Arginine “magic”: Guanidinium like-charge ion pairing from aqueous salts to cell penetrating peptides

M Vazdar, J Heyda, PE Mason, G Tesei… - Accounts of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
It is a textbook knowledge that charges of the same polarity repel each other. For two
monovalent ions in the gas phase at a close contact this repulsive interaction amounts to …

The rational design of cell-penetrating peptides for application in delivery systems

Z Kang, G Ding, Z Meng, Q Meng - Peptides, 2019 - Elsevier
Cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) play a crucial role in the transportation of bioactive
molecules. Although CPPs have been used widely in various delivery systems, further …

Polyarginine interacts more strongly and cooperatively than polylysine with phospholipid bilayers

AD Robison, S Sun, MF Poyton… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The interactions of two highly positively charged short peptide sequences with negatively
charged lipid bilayers were explored by fluorescence binding assays and all-atom molecular …

Ionic strength and solution composition dictate the adsorption of cell-penetrating peptides onto phosphatidylcholine membranes

MTH Nguyen, D Biriukov, C Tempra, K Baxova… - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
Adsorption of arginine-rich positively charged peptides onto neutral zwitterionic
phosphocholine (PC) bilayers is a key step in the translocation of those potent cell …

Self-association of a highly charged arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptide

G Tesei, M Vazdar, MR Jensen… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) measurements reveal a striking difference in
intermolecular interactions between two short highly charged peptides—deca-arginine …

Neurobiochemical characteristics of arginine-rich peptides explain their potential therapeutic efficacy in neurodegenerative diseases

S Eskandari, A Rezayof, SM Asghari, S Hashemizadeh - Neuropeptides, 2023 - Elsevier
Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer̕ s disease (AD), Parkinson̕ s disease
(PD), Huntington̕ s disease (HD), and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) require special …

An Amphiphilic Sulfonatocalix [5] arene as an Activator for Membrane Transport of Lysine‐rich Peptides and Proteins

YC Pan, A Barba‐Bon, HW Tian, F Ding… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Lysine (K) is an important target residue for protein and peptide delivery across membranes.
K is the most frequently exposed residue in proteins, leading to high demand for the …

Effect of arginine-rich cell penetrating peptides on membrane pore formation and life-times: a molecular simulation study

D Sun, J Forsman, M Lund… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The molecular basis for the effectiveness of arginine-rich cell penetrating peptides
(ARCPPs) traversing a cell membrane barrier is not well established. The fact that a …

Adsorption/Desorption of Cationic-Hydrophobic Peptides on Zwitterionic Lipid Bilayer Is Associated with the Possibility of Proton Transfer

L Pašalić, A Jakas, B Pem, D Bakarić - Antibiotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) are short peptides built up from dominantly cationic and
hydrophobic amino acid residues with a distinguished ability to pass through the cell …

Why do polyarginines adsorb at neutral phospholipid bilayers and polylysines do not? An insight from density functional theory calculations and molecular dynamics …

C Tempra, Z Brkljača, M Vazdar - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Adsorption of cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) at cellular membranes is the first and
necessary step for their subsequent translocation across cellular membranes into the …