Macrocyclic peptides as drug candidates: recent progress and remaining challenges

AA Vinogradov, Y Yin, H Suga - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Peptides as a therapeutic modality attract much attention due to their synthetic accessibility,
high degree of specific binding, and the ability to target protein surfaces traditionally …

Methods for generating and screening libraries of genetically encoded cyclic peptides in drug discovery

C Sohrabi, A Foster, A Tavassoli - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Drug discovery has traditionally focused on using libraries of small molecules to identify
therapeutic drugs, but new modalities, especially libraries of genetically encoded cyclic …

Methodologies for backbone macrocyclic peptide synthesis compatible with screening technologies

K Shinbara, W Liu, RHP Van Neer, T Katoh… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Backbone macrocyclic structures are often found in diverse bioactive peptides and
contribute to greater conformational rigidity, peptidase resistance, and potential membrane …

Engineering lentivirus envelope VSV-G for liver targeted delivery of IDOL-shRNA to ameliorate hypercholesterolemia and atherosclerosis

W Wang, X Chen, J Chen, M Xu, Y Liu, S Yang… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2024 - cell.com
Lentiviral vectors (LVs) have been widely used as a tool for gene therapies. However, tissue-
selective transduction after systemic delivery remains a challenge. Inducible degrader of low …

Development of a cyclic peptide inhibitor of the p6/UEV protein–protein interaction

KR Lennard, RM Gardner, C Doigneaux… - ACS Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The budding of HIV from infected cells is driven by the protein–protein interaction between
the p6 domain of the HIV Gag protein and the UEV domain of the human TSG101 protein …

Platycodin D enhances LDLR expression and LDL uptake via down-regulation of IDOL mRNA in hepatic cells

YJ Choi, SJ Lee, HI Kim, HJ Lee, SJ Kang, TY Kim… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The root of Platycodon grandiflorum (PG) has long been used as a traditional herbal
medicine in Asian country. Platycondin D (PD), triterpenoid saponin that is a main …

The E3 ubiquitin ligase inducible degrader of the LDL receptor/myosin light chain interacting protein in health and disease

NM van Loon, D Lindholm, N Zelcer - Current opinion in lipidology, 2019 - journals.lww.com
The E3 ubiquitin ligase inducible degrader of the LDL recept... : Current Opinion in
Lipidology The E3 ubiquitin ligase inducible degrader of the LDL receptor/myosin light …

Structural diversity in de novo cyclic peptide ligands from genetically encoded library technologies

TE McAllister, OD Coleman, G Roper… - Peptide …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cyclic peptides discovered by genetically encoded library technologies have emerged as a
class of promising molecules in chemical biology and drug discovery. Here we review the …

IDOL gene variant is associated with hyperlipidemia in Han population in Xinjiang, China

D Adi, J Abuzhalihan, Y Wang, G Baituola, Y Wu… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Hyperlipidemia is one of the main risk factors that contributed to atherosclerosis and
coronary artery disease (CAD). In the present study, our objective was to explore whether …

Genetically encoded cyclic peptide libraries: From hit to lead and beyond

J Valentine, A Tavassoli - Methods in enzymology, 2018 - Elsevier
With the increasing utilization of high-throughput screening for lead identification in drug
discovery, the need for easily constructed and diverse libraries which cover significant …