Therapeutic peptides: current applications and future directions

L Wang, N Wang, W Zhang, X Cheng, Z Yan… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Peptide drug development has made great progress in the last decade thanks to new
production, modification, and analytic technologies. Peptides have been produced and …

Bioactive peptides: Synthesis, sources, applications, and proposed mechanisms of action

M Akbarian, A Khani, S Eghbalpour… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bioactive peptides are a group of biological molecules that are normally buried in the
structure of parent proteins and become active after the cleavage of the proteins. Another …

Dissecting the role of protein phosphorylation: a chemical biology toolbox

T Bilbrough, E Piemontese, O Seitz - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein phosphorylation is a crucial regulator of protein and cellular function, yet, despite
identifying an enormous number of phosphorylation sites, the role of most is still unclear …

Native chemical ligation and extended methods: mechanisms, catalysis, scope, and limitations

V Agouridas, O El Mahdi, V Diemer, M Cargoet… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The native chemical ligation reaction (NCL) involves reacting a C-terminal peptide thioester
with an N-terminal cysteinyl peptide to produce a native peptide bond between the two …

Synthesis and applications of mirror-image proteins

K Harrison, AS Mackay, L Kambanis… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The homochirality of biomolecules in nature, such as DNA, RNA, peptides and proteins, has
played a critical role in establishing and sustaining life on Earth. This chiral bias has also …

Deciphering protein post-translational modifications using chemical biology tools

AC Conibear - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Proteins carry out a wide variety of catalytic, regulatory, signalling and structural functions in
living systems. Following their assembly on ribosomes and throughout their lifetimes, most …

Backbone‐Installed Split Intein‐Assisted Ligation for the Chemical Synthesis of Mirror‐Image Proteins

B Zhang, Y Zheng, G Chu, X Deng, T Wang… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Membrane‐associated D‐proteins are an important class of synthetic molecules needed for
D‐peptide drug discovery, but their chemical synthesis using canonical ligation methods …

Cysteine protecting groups: applications in peptide and protein science

RJ Spears, C McMahon, V Chudasama - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Protecting group chemistry for the cysteine thiol group has enabled a vast array of peptide
and protein chemistry over the last several decades. Increasingly sophisticated strategies for …

Advances in chemical probing of protein O-GlcNAc glycosylation: structural role and molecular mechanisms

A Saha, D Bello, A Fernández-Tejada - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The addition of O-linked-β-DN-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) onto serine and threonine
residues of nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins is an abundant, unique post-translational …

Chemical protein synthesis: advances, challenges, and outlooks

Y Tan, H Wu, T Wei, X Li - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Contemporary chemical protein synthesis has been dramatically advanced over the past few
decades, which has enabled chemists to reach the landscape of synthetic …