of flanking bases

N Kundu, T Sharma, S Kaur, AK Mahto… - Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Human telomere is composed of highly repeated hexanucleotide sequence TTAGGG and a
3′ single-stranded DNA tail. Many telomere G4 topologies characterized at atomic level by …

Short designed peptide unfolding human telomeric G-quadruplex: mimicking the helicase function

T Sharma, N Kundu, S Kaur, V Tandon… - Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Human telomeric DNA can fold into G-quadruplex structures involving the interaction of four
guanine bases in a square planar arrangement. The highly distinctive nature of quadruplex …

Structural analysis of peptide identified from the 2KRR domain of the nucleolin protein with a c-Myc G4 structure using biophysical and biochemical methods

S Kaur, N Kundu, T Sharma, J Shankaraswamy… - RSC …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
For the first time, the c-Myc G4 structure is reported to be stabilized by binding of the peptide
(derived from the 2KRR domain of the nucleolin protein called the Nu peptide) in the loop …

Why to target G‐quadruplexes using peptides: Next‐generation G4‐interacting ligands

T Sharma, N Kundu, S Kaur… - Journal of Peptide …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Guanine‐rich oligonucleotides existing in both DNA and RNA are able to fold into four‐
stranded DNA secondary structures via Hoogsteen type hydrogen‐bonding, where four …

Peptides and Peptide Derivatives as G‐Quadruplex Targeting Ligands: A Brief Review

S Basak, S Biswas, J Naskar - ChemistrySelect, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Genomic DNA adopts B‐form canonically. Besides, the oligonucleotides can adopt various
non‐canonical secondary structures. These are hairpins, cruciforms, triplexes, quadruplexes …

Targeting G4 motifs of various stem cell makers with designed peptide for therapeutic applications

S Kaur, N Kundu, T Sharma, J Shankaraswamy… - Discover Applied …, 2024 - Springer
Noncanonical secondary structures formed by Guanine-rich DNA sequences fold into four-
stranded structures called the G-quadruplexes (G4s). Targeting G-quadruplexes is …

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BD Ellenbroek - P., E ers, SR, & Pomplun, S, 2024 - scholarlypublications …
DNA and RNA play pivotal roles in life processes by storing and transferring genetic
information, modulating gene expression, and contributing to essential cellular machinery …