Cell penetrating peptides: the potent multi-cargo intracellular carriers

K Kardani, A Milani, S H. Shabani… - Expert opinion on drug …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction: Cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) known as protein translocation
domains (PTD), membrane translocating sequences (MTS), or Trojan peptides (TP) are able …

Cell-penetrating peptide: a means of breaking through the physiological barriers of different tissues and organs

J Xu, AR Khan, M Fu, R Wang, J Ji, G Zhai - Journal of Controlled Release, 2019 - Elsevier
The selective infiltration of cell membranes and tissue barriers often blocks the entry of most
active molecules. This natural defense mechanism prevents the invasion of exogenous …

Predicting cell-penetrating peptides using machine learning algorithms and navigating in their chemical space

ECL de Oliveira, K Santana, L Josino… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) are naturally able to cross the lipid bilayer membrane that
protects cells. These peptides share common structural and physicochemical properties and …

Blocking Myc to treat cancer: reflecting on two decades of omomyc

D Massó-Vallés, L Soucek - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
First designed and published in 1998 as a laboratory tool to study Myc perturbation,
Omomyc has come a long way in the past 22 years. This dominant negative has contributed …

Pharmacokinetics, biodistribution and toxicology of novel cell-penetrating peptides

L Reveret, M Leclerc, F Morin, V Émond, F Calon - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) have been used in basic and preclinical research in the
past 30 years to facilitate drug delivery into target cells. However, translation toward the …

Antimicrobial peptides and cell-penetrating peptides for treating intracellular bacterial infections

DF Buccini, MH Cardoso, OL Franco - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial infections caused by intracellular pathogens are difficult to control. Conventional
antibiotic therapies are often ineffective, as high doses are needed to increase the number …

Precision medicine by designer interference peptides: applications in oncology and molecular therapeutics

A Sorolla, E Wang, E Golden, C Duffy, ST Henriques… - Oncogene, 2020 - nature.com
In molecular cancer therapeutics only 10% of known cancer gene products are targetable
with current pharmacological agents. Major oncogenic drivers, such as MYC and KRAS …

Site-specific bioconjugation approaches for enhanced delivery of protein therapeutics and protein drug carriers

RM Lieser, D Yur, MO Sullivan, W Chen - Bioconjugate chemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
Proteins have the capacity to treat a multitude of diseases both as therapeutics and as drug
carriers due to their complex functional properties, specificity toward binding partners …

Ultrashort peptide self-assembly: front-runners to transport drug and gene cargos

S Gupta, I Singh, AK Sharma, P Kumar - Frontiers in Bioengineering …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The translational therapies to promote interaction between cell and signal come with
stringent eligibility criteria. The chemically defined, hierarchically organized, and simpler yet …

MYC the oncogene from hell: Novel opportunities for cancer therapy

A Papadimitropoulou, M Makri, G Zoidis - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cancer comprises a heterogeneous disease, characterized by diverse features such as
constitutive expression of oncogenes and/or downregulation of tumor suppressor genes …